Science

P6S have enjoyed working with the P1’s. This week the P1’s had to discover how to light a sun or other object with a light bulb and to use a fan. They absolutely loved it and learned a lot from the lesson. We also learned the history of how the light bulb was made. Last week we were investigating what effects the brightness of a bulb and other questions. We also learned about the history of electricity and how some of the people who first used it in their homes felt.

French

In French we have learned all the main colours and most common phrases. We transferred a French paragraph into English!

VCOP

In VCOP we reflected on cool connectives. In particular, the good ones! Now we need to use them in our writing!

Writing

6S have been writing ‘Thank you letters’ to Curl Aberdeen. Hopefully, they will love them. We have also been typing up our amazing novels.

Road safety

This week it’s Road Safety week. We have focused on some of the most useful ways on how to cross roads and walk by busy streets. 6S have also watched a video from 2 years ago of Miss Sharp’s old class, which promoted Road Safety around the school.

IDL

This week we have been focusing on our websites! We have also been finishing out second vlog for our voting. We have been working on our prototypes, they are coming on really well.

By Amazing Carlotta and Awesome Emily 

This week we went to curling and had such an amazing time. We learnt how to throw stones on the ice. We also played games called popcorn, short curling and other games. We learnt that we had to push off with our strong foot and slide across the ice with one foot behind.

We had an assembly about anti-bullying week. We spoke about how to deal with a situation when there’s bullying going on.

We’ve been filming our group while they’ve been designing their product.

We met up with our P1 science buddies again and started to teach them all about circuits and what electricity is used for. We also told them that electricity is an energy source. We made it fun for them by asking them how to light the lighthouse keepers house using a working circuit.

We learned about limericks and that they can be funny and they rhyme.

By Poppy F and Junaid

On Monday we had P.E with Miss Sharp, we started Tai Chi. In Tai Chi we learned that you have to imagine the story in your head and act it out. We learned a simple warm up exercise and a basic routine. The warm up was the bear claws, the butterflies, and the bear walk exercise .In the routine we had to be a string and then we were a tree, after that we did the ball steps. In the ball steps we asked our friends if they wanted a ball but they said no then we showed all our friends the ball.

On Thursday we had a school trip to Curl Aberdeen. When we finally got there we had to change our shoes into a clean pair so we didn’t get gravel or mud on the ice. We learned how to throw the stone but you didn’t have to actually throw it because it was way too heavy and then we learned why people sweep the ice. It is because the ice was bumpy and needs to be smoothed and more slippery.

On Friday we got to build our own working machine like things with instructions to follow. One group had a robot the other group got a dinosaur and one group got a helicopter. None of the groups finished but we all had fun and worked really well together.

We have also started to learn about circuits and electricity in science. We will be teaching the P1s about it again.

We also showed the rest of the ‘Road Trip’ presentations from last term. What an amazing set of tours the class had planned around China and Scotland!

It has been a fun start to term 2 and we have lots ahead.

By Matt and Grace

Thank you for a very successful and productive first term P6S. I hope you all enjoy a well-earned break – I look forward to hearing all of your stories when you come back. We have another great term ahead of us full of exciting things like; curling, paired science, a new topic and much more.

Have a lovely holiday.

Miss Sharp

This week we finished our chapter 5 in our writing jotters for our books! They’ll be ready soon! We assessed our writing work in that time too.

One reading group presented a play to the rest of the class this week. It was called The Alien.

We also did boxercise, it’s short but very tiring!!!

We did a really big IDL lesson (topic). We learned about the culture of china including, dragon building, tai chi, mandarin writing, pronunciation and shadow puppets. It was very fun!

We were working on our road trips, they are very interesting and very eye-catching.

We also presented an assembly about the brain and mindfulness not mindfull!!

A little note from Miss Sharp – Well done P6S! I am very proud of you for how quickly you put this together. It really shows the other teachers and me how much you have learned and remembered.

We had art with Mrs Brew where we created Zen tangles, it was very fun and very artistic. We had P.E. with Miss Mair and we did hockey, we did played matches it was very fun!

We were also getting to know the P1 groups we will be teaching science to next term. Ask us about what worked well and what we learned about how to teach and plan an activity.

