We had a visit from Susan who works for the Scottish SPCA and we all had a wonderful time. She taught us about the work of the Scottish SPCA and what we should do if we saw anyone being cruel to animals. Susan taught us about taking care of farmyard animals and let us know how they are protected legally. We finished the lesson playing card games about animals.

We were really lucky this month when Claire from the BBC came to show us new Maths, Language and Science games. She wanted to know which ones we recommended and why. Claire is now going to go back to the BBC to let them know how we felt about the activities.

All of us have begun gymnastics lessons and we are learning how to roll and balance in lots of different ways. We are using mats just now but we will be using more equipment in the weeks to come.
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Primary 6

Hello Everyone!
We talked about practising for our assembly on our blog last month and it went really well. The whole school and about 30 parents were there to see us. Our drama was great and some people said they really enjoyed the roleplays we had made up. One of our songs was True Colours and lots of parents knew the words too. We have been practising saying our parts so everyone can hear us clearly so it was good that people at the back said they heard every word.

Our work on the Dundee Book Awards is still going on. Last week we began working with the Primary 1 boys and girls. We had to let them know who we were and why we were there. We then read the stories to them and asked them questions.
Once they had heard all four books the boys and girls then voted for their favourite one using the activexpressions. We can’t tell you the result just now though as the awards are not until June. Everyone enjoyed working with the wee ones because they all loved listening to the stories and it was great hearing what they had to say. We were even allowed to join them for a bit of their choosing time.

We have begun swimming lessons this term and every Wednesday we go to the Olympia. There are three different groups, depending on swimming experience. One group is learning to swim using floats and learning
breathing under water. Another group is learning to swim at the deep end and practising different strokes. The third group is practising using hoops to dive and using swimming noodles to improve strokes. We are all loving swimming.

Hope you enjoy our bog.
Primary 6

We are working towards showing this term’s work at our class assembly on the 7th February. It is all about friendships and it includes the writing, information handling, art, music, drama and health and wellbeing tasks which we have been working on. We are now beginning to practise speaking in loud, clear voices so everyone can hear. The whole school and P6 families will be there so we hope everyone enjoys it. We’ll let you know how we get on.

Elaine from the Library Resource Centre has been visiting our class and she has been helping us with storytelling. She has left us some lovely picture books which we will read to the Primary 1 boys and girls. This is part of the Dundee Picture Book Awards and we will be voting for the best picture book. The award ceremony will be held next term and all the authors of the books will be there. The author of the winning book will win £1,000.

Tomorrow we are off to Fintry Primary School for the Scottish Country Dancing Festival. We worked really well together to learn 11 different dances and we’re sure we’ll have fun!!
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We have had a busy term.  Our drumming lessons went very well with our instructors, Ricki and Iain.  It all reached a climax last week when we held a concert with the Primary 7s to which all the other classes and parents were invited.  It went really well and everybody seemed to enjoy it.  Ricky and Iain are great teachers. 

We have also been working hard on our topic which is all about the Dens Road Centenary.  All the classes have been researching different decades and we will then share our findings.  We have been researching the 1910s and the 1920s in our teams and we have looked at: fashion, houses and homes, pastimes, inventions and major events.  As the school was built in 1911 we have also been looking at building materials and their different properties. The whole class also took part in a Build a Tetrahedron  Workshop and this helped us understand engineering and technology better. 

We took part in a Zoolab workshop this term.  Everyone was allowed to touch the animals, reptiles and insects if they wished and it was great. We learnt lots of facts eg., some toads are eco-friendly because they absorb the volcanic ash  when it rains.  In P.E. we are learning different Scottish country dances for a festival in January.  We have to learn 12 altogether so we have lots of practising to do.

Last week we were busy getting organised for the Christmas Fayre in school.  All the classes had to make different craftwork

Hello everyone and welcome to our new Blog. We are really looking forward to this year because we have come from two different classes and it will be great being together.
We have carried out elections in class and we now have Pupil Council and ECO Representatives, as well as two Road Safety Officers.
Our new topic is all about 100 years at Dens Road School as this is a very special time for us and we will be busy doing lots of research. Everyone has also begun drum and badminton classes so we will let you know how we get on.

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Our topic, in this final term of P6 is science and its impact on the past 100 years.  We will be looking at inventors and thier inventions and how these inventions and medical progression have helped our society and general way of life.

We will be doing our own personal research on many of the great inventors and discussing their work and how it has helped our society.  We will also from structured arguments as to whether or not their inventions are entirely useful or if the they can be improved upon.  This will include issues such as animal testing and human experimentation with the case of medical progress.

There will be photos and presentations to follow.

We have another new topic, which will carry on into next term and into P7!  FRENCH!!!!  We have just started so we now know how to say our name and ask what your name is.  We also know our numbers to 20.  We think it’s very much like being in Primary One again and starting from scratch.  Please look out for regular updates in french when we know more!!!!!  French is FUN!!!

For our ‘Healthy’ maths lesson we created a healthy lifestyle investigation.  Firstly, we did a survey of the class’ favourite fruits, veg and sports.  Then we collated the data into chart, then graph form.  Next we clearly labelled the axis and gave the graph a title.  We then wrote a paragraph of infromation about what, exactly, the data represented.  We found these investigations very interesting and an excellent point of discussion.  What do you think?