What a busy week we have had, but what a fantastic amount of learning we have squeezed in!
Weekly Highlights
Literacy – We had an amazing writing session on Tuesday where we stepped into the character of Graham from our class novel. We imagined what Graham would feel like and what might prompt him to run away from home. There were so many excellent examples we will spend some time next week adding them to our excellent examples literacy wall.
Numeracy – This week some of us have been testing out our growth mindset to the extreme as we try to get our head around long multiplication. The steps involved in the algorithm method can be quite confusing. We are looking at using different methods to help us learn it but we will continue to work on this together!
HWB – Our new unit of Building Resilience is ‘Take a Moment’ – we had a great class discussion centred around the feeling of stress and what it looks like/feels like/sounds like for different people. Please use the home guidance sheet issued for homework to support your child in their emotional literacy and building resilience.
Pupil Voice
Joshua – ‘I liked gymnastics this week because we used different equipment like the vault.’
Zainab – ‘The sky studios trip was really good. We made a trailer.’
Marcella – ‘I liked the sky studios trip. It was fun and we all made our own trailers. We learned about things like special effects.’
Brooke – ‘I learned how to work a camera at Sky Studios.’
Mirren – ‘I liked going to the NHS careers fair and seeing how many jobs there are.’
Harley – ‘At the careers fair I learned there’s a ‘gammy foot shop’ (which we think is the mobility shop on further discussion…) in livi that helps people.’
Home Learning
In light of our current learning about what stress feels like please take some time this weekend to explore some of the Take a Moment resources as a family. Watch this clip as a family and use it to prompt discussion about what brings stress and how you deal with it, we talked about some stresses which come and go quickly and others that hang around for a while. Next week we will look at positive steps we can take to react to those stressful moments – practical ways to ‘take a moment’ – click below to access the video…
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Our P7 cohort are delighted to be at the first @NHS_Lothian @LoveWestLothian career event this morning! Our young people are representing our school community with confidence, respect and a willingness to learn about all things health! #stninianskidscan pic.twitter.com/xwFErPkPks
— Saint Ninian's PS (@StNinianPS) February 5, 2020
