This week Primary 6 have taken part in lots of activities to celebrate all things maths. P6 were entered into the national Sumdog challenge for Maths Week Scotland.

We started out the week by discussing when and where we use Maths outside of the classroom. The pupils came up with great ideas of where they use maths in their everyday lives.

Then P6 started their new angles topic and enjoyed learning about, and drawing, different types of angles outdoors.

Finally, P6 had a mini-lesson on co-ordinates and played co-ordinates football as a class.

Primary 6 enjoyed taking part in all the different activities 🙂

Miss McKenna

Welcome back. I hope everyone had a lovely summer and enjoyed the fabulous weather. It’s great to have Primary 6 back. They have all settled into their new classroom and have been brilliant remembering all the routines around the school.  

Firstly, I would like to introduce myself; my name is Miss McKenna, and I am thrilled to be joining the Mount Carmel team. I am from Glasgow and some of my interests include travelling, hiking, and going long walks with my dog Alfie. I have lived and taught in Spain previously and I am looking forward to this new chapter teaching at Mount Carmel and getting to know you all over the coming year.  

Below is an overview of the learning and teaching taking place in P6 this term.  

Literacy 

Reading  

Our class novel and topic this term is Wonder. The pupils will complete Active Reading tasks related to this novel. In Primary 6 most pupils will be expected to quote from the text when answering comprehension questions. This will be modelled by the teacher. Most pupils will complete daily reading to writing tasks associated with the novel. This novel has links to other areas of the curriculum such as Expressive Arts and Health and Wellbeing. We have already begun reading it together and the children are enjoying the humour and the message it delivers – Choose Kind.  

Writing 

Our writing day will be a Wednesday. The pupils will have the opportunity to discuss and plan their writing the day before. This term Primary 6 will be focusing on Descriptive writing. The pupils will use the Active Literacy description bubble template to structure their writing. Primary 6 will focus a different aspect of grammar/punctuation each week with the expectation they use this in their formal writing. Some pupils will be expected to up-level their writing by using tools such as thesauri and the VCOP pyramid.  

Spelling 

The spelling groups will continue to experience the Active Literacy spelling program, this will introduce common words and focus phonemes pertinent to their level and stage. The pupils will revise the Active Spelling strategies throughout Term 1, these include diacritical marking, syllabification and words within words.  

Numeracy 

This term P6 will focus on Place Value (whole number and decimals) and Rounding and Estimation. Beyond Number topics will be 3D shape, Angles and Symmetry and Probability. The pupils will experience activities at their stage and level. The revision of multiplication tables will be encouraged across all groups. Sumdog and Topmarks games can help with the rigour of times tables at home.  

Health and Wellbeing 

The focus this term is Friendships and Relationships, Change, and Kindness. These are core themes in the novel Wonder. These themes also tie in nicely with our PATHS lessons. P6 will complete two PATHS lessons a week. Each pupil has a ‘check in’ card in their tray which they can complete at various points in the day. This allows the teacher to see how pupils are feeling. The ‘Pupil of the Day’ is up and running. This year we are complementing each other based on each other’s skills and talents. 

Our PE days are Thursday and Friday. Pupils are asked to come dressed for PE on these days – school uniform on top but leggings, joggers, trainers can be worn on the bottom. The focus in PE this term is Rugby with the Kilmarnock Rugby Club (Thursday’s) and Hockey with the class teacher on a Friday.  

Expressive Arts 

Through our class novel P6 will have the opportunity to experience activities in Music, Drama and Art activities pertinent to their level and stage. The Charanga music teaching tool allows pupils to discuss and learn about different genres of music, rhythm and tempo and instruments. It also allows them to sing different genres as well – now we can sing together again! 

RME  

Throughout Primary 6 the pupils will listen to and engage with stories from the Gospel of Matthew. This term P6 will also reflect on their own gifts and talents and discuss and learn about inspirational people who use their gifts to enhance the world.  

In Primary 6 we promote hard work and amazing attitudes. Our reward card system allows pupils to gain reward cards for Wonderful Work, Amazing Attitude, and being a ‘Superstar’. When the pupils gain five cards, they can choose an individual reward. They can also choose to go for a class reward once everyone reaches five reward cards; this promotes teamwork within the class.  

