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 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.
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.
This week we started off our pupil digital profiles. We luckily had Mrs Baty come to help us get started with this and we really enjoyed setting up our pages on the platform. This will be a regular task that we do to keep our profiles updated and self assess our learning each week.
1~2 Nim
Today we played 1-2 nim which is fun, challenging and rewarding. We were practising basic counting and arithmetic. We started with a pile of counters and on our turn, we removed one or two counters from the pile. You must take at least one token on your turn, but you may not take more than two. Whoever takes the last token is the winner. Lots of collaboration and communication taking place here.
Today we were very lucky to have a finance lesson from Claire at money advice Scotland, covering a brief discussion on the history of money and why we use it. Lots of super activities and discussion around coins and notes along with a focus on other types of common payments.
Today we worked together on a number problem called Dan the detective. We had several clues to help us find the number and all groups managed to find the answer very quickly. Through working in random groups and writing on vertical surfaces all children were engaged and working collaboratively.
