Our Learning Highlights this week are:

• Learning how to play bench ball in PE. We found this new game exciting, fun and inclusive because everyone can play as long as you can catch and throw a ball. We also liked playing some new warm up games that were challenging and fun.
• We have been writing some different types of poems this term, last week we wrote cinquain poems but this week we really liked writing kennings. These are poems that use 2 word phrases plus a hyphen to describe something without actually saying what it is. Mrs Jess has helped us make a ‘Poe-Tree’ on the classroom wall and some children helped her to collect twigs to make a real tree that we will hang our poems from.
• Our final highlight is learning about substance misuse in Health and Wellbeing. We have been discussing legal and illegal drugs and the effects they can have on our bodies. We discussed the impact taking drugs can have on relationships with our family and friends and how it could impact our later lives.

Tricky Tasks:

• One tricky task which stuck out was in maths; we have been learning about the properties of 2D shapes but we are using technical language such as abstract, parallel, diagonal, interior angles and adjacent. We were set the task to define the words and demonstrate our knowledge by drawing or writing it out to create a display to help us for future lessons.
• We have been learning a Scottish Poem for Burn’s Night next Tuesday. We had the option between 4 to choose from and have been learning them off by heart in class and at home. This is really hard because some of the words in a Burns poem aren’t the same Scots language that we are used to.
• P6/7 are researching an influential Scottish person to complete their own project on. This is a home and class project. We have been given specific criteria on what has to be included which can be tricky to keep a track of, good job is that we have a sheet to help us and it is also on Teams if we forget.

The Lead Learners this week have done a great job looking for people showing outstanding work, excellent behaviour and who have been trying really hard to help others.