Category Archives: Interdisciplinary Learning

Interdisciplinary Learning, Maths & Numeracy, Primary 1, Uncategorized

P1a Toyshop

November 25, 2015 Mrs Smith 1 Comment

This week we have been shopping in the Toyshop.

LI We are learning to use coins to buy things

SC I can say how much each item costs I can choose the correct coins to pay for the things I buy

There are lots of things to buy in the toyshop. We choose what we would like and put it into our

shopping basket.

The shopkeeper checks the price and tells us how much we need to pay. We look in the purse and choose the coins we need. The shopkeeper puts the money in the till. We are using real coins to do our shopping!

Einartas – ‘You need money to buy the car. That’s my favourite.’

Aidan – ‘At the shop I bought an aeroplane and a car. The shopkeeper said it was 6p, so I counted out six 1p coins.’

Naomi – ‘You need 10p to buy the doll and the dinosaur.’

Daisy – ‘I went to the shop and I bought a dolly and a toy giraffe. It cost 2p and 3p, so that was 5p altogether.’

Interdisciplinary Learning, Primary 2

Primary Two visit Linlithgow Palace

November 20, 2015 User deactivated 1 Comment

On Monday 16^th November Primary Two visited Linlithgow Palace. We had a wonderful time and learned lots about how people lived in the past. Our day began with a tour of the palace from the P7’s from Linlithgow Primary. We really enjoyed playing the games and learnt about Mary Queen of Scots who was born there. After our lunch we did some exciting outdoor activities with the park rangers. We learnt about how people might have got food and water to the palace and how walls were made from sticks and mud. Mr Nelson and Primary Two would like to thank all the helpers who came along and made this trip such a success.

Interdisciplinary Learning, Primary 5

Creating Confectionery in Primary 5

November 20, 2015 Miss Sherlow 1 Comment

Learning Intention: We are learning to use our market research to create our own confectionery product

A successful product name will be:

Catchy and memorable

Successful packaging will be:

Eye catching
Memorable
Neatly designed
An appropriate shape for your product

This week, Primary 5 received another one of our mysterious golden envelopes from Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity. It contained our third challenge that asked us to design our own confectionery product and packaging. We had to think a bit more about what ingredients would be in our product, and we used our market research questionnaires to help us. We had asked Primary 5/4 about whether they prefer sweets or chocolate, what flavours they like, what packaging designs they like and if they have any allergies. We looked at their answers and then we based our sweet on that. We had to give our product a catchy and memorable name and design an eye catching packet for it to go in. We were developing our listening skills by listening to our team mate’s ideas, as well as our team work skills by each having a job to do and sharing the work equally.

“We looked at our questionnaires and we decided to go for chocolate because that was the most popular. With the other flavours, we decided we were going to make a mix of flavours in one bar so that everyone could enjoy it,” commented Katie.

“I had fun deciding what we were going to put inside our chocolate tube. We put lots of sour and hot sweets because lots of people like to trick people with sweets. We also put game cards inside for people to collect,” said Jamie.

“I liked deciding what we were going to put on the wrapper and we made it nice and bold. We all enjoyed saying what we wanted to put in it and what the flavours would be, and I really like working with my group,” added Erin.

English & Literacy, Interdisciplinary Learning, Uncategorized

P4 Week ending 20th November 2015

November 20, 2015 User deactivated 1 Comment

In P4 this week the children have been working hard on their IDL project linked to our Roald Dahl topic. In the spirit of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the children have worked in a group to set up a company. The aim of the company is to design a chocolate bar which will be a top seller for Willy Wonka! The companies are currently very busy conducting market research. Mrs Mackie.

In P4 we have been learning about Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake.

In maths we learned how to measure water using a scale. In our project we got a letter from Mr Willy Wonka . Jamie Hardie

We have been learning about our body in class. Lucy Paris

English & Literacy, Interdisciplinary Learning, Primary 5, Uncategorized

P5/4’s Confectionery Creations

November 20, 2015 Mr Renshaw 1 Comment

Inspired by Roald Dahl’s book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, P5/4 have been inventing their own confectionery products.

Learning intention – We are learning to use our market research create our own confectionery product.

