Last week’s P.E. lesson allowed us to use some of the games that we have been introduced to us in the Play Champions Programme, for our warm up!

This was an opportunity for the Primary 6 pupils to develop their confidence in leading play, as they explained the rules and boundaries of their chosen game, looked out the needed equipment and kept score themselves.

Games that were played were ‘swamp monster’, ‘jump the river’ and ‘chaos tig’!

This Monday, our JLT members, Connor and Molly, held a meeting with Primary 6 to get their thoughts and opinions on their school. They were asked what would potentially lead them to feel unsafe in the school, and also what opportunities there are at St Ninians for them to meet and form friendships with people who share similar interests.

The children spoke highly of the clubs, staff and opportunities that their school has to offer. A very well led meeting. Well done Connor and Molly!

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This term, with our main literacy focus being on our writing skills, and our class novel being ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, we thought we could combine the two!

Throughout the term, we have been working on descriptive writing, detailing what each room in Mr Wonka’s factory looked like! We are sure you will have read our collection of individual pieces in our SOS folders 🤗

We then compiled our work into a group project, creating our very own Chocolate Factories!

Here are some of us with our finished pieces.

There were a few requests from last week’s parents evenings, to have more help available for the homework – so here are the working walls that we use when stuck in class! Happy Homeworking 😀

This week we took a trip along with other primary schools from across Dundee to St John’s High school to take part in a ‘Dance-a-thon’! What a fantastic day, raising over £1000 for Comic Relief!

We were taught street dance, ballroom dancing, zumba, Scottish country dancing and lots more! We were exhausted 😅

This week we showed Miss Nimmo how amazing a set of writers we are! After working on our knowledge of VCOP (Vocabulary – Connectives – Openers – Punctuation), we created our own descriptive paragraphs on the Chocolate Room. We wowed Miss Nimmo with our descriptions, with each and every one of us improving from our previous work! After describing the delicious treasures of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate room, we worked up quite an appetite… Thankfully one of our incredibly thoughtful classmates, David, saved the day by announcing that he had baked cookies for the entire class! (He had borrowed a baking book from the library and was keen to try out the cookie recipe). Thank you, David!

This year, Primary 6 were treated to a trip to the Whitehall theatre, where we were introduced to a number of authors and illustrators. We had an amazing trip! We decided that we as a class would like to read all about Catherine Doyle’s book, ‘The Storm Keeper’. We have purchased a copy, gotten it signed, and cannot wait to get reading!

Here we are enjoying the event 😍

As we come to the end of our fractions unit, what better way to consolidate our learning than with food?! 😍

We created a fraction of ‘how much of our pancake we will eat’. The maximum denominator allowed was 8. We then used our knowledge of common fractions to order our pancake fractions from smallest to largest, at our tables. We then of course, ate them!

Today, we centred our outdoor leanring on equivalent fractions. Many of us understand that 1/2 is equivalent to 2/4 or 4/8; but there are still a number of us that could do with a different perspective on this topic, using concrete materials. Today we ventured out in search of twigs, leafs, rocks, grass… Anything we could use to make concrete versions of equivalent fractions. For many of us, this was the extra little bit of help we needed to make sense of this topic… Abi said, “Oh I get it! They’re all the same! 2/4/ is the same as 1/2”

Here are some of us creating some of these equivalent fractions.

1/2 is the same as 12/24

Here are Robbie and James explaining their equivalent fractions train to us, showing us that 1/2 is the same as or ‘equivalent to’ 10/20 and 2/4. They used twigs and leafs to show us their shapes being split into these fractions. Making it clear that all of these shapes represented 1/2! Well done boys!