Where do we begin, what a busy week it has been!
Monday
We used a science text and identified our 8 BOOST words for the week, they were pretty tricky! Each day we will be doing a different activity liked to our BOOST words. During PE we went outside with Mrs Roy for rugby and did some rugby circuit work. It got messy especially at the station where we had to lie on our stomachs and then race to the rugby ball!! We finished reading chapter 7 of Kensuke’s Kingdom and learned more about the relationship between Michael and Kensuke. Everyone took part in Numbertalks and we enjoyed sharing our strategies. The Solar System is our mini science topic this term and we were learning about constellations and the different parts of the solar system.
Wednesday
Today we worked in our reading groups and did some work on our HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills), we will be using these across the curriculum throughout the year. Mr McCurdy took us outside for our final rugby practice before our rugby festival next week with the other P6 and P7 classes. Jazz was great fun as we were composing and playing our own tunes which we will be performing at a small concert next Thursday at 11am, parents welcome to come along. Synonyms were the focus in Wordboost today, not as easy as it looked! In science we explored the planets and then a did a house quiz to see what we had remembered.
Thursday
It was National Poetry Day and we studied the poem, ‘Russian Dolls’ written by Rachel Rooney. Mrs Roy brought in some real Russian Dolls to help us visualise the poem and we listened to a recording of Rachel reading the poem. We all had a go at unpicking the layers of our character and wrote our own poems, we then shared some of these on Twitter, follow us at @mrsroy16 or @StNiniansPS. Rachel Rooney was very impressed an sent us some personal tweets. In numeracy we revised rounding numbers up to 1million as this was something which we all agreed needed a bit more work, this will be followed up with a homework task next week. In RE we spoke about discipleship and identifed how we could be closer to God.
Friday
We started the morning with Numbertalks and played Countdown, Brooke and Haseeb got really close to solving it, here are the numbers if you want to try it at home – 100, 50, 75, 3, 10, 7 – target number was 423. Then we played Quick on the Draw during Wordboost and worked in teams to think of ways to visualise all of our BOOST words. Then we went to our House Assemblies.
Other news
Ethan took part in the WL Schools Cross Country event at Dechmont representing our school and he came 4th which was a fantastic achievement!!! Well done Ethan!!!!
The P7 girls took part in the Active Girls festival at JYHS and all behaved perfectly and joined in with all activities.
Our P7’s will be going to the risk factory on Monday morning, remember to bring a packed lunch.
Pupil voices
Aria: Pupils came to help from St. Margaret’s
Mirren: This week we did Jazz mattaz with Mike and we are practising for the show.
Haseeb: In writing we did a poem about a Russian doll and we wrote 7 verses and emotions in it.
Abi: We did PE we did rugby we got wet and covered in grass and we were cold.
Abi and Bea: This was our first week when Mrs. Roy came back, we were all very excited and ready to learn with her. And we had a wonderful with her this week.
In maths we did number talks we put our thumbs up if we got a answer and put our fists up if were thinking
Thanks for reading our blog
Bea, Abi, P6/7 & Mrs Roy
