Author: Mrs Stephens

P6/5 and P7/6 have both been taking part in different activities this week to celebrate Maths Week Scotland. This morning we both took part in an online lesson from Digital Skills Education called ‘Save the Rhino’. We learned about how ‘data sets’ and ‘machine learning’ (a form of AI) has been helping Kruger National Park protect Rhinos. We participated via a mentimeter and even got our own personalised certificate at the end as well as a few shout outs of our thoughts and answers during the lesson.

P7/6 have been learning to write ‘daringly detailed descriptions’. We have created our own describing bubble to help us with vocabulary to add detail into our descriptions of setting and character, making them more immersive. We have taken a stroll through a tropical rainforest, described some familiar characters and this week, combined both. We have written some excellent descriptions about arriving at Hogwarts or experiencing a safari through Africa!

P7/6 were working on the wellbeing indicator ‘Achieving’ this week. We had a really interesting discussion together about our thoughts on Growth Mindset and how it links to our opinions about our achievements. We learned about the power of ‘yet’ and the difference having a Growth Mindset can make to our learning. We also set ourselves some targets which having a Growth Mindset will help us achieve. We may not be experts ‘yet’, but we are certainly working on it!

P7/6 have been working on designing a ‘maths garden’ as part of our work on the Levenseat award this year. We have drawn some plans and received some great donations that will help us plan some wonderful maths activities to deliver to our friends in the younger classes. We are getting to work on making resources for our garden next week and will be putting those collaboration and communication skills from our toolkit to good use!

P7/6 had a great time at Aberdour on Wednesday. We played on the sand showing off that toolkit skill of collaboration and some of us were even brave enough to have a paddle in the water too. We have been learning about description in writing and today we wrote a descriptive recount about our day at Aberdour using our class describing bubble to help us with adjectives.