Materials - metal

Although we can't work with molten metal or use machinery to form shapes with it we can use metal in the form of wire. A group explored the properties of metal wire by forming 2D shapes with it. While they did this they began to gather adjectives which described the metal and verbs which explain what they were doing to shape it.

The Year of the Horse

Our 'Great Wall of China' has developed and now displays lots of ways of celebrating The Year of The Horse by a few different classes. You can see that paper is used in lots of different ways, from lucky money envelopes to paper fans and lanterns. We used our cutting skills to create decorated paper horse heads and tangram horses. Other classes used folding skills to create dragon puppets.

We also used the Chinagram app on the touchscreen of the ipad to practice writing Chinese characters.

We found out about the drawings they originally represented and how to say the sound or word.

 

Sponsored Silence

Huge congratulations to the boys who took part in the sponsored silence today.  They did so well and the rest of the class were really supportive of what they were doing too.  Thanks to the generosity of family, friends, staff and classmates, they have raised well over £200 already and more money is still coming in.  The new hospital is being built at the moment and this money will go towards things needed for it and also towards the care of those needing it right now.  Well done boys.  We will update you all with a final total when we have it.

Tweet Tweet!

Last term, after many activities about bullying, we made this display at the main door to our playground in the hope that it might make all of the pupils think about the choices they make when they are out playing.  Lots of the children and staff have been talking about it and we think that getting people discussing bullying is a really good start.  Hopefully it will lead to changes in behaviour too.

Mrs Linklater emailed a photo of the display to the Scottish anti-bullying organisation Respect Me and today we received the really exciting news that they have tweeted it!  Check out the following link:

https://twitter.com/brianrespectme

Brilliant!

 

We're In The Mood For Dancing!

We've been having great fun learning dances over the past few weeks.  Avril Cromarty has been coming in to help us.  So far we have danced the Dashing White Sergeant, the Westray One Step, the Maple Leaf Stomp and Strip the Willow.  It is such good exercise and will help us to join in at social events that we go to in the future.