This is going to be a very busy week on the ELP programme – so many things to do and see!
Maths
In maths we will be continuing to recap the things we hope to remember from last year – 7 weeks holiday is a long time and it takes a few lessons to get back up to full steam. Some of our pupils will be working on reinforcing their understanding of money and time, others will be working on angles and simple “equations” using like terms (eg 1a + 2a = 3a) as they work towards Level C maths.
Health
In Health we will be looking at the senses – especially the ability to smell things (and due to our good fortune, taste things too!). The sort of things we will be smelling and tasting include chocolate, garlic and other herbs and spices…
Science
We will be continuing to look at our bodies and this week will be helped by our favourite classmate, Bill!
Meet Bill!
Bill has 206 bones and that makes him very helpful. He can show us where we can find David Beckham’s metatarsal – or any other bone in our body. We can’t see our own skeletons because they are covered up by skin and muscle…so old Bill is rather useful indeed.
Asdan
In our Asdan modules we have been completing our personal profiles for our folder. We had to remember a lot of important information such as our address and our birthday. We also got a chance to tell everyone what our favourite things are and made clay models of our favourite dinners! Can you guess who chose fish and chips? Or curry? Or even macaroni cheese?
Home Economics
In Home Ec this week we will be working with Miss Angus in the kitchen. Mr Cruickshank will also be coming into the kitchens with us on Thursday mornings for an extra period of cooking, once a fortnight. He is seemingly a good cake maker…so we look forward to that!
Gardening
In Gardening this week we went on a Garden Treasure Hunt. Mrs Binnie had made up lots of clues that were to do with our work in the garden and had placed them round the school (but mainly in our two gardens) for us to find. We were allowed the help of Mr Cruickshank and Mrs Cullen -but to be honest, we really didn’t need their input. We were superb at working out the cryptic clues ourselves (because we know the garden better than anyone!). The treasure was a cranberry cake and juice served in our special room in Home Ec…and made by none other than Mr C!
See ELP Gardening to find out what we did!
Social Studies
This week we planned our small mini projects looking at how food gets from its country of origin to our favourite supermarkets. We decided that Amy would find out how sweetcorn would get from America to Asda…Dale would find out how coffee gets from Brazil to Asda…Melissa would find out how tea gets from China to Lidl…and Steven would find out how lambs get from Scottish fields to Somerfields!
(Any excuse for a cute lamb picture!)