A big well done to all the children in P6 for learning their Scot’s poem ahead of our Burns Competition. Here are our two finalists and winner.
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P6 – Scottish Showcase
P6 celebrated Burns alongside parents and carers by performing the Scot’s poem ‘The Ballad of Janitor MacKay’ and singing the song ‘Home’ by Nathan Evans at our Scottish Showcase.
P6 – Scottish Landscapes
P6 pupils have been exploring their Scottish Landscapes topic at home. These pupils created a spectacular model of Goat Fell and Ben Nevis, wonderful pictures of Scottish mountains, and wrote a paragraph about Scottish lochs.
P6 – Christmas Fayre Update
Fenwick Primary School Christmas Fayre
Please see below a reminder/update regarding our Christmas Fayre which is this Friday.
We can’t wait to welcome our families along to join in the festivities.
Also, we have been very lucky to secure prizes of vouchers and gifts for our raffle at the Christmas Fayre. Tickets can be bought this Friday 6th December during the Christmas Fayre. If any local businesses or families would still like to donate prizes, these would be more than welcome (please contact the school to do so). We also have house coloured treat hampers along with a selection of other prizes that have been kindly donated by our pupils and their families that will be up for grabs!
P6 – Ski Academy
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Ski Academy at Newmilns
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!
P6 – Book Week Scotland
Literacy
Book Week Scotland
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.
P6 – Children in Need Activities
HWB: Children In Need Day
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!
P6 – Confident Individual
Ambition in Primary 6
Homework Task
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!
P6 – Ski Academy
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Ski Academy at Newmilns Ski Centre
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!
P6 – Killieween
Killieween
Last week Primary 6 enjoyed a fun filled day to celebrate Killieween. We watched The Nightmare Before Christmas, participated in a range of activities including, spider races, find the creepy crawlies, making iced digestives, dooking for apples and Halloween bingo. In the afternoon we had fun at our Halloween party in the hall when we joined P4 to P7 for some dancing, games and treats!
Primary 6 really pulled out all the stops with their costumes!
