Some of us can’t believe we are in term 3 of p6/7 already!

We reviewed our term 2 targets and then created realistic but challenging targets for this term.

We also started our mini topic on Islam.

Lastly, we received a lovely thank you letter from the soldiers in Iraq who we sent our hand-made Christmas cards to last term.

This afternoon we went to P1 to make  robins, we all really enjoyed the craft.  Thank you Miss Morrison and P1 for having us.

Next term we are looking forward to our joint class (P6/7 and p1) eco job of feeding the birds.

It was the week of the P4-7 performance.  P6/7 voted for “Let it Go” and “All I want for Christmas is you”.   After practising our dancing and singing, most of us enjoyed showing friends and families our work… we hope it put a smile on your faces!

We also voted to donate to Macmillan instead of receiving a gift from our teacher this Christmas.

Next week we are going to see “Mortal Engines” at the cinema, hopefully it will be a great way to end our project which most of us have thoroughly enjoyed.

We also have our parties on Wednesday (p6) and Thursday (p7) and a short visit to P1 on Tuesday to do some Christmas craft!

What another quick  term!  We would all like to wish you all very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy 2019.

Thank you VERY much to everyone who supported our stand at the Christmas Fayre and bought a ticket to win the Santa Gnome. Aqsa (P7 last year) was the winner.

We are delighted with our overall profit of £163.81 and we are now looking forward to seeing “Mortal Engines”, our class novel and project, at the end of term.

It is now beginning to feel a bit like Christmas… we have been busy rehearsing for the p4-7 Christmas Sing-Along.  Some of us choreographed the dance and we have all been practising our singing.  Some of the p7 girls made our classroom more festive, looks great. After watching Newsround, we have decided as a class to have a reverse advent calendar and collect items for the local foodbank.

Next week, we are looking forward to the Christmas performance and our whole school trip to the cinema – a big thank you to the Parent Council.

We have been busy preparing for our class Christmas Enterprise. The p6s designed the advertising for our Santa gnome and they created signs and props for our stall at the Christmas Fayre on Saturday. Most of us have helped to sell raffle tickets to the classes and Nursery. Some of us are helping on Saturday, so if you would like to win the amazing Santa gnome or want to try and knock Santa off his chimney  please come to our stall. 

We are now on chapter 15 of “Mortal Engines” and there have been plenty of twists and turns.  We have been studying the interesting vocabulary, the amazing description and the use of dialogue.  In art, as well as drawing a very detailed picture of St Paul’s Cathedral, we are continuing with the construction of our traction cities.  This task is proving to be challenging but we are learning a lot about working as a team and co-operating with others.

We also had a visit today from Mr Sandy Beattie, Team Leader of Master Planning, Design and Conservation for Aberdeen City.  We really enjoyed his talk and we would like to thank him for his time.

Next week, the P7s will be taking part in a transition activity at Scotstown with some of the current first years.

We have had another productive week.  The more we read of our class novel, “Mortal Engines,” the more we are intrigued by the setting, characters and plot.  In groups, we have started constructing “London.” We are all finding the traction a challenge before we start adding the city layers.

This week Callum’s mum asked if we would support her company which is taking part in “Troops for Treats.” We all thought it was a great idea and we made Christmas cards to include in the goodie boxes which will be sent to those serving in the armed forces over Christmas.

We have been continuing our work on World War 1 as the 11th November approaches. We wrote a diary entry as if we were a soldier in the trenches and really used our imagination as we described trench foot, the rats and the conditions.  We also created some art work by drawing silhouettes and doing some collage.

We have now started our second topic based on the novel, “Mortal Engines” by Philip Reeve.  We are just getting to know the characters and understand the setting. Our art work below was based on the protagonists.

We performed some of the songs we have been learning in French to the morning nursery children and then we read them the story books we have made about  “Les trois petits cochons.” (The three little pigs). As you can see from the photos, we all enjoyed our nursery visit.

As part of our work in RME, we visited both sides of St Columba’s Church yesterday. We were able to see the artefacts and symbols we have been learning about in class and we learned about lots of other features of both the Catholic and the Church of Scotland.

It was really interesting to be able to compare and contrast both churches and some of us had a very interesting discussion about it in class today.  We also thoroughly enjoyed meeting Jackie, the sacristan, in the Catholic Church who told us lots of interesting information and patiently answered our questions.  Mr Kinsey in the Church of Scotland challenged us to count the number of crosses in the church, he demonstrated how the font is used, showed us what is used at Communion and told us that the church is not just a building.

We certainly learned a lot and we would like to thank Jackie and Mr Kinsey for their time.