If you have any queries or questions, please contact the school directly.  

Thank you for your support and I look forward to a wonderful year in Primary 6.  

Miss McKenna  

We have been made aware that the school phone line has not been working.  This has been reported.  If you  require assistance please use the Contact Us Form on the website.

We had a lovely time at Dean Park on Tuesday, the rain stayed off which was a huge bonus.

This week P6 have been planning, writing, and illustrating stories for their P1 buddies. The stories will be created into a book which the new P1 will receive before the Summer holiday.

P6 have also been writing and rehearsing their House Captain speeches. Tomorrow they will film their speeches and next week the classes will vote for the 2021/22 House Captains and Vice Captains.

P6 are looking forward to the Fun Day on Friday! A lovely treat after all their hard work this year.

Miss Mudge

I hope everyone had a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend and enjoyed the glorious sunshine.

I can’t believe we are coming into June and the final month of Primary 6. This month is going to be busy. Below is information for parents and carers.

Buddying

We are hopeful that buddying will be able to go ahead in August. Thank you to all the parents and carers who signed the forms allowing the pupils to record videos for their P1 buddies. This week Primary 6 will find out the name of their P1 buddy and will record their ‘Hello’ videos introducing themselves.

God’s Loving Plan

This week we will be commencing our God’s Loving Plan unit. Primary 6 have been notified that this will be happening and have been encouraged to let their parents and carers know. Primary 6 are aware of what is expected of them during this unit. Please be prepared to discuss sensitive issues at home with your child.

Lastly, if the weather stays as it has been this weekend we will be spending a lot more time outdoors. Please ensure children apply suncream before coming to school.

Thank you,

Miss Mudge

TERM 3 – APRIL TO JUNE OVERVIEW  

Welcome back to our summer term. I was delighted to see all the Primary 6 back at school safe and well. I can’t believe we are on the countdown to summer already. It was lovely speaking to the parents and carers of Primary 6 during the pupil progress phone calls. I was delighted in the engagement of Primary 6 during the last period of online learning. Below is an overview of the teaching and learning for the final term.  

Literacy   

Reading  

We will be using the Bug Club core readers to aid and build on our active comprehension skills. Pupils will focus on a chapter each week and work on tasks around the chapters they have read. Pupils will also work on specific skills such as notetaking, differentiating between fact and opinion, and for some reading groups using quotes to justify comprehension answers.  

Writing  

This term Primary 6 will focus on Persuasive writing and creating persuasion texts with a one-sided argument. We will focus on a different aspect of grammar/punctuation each week. Our writing day will be on Thursday. However, this term we won’t be writing every week. Some weeks we will be looking at model persuasion texts and focussing on the structure and content to support the creation of our own persuasion texts. 

Spelling  

The spelling groups will continue to experience the Active Literacy spelling program, this will introduce common words and focus phonemes pertinent to their stage. The pupils will revise the Active Spelling strategies throughout the term. 

Numeracy  

This term we will be focusing on function machines, complex patterns of numbers, percentages, decimals, and fractions. Some groups will explore BODMAS.  Our Beyond Number topics are Information Handling and Position and Movement. The pupils will experience activities at their stage and level. The revision of multiplication tables will be encouraged across all groups. Sumdog and Topmarks games can help with the rigor of x-tables at home.   

Health and Wellbeing  

Thank you to Mrs McGowan (P5) for organising a fantastic range of activities for Health Week. This term our health and wellbeing topics are Food Safety and The world of work. Through the Food Safety topic, P6 will discuss the importance of hygiene, proper storage of food products, and illnesses because of poor food safety. The world of work topic will provide P6 with the opportunity to think about their current skills and what type of career they might like to have in the future. Through this topic, we will explore creating CV’s and filling in application forms which links in nicely with P1 Buddying and House Captain applications.  

 The PATHS lessons will focus on social and emotional lessons. The pupils enjoy ‘Pupil of the Day’ and are great at giving each other lovely compliments.  

Our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday this term. On these days pupils can come into school wearing suitable PE attire on their bottom half, school jumpers/polo shirts must be worn.   

