Author: Mrs Mooney

This term we have been learning about WWII. The children have researched information about key events in WWII to complete a class scrapbook as well as researching leaders involved with WWII as a homework task to be shared with their peers. Key events were also explored in order to compare and contrast the impact on individuals and families during WWII with present day living.

Thank you to Connell and Emma who brought in artefacts from WWII to share with the class.

On the last day of term the children received a presentation about the Holocaust from Lucia and Lewis from St Margaret’s Academy in Livingston. Lucia and Lewis have recently returned from a trip to Krakow as part of the Lessons from Auschwitz Project. They were selected by their school to attend the one day trip which is run by the Holocaust Educational Trust. As part of their next steps towards becoming Lessons from Auschwitz Ambassadors, they have delivered their presentation to several P7 classes at St Margaret’s Academy, our own P7 class and will continue to present to other P7 classes. The children were a super audience who were really engaged in the presentation and asked lots of questions to deepen their understanding of the Holocaust.

Our new topic is about Our Woodland and we have been looking at images of natural and man-made woodlands to identify how we can tell if a woodland is naturally growing.  We also made clay hedgehogs.

In Maths we have been learning to use symbols for more than and less than to solve simple equations.

In Drama we have been using play scripts to learn and present plays to the rest of our class.  This also links with our literacy as we are learning to tell the difference between a story and a play script.

Well done to Murron who completed her Rainbow promise and shared it with the rest of her class.