So, over the last couple of weeks, we have been incredibly busy. We were on our trip last Friday and the week before, glow blogs were not working so this is a post that we created a couple of weeks ago. We will also add in some current updates as well.

We had a visit from M&M Productions, where they put on a performance of E.B White’s ‘Charlotte’s Web’. There was a giant pig ((Wilbur) not a real pig) running around the gym hall. We really liked the quick scene changes and enjoyed the performance.

Last week, Steve from Drumfun, visited the school for a two day drum workshop experience. On the Thursday we visited him in the gym hall and used the drums and our bodies and created a variety of different beats. On the Friday afternoon, we had a whole school event were everyone had boom whackers. It was LOUD and very entertaining.

Over the last couple of weeks, we have been taking part in Bikeability 2 training. We have been learning skills to ride safely on the roads. We have been doing safe stops, U-turns, passing side roads and parked cars and turning into major and minors. We have had to ensure that we have been doing lifesaver looks to ensure our safety. We have now complete our Bikeability 2 and will be receiving our certificates and badges soon.

On Wednesday 22nd May, Mrs Hunter returned to work after being off and a number of children attended the Clackmannanshire County Sports. P6H pupils were very successful, receiving a silver for 4x100m relay (boys), silver for 100m (boys), silver for shot putt (boys) and gold for high jump (boys). Other members of the class place in finals earning valuable points for the team and Redwell came first for the 2nd year in a row.

We have been continuing to read the Pyrate’s Boy. We have now discovered what was in the box that James was protecting. If you want to know, ask your child! We have been linking our knowledge of the Jacobites to what we are learning.

Last Friday, we visited the Tall Ship and Riverside Museum. We enjoyed looking at all of the exhibits and learning about the different forms of transport. We were able to go on the Tall Ship (for free), Sam tripped up in the old street and Miller and Ethan looked beautiful in the dresses on the old street. We all enjoyed going to the gift shop and purchasing souvenirs.

With only two weeks to go, we will continue to keep you posted. Bye!

This week we have been very busy…

The highlight of our week for most of us was our visits to Nursery to meet the future P1s.  We had a great time playing and helping them learn.  Next week we will help our buddies explore the playground.

In our IDL we have also been doing a lot of learning related to our new class novel ‘Pyrate’s Boy’ boy.  We learned about the British Empire and also the slave trade.

We also created letters, first handwriting them then using Word to make them look as if they were handwritten in the 18th Century.  After we printed them off we crumpled them up and covered them with cold, strong tea to make them look ancient.

In Numeracy and Maths we have been developing our knowledge of fractions. Some of us have been calculating equivalents and simplifying and others have been working with decimals and percentages.

In Health and Wellbeing we have been learning about Internet Safety and Readiness for Learning.

In internet safety we thought about how we use the internet.  This made us aware of the risks involved. Afterward our lesson,  activity and discussion, we  completed a quiz.  We showed that we understand the risks and know what to do if we are worried when using the internet.

In ‘Readiness for Learning’ we learned about the things that prevent us from being alert and able to learn and the things that will help us. There are some things that everyone needs such as sleep, food and water.   Different emotions can be barriers to learning too.

Some of us have also started training for the P6 and P7 Redwell Team for the County Sports on 22nd May!

Thank you for reading ou class blog!

from P6H and Mrs Macaulay

Class Newsletter: Term 4

Primary 6:

Dear Parent/Carer,

I hope you find the following information useful.  If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Here is an overview of our learning focus for Term 4

Health and Wellbeing:

We will be discussing and considering issues surrounding drugs, smoking and alcohol. We will be identifying the health risks and choices the pupils may face. We will explore the current issues surrounding these topics, the links between them and social stereotyping.

Core Literacy:

This term we will be reading and studying ‘Pyrate’s Boy’ as our class novel. We will be focusing on creative writing to ensure our stories are well structured and full of interesting and engaging language. Through our topic, we will be applying our learning to a variety of functional writing tasks.

Throughout this term we will be learning about/to:

• Identify the author’s style, applying prediction and inference skills and identifying various forms of rhetoric.
• Developing our knowledge and understanding of our own talking and listening skills.
• We will continue to use VCOP strategies to develop our writing.
• We will develop our creative writing skills, including quality descriptions, various forms of rhetoric and correct structure.
• Children will be given opportunities to develop their listening and talking skills through a variety of class based activities, including cooperative group work and debating.
• The children will read a novel during class reading lessons and will use Blooms Buttons and Book Detective strategies to develop their comprehension.

Core Numeracy:

• Developing knowledge and understanding of the strategies required to solve word problems.
• Using mental and written strategies to solve mathematical problems.
• Applying knowledge of multiplication, division, decimals and fractions to solve word problems.
• Revision and consolidation of the relationship between fractions, percentages and decimals.
• Reinforcement of multiplication and division facts to develop speed, accuracy and confidence.