Topics  

Our class topics this term are Scottish Politics and The Sensory Organs. A home project will be given for both these topics. Pupils will be given two weeks to complete their project before handing it in.  

RME  

Throughout Primary 6 the pupils will listen to and engage with stories from the Gospel of Matthew. As May is the Month of Mary P6 will discuss Our Lady and Marian prayers. P6 will be completing evidence for their Pope Francis Faith Award. They will continue collecting evidence into Primary 7.    

The pupils are also working hard to gain individual reward cards for Amazing Attitude, Wonderful Work, and being a Superstar. When the pupils gain five reward cards, they can trade them in for an individual prize or keep them until everyone gets five cards each for a whole class reward 😊   

Thank you for your continued support.  

Miss Mudge 😊   

Tomorrow (Thursday 1st April) Primary 6 have chosen to watch ‘A Night at the Museum’. This is a PG movie.

If you DO NOT wish your child to watch this movie please notify the school tomorrow morning.

Thank you,

Miss Mudge

This week the Primary 6 Writing learning intention was to write in Scots. Primary 6 had two writing tasks to complete. The first was to describe themselves in Scots and the second was to write about their favourite food in Scots.

I have created a PDF book to showcase their amazing Scots Writing. Click on the link below.

Thay did weel!

Miss Mudge

Primary 6 Scots writing – January

Hi Primary 6,

I’ve posted Friday’s tasks below. On Teams the tasks are in the section Daily Tasks -15.1.21 – listen to the Daily Timetable presentation first. I will be able to respond to Teams messages and emails today.

I had a lovely day with the boys and girls in school today. I was pleased to see that all P6’s in school today were able to use Teams to access lessons and tasks.

Thank you for all your hard work this week.

Enjoy your weekend and stay safe.

Miss Mudge

Friday 15th January Daily Timetable

Friday 15th January Listening and Talking Task

Mental Maths Triangles and Rectangles

Circles Mental Maths

Types of Angles revision lesson

Circles and Rectangles Angles Task

Triangles Angles Task

Topic Work  Friday 15th January

Spelling Task – Word within words

Hello Primary 6,

I’m pleased that the majority of you have managed to access all your resources and tasks on Teams. I have posted ALL the resources and activities you need to do under the section Daily Tasks – 14.1.21. Going forward I’ll name all the sections like this but change the date.

I have posted your tasks for tomorrow below, as I know some people are still having issues accessing Teams.

I will be in school all day tomorrow supervising, so I won’t be able to reply to any emails or messages on Teams. I will reply on Friday.

Thank you for all your hard work so far Primary 6!

Miss Mudge

Grammar Lesson – Imperative Verbs

How to Write Instructions writing lesson

Model Text – Instruction Writing

Writing Task – Red Group

Writing Task – Pink Group

Writing Task – Green and Blue Groups

New beginnings topic task

Multiplication Word Problems – Circles

Multiplying by 10,100,1000 – Rectangles

Diamond Numeracy -KMc

8 times table task – triangles

4 times table – Triangles

Hello Primary 6,

I have put all the tasks into your Teams Class Notebook but just for today, they’ll be posted on here too.

To listen to the audio instructions make sure you put the PowerPoint into presentation mode.

Thank you,

Miss Mudge

Home Learning – Bug Club Core Reader Tasks

P6 Numeracy Daily Tasks

Circles Rounding Task

Rectangles Task

triangles Rounding Task

Topic Task

Well we’ve made it to the end of 2020. It’s been a very different start to a school year! I am so proud all the boys and girls for their resilience and hard work over the last two terms. I am proud to be your teacher!

We’ve had a lovely week enjoying the Pantomime, having our Christmas Party, doing Christmas craft activities and having our pyjama and movie day today.

I hope all the parents and carers have managed to access and watch the Mount Carmel Christmas Extravaganza. Who knew Primary 6 were such good dancers – lots of talent for our next Summer show (fingers crossed!).

Wishing all the P6’s and their families a safe and healthy Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Love Miss Mudge x

What another busy week in Primary 6!

Over the last couple of weeks, the Primary 6’s have been planning, writing, and illustrating their own Christmas stories for P1-3. The pupils worked collaboratively in pairs and trios. Tymek and Krystian worked together to write their story in Polish!

