This week P7B have been working hard across the curriculum.

As part of our topic, WWII, Mrs Liddell from Museum Services visited both P7 classes and shared lots of stories of what it would have been like during the war.  She passed round artifacts collected from the time of the war and it was really interesting to get to physically interact with items from the past (we had to wear white gloves so the oils from our hands wouldn’t damage them).

Eve said, “It helped me learn more about World War Two.”

“It was fun to find out about what people could eat during rationing,” said Molly.

In maths we have been learning about scale and ratio and making accurate scale drawings.  It has been challenging but linking to fractions and multiplication and division has helped us find success. We have also continued with the RLPS app which helps to put the uses of maths in a real life context.

“We learned about the melting points of metals in Real Life Problem Solving,” said Andrew.

 

In literacy, we reached a really exciting part of our class novel where the main Character gets into a fight with his nemesis from school.  Using this part of The Machine Gunners, we also completed a HWB task using the Emotion Works cogs which helped us to better understand our own thoughts and feelings – in this case a stressful situation.  We revisited direct speech and will try to apply our learning more consistently when using speech marks in writing lessons.  Our writing lesson this week was a report and we looked at the pros and cons of Evacuation and we had to give our opinion on whether it was a good or bad thing.

“I enjoyed writing the report but found it sad to find out that so many children had bed experiences when they were evacuated,” said Emilia.