Our Scottish Topic

David Walliams book, Mr Stink, has been the focus for our Scottish topic.  There is a Scottish version called Mr Mingin and the children have loved talking about the characters and making predictions.  We have found the language quite difficult as so many of the words are unusual to some of the children, however, we have used a DVD of the story as well which has been very popular.

Our artwork of characters and some of the words to describe them

Nicole, Mackenzie, Rihanna and Ben's comments on characters in the book.

 

We have worked with P4/5 to make a Scots Words dictionary to translate our song.

 

Galaxy Toast Club

The children are now developing skills in working with money, communicating with others and in food preparation & hygiene during our twice-weekly Toast Club. The children chose the name Galaxy Toast and made posters to let people know when we are open for orders.

Mackenzie's poster design to publicise our toast club

Emily's poster that is displayed in school.

We began by practising collecting orders and working out change from 50p and £1.  The children were keen to offer different toppings  - honey is a favourite!  Every Tuesday and Wednesday children work in pairs to collect orders and payments, make toast and deliver it to our customers.  It is very popular within the Language Unit and with the Nurture Group as well as some of the adults. It is also an ideal opportunity for the children to apply their maths skills as it involves money, a little information handling and also basic budgeting.  We are now using the money we make to pay for new foodstuffs and even had enough to purchase some resources for our science work on microbes.

Emily practises taking orders

We realised that chocolate spread
 is not as popular as butter

Activities Update

Earrings and gift bag

We finished the December term with an Enterprise Topic to raise funds for the school.

Rihanna and Emily sort earrings into matching pairs

All the children in Room 3 were keen to make charms and earrings as our Enterprise Topic just before Christmas.  We sold the charms and Christmas themed earrings making over £20 in profits for the school.

   

Nicole adds coloured beads to the
wine glass charms.

Rory checks there are no 'doublers ' in our charm packs.

Jack and Mackenzie sort charms into gift bags.