To help them with this task the pupils first looked at popular children’s Christmas stories to inspire them. The pupils enjoyed reading them too!

Next, they worked together to plan their stories developing a plotline, characters, and an overriding positive Christmas message.

The pupils then typed and illustrated their stories including a front cover and blurb. I am so impressed by the finished results and the pupils cannot wait for the P1-3s to enjoy their stories next week.

This week we continued with our 3D and 2D shape topic. One group learned about the properties of a circle and had plenty of practice drawing circles of different radii with a compass.

Other groups looked at tiling 2D shapes and had the opportunity to take part in lots of practical activities to build on this skill. I was impressed with their tiling creations!

As a class, the pupils looked at identifying the nets of 3D shapes. They used the 3D shapes to help them with follow up tasks.

On Friday the pupils took part in a real-life price comparison task. They had to find the prices of Christmas dinner food items in three different supermarkets. They then totaled the costs of the items in each supermarket to find out which was the cheapest. Some pupils got a shock at the price differences between supermarkets.

Next week is our final week before the Christmas holidays and we are going to be very busy with different activities to make the week special. There is no homework now until after the holidays. I was very happy with the home projects and the effort that was put into them.

Keep your eyes peeled for a VERY special Primary 6 Christmas message 🙂

Thank you to the boys and girls for the very lovely card that was sneakily left on my desk on Friday!

Miss Mudge x

We have had another busy week in Primary 6! There has been so much excellent work I had to share it with parents and carers.

The pupils started exploring 3D and 2D shapes this week. Some of our pupils were identifying polygons and their properties whilst others explored regular and irregular 2D shapes.

All pupils revised the properties of 3D shapes and the pupils were able to take part in practical activities.

The pupils also created their own tessellations with some pupils opting to use 2D shapes and others challenging themselves by creating their own templates.

The pupils also learned how to draw 3D shapes and I was so impressed with the work they produced!

The pupils also used their problem solving (and patience) skills to try and solve tangrams. These proved challenging but they used their resilience to try and solve them.

What a busy week. I’m so proud of all the Primary 6’s. We’re looking forward to exploring 2D and 3D shape further next week 🙂

Miss Mudge

Primary 6 have been busy these last couple of weeks….

Primary 6 enjoyed the Halloween theme day and looked super all dressed up in their costumes. They took part in some fun Halloween activities including making skeletons using cotton buds.

Primary 6 have been working hard since they returned from the October holiday. In Literacy, they have been writing their own short story over three weeks looking at suspense openers, characterisation, and effective conclusions. This week the pupils will be redrafting and publishing their stories and designing a front and back cover too. Their stories will then be shared with other pupils in the school to enjoy and give feedback on.

The pupils are enjoying the new Rainbow Reward time on a Friday afternoon. This week they chose to go outside and use the ghillie kettle to make hot chocolates. Miss Mudge was a confident individual using the ghillie kettle for the first time herself! There were some ‘bumps’ along the way (not using the ghillie kettle properly and the fire not starting) but everyone eventually enjoyed a lovely hot chocolate.

During our PATHS lessons, Primary 6 has been discussing problems and solutions relevant to their age and stage. This week they took on the role of ‘problem solvers’ and wrote ‘fictional’ problem-solving letters. I was impressed with the strategies they suggested in their letters and the mature responses to the problems presented to them.

The pupils are working on their first Pope Francis Faith Award presentation on their hobby or interest. The pupils are enjoying using PowerPoint and the Internet to make their presentations interesting for their audience. We also watched Father Martin’s ‘Christ the King’ assembly that he kindly recorded for the pupils at Mount Carmel.

We still have lots of work to do before we move into festive activities in the lead up to Christmas. I am very proud of all pupils so far and I am looking forward to celebrating their achievements throughout Primary 6.

Miss Mudge

Welcome Back to Term 2  

I hope everyone had a relaxing holiday.  

Below is an overview of the Term 2 learning and teaching.  

Literacy  

Reading 

We will be using the Bug Club core readers to aid and build on our active comprehension skills. Pupils will focus on a chapter each week and work on tasks around the chapters they have read. Pupils will also work on specific skills such as inference this term. Some pupils will start to use direct quotes from the text to justify their answers to comprehension questions.  

