This morning primary 7 had a meeting in the high school to share our views on ‘ belonging’ in our school. We had a few refreshments, met learners from other cluster schools and had the opportunity to discuss HWB initiatives we would like to see in happening.
Today we worked on a problem solving activity called legs in the barn. We had to use our addition and multiplication strategies working with whole numbers and fractions. Lots of groups drew pictures, created a table or used the guess and check strategy.
Today we continued on with our Persuasive writing. We were thinking about the key features of a speech today and we watched an informative speech from Greta Thunberg. Lots of great work was written today thinking about how we start off a powerful speech and what points we want to address.
Today we were working on our note taking skills ready to write our first persuasive letter tomorrow. We used safer internet day as our starting point as this assembly generated lots of super discussion. We talked about the online benefits as well as the negative points too and linked this lesson to our UNCRC weekly rights. Last week we used a key word notes page to research so this week we tried a mind map diagram to collect all of our ideas and evidence.
To raise awareness of Children’s mental health week we watched a short assembly from Place To Be. We then read a few short stories to explore the theme if belonging.
Today we explored colour mixing and the Artist Paul Nash. We were thinking independently , problem solving and demonstrating creativity.
Today in our random groups of three, working on vertical non-permanent surfaces, we were solving our rich tasks. Lots of collaboration and pupil discourse. We also evaluated how well we worked together in terms of listening, sharing ideas, turn-taking, working together and being kind.
Today we had our first Rights Respecting Champion meeting of the year. We talked about new ways of sharing the rights with others in our school, competitions we will organise in the school and making sure we have all our rights on every display. This was a very productive meeting time where all children have the opportunity to have their voice heard, allowing them to participate in decision making, planning and leading new events. This meeting was based on article 12, “ I have the right to be listened to and taken seriously.”
Today we continued on with our digital profiling journey. We talked about our achievements a little more and the skills we have been learning. We are excited to document our learning this term and include pictures of our best work.
