Leadership skills

In small groups, we have been planning and designing PE games. In each group, we created a warm up activity, main activity and a cool down. We had to write detailed instructions and create a list of resources required for our activities. We then thought of feedback we would like to receive from our peers once we had taught the PE activities.

 Warm up. 

 Team game. Each team had clear the obstacle course in the quickest time!

 Zumba cool down

 We all gave different parts of the activities a rating out of 10 and wrote a wish for any improvements. We all found this useful. 

Eco-house challenge

As part of the renewable energy topic, the children were set the challenge of planning and creating an eco-house in groups. The criteria involved for the eco-houses including renewable energy sources as well as the house being sustainable. Here are some photos of the initial planning stages...

World Book Day

For World Book Day today, we went to the nursery to read stories to the younger children. We paired up and found a quiet area to read our stories - we all enjoyed reading or listening to the stories.

We found different spaces to read around the nursery.

Andrew enjoyed reading to his peedie sister, Rebecca. 

 We enjoyed reading in the igloo!

Some of us read in larger groups too.

 The nursery children were very good listeners!

We hope to return to the nursery some time soon! 

Hinduism - Diwali festival

This term we have been learning about the Hindu religion. We did some research to begin with to develop our knowledge of the origin of the religion. We learned about some artefacts, Hindu beliefs and rituals as well as learning about the Hindu God's and symbols.
Today we were learning about the festival of Diwali. We all shared our knowledge of the festival and we even remembered performing the story of Rama and Sita a few years ago! We watched a clip about Hinduism and learned about the diyas (symbolic lights).
Here are some pictures of us making our own diyas. Next week we are planning to decorate them too...

Fantastic fractions!

We have been learning about fractions recently. We are developing our understanding of fractions and equivalent fractions. This week some of us have learned how to simplify fractions and correctly order fractions.

 Some us made equivalent fraction loop cards.

We then swapped loop cards and solved them.

 This week, some of us have been the teacher and taught our peers about simplifying. 

 We all enjoyed being the teacher...

we even received positive feedback from our peers about our teaching!

Our tidal device plan is progressing...

We had two visitors in class the other week to give us some feedback about the drawings and sketches we had created for our tidal device. They were from Orkney Renewable Energy Forum and Scot Renewables in Stromness. In our groups we explained to them both how our devices worked. They then gave us feedback in our groups... they were impressed with our designs!
There are more photos on the Orcadian Archive page here: http://www.theorcadianphotos.co.uk/p803577004/h1cc207e1#h2d0d800f

 We then started making adaptions to our designs...

 We have also been creating a name for the tidal device.

We have been thinking about materials that we could use to make the device. In our groups, we have also been discussing environmental concerns and using maps to decide where to situate our device. 

Class novel

This term we are reading "The Accidental Time Traveller' by Janis Mackay. We are all really enjoying this book so far, we have been discussing the setting and characters in the book. We have started to create character posters and are adding to these to develop an image of what the characters may look like.