Primary 6/7 have had a couple of fantastic weeks before and after the long September weekend. In school this morning, we discussed our learning over the previous two shorter weeks in school and decided that we would like to share the following important reflections:

Tickled Pink (things that went well)

• Working with our buddies in Primary 1/2 to help explain games to them and to help with attaching ribbons to the school fence to display our data for travelling to school
• We enjoyed our outdoor learning session last week when we were exploring our local area and building hammocks, dens and discovering different types of trees
• Our Primary 7 children enjoyed starting their transition lessons and learning about South America
• We have been enjoying our handball sessions with Hannah from West Lothian Handball Development and our hockey sessions on a Friday
• We enjoyed our science learning as we created (and then modified) our boats and worked on making them successfully float
• Our National Fitness Day workout was a lot of fun on Wednesday and our Health & Wellbeing champions enjoyed helping to create and organise the sessions
• We enjoyed our writing task about Ahmet’s journey from Syria to the UK as we worked hard to describe how difficult this journey must be for refugees leaving Syria and other countries
• It was fun spending time with our younger learners again in our pupil voice groups this morning and supporting them to give feedback on how welcoming our school is
• We really enjoyed learning so many different ways of saying hello in languages from around the world

Green for Growth (things that we need to do to improve our learning)

• We feel that we need to keep working hard on our writing as it was a bit tricky trying to describe Ahmet’s journey, especially trying to consider how Ahmet would have felt during the long difficult journey
• We feel that we need to keep working hard on our place value in Maths as we know how important it is to help with lots of our number work. We also feel that trying to stay focused and on task in Maths is something that we can work on improving
• Some of us felt that some of our reading tasks were a little tricky this week, particularly trying to read some new tricky words during our reading lessons
• We found writing sentences for our homework a little tricky with the 2D shape vocabulary that we have been focusing on for our spelling tasks over the last two weeks

Our lead learners were Sophie, Rose, James and Chelsea.  They were looking for examples of being polite, being responsible during working time and tidying up after ourselves.  They are happy to say that they saw lots of great examples of all of three targets!