P5/6 used the laptops to research the Scottish Cup Archive. The children focused on popular Scottish Cup matches, finals and goals scored by key players. The children gathered key facts from the Scottish Cup going back 150 years.
Our Primary 6 pupils took part in a C.S.I workshop ran by Ayrshire College. The children took part in different activities based on different suspects in the case of the missing sweeties.
Thank you to Ayrshire College for delivering this workshop to our pupils, they absolutely loved it!
Well done to our three finalists that took part in our school Poetry Competition.
An excellent recital of ‘The Ballad of Janitor McKay’ by Margaret Green.
During our topic “150 Years of the Scottish Cup”, the boys and girls in P5/6 developed their mapping skills by locating the football teams involved in the Scottish Cup on a map of Scotland. The children used digital technology, including an online map and an atlas, to find each team and then pinpoint their locations on a blank map.
P5/6 have been learning about 150 Years of the Scottish Cup. The children studied the Scottish Cup trophy, learned about the symbolism behind the engravings and ‘the wee man at the top’ and then created their own trophy which represented them, with symbols relating to their hobbies and interests.
As part of our mini topic focusing on Christmas Around the World, P5/6 pupils took part in an Escape Room activity. The children worked in groups to crack the codes, find clues, and decode secret messages.
Buddy Group – 32 minutes
Icy Group – 40 minutes
Twinkle Group – 47 minutes
Snowball – 1 hour
P5/6 used macaroni shells to add direct speech to popular fairy tale stories.
Continuing our topic of Time, P5/6 pupils worked in pairs to explore and interpret information from a bus timetable.
P5/6 showed great ambition whilst carrying out different numeracy activities. Each child challenge themselves to complete trickier tasks and supported one another within their learning.
P5/6 worked in groups to order the events of the Titanic disaster to create a timeline. The children were against the clock and the winning team received 5 Ambition House Points each.
