P6 have enjoyed all of their celebrations during Science Week 2025.
We were visited by Jill, Hannah, and Callum from GE Aerospace who spoke to us about the engineering of plane parts, Mr Pitman, one of the Dean Park Rangers who explored all about how to be a Dean Park Ranger, and the Strider WOW mascot.
Mrs Borland and the children from the ECC delivered a lovely lesson on how to recycle and two of our P6 girls delivered a lesson to the class based on climate change.
P6 have been learning about natural disasters. The children used their knowledge of earthquakes to carry out a critical skills challenge where they worked as a team to design and construct an earthquake proof building.
P6 have continued to develop their coding skills through exploring Micro:Bits. The children completed different projects related to different coding skills for example coding the tune ‘Happy Birthday’ and creating a code based on this weeks spelling words.
P6 continued to develop their digital literacy skills through exploring Mirco:Bits. The children used prior learning of how to code to create different sounds, pictures, and messages on their Micro:Bit and shared their codes with the rest of the class.
As part of the Digital Literacy Curriculum, P6 have been exploring coding. We used the Code.org website to develop our coding skills and learned how to create our own code through interactive tasks.
P6 have been exploring money. Today we focused on budgeting. Working in pairs, the children were given a budget and planned their own birthday party. The children calculated the total cost of their shopping list and deducted the total from their budget to see if they were under or over budget.
As part of our mini topic of Scotland focusing on Scottish landscapes, P6 used the laptops to research Scottish mountains.
After researching the most famous mountains in Scotland, we used an atlas to locate each on a blank map. We even managed to locate some familiar places like Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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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!
