Primary 6 have been really busy this term! We have successfully performed in the school’s Christmas concert and learned our songs really well. We are currently preparing for our Purple Wing Christmas party (and learning some great Scottish dances!) We wrote our latest blog post as a class. Have a look at some of the things we have been doing…

Literacy

• We have written our assessed writing stories for Term 2 about space. We imagined we were describing a journey through space and we used our knowledge of the solar system and planets to do this. We made our own VCOP wall display using words to make our writing more exciting. We use these as often as we can. Soon we will be focusing on other aspects of writing, such as redrafting a piece of work and writing persuasive arguments.
• We are developing our Reading Detective skills within our groups. Soon we will be able to take on different Reading Detective roles within our groups and ‘become the teacher’ for that task!
• We have also been developing our understanding of Parts of Speech, with a focus on adjectives and adverbs. We are growing more confident at recognising these in a sentence. The adverbs we have discussed can also be used to enhance our writing!
• Mr Smith (who has been helping us on our Great Art Quest!) visited our school again with his wife to perform Tam O’ Shanter, the poem we have been focusing on as we create our clay models. They performed the play in front of the entire Purple Wing and some lucky P6 pupils were chosen to help. Have a look!

Numeracy

• We have really been focusing on decimals as well as developing our mental maths skills. We started by learning how to round decimals to the nearest whole number; then we focused on adding and subtracting decimals to one or two decimal places. We have been multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100 and 1000, and have also been working on consolidating our multiplying and dividing skills!
• We used Numeracy as part of our space topic, too. We researched and learned several facts about our solar system, including the sizes and temperatures of the planets and their distances from the Sun. We looked at using scale to put the planets into a more realistic perspective! We worked in our outdoor space to draw the planets to scale.

  

• We have been getting really good at some of our times tables! Our biggest focus was the 8 times table. We will be working on the 6 and 7 soon.
• In the start of the next term we will be continuing to focus on our mental maths skills and further develop our knowledge of fractions.

Topic

• We have been learning about Tim Peake and his journey to the International Space Station. We drew portraits of Tim Peake and looked at some of the equipment used by astronauts.
• We have been learning about the planets in our solar system, finding out about each planet individually and how they compare to the Earth. We developed our note-taking skills to do this and found out some amazing facts!
• We also learned about what astronauts eat and how they stay healthy in space! We worked with Primary 2 for several activities, acting as mentors to the younger pupils. This gave us a great opportunity to set a good example of how to work and behave well. We worked with P2 for astronaut training in PE and we also went to a food workshop with them. We learned how to prepare healthy snacks.
• We have been using ICT to enhance our learning of space. We researched and created a PowerPoint on comets, asteroids, meteors and shooting stars.

 

HWB

• Before we started practising our social dancing, we were developing our gymnastics skills. We used a huge range of equipment and learned the importance of safety when working on these activities. Have a look at some of the pictures of our achievements…

 

RME

• We have been learning about the celebration of Diwali. It is part of the religion of Hinduism. We made a play in our cooperative learning groups about the story of Diwali. It is known as the festival of lights. We watched videos to show us the story of Diwali and how people celebrate this holiday around the world.