By Arya, Nugwis, Erin and Carlotta

Problem solving

In problem solving we solved lots of problems while playing fun games, including ice cubes, A pack of cards with problems on them, Super Math Spy and Bellz (that is spelled correctly by the way).

Road trip

In Road Trip we are continuing to work on our tour guide posters and we are starting to create scripts to perform to the class. We have to include entertainment, history, culture and the traditional food.

Writing

In writing we wrote our chapter 4 for our stories. In this chapter we did the resolution and things got a little calmer in our stories. All of our stories are looking great!

Reading

In reading we are summarising what we have just read and we do some other things to do with our task like PCMs or making leaflets or picking out good examples of VCOP.

VCOP

In VCOP we learned how to correctly use commas to add extra detail like. Pink zebra crossing can be changed to pink zebra, crossing!

BRIDGE BULDING

In bridge building we learned about suspension bridges and how they are made we even got to make our own mini suspension bridge!

Pictures to follow …

Blog by Erin and Molly

Writing

In writing this week we have written the build-up and dilemma of our very own novel. They’re looking amazing.

Mental Maths

This week in mental maths we have been looking at dividing and multiplying by 10, 100 and 1,000 mentally. We have been doing this by moving the numbers that we were dividing a number of places to the right or the left.

VCOP

In VCOP this week we have been looking at where to put commas into our sentences to develop our use of punctuation.

IDL

A representative of the Scottish Parliament came in to teach us about Scottish politics. We held a debate and acted out what it would be like to pass and motion a bill. We also got into political parties and campaigned for votes.

By Kirsten and Nathan

Monday

On Monday morning we had reading, French and VCOP. In the afternoon we had maths and health and well-being (HWB)

Tuesday

In the morning we had whole class maths, writing and library. In the afternoon we had IDL AND THEN WE HAD PE YAY! Then after PE we done IDL.

Wednesday

This Wednesday morning we had whole class maths then reading and maths. In the afternoon we had homework, science and PE we had a lot but the good thing was that it was really fun

Thursday

In the morning we had ART and reading it was lots of fun and after break we had ICT and learning journeys. In the afternoon we had RME, mental maths and IDL it was amazing.

Friday 

In the morning we had spelling and Big Maths then after break, we had maths. And finally, we had golden time, but before that we had IDL.

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P6S Class Blog

Health and wellbeing

In health and wellbeing this week we learnt about the brain, we were taught about prefrontal cortex, Hippocampus and the Amygdala. The prefrontal cortex helps you think then the hippocampus stores all your memories and the amygdala controls your immediate reactions.

Writing

In writing this week we have been told we are writing our own book. This session we had to write a character description for our stories.

Science

This week in science we were learning about growth of a plant and why they are so important. We have also been learning about photosynthesis, seed dispersal, fertilisation, germination and pollination. We learned that we are more similar to plants, and without them in our life we wouldn’t be living right now!

ICT

In ICT this week we were using Excel to plan our tour guide company and had to plan the destination and how many miles between each destination. We also had to use a formula to change it in km.

Ask us about what we did in IDL, P.E., VCOP, RME, Reading, Art, Mental Maths and Maths.

By Rachel D and Ellie

During the first two weeks of school we have done multiple things such as: S.M.A.R.T. targets; Problem Solving; ICT; IDL; VCOP; Science; Mental Maths and so much more. It has been a busy start to P6! Ask us all about it.

Timetable

We have writing, topic, art, library, P.E., ICT, circle time, maths, problem solving, big maths, reading, spelling and lots more each week and throughout the term.

Library is on Tuesday, so remember your book.

P.E. is on Thursday with Miss Mair and Monday and Wednesday with Miss Sharp, so make sure you remember P.E kit.

IDL

Our topic this terms is ‘Road Trip’. We will be learning all about China and Scotland. More to follow …

Homework times

We get homework on Wednesday to be back on Monday.

Here are some photos of P6S in action.

Problem Solving

VCOP – Synonym Memory Game and Snap

Save Fred

By Amelia and Aidan C 🙂  (and a little added by Miss Sharp)