We hope you enjoyed our BLOG updates from camp last week!  We had so much fun and made so many great memories!

Numeracy

We are continuing to enjoy our Transition project with Armadale Academy every week.  In class, we have been revising short division and learning new strategies for long division, such as the chunking method and dividing using factors.

Literacy

In literacy, we wrote fabulous science fiction stories using descriptive detail and great vocabulary!  We will see if any of our stories are able to predict the future which we learned about while exploring this genre!  We have had lots of class discussions about our topics for our exposition writing focus, which have included the recent war in Ukraine, social media and it’s effects and whether P.E should be part of our curriculum.  It has been very interesting!  Our focus for reading is inference, we are getting much better at spotting clues in texts to help us!

Other areas

Spanish – We are learning vocabulary for clothes and colours.  Our transition SWAY from the Academy this week was from the Modern Languages department and we had to introduce ourselves in French and Spanish!

P.E – We are taking part in a class hockey tournament and finishing off our block of gymnastics by creating our own sequences which have to include certain skills that we have been learning over the last 6 weeks!

We have enjoyed:

J – Camp was fun; I especially liked talking to my friends in our room.

F – We got to do so many activities at camp, it was brilliant but I was really tired at the end of it!

CT – As part of British Science week, we are taking part in a project with the Academy which I am looking forward to.

L – I enjoyed baking.  I made chocolate brownies and cakes.

A – I enjoyed the pizza box challenge at camp because it had an extra fear factor to it but I overcame my fears and had fun.

H – The King Swing was the best activity, I went on it with my teacher who screamed very loudly!

Good morning everyone,

P4p  are having a fantastic week. As it is British Science week, we are having a big focus on STEAM learning R in our class remembers that it stands for ‘science, technology, engineering, art and maths.’ Miss Purdie planned a STEAM challenge in P.E this week where the children had yo create a fitness obstacle course that met certain rules… they were:

1. Your course must be at least 3 metres long
2. Your course must use an even number of equipment
3. Your course must include a ball, but you cannot make physical contact with it during the course

This was a great opportunity for the children to solve a problem and create something by working together. We used measuring skills, planning and designing skills in order to create our courses. Next week, we are going to teach our obstacle courses to everyone in the class!

Day 4 at Lendrick Muir

Today we went to the Nightline. Nightline is where you get blindfolded and you have to go through an adventure course. You have to follow a rope round lots of trees and you have to go through a row of tyres.  It was a bit of a squeeze! You keep following the rope under logs and over some sticks. After that, you go under a bit of leather and from there you keep walking. The instructors were winding us up by saying that we were stepping in dog poop but it was just memory foam! From there you follow the rope to a massive tyre that has a net connected to it and you have to go through that. Then you follow the rope some more to a spider web that is made from bungee cords. Once you have completed it you can do it again without your blindfold and you can try to time yourself.

Today some groups also did the king swing. You need to get harnessed in and attached to a big metal pole. Your team needs to pull the rope to hoist you up until you say stop. Some of us were pulled right the way to the top. Then your instructor gives you the thumbs up and you pull a rope to release you and you start to swing. You go really fast and it gives you a big adrenaline rush which was great! We also tried a ‘try not to scream challenge’!  It was really scary but we loved it!

Today our class took part in Survival Games. There were rabbits, voles, foxes, deer, hedgehogs, squirrels and badgers. The rabbits, voles, hedgehogs, deer and squirrels weren’t predators but the other animals were. All the animals had to get food and water and had to avoid being eaten by the predators. To make things even harder, the instructors played the role of death and disease, roadkill and hunters.

Some groups took part in the pizza box challenge.  You had to climb a tower one at a time until you reached a platform, then the next team member climbed up until four of you could balance on the platform.  It is called the pizza box challenge because the platform really is the size of a pizza box!

The purple and green groups did the adventure park today which was really fun!  There were lots of obstacles including a big slide, underground tunnels and bridges.  One of our challenges included carrying a cup of water without spilling it the whole way round and making it all the way holding a rope, one person at a time.  We also did foot golf which was fun but really tricky.  We did some dribbling races between shots which was great.

The silver and black group did bushcraft today.  We had to collect wood, make a fire, make bread dough and then we cooked it on our fires.  The smoke got into our eyes and we stink!  However, our bread was delicious!  Some people chose to make sweet bread and some made savoury.  The sweet bread was voted the best!