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Citizenship, Primary 6 20/21, Primary 7 20/21

John Muir Discovery Award

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This session Primary 6 and 7 have been working towards the John Muir Discovery Award. As part of our journey the children have had the opportunity to experience pond dipping, geocaching, orienteering and learnt more about the history of Dunlop.

The John Muir Award is a fantastic way to encourage our young people to become more aware of their surroundings and it was lovely to see all of the primary 6 and 7 children having fun and learning more about nature.

Primary 6 created ThingLink presentations to showcase their experience, click on the links below to have a look at some of the work they produced.

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1446489011269926914

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1444320706606137347

We are incredibly proud of all of our pupils and delighted to say that the have been successful in achieving their Discovery Award. Primary 6 will continue on their John Muir journey as they move into Primary 7.

Literacy, Primary 1 20/21, Primary 2 20/21, Primary 3a 20/21, Primary 3b 20/21, Primary 4 20/21, Primary 5 20/21, Primary 6 20/21, Primary 7 20/21

Dunlop Primary Sketchnote

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In November 2019 Dunlop Primary and ECC were inspected by HMIe. We received a fantastic report which highlighted some of the amazing practice within the school. After the initial report was published Mrs Wilson was contacted by our lead inspector, as after some reflection he felt that our Literacy should be highlighted as excellent practice, and to reflect this Education Scotland got in touch to create a Sketchnote and blog. This will be showcased nationally in the Education Scotland newsletter and website.

As a staff team we are immensely proud that our school has received the recognition we feel it deserves. This has been a real team effort and a reflection of strong support that staff, parents and children continue to give each other.

I am immensely proud to have been part of this journey and am looking forward to where we go next.

Miss White

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Primary 6 20/21, Uncategorized

Primary 6 Term 3

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Primary 6 are already off to a flying start and have been incredibly busy working on many different aspects of the curriculum.

Literacy

This term we will finish ready Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and will begin Dragon Fire by Anne Forbes. We will continue to embed our reading strategies with a particular focus on main idea and summary.

For writing we will look at the functional genres persuasive writing and explanation reports. The children will be encouraged to pay particular attention to the their tools for writing, focusing on punctuation.

Numeracy

So far this term we have  covered Money, more specifically hire purchase and budgeting, Angles and Area of triangles and rectangles. For the rest of the term we will look at number, including fractions, decimals and percentages.

Mrs Fullard who will be working with the children on Thursday and Fridays will cover symmetry and tessellation as well as problem solving strategies.

Health and Wellbeing

This term we will cover Relationships, sexual Health and Parenthood. The focus in Primary 6 will be to cover aspects of puberty. You can find more information on this by accessing the parent information booklets within the Useful Documents section on the Blog.

We will also continue to focus on our emotional and  mental health and strategies exploring ways to help support ourselves and others.

I.D.L. 

The children are thoroughly enjoying their work towards the John Muir Award and this will continue until the end of term. There are many aspects to this work including enjoying our natural surroundings, learning more about the science behind nature and sharing our learning with the wider community.

Literacy, Primary 4 20/21, Primary 5 20/21, Primary 6 20/21, Primary 7 20/21

World Book Day 2021 – P4-7 Extreme Reader

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This week saw  Dunlop Primary celebrating World Book Day! Although P4-7 are still at home we didn’t want to miss out on all the fun. We asked the children to do a bit of Extreme Reading and they certainly didn’t let us down! Please watch the attached video to see what they all got up to!

 

 

Primary 6 20/21

John Muir Award – Day 2

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Today we had another adventure in the Millennium Woods, and the rain even stayed off!

Today we collected a variety of different leaves and once back in class we organised them into groups and used a key to help identify the tree that they belonged to. Our next step is to use Microsoft Excel to complete graphs to collate our information.

In teams we used the leaves to create art work inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. I am sure will agree they are fantastic!

Numeracy, Primary 6 20/21

Primary 6 Bar Modelling

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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