What a fantastic week in Primary 6. We have been learning more about the Victorians and what jobs the children had to do. We know all about the horrible working conditions and the awful things that happened. We used our knowledge to write excellent diary entries, pretending we were a Victorian child.
In numeracy we are focusing on timetables, working in 24hour time. All pupils were enjoying reading the train timetables and were able to make up their own challenging questions.
Yesterday we celebrated World Book Day. All the costumes were fantastic!
Have a look at our photographs after the comments from pupils.
Emma-This week we did a lot of things: on Tuesday we had some very VERY important visitors inspecting us and on Thursday it was world book day so we dressed up – I was Dorothy!
Declan-On Wednesday it was Ash Wednesday and it was the first day of lent. I gave up fizzy juice.
Aliza- this week was AMAZING!! We had Ash Wednesday and we said our Lenten promises. Mine is to give up chocolate. We also had world book day on Thursday and we all dressed up and done book related things. My character was red riding hood and I had a cute basket FULL of yummy, yummy muffins!! Hope you all have a FANTASTIC week!
Emily- this week has been really busy. We had a service for ash Wednesday where we got our ashes before lent, then on Thursday it was world book day. I was Alice from Alice in wonderland. We also got a visit from the St. Margaret’s Malawi team today.
Kieran- this week we had world book day, we dressed up as a character from a book like Harry Potter and Greg from Diary of a Wimpy Kid and lots more.
Rugare- World book day was very fun, we each made a page for our own book of wonders. Have a look the next time you come in!
Erin is really enjoying the Victorian topic and is always sharing facts with us. I think she is shocked with the amount of work the children had to do back then. How times have changed!
All the World Book Day characters were great, it sounds like you all had a great day.
I’m glad Erin is enjoying out topic, all the children have been really engaged! They were shocked to find out about the lack of children’s rights back then. I hope it makes them more determined to stand up for the rights of all children.
Erin enjoyed World Book Day as the theme of the day was reading, her favourite pastime. We visited the library on Friday after school to choose some new books to borrow. The Victorians was one of my favourite topics at school, Erin is not impressed with the fashion back then!!
That’s great to hear about pupils visiting the library outwith school. Make sure you keep track of all the books your reading Erin!
What a great set of costumes! Impressed with all the children managing to transform themselves into all those fantastic book characters before 8.40am!
Such a great effort from everyone! I’m not sure I would have been able to get all the face paint Ali had on before that time! Well done!