I would like to start this blog post off by saying a huge well done to all the children for their amazing assembly that they put on this morning. I was so proud of the effort from everyone. If you did not get a chance to come along and see it our assembly was based around the main idea of a News Channel. We had two presenters in the studio (Freya and Luke) and then different segments in the programme. These segments included,
- a wonderful weather report from Billie, Broady and Isabella where they described how to make a tornado in a bottle which was linked with our learning about the USA
- a sports round up from Tristan and Jack, which showcased some of the football skills we have learned during our PE block
- an entertainment review from Danielle and Sophia, of the novel “The Squint” by Leslie Howarth which had been our focus for the first six weeks of this session
- a roving reporter, Mark, and his interviewees, Jessica, Oskar, Mikolt and Aurora who all described life in P7/6 (and Aurora revealed the identity of the Friday Hot Chocolate thief!!!)
- a Foreign Affairs report from Kornelia and Rachel who described how we have been learning Spanish in class
- a look forward into the future from Ross and Aaron, explaining our focus for this term
- and that’s not all folks, a presentation to Miss Ross who will be leaving our class today to go and work with one of our infant classes (there was a tear in her eye!) from Colin and Moiz
And then back to the studio! As you can see we packed a lot in and every child participated at a level they were comfortable with. This type of event really allows the children to develop their skills of being effective contributors and confident individuals. Well done!
Apart from rehearsing for our assembly this week we have also been busy with other areas of our learning too. In our writing we used the theme of Fireworks to write some poetry. We chose to complete a shape poem and within our piece the challenge was to use as many interesting and amazing adjectives as possible! All jotters have gone home this weekend in preparation for parents meetings next week, make sure to look out for this piece of work.
In Maths we are continuing to look at decimals and fractions. Our work this week for the P7 children were to add and subtract two numbers with up to two decimal places mentally. There was a fabulous board game, matching game and connect four game to deepen their skills in this area. P6 were focusing on converting a mixed number (wholes and tenths) into a decimal number and they used various resources such as the online resource Education City as well as cut and stick exercises to learn this skill. I have included a link to the BBC bitesize teaching site which has a section all about fractions, it covers some of the aspects we have looked at but also goes on to look at finding equivalent fractions so that fractions can be ordered from smallest to largest. These are all concepts which will be covered over the next few weeks so you can get a head start by having a look at this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/number/fractions/read/6/
As part of the homework set this week everyone was asked to log onto the SumDog online resource. This looks like it will be a fabulous resource to help boost mental agility in Maths. Passwords are glued into the back of the homework jotter. If for any reason you cannot get onto SumDog at home there is a class only homework club every Tuesday at lunchtime where the i-pads will be available specifically for those children who are not able to access it at home, so please come along.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Currie
