Awesome iPad Band!

As you may remember we have formed a small but elite iPad band who will accompany the other instruments for our primary Christmas play on Friday. In the band are Robert, Ruaraidh and Alex from P6/7 and Cameron from P5. The time we have had to rehearse has been severely limited due to the weather recently but things are coming along well and we are looking forward to our debut on Friday. The instruments we will be playing include bells, triangles, glockenspiel, vibraphone, drums and glissando chimes.
Here is a sneak preview video of a rehearsal for the song 'Follow the Star'.

Play Rehearsals

Today we began our penultimate week of school before the Christmas holidays. As we've missed so much time with full classes due to the snow we are taking the opportunity of having all the children back to rehearse our play. It is rather daunting as we perform in the school this Friday night and the following Monday.
Today, with some trepidation, we began rehearsals. The children were all excellent and the play rehearsal today went very well. We are trying out the sound system and lights as we go and they seemed to go well today too.
Hopefully it will be alright on the night!

Work While the Snow Falls

Yesterday we worked while the weather outside was below freezing all day. Every other school in Inverclyde was closed for the second day in a row but in Cedars, the valiant few children who made it to school learned about focal points and depth of field in art activities on our ipads and also made decorations out o clay with Mr Atkinson.
Today we have a lot more pupils again as the temperature has risen and the roads are much clearer.


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Snowy Days at Cedars!

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Percentages and the Best Deal!

Everyone loves a bargain, especially near Christmas. Today we've been using a great app called Moxier Collage to present data on research into what shops are offering the best deals this winter.
Here are Olivia's results.




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Percentages

In maths today we are looking at percentages. We've been working at moving from vulgar fractions to decimals and then to percentages.
We used our iPads to research toys and games from Toys R Us, Amazon and Argos and the percentage reductions that they offered.
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Back to Work!

Today is the first of December. The snow still lies on the streets around the school but the roads are much clearer and we've got msg of our children back to school. Today we we catching up with maths and language work all morning, working hard with punctuation and grappling with fractions, decimals and percentages!
We took some time after lunch to take P 4-7 for a short and very careful walk!



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