Happy Holidays!

 

Here are some of the pop-up gingerbread houses we made in the last week of term with real sugar and sweetie decorations.

We took inspiration from the video below when thinking about the forest setting for our fairytale houses. If you look very carefully you might be able to find a few forest creatures in our pop-up pictures, perhaps even a fox!

  

Our homework this week...

...was performing in the Primary School Christmas Musical! On Tuesday evening the hall was packed and just like in the play itself the performance turned out to be fantastic! The singing was super and the acting was excellent! Everyone really enjoyed it - let's hope for another cracking performance on Thursday afternoon. Well done classes 5, 6 and 7.

Our new Grammar Channel

 

Sometimes we understand something better if we have to explain it to someone else. Even if we think we know something well sharing our knowledge with an audience really helps us clarify it and remember it.

 

 These are our first grammar videos.

We worked really hard at creating them, but we might decide to revisit and improve them later.

Let us know what you think.

 

 

Playscripts

Last week we did some drama to inspire us for our writing. 

We learned about how to write playscripts and everyone did really well with their first attempt.

This week we acted out some of the scripts written by children in the class.



 It was good to act them out as it helped us to see what worked well and what needed improved.  There was a great improvement in the confidence shown in performing skills today.

Well done everyone!



Children in Need 2013

Lots of us dressed up to raise money for
Children in Need on Friday 15th November.

 

This is not the cheeriest photo (we should have taken more!) but we did have a good time helping the school to raise over £600 for the charity.

 

One member of our class went the extra mile by organising her own competition, asking people to pay to guess how many sweets were in the jar.  What a great idea!

 

 

 

You can see more of the ways your money will be used to help children throughout the UK, including here in Orkney:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01ln7q6