The children were given 30 minutes to produce a piece of writing which summed up their experience as a group over the last 8 weeks and to reflect on what they had learned. The work they produced is of a very high standard and highlights the team work skills that the children are describing. See below.
The discovery teams also had the opportunity this week to read the evaluations that parents filled out at the Wacky Khaki party. Children agreed with many of the comments and really appreciated the praise. We then counted up all the stars given to each room and divided it by the number of responses we had received. This gave us an average number of stars for the room. After that we got into Primary 6 and 7 maths work by rounding to 1 decimal place and then multiplying our decimals by 10 to give us a whole number! Finally, we went out to the playground and drew a GIGANTIC bar graph which displayed our findings. The children discussed which rooms were most popular and least popular. Please see the images page for pictures of our graph.
Hieroglyphics
Our group is really good at making the powerpoint presentation. The skills that we developed on the powerpoint presentation were our typing and writing in sentences. We’re also really good at building skyscrapers and designing them. We learned that we could build good models out of cardboard boxes and some other stuff. The part of the challenges that we enjoyed the most was the building snow pyramids because we don’t usually get that much snow in Scotland. We were good at team work but we could still make it better. We were ok at listening.
Pharaohs 1
We think that at the start of the whole of the big task we didn’t listen to each other and get on very well but now that it is very, very close to the end we feel that we have learned a lot from each other. We are listening better and we are more organised. We feel our strengths are: Leo is good at leadership skills, Jamie C. is good at finding information and brings humour to the group, Christina is good at leadership, Joseph is good at designing things and bring ideas into the group, Jon is good at building the skyscrapers, spelling and writing and Alisha is good at being the time manager and colouring. We enjoyed the shopping day with the skyscrapers and the pyramids.
RA
Through the 9 weeks we have developed great skills like team work, responsibility, listening and being sensible. Our group enjoyed making snow pyramids and through that we worked well in our teams. The thing that we were best at would be writing the story about the Mummy because we all helped to write it and it really was a fantastic story.
The group enjoyed everything through out the big tasks and we have developed very much from running away from each other at the start to now, being a great group, always working together.
Our group has enjoyed being together and we will miss the big task. We want our topic to be Egypt FOREVER!
6 Gods of Egypt
We were good at wrapping the mummy because we were good at making it nice and neat. The thing that we enjoyed the most throughout the big task was making the poster because we liked making the children. We got better at team work and our listening skills.
Cleopatra
Throughout the big task our skills have been developed. If you can get on with each other it makes it much easier to do things. Our group was really good at thinking and our group liked the snow pyramids the most. Through the 8 weeks the group improved a lot. The skills we developed were: listening, working together, keeping an eye on the time, telling the time, thinking, always doing our best work, try your best, tidying up, getting on with each other, good ideas, confidence, patience sometimes, we don’t panic as much with our problems and encouraging each other and yourself. The posters were fun because you got to design the clothes and find out things on the computer and in books. We also used the blog and fact files for information. It was good that we could put a question on the blog and everyone else went and helped us with the research, like Mr Sandy.
Pharaohs 2
Pharaohs 2 have achieved many things but the thing we have achieved the most is working marvelously together and listening. Our groups skills are team work because we have never left anyone out. Our teamwork is probably ok because we have had about 1 or 2 fall outs and arguments. We enjoyed wrapping the mummy, doing the big poster and the Crazy Talk. During this big task, Pharaohs 2 have developed skills such as listening to each other and trying to do our best. We have also developed writing skills and sharing out the jobs.
Ancient Egyptians
We enjoyed building the milk bottle pyramid during the big task and we were good at it as well. We learned that the Egyptians were much more clever than us and had different writing than us. We have developed team work because we had a long time to work together and we have developed it because in the end we did well at listening.
Curse of the Mummy
Our team were good at working with each other because we were good at co-operating and we like working as a team. We liked making the sky scraper and the pyramid because we could go to the shop to buy the materials to build it. We bought boxes, lego and 2 meters of cellotape. We also got the plastecine for free because we sold the extra lego.
We developed our working together and learned a lot about Ancient and Modern Egypt. Our favourite day was the snow pyramid day because it was outside and we had lots of snow. We tried to make a big one and we succeeded. Miss Carter said it looked like the valley of the kings since we made two. We also made a mummified snowman.
We liked the topic because it felt like there was no work because it was all so much fun.
We like Egypt now because we have learned so much about it and now we want to go there.