Many thanks

Mrs Macaulay and Mrs Hunter

This week we have finished our class novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. We have enjoyed discussing the themes and issues that have raised from it. We have watched the film today to enable us to compare the novel and the film. We have noticed my differences between the two.

During RSHPE lessons, we have been thinking about stereotypes and gender issues. We have had thought provoking discussions about these current issues. We also learned about how babies are born, thinking about the different ways that can happen.

In maths, we have been working on time. We have used timetables to work out duration and we have been converting between 12 and 24 hour time.

For spelling this week we were working on some revision of previous rules. We took part in a variety of active tasks to help with our revision of these words and rules.

We are looking forward to the spring holidays. We hope that you all enjoy the next two weeks. Enjoy Mother’s Day and don’t forget to put your clocks forward on Sunday as well!

This week, we have been working incredibly hard on a variety of tasks and activities.

This morning, we were looking at instructional writing. We thought about the key features of instructions and created a set of instructions together as a class based on making a paper aeroplane. Next, we tried to follow the instructions to create a aeroplane. You can see how successful we were on the school twitter account (in slo mo)!

We have been continuing to read our class novel which is ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’. We have had lots of discussions and conversations about what has been going on in the book and researching actual events happening around that time.

In maths this week, we have been working on time. We have been using timetables, looking at time durations and converting between 12 and 24hr time.

We finished our dance in PE which was based on the Scottish Wars of Independence. We enjoyed creating this piece.

We have been thinking lots about maths this week. Mrs Hunter was given a present this week, she was very excited! We were given a new deluxe hundred square for the wall. We will be discussing about the different areas to add to our numeracy wall.

We have read some more of our class novel and read a book about ADHD. This will help us with our empathy and understanding of different conditions. We will be reading more books from this series over the next few weeks.

We were creating Venn diagrams to compare and discuss different books. This will aid our comprehension and learning in reading.

So we have now selected our new class novel, if you have been keeping up with twitter, you will have seen the selection of books we were picking from. The class voted and we picked, drum roll please…… The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas!!! We have been reading lots so far and know all about the main characters and the hopeless case (Gretal)!

For topic this week, we have been presenting our personal projects on famous Scots that have been influential in society. We have all be confident in sharing our learning and answering questions from our peers.

Enjoy the holiday week, looking forward to hearing about all of the fabulous things that you get up to!

Hello everyone, welcome back to another exciting blog from P6H!

Our class novel has been ‘Wonder’ by R.J. Palacio. We have been learning about empathy , courage and friendship. Today, we finished the book and no one cried during the last few chapters. As a class, we have enjoyed going on the journey with August. we will update you on our new class novel next week!

During a session on the laptops this morning, we had a variety of tasks to choose from. We could work on our word processing skills and rewrite our stories, we could work on our mental agility on Sum Dog and using Glow to email and create PowerPoints. Many of us, have now added Mrs Hunter on SumDog and decided to kindly send her a “few” gifts!

Some of us,  have been training and practising for the upcoming Gymfest on Sunday at Alva Academy! We wish #RedwellCircus all good luck.

This week, we have been further researching the many battles of the Scottish Wars of Independence. We have created posters and used primary and secondary sources for our research. We have been finishing off our personal projects on famous Scots that we will be presenting to the class next week.

See you all next week! Bye!

This week has been another incredibly busy week.

We have been introduced to our new topic which is the Scottish Wars of Independence. We completed a KWL grid to find out what we already know ( We don’t know much!) and what we would like to find out. We have been using the computers this week to plot places and landmarks on a map.

This morning, we were using SumDog to work on our mental agility and others were attempting to access Glow to use Power Point and email.

We have moved into a badminton block within PE. We have been working on a variety of skills to aid us during games.

In music, we have been learning a variety of Scottish songs in the lead up to Burns Day.

Welcome back to the new year! Hope you have had a fabulous holiday and are back into the swing of things!

We have been straight back into work and looking at area within maths. We have used a variety of strategies to work out the area of a variety of squares, rectangles and random areas. We have counted squares and been introduced to the formula A = L x B.

During writing this week, we learned about New Years Resolutions, where they come from and thinking about how we can improve ourselves and our communities.

During science, we have been looking at water conservation, how different continents do this and researching on the internet using our skimming and scanning skills.  We took the information and started to create Power Points.

PE days have changed to Monday, Wednesday and Friday and this term we will have music with Mrs Pennie on a Wednesday. On Thursday, we will be taking part in chanter lessons. This is part of a two year project.

Keep coming back for further updates throughout the term.