Success Criteria – A successful product will reflect the findings of our market research.

A successful product name will be catchy and memorable.

Firstly, we created our own market research questionnaires about the choices that other children in the school make about confectionery (e.g. Are you allergic to anything? What colour of packaging would you prefer? Do you like chocolate/sweets?). We sent these questionnaires to Miss Sherlow’s class and they answered them for us.

Next, we studied the responses carefully and collected information from the questionnaires. We used this to invent our own confectionery product.

Soon we will be designing logos and packaging for our products.

Fraser: ‘This is a fun and exciting task!’

Freya: ‘I am excited about the challenge.’

Ryan: ‘I think the challenges will be fun and I am looking forward to building my skills from P4.’

Mhari: ‘I enjoyed coming up with a product name.’

Lewis: ‘We used the research to figure out what we were going to do.’

Natalie: ‘I enjoyed making the questionnaire because we got to create lots of questions to help us make our product.’

Interdisciplinary Learning, Primary 2

Primary Two have been learning about people and places in the past.

November 6, 2015 User deactivated 1 Comment

This week Primary Two have been learning all about people and places in the past. We learnt about different characters and shared where we thought they might have lived and why. Rhuairdh was able to share what he knew about palace jesters. We are all looking forward to our trip to Linlithgow Palace where we will learn more about buildings in the past and people who lived in them.

English & Literacy, Interdisciplinary Learning, Primary 5

P5’s Wonkatastic Market Research

November 6, 2015 Miss Sherlow 4 Comments

Learning Intention- We are learning to conduct market research into the different types of confectionary that people like

Success Criteria:
A quality questionnaire includes:

An introduction
Numbered questions
A variety of different types of questions
Simple language to make sure the reader understands
A clear order
A concluding statement
Accurate spelling, grammar and punctuation

On Tuesday afternoon, Primary 5 received a very special delivery to our classroom. We got a golden envelope addressed to P5, P5/4 and P4 and inside was a letter from which set us an exciting challenge- to design our very own Wonkatastic confectionary. Before we started our creations, we were asked to work in groups to write a questionnaire to conduct market research. We learned that market research is when you ask the people that might want to buy your product lots of questions to help you with your design. You might ask, for example, what ingredients they like, how much they would pay for the product, their favourite type of confectionary and what allergies they might have. We looked at an example of a questionnaire and decided on the success criteria of a quality questionnaire. We then used this to help us to write our own. When we had finished, we looked at each other’s and gave feedback then we used that to improve our questionnaires. We will be handing those questionnaires out to classes in the school and using the answers that we get to start our designs.

“I enjoyed it when we first found out that we had got an envelope and everyone wanted to get it opened as soon as possible,” said Sophie.

“I loved it when we got started on the questionnaire. I enjoyed discussing it and everyone in my groups had great ideas,” added Amy.

“I enjoyed going into groups, making our questionnaires and discussing what kind of chocolates and favourite sweest they have,” commented Joe.

We can’t wait to find out what our second challenge will be….

Interdisciplinary Learning, Money Fortnight 2015, Uncategorized

p4 Friday 16th October

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We are learning to:write clear instructions using sequencing words.

Share our learning about the rainforest with our parents.

To add and subtract with money and use money in every day contexts.

It has been another very busy week in Primary Four which culminated in our share the learning afternoon. Our classroom has been filled with wonderful smells from our fruit kebabs and our rosemary and lavender rainforest bottle gardens.

Mrs Mackie

At the Rainforest cafe we earned £50 for the Edinburgh zoo, we have decided to adopt an animal there that comes from one of the five rainforests around the world.

We made rainforests in a bottle with our parents it was very fun, it was very messy! The cakes were very nice and some of them were very big.

Luke

We made a rainforest in a bottle and we showed our mums and dads how to do it.

We wrote instructions and this is what we wrote:

First cut the bottle with a sharp pair of scissors, cut a third up.

Second put a handful of stones in the bottom of the bottle, then put some potting soil on.

Then put your plant in.

Fourthly cover the soil with sticks.

Finally spray it with water and put the lid on.

Now, watch it grow!

We made some jewellery, we painted our necklaces and our headdresses, we made our bracelets with paper. It was very fun.

Rebekah