Primary 5/6 had a lovely experience during our visit to Hallhouse Care Home last Friday as part of our Reading Schools Buddy Reading Project. The pupils had the opportunity to read stories and share conversations with the residents. The visit helped pupils to build confidence when reading aloud as well as empathy and understanding of the residents needs. Super work P5/6!
The Primary 5/6 pupils showcased exceptional kindness and respect as they paired up with their ECC buddies for a shared reading session on Friday afternoon. They demonstrated excellent patience and genuine enthusiasm when helping their buddy to pick a book then reading it to them. The pupils really helped to create a nurturing environment. Not only did they do an excellent job of demonstrating expression and passion when reading, they also demonstrated our school’s values of kindness and respect throughout the whole visit – true role models for our younger children.
P5/6 have started a new PE block focusing on rugby skills.
We are very lucky to have some rugby players in our class so this week Mason demonstrated leadership skills by explaining then demonstrating the game ‘rabbits and rats’ which continued our practice on using different movements to evade our opponents. The game was enjoyed by all pupils and incorporated a bit of fun competition.
Well done Mason!
Primary 5/6 have been learning lots about about the link between fractions, decimals and percentages. They were able to use their prior knowledge of how to calculate fraction amounts to then make links between fractions and percentages and calculate percentages of a quantity. Super efforts today with all of their tasks!
Recently Primary 5/6 learned about different types of Scottish music and Scottish musicians. They were surprised at all the talent that has come from their own country. Each pupil researched and created a fact file on a different Scottish musician or band. They then worked in groups to create body percussion that went along with some Scottish children’s songs. After this they demonstrated it to the class and had great fun doing so.
Recently Mrs Ross and Mrs Wilson held a whole school Reading Schools assembly where pupils from each class shared what they have been reading with the rest of the school. They showed other pupisl their book, discussed what they liked or disliked about it and answered any questions about it. These three pupils from Primary 5/6 were very confident and enthusiastic when sharing their books and thoughts. Well done!
It was great to sit down with the pupils and enjoy our Christmas lunch together. Lots of clean plates meant extra ice cream was given out much to the delight of the Primary 5/6 pupils.
On Friday, one of our confident P6 pupils, along with Miss Douglass (teacher of the deaf), delivered a very interesting lesson on hearing loss.
Throughout this lesson Primary 5/6 participated in 4 different activities that had been planned by our P6 pupil and Miss Douglas over recent weeks. The activities involved spotting different aspects of a noisy classroom and identifying solutions, listening to sound through a hearing aid, lip reading, and a presentation all about different types of hearing loss.
By participating in these activities, the Primary 5/6 pupils were able to develop an awareness of hearing loss and how it impacts different people (specifically the pupil in our class). They also demonstrated empathy through participating in the lip reading task, hearing aid task and asking questions following the PowerPoint presentation.
Last week Primary 5/6 learned all about biographies and what type of information they included. They then participated in a class discussion to set themselves a success criteria for writing a biography. Following this they created questions for Mr Houston that would provide them with the information required to achieve each aspect of their success criteria.
We then invited Mr Houston along this week to be interviewed by the class. Throughout the interview process we regularly referred back to each aspect of the success criteria to ensure that we were gathering the appropriate information. The pupils took notes as and when their questions were being answered.
Finally, the pupils used these notes to write their own biography all about the life of Mr Houston. Not only did they find out lots of interesting information about Mr Houston but they also produced some excellent pieces of work.
Have a read at this week’s STAR WRITERS work!
This week the pupils participated in a variety of active tasks to reinforce their learning of place value, decimal numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, as well as time.
They enjoyed rotating around all of the activities and working independently, in pairs and in small groups to complete a range of the tasks.
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