It’s a very busy term ahead for Primary 6B! We will be having Scottish week in a few weeks and are already getting into the Scottish spirit of things by starting to read Sleekit Mr Tod, which is the Roald Dahl book Fantastic Mr Fox translated into Scots. We are also hoping to do lots of interesting activities and art work to celebrate Scottish week.

Primary 6B will also be continuing to work towards our Discovery Level of our John Muir Award. Over the next few weeks we are hoping to work closely with the Ranger to build bird boxes and to learn more about our wild environment.

Miss Barclay’s Writing Group

In Miss Barclay’s writing group this term we will be mainly focussing on more functional pieces of writing, as Primary 6 and 7 are doing a whole area topic on The Body, so we will have lots of reports, posters, and information leaflets to write for the topic. We will also continue to work on some imaginative writing this term, using the VCOP approach. We will be mainly focussing on Connectives in our imaginative stories.

Miss Barclay’s Maths Group

The Squares maths group this term will be focussing on numbers to 10,000 and will be sequencing, ordering and adding/subtracting these numbers. Pupils will also be learning their 8 and 9 times tables this term so any additional support and help they get at home with learning them would be greatly appreciated.

Rectangles

The pupils in the Rectangles maths group have now finished working through the Heinemann & programme and have completed their Round Ups so are now working on revision of areas that they found tricky. Pupils this term will revise areas such as finding the area of a shape, using formulae, long division, fractions, decimals and percentages before then moving onto the Heinemann 8 programme later.

The Body is our new topic in Primary 6, so we will be finding out all about our skeletal system, the names for our bones and all about the organs in our body. We will be engaging in lots of fun and exciting activities in co-operative groups and individual tasks.