The Primary 6 pupils have been demonstrated an increasing confidence and skill during their ski sessions at Newmilns. Mrs Cunningham has said that they have been so ambitious and respectful throughout their sessions so far and are doing the school proud!
This week has been packed full with visitors reading a range of texts to our class. The pupils have enjoyed listening to different people, including Mr Risk (reading a chapter from our class novel, The Titanic Detective Agency), parents (Mr Wilson, reading The Book with no Picture and Mrs Mitchell reading some of Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes), and Councillor Freel (reading a chapter of The Boy at the Back of the Class).
The class also had their final visit of the year to the East Ayrshire mobile library where most pupils selected a new book to read for enjoyment whilst in school. They enjoyed some relaxed independent reading following this.
Throughout the week, the pupils have also enjoyed some partnered reading opportunities followed by class discussions about what they have read. We also had some confident pupils in the class who are part of the Reading Schools Pupil Committee who went to other classes to support with reading for enjoyment.
They also enjoyed a visit from Detective Fleming and PC Rae from Police Scotland along with Amy from I Am Me Scotland who came along to launch the new book, ‘My Police on Patrol’ which explores the different jobs that Police do. As part of this visit, the pupils participated in a fun filled assembly where they listened to an audio book, cheered on their House Captains with a bit of a CSI challenge and then got to visit a crime scene investigation to discuss the roles that the police play when attending these.
Today Primary 6 participated in a range of activities linked to Children in Need.
Bear Pong
They started the day off with a fun challenge of ‘Bear Pong’ where the pupils had to keep track of their points and add up their totals (each cup had a different amount of points that the children would earn if they got the ping pong ball into it).
Same but Different (Inclusion Focus)
The pupils then watched some clips on the BBC website about children who have specific needs. They watched a clip about a child with asthma and another about a child with dyslexia. The children in the clips discussed what made them different from their friends and what challenges they face in their daily lives. We then discussed what makes each of us the same as the people around us (comparing to our friends or family) and what makes us different or unique from the people around us.
STEM Challenge
The pupils were tasked with creating a parachute that would allow Pudsey to gently fall to the ground. The pupils worked in pairs to agree upon which resources they would use to create their parachute. Available resources included, scissors, sellotape, napkins, tissue paper, sandwich bags and lengths of wool. As a class, we then tried out each of the parachutes and learned that when the surface area of the parachute was bigger (but not too heavy) air resistance acted against the gravity that was pulling the parachute down towards the ground and allowed Pudsey to gently fall however the parachutes that had smaller surface areas and were heavier resulted in less air resistance acting against them therefore gravity took over and Pudsey fell to the ground with a THUMP!
Last week, our house captains and vice captains planned and delivered a Kahoot quiz all about Bonfire Night. They visited each of the classes and gathered the pupils from their house to participate in a Kahoot. Some healthy competition and a chance for each of our houses to boost their points for this month! The P6 pupils were very competitive and full of excitement throughout the duration of the quiz – an excellent way to motivate and encourage ambition in our school!
Leaderboard:
First place: Howie
Second place: Dunlop
Third place: Fulton
Fourth place: Fowlds
We had a very confident and ambitious individual in class last week who had completed an excellent poster on Firework Safety as part of her homework tasks. She shared the poster with the rest of teh class and discussed what she had learned about staying safe around fireworks.
Well done!
Children in Need is on Friday (15 Nov) and everyone is welcome to come to nursery or school wearing yellow, spots, Children in Need items and/or dress down.
The Rights Respecting Schools Committee have arranged a lot of fun activities for all the children from ECC to P7 to complete on this day.
If you would like to donate to Children in Need, click here.
P6 have been enjoying their ski lessons at Newmilns. We have already seen independence, confidence and resilience grow in leaps and bounds! The pupils can now get their ski boots and skis on independently (a challenge in itself) and they were skiing down part of the slope whilst completing fun challenges such as head, shoulder, knees and toes.
Can’t wait to see how they continue to grow and develop throughout this amazing opportunity!
To finish off, Primary 6 had lots more fun tubing!
Reminder – This Fri 8th Nov is a dress down day . Rather than a donation of a £1 for dress down, we are asking for chocolate/sweetie donations for the Christmas Fayre.
