Kakatsiti African Dummers

We were very lucky on Tuesday to watch a performance of talented African drummers. We then participated in a workshop where we all played the drums and learned an African dance. We all enjoyed ourselves and were very energetic!
Here are some pictures and videos from the workshop...

 We all joined in with the drumming performance!

Respiratory System - Presenting our research posters

Our topic this term is the Human Body. We have been learning about the respiratory system. In small groups, we researched the respiratory system and presented our research on a poster. Our criteria stated we must have an interesting title, illustrations, facts and our posters must be attractively presented. We all successfully met the criteria!
We all peer assessed each other on our presenting skills. We were looking for good volumes, using eye-contact, speaking clearly and speaking at an appropriate pace. We all enjoyed peer assessing each other and giving feedback. :-)

Science Festival Workshop

During the science festival, we participated in a car workshop. We learned about the fastest car on earth and how it works. We were then set the challenge to build and create our own cars. We even had a race to see which car moved the quickest. We altered our design to improve our cars too!

Welcome to the new term!

The blog will be updated regularly with photos and comments about what we are learning about in p5/6/7. Please feel free to leave comments!

Miss Grieve

p7 Firth 2014

Leavers Slideshow

Transition day

Today the primary 4's and 5's from Mrs Scott's class joined the p5/6/7 class. The transition morning consisted of the children getting to know each other more and working in small groups. We all participated in a morning check in where we used describing words to go with our name. We then played a mental maths countdown game where we had to reach a target number. After music we were set the challenge of designing and innovative and imaginative pencil case. We played dragon's den where we had to sell our pencil cases and describe the imaginary features on them. Everyone came up with excellent ideas!

Measuring areas

We have been learning about lengths and areas recently. This week we have been estimating and measuring areas in and around the school. We all did accurate estimations and checked these by measuring areas in small groups. We were focusing on squares and rectangles this week. We were learning to multiply the breadth and the length together to find squared centimetres and metres.