We have had a day of fun celebrating Halloween. Lots of smiles and laughter. The children have enjoyed a Pumpkin Drive in class. They also made fabulous Roosting Bat pictures. Outside they played the Spooky Corners Game and completed our Pumpkin Trail . We rounded off our Mexico Topic with our Chilli Jelly Tasting Challenge and the movie Coco this afternoon.
Happy Halloween everyone!
For the last two weeks Primary 6 have been learning how to use the bar modelling strategy in maths. The main aim of a bar model is to be a pictorial representation of the underlying structure of a maths problem.
Bar modelling is an early introduction to algebra and hopefully as the children become more familiar with this strategy so will their confidence when tackling more complex maths problems.
Initially we are exploring how to use this strategy as a whole group in preparation for Barvember. Barvember has been created by White Rose Maths, where daily bar modelling problems are released throughout the month of November.
I have attached a copy of some of the problems we have been tackling in class. As you can see the problems become progressively harder. My aim is for the children to independently tackle problem 4, however this will take time as they familiarise themselves with this way of working.
Thurs 7th Nov 2019 Barvember Solutions
Today Primary 6 were using clay to create their very own Dragon eyes! I think they have all done an amazing job, take a look at the pictures and see for yourself their fantastic creations.
We have been creating questionnaires on Microsoft Forms, then using the data to create bar graphs on Microsoft Excel.
Technology
Last week one of our sounds was “k” so we decided to make kites. We had also been looking at weather veins we can see from the playground and discussing the wind as part of our weather topic (more pictures to follow).
All of the children managed to cut their own dowel with a hacksaw and followed the kite-making instructions really well to complete the task.
Hopefully the rain goes off soon and we can get outside to test them out.
The children are also now “partner spelling” 2 days per week and are enjoying working in pairs to read and write their spelling words.
When new pupils arrive at Dunlop Primary, their transition is supported by entry into a caring and supportive environment.
Each new pupil becomes a valued member of a small ‘family unit’ within Dunlop and are allocated a House. Pupils stay within their house until they leave in P7, additionally we place siblings together within a house.
At Dunlop Primary, we have three house: Clerkland, Glazert and Lugton. These are named after local areas. Each house is represented by a different colour and we encourage pupils to wear their house colours on days throughout the year.
Clerkalnd = Blue
Glazert = Yellow
Lugton = Red
House Captains
At the beginning of the school year, a P7 is elected House Captain and takes on the responsibility for the leadership and organisation of their house for the forthcoming year and they are supported by a P6 Vice Captain. The House Captains and Vice Captains work tirelessly to ensure their house members are working together to earn House Points through living and demonstrating our School Values of being happy, kind, honest and respectful.
House points are also awarded at House Events, although this year we will need to be creative with how we organise these to ensure we don’t mix bubbles!. At the end of the year, house points are added together and the house with the most points wins the overall house competition and they life the much coveted House Cup.
Recently, the P7 and P6 pupils prepared and presented an election speech to their peers and each house then chose their captains and vice captains. A huge congratulations to our House Captains and Vice Captains and also a huge thank you to all the children who worked hard to prepare and deliver their election speeches. We were delighted to see so many children keen to take on leadership roles with in our school.
House Captains and Vice Captains for 2020/2021 are (and for the very first time, we have a joint captaincy)
with warmest regards, Mrs Nouillan
We have been learning about photosynthesis. We have created these photosynthesis flowers and have written explanation texts describing the process from start to finish.
The children have loved their Africa topic this term. Here is some of the fabulous artwork they have produced over the last few weeks.
