Primary 7/6 Learning Letter
Primary 5 Learning Letter
Primary 4 visit Jupiter Art Land!
Primary 4 enjoyed their recent visit to Jupiter Art Land. They looked at different sculptures that used both natural and man made materials before having the opportunity to create their own interpretation of Charles Jencks sculpture ‘Cells of Life’. Thanks to Ms Brolls for organising a fantastic trip!
Perfect Planting Promotion Challenge
As part of their Rainforest IDL, Primary 3 have been learning all about what plants need to grow and survive. As P1, P2/1 and P2 are going to be learning about ‘In the Garden’ this term, we were challenged to share our knowledge with them by creating a tutorial video about how to plant a plant.
We had to script, film, direct and edit our tutorials, using our digital skills to help us to add background music, transitions and sound effects when filming was complete. Check out our amazing videos!
Bafooni Tribe:
Cfilmt Tribe:
Minyo Tribe:
Pando Tribe:
Pirano Tribe:
We shared our tutorials with P1, P2/1 and P2 and then wrote invitations to ask them to come and help us to plant the plants that our tribe have been growing and nurturing for the last 2 months. Both Primary 3 and Primary 1-2 loved planing the plants and we can’t wait to see how well they continue to grow in their new home in our playground.
Primary 4 get dividing!
This week Primary 4 have been exploring different strategies for division. We looked at using concrete materials such as cubes and counters to explore arrays, equal groups and repeated subtraction. We then began to draw pictorial representations on our whiteboards.
We have also been looking at the inverse rule to help us understand the links between division and multiplication.
Have a look at division in action!
Extraordinary Homework in P3
At the beginning of our IDL, Extraordinary Humans, P3 were given the challenge to choose an extraordinary human that we wanted to learn more about at home. We could choose someone famous, or a family member or friend. We were also able to decide how we wanted to present the information that we found out, making sure that we included how the person has inspired us, and what challenges they have overcome in their lives. Last week, we shared our learning with our classmates and gave each other peer feedback based on the success criteria. We did an extraordinary job and we taught each other lots of new and interesting facts about a range of different extraordinary humans. Well done Primary 3!
Primary 4 learn about gender stereotypes
Through our topic ‘Extraordinary Humans’, the boys and girls have been finding out about people who have overcame obstacles in their lives to become successful.
This week we learned about gender stereotypes and explored the different ways that people can face obstacles in their life simply because they are a boy or a girl. When people use gender stereotypes, they make assumptions about people because of their gender.
The boys and girls believe that a gender stereotype is not a good thing because it encourages us to believe that boys can do things that girls can’t and girls can do things that boys can’t. We decided to make posters to show the different things that boys and girls can do regardless of their gender stereotype.
We were also lucky enough to have a visit from a female footballer this week. Miss Walkingshaw talked about the obstacles she faced as a female footballer and how she overcame those obstacles by not giving up. She gave a positive message to the that children you shouldn’t let gender stereotypes stop you from being who you want to be! Check out our football squad!
P6/7 investigating data analysis for IDL!
This week during our IDL, P6/7 have been using the Scotland’s Census website to find out information about Scotland and West Lothian. We found out for the last census in 2011, there were more females than males living in Scotland.
We are learning how to analyse the data from the census to help us understand what kind of country Scotland is in the 21st Century.
We discovered that health, education, labour, age and gender were all different around Scotland. We also were able to find out our nations population in 2011.
We are reading and interpreting the data and using it to help inform our understanding of the diverse nature of our nation.
This has been a really good way for us to include BYOD into our learning this week!!
