This week P6 have been learning about the dangers of smoking and tobacco from Michelle who works for West Lothian Council’s Drug and Alcohol Service.
Isabelle – “Michelle taught us about the dangers of smoking”
Jessica – “The doll Smoky Sue helped us to see the damaging effects of smoking”
In class we have been continuing our learning about flowering plants. We have now learned about the individual parts of a flower’s anatomy, anther, filament, stigma and style. This has helped to deepen our understanding of how insects are pollinators.
Jessica – “we dissected a flower to see all the different parts”
Freya – “For our writing we had to create our own imagined flower and then design and write the seed packet for the seeds”
The children were given the challenge to try and use a simile within their description of what their flower looks or smells like when it is in full bloom. There were some super examples, Next week we are moving onto looking at the growth of a seed and charting the length of time it takes to grow and what conditions it needs to grow.
In PE we have been learning the athletic field skills for shot put, and long jump as well as using sprint and pacing skills for the 60m and 800m running.
In Maths we have further developed our money skills. P7 have been looking at debit and credit cards and started work on APR interest rates. This has meant we have been practising our percentage finding skills, it is interesting to see how much money a bank can make from lending money “it is a business at the end of the day” is what Mrs Currie said and Broady and Mark quickly pointed out “it is also a business at the beginning of the day too!” (ha ha). P6 have been using the four processes to work out totals, differences, how much multiple items and individual items cost. When using the written method we had to revise our understanding of making sure the decimal points line up to keep our place values correct before completing the calculation. Some of us used REAL MONEY to help us work out totals and costs, it is always good to use real life material as it helps us ensure that we can transfer these valuable life skills into practise outside of school.
Well done everyone,
Mrs Currie
