Bag the Bruck 2015

This year P5, P6, P5/6/7 and Some P7s teamed up to Bag the Bruck at Scapa. I total we filled 23 bags with rubbish. A lot of it was bits of rope, netting, creels, cord and string as well as packing bands and plastic sheet from discarded bait boxes from fishing boats that was partially buried in the sand. We dug and pulled a lot of it out and there is plenty more marine litter at the roadside. We hope some adults will go and pick that stuff up this week. 

Here are some of our photos - everyone worked hard right up til the last minute and enjoyed a great day outside. 

We collected 23 bags of marine litter and a pile of bits too big to go in a bag as well.

Well done litter warriors!

Materials - clay

We have started investigating some materials. Today we worked with clay and thought about its properties and qualities. 

We began by 'harvesting' words about clay with scrap pieces.

Then in pairs we made two different types of pots.

One person in each pair made a pinch pot and the other made a coil pot.

It wasn't as easy as it looks - but good fun...

Here are the words which we gathered about clay:

An assembly, a newspaper, some eggs and bananas... and a little bit of direction...

 The last few weeks of this term have been very hectic preparing for our assembly so here is a quick summary of our activities.

 

We have been learning about instructions for directions. This is very similar to coding and programming toys except we used each other with one person as the coder and the other as the 'robot'. we invented 2 games which we shared and each group tried out the other groups' game.

 

Back in class we got to grips with compass points and how to divide up 360 degrees and made maps with instructions for other groups. We swapped round to try them out.

 

 

Craig Taylor from The Orcadian came in to tell us all about how a newspaper works and what his job involved. We created some good questions for him and took notes ourselves in preparation for our own newspaper 'The Glaitness Herald' - coming soon!

 

 

Finally after much preparation, and with the help of Mrs Linklater our drama teacher, and Chris Giles and Gill Smee from the local Fair Trade group, we completed our script and presented our assembly on Fair Trade bananas.

 

 

Back in the gym with Ms Mackay we continued our better Movers and Thinkers lessons with more coordinated moves and a little bit of juggling! What a challenge that was - with impressive results!

 

 

Finally it was time to think about Easter and reflect on the Easter story with a few traditional activities. Beautiful eggs everyone!

 

Meanwhile at golden time two technology teams have emerged and are now competing with each other in vehicle races.

 

Phew! Time for a break!

Happy Easter everyone!

Happy Red Nose Day!

 

A  happy Red Nose Day to everyone!

Multiplication movies

We have been explaining three strategies for multiplying mentally - splitting tens and units, doubling and halving and adjusting. Here are some of our videos. You can see more on the P5 maths channel. The link to P5 Maths TV is in the sidebar.