Learning Highlights:

• P7 began their Literacy transition with Ms Kezmenia from DCHS English department. They are starting a reading project using the novel ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. They will do half of the project in P7 and complete the rest in S1.
• With the weather being so nice recently, we have used the outdoor spaces a lot more. On Wednesday we used string and chalk to make perfect circles. The pupils were given a radius to begin and they had to work out the diameter and circumference of each circle they drew. It certainly wasn’t as easy as first thought.
• For PE we were using ‘Go Find It’ cards to treasure hunt for various things in the playground. Some of the cards had only words like; brown, bumpy, long or wow on them. This was a fun challenge that really made us think.

Challenging Tasks:

• Finding the percentages in numeracy as proving a challenge. There are 4 steps with finding the percentage of an amount, including converting the percentage to a fraction, simplifying the fraction then dividing and multiplying using the fraction.
• Our personal projects have come to an end. Most projects have finished very differently to how they were planned and the challenges we faced were very hard at times. Some of us had a clear idea of what we were aiming for while others took a more try it and see approach. We will be presenting them in class next week.
• Mrs Egan set us a challenge to find out the uses for some old tools and equipment and turn them into something else.

Lead learners this week were Ruby and Keela who were excellent role models for our class.