Littlemill P6-7 22-23

Our P7s really enjoyed a taster session in the Science department on Friday 21st April. These sessions run every week and it looks as though the girls in P7 got right into their science experiment!

This week, the P7 pupils will be provided with an opportunity to visit the Business department for a taster session.

Jeely Piece Song

Hello everyone,

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year with your families. We are back and ready for another term in P6/7!

Our PE times have changed slightly and will now be Tuesdays and Thursdays. Can pupils please make sure they have a kit or an appropriate pair of gym shoes for these days. It is still fine to leave a kit in class!

The children were given their Scots poem today, and this has to be learned for Monday 23rd January. The P6 poem will be A Dug A Dug by Billy Keys, and the P7 poem is The Auld Troot by Sandy Thomas Ross. As well as a hard copy, I have attached copies into this post as well as emailing a copy to the children individually. The Scots competition will be judged on Wednesday 25th January.

A Dug A Dug

The Auld Troot

Mrs Kilday

Hi everyone!

As we have no water at school today we are unfortunately closed. I have added three different Christmas challenges into this post and have emailed every child in P6/7 a copy of them. My children: could you please share this with any younger siblings that you have and ask parents/carers if they know anyone without access to the blog to screenshot and send to other families in the community.

When you choose which grid you would like to do, choose a task, complete it and take a photo of it showing you have finished it! There will be a prize for anyone who can complete more than four of the tasks! Good luck.

Mrs Kilday

Christmas home grid challenge

Christmas grid challenge level 2

Christmas grid challenge level 3

A shorter post than normal this week!

We have been very busy in class this week, learning about multiples and counting in multiples. We have also been practicing our times tables and getting much better at them! We also started Basketball with P4/5 and have been working on our fitness, recording our resting heart rates and heart rates after exercise.

On Monday Aine visited our class to tell us about a very important role that we need in the playground called ‘B’s Buddies’. The job description for this role is here:

B’s Buddies

Mrs Kilday was delighted that everyone applied for the job! The interviews for the job roles will be in December, followed by training in January.

We are really excited for our visit to the cinema next Wednesday to see ‘The Railway Children’ as it links well with our last topic, WW2.

A wee reminder that our Parents’ appointments are on Monday 14th November and you should have an appointment time. If the time doesn’t suit please contact the school to rearrange.

We are back from the October holiday ready for another term in P6/7. We would like to thank those who took the time to come along to our WW2 workshop on Wednesday this week. We loved getting to present what we had learned to you, and to test you at the end!

Mrs Kilday has set a homework task for the final piece of our topic. We have been asked to create a Sway about WW2 and present it to the class on Friday 4th November. The homework task is here:

Sway task

Remember when you are accessing Sway, all you need to do is to log on to Glow and find the tile Microsoft Office. Sway is the option that looks like this…

The presentation will be part of a Talking and Listening assessment and it is important that this task is completed. If anyone wishes to do it on another device, it can still be emailed to Mrs Kilday that way.

This week has been really busy even though it was a shorter week. We met Miss Roberts who will be spending a few weeks with us, and we are looking forward to working with her. Halloween is just around the corner and Mrs Kilday carved pumpkins with us on Thursday. Look out for them around the village!

We are really excited for the party on Monday too!

Some recent photos of PE, pumpkin carving, packing Harvest bags for the community, trying a gas mask on and a bit of quiet reading.

Happy Friday!

This week has been another busy week, and one week closer to the school holidays. On Wednesday we attended the Intergenerational Tea Dance at Dumfries House and we had the most wonderful time! We were served afternoon tea (and really good cakes) and spent time with some other children and some elderly people from the community. We also met Fabulous Fraser who did a magic show! Here are some photos:

What a lovely afternoon we had, and it made us realise the importance of giving some of your time to an elderly person in the community.

This week we have been practising for our Harvest service which takes place next Thursday, and for our WW2 parent workshop that is happening soon after the holidays. We will be sad to see the topic come to an end!

Our next focus in Maths will be multiplication and division and in literacy we are continuing with individual writing targets and spelling strategies to spell our tricky words.

Have a great weekend everyone.

We are back after the long weekend and ready to learn again in P6/7.

As part of our topic, we made our own invitations to go home inviting parents and carers to our WWII workshop on Wednesday 26th October at 1.30pm. We can’t wait to share everything we have learned and we have a special musical surprise for the end! Mrs Kilday brought in a real gas mask from 1940! The gas mask was still in the original box. It was amazing to have something that came from the time of WWII, and we were really grateful to the person who gave it to us to look at.

In maths we are looking at whole numbers, addition and subtraction using carrying, and decimal numbers. We are working towards new individual targets in writing and hoping to meet these targets by December!

The Tea Dance at Dumfries House that was scheduled for last Wednesday has been moved to Wednesday 5th October, so we are looking forward to attending this in a few weeks!

This week has been jam-packed and we can’t believe that it’s Friday already.

In our topic, WWII we learned all about the evacuation that started on 1st September 1939. We learned about the groups of people who were evacuated, the kinds of places they had to be evacuated to and what life was like for them. Mrs Morrison brought in some photos of her mother, who was an evacuee. We loved getting to see real photos of someone that Mrs Morrison knew. We worked in groups to discuss the positives and negatives of being evacuated:

We agreed that although being evacuated was a very sad time for a child, the positives outweighed the negatives. We are going to be doing a topic project that involves cardboard, plastic bottles, toilet roll holders etc. Any recycled items like this are welcome in the class!

In maths, we finished looking at the number system by looking at Roman Numerals, linking to our knowledge of place value, and practiced rounding numbers. We made posters for aliens (in case they come to visit our class) to teach them about rounding numbers.

We are moving on to number processes and decimal numbers next week! We have started to look at letter writing and will be writing a letter to Mr Leitch’s friend to ask him if we can go and see his Anderson Shelter!!!

We are looking forward to our visit to Dumfries House next Wednesday for the Inter-generational Tea Dance.