We’ve had a wonderful week in Primary 6/7. We are continuing with our brilliant class novel “The Boy at the Back of the Class,” which is inspiring learning around diversity, empathy, refugees and anti-racism.

Some of our learning highlights from this week:

Writing – we enjoyed continuing with our writing task to describe Syria and particularly enjoyed the video that helped us to learn about different aspects of life, people and places in Syria.

Outdoor Learning – some of us really enjoyed trying to identify different types of trees during our outdoor learning session this week.

Numeracy – we enjoyed learning how to count in thousands linked to our work on place value.

Art – we loved learning about the art of Giuseppe Arcimboldo and trying to create our own artwork inspired by his paintings.

PE – we enjoyed our handball session this week with Hannah from West Lothian Handball Development.

Family Breakfast – we enjoyed welcoming our families into school on Wednesday for breakfast.

Buddying – we enjoyed spending time with our buddies and learning together with them.

Maths Beyond Number – we enjoyed learning about shapes and finding out new vocabulary related to 2D shapes.

Some of the learning that we found a little tricky this week:

Art – some of us found drawing fruit for our art task a bit tricky.

Outdoor Learning – some of found that identifying trees was quite tricky during outdoor learning.

Numeracy – a few of us found our place value work with counting in thousands a little challenging.

Our Lead Learners in Primary 5/6 this week were Rose and Sophie. They were assisted by last week’s Lead Learners, Olivia and Brodie. The three targets that our Lead Learners set for the class were as follows:

• Being respectful to equipment
• Being kind to adults in school
• Staying focused on our work

The Lead Learners and their assistants spotted lots of children in the class meeting all three of the targets this week. The trickiest target was focusing on our work and this is definitely something for many of us to keep working hard on

Well done Primary 6/7 on another fantastic week and we are looking forward to another great week next week.