Weekly Highlights
In Literacy this week we have been preparing for our trip to Sky Academy Studios. On this visit we will be splitting into four studios to create a trailer for our own movie/tv show. In groups of four we have looked at genres and created storyboards to illustrate the beginning, middle and end of our story. We will use our writing lesson next week to re-draft these and vote for our four favourite boards to use on the day.
In Numeracy we are getting our heads around word problems. Before Christmas we discussed how difficult we find word problems so we have started taking ten minutes at the beginning of our numeracy learning sessions to work with talk partners to solve word problems together – we have been looking at word problems that use multiplication and division. Perhaps you could come up with some at home together?
In HWB we have started our gymnastics block! We have been very happy to have Mr Cummings from St Margaret’s with us for our Wednesday PE slot and will continue to work on the gymnastics shapes, balances and creating sequence showing good posture. We have also begun our new Building Resilience unit where we are looking at our emotions and how complex they can be. We watched a smashing video of a wee baby who experiences some serious emotions in the space of one minute – watch together and enjoy, then discuss those emotions.
Pupil Voice
Daniel – I learned that when you are diving by ten you move all the digits to the left in the place value board.
Ryan T – I learned that away back when in Glasgow all the Catholics were said to support Celtic and all the non-Catholics supported Rangers – in my family half support Celtic and half support Rangers.
Ambra – I learned that Martin Luther King Jr helped people be equal even though they were born a different race.
Haseeb – We have been drawing and writing a story board. I chose fantasy/horror.
Abi – In PM writing we have been learning about the explanation genre.
Home Learning
This weekend it would be great to discuss discrimination as a family. It is a central theme in our class novel, ‘Divided City’ and has been interesting to discuss following our learning about Martin Luther King Jr. Next week all P7s are going to enter the Action on Sectarianism poster competition which will allow us to explore sectarianism in more depth.
Remember to follow our adventures on twitter;
Last week we listened to Martin Luther King Jr 'I have a dream' speech and wrote our own based on our 'ideal future' – today we pledged that we would be #FutureWorldChangers 💚💛 @StNinianPS #stninianskidscan pic.twitter.com/12CJ352glf
— Mrs Conway🙋🏻♀️ (@Mrs_Conway10) January 14, 2020
Have a lovely weekend!
What an exciting week of learning and teaching! The Sky Studios trip sounds really interesting – I wish I was coming with you all. Such good links with literacy and technologies.