Writing 

This term Primary 6 will continue to focus on Narrative writing and Figurative Language (Similes, Alliteration, Personification, and Metaphors). Pupils will focus on purpose and audience: they will have the opportunity to write stories for some of our younger pupils to listen to and enjoy. We will focus on a different aspect of grammar/punctuation each week. Our writing day will be on Thursday. The class will be told the focus of their writing in the homework grid sent out on a Monday.  

Spelling 

The spelling groups will continue to experience the Active Literacy spelling program, this will introduce common words and focus phonemes pertinent to their stage. The pupils will revise the Active Spelling strategies throughout Term 2.  

Numeracy 

This term we will be focusing on the four operations within the context of decimals and long multiplication. We will also cover 2D and 3D shapes and a money and finance topic. Mrs. McIntyre will also focus on Beyond Number topics on a Friday. The pupils will experience activities at their stage and level. The revision of multiplication tables will be encouraged across all groups. Sumdog and Topmarks games can help with the rigor of x-tables at home.  

Health and Wellbeing 

Our focus this term is Internet Safety. This topic ties in with our class topic of digital skills. Our weekly PATHS lessons will focus on social and emotional lessons. The pupils enjoy ‘Pupil of the Day’ and are great at giving each other lovely compliments. 

Our PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday and is it very important the pupils bring in a jacket these days. I have also suggested to the pupils that they bring in a change of bottoms just in case our PE days are ‘rainy’ – that will become a certainty coming into the winter months. The pupils understand that I will try my utmost to deliver PE lessons outdoors, however, this might become tricker as we come into the winter months.  

IDL 

Our class topic this term is Digital Skills. Stong digital skills are vital in today’s world. Pupils will learn about different aspects of Office 365 such as Teams, Forms, and PowerPoint. We will also be learning how to email correctly. Pupils will learn how to use different features of our school iPads and will create and edit videos to highlight learning in the class. Our topic ties in nicely with Literacy – using word processing to publish writing and creating reports. Office 365 can be downloaded FREE from the pupils’ Glow account.  

RME 

Throughout Primary 6 the pupils will listen to and engage with stories from the Gospel of Matthew. We have already started looking at The Bible as our sacred text. In the months of October and November, we’ll be looking at the story of Creation. During the month of December, we will look at the Nativity through the Gospel of Matthew.  

The pupils are also working hard to gain individual reward cards for Amazing Attitude, Wonderful Work, and being a Superstar. When the pupils gain five reward cards, they can trade them in for an individual prize or keep them until everyone gets 5 cards each for a whole class reward 😊  

Thank you for all your support.  

Miss Mudge 😊  

Primary 6 have been really busy this week. We have been doing lots of activities and learning outdoors.

Numeracy

The pupils worked together to create excellent nature-inspired symmetrical artwork. I was really impressed with how engaged in the task they were and their super pieces of artwork at the end of the lesson.

Literacy

This week the pupils used Microsoft Word to type their Personal Recounts. The pupils learned how to use the thesaurus to uplevel their adjectives.

RME

During RME we discussed inspiring people in our own lives and in our world. The pupils learned about inspiring people such as Ann Frank, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King Jr. The pupils researched and created a Powerpoint on an inspirational person which they will present to the class next week.

Well done Primary 6 for all your hard work this week.

Miss Mudge

Last week Primary 6 headed outdoors for their writing lesson. They chose an aspect of nature to write their poem about. Primary 6 learned how to create a diamond poem. They also used a thesaurus to uplevel their adjectives. I am delighted with the poems they created and can’t wait to see what other fantastic writing they’ll do this year.

Miss Mudge

Welcome to the Primary 6 blog page!

It’s great to have the Primary 6’s back. They have all settled into their new classroom and have been brilliant remembering all the new routines around the school.

Below is an overview of the Term 1 learning and teaching.

Literacy

Reading

Our class novel and the topic this term is Billionaire Boy by David Walliams. The pupils will complete Active Reading tasks related to this novel. This novel has links to other areas of the curriculum such as Art, Health and Wellbeing, and Drama. We have already begun reading it together and David Walliams’ ‘unique’ humor is engaging all the pupils. We will also continue using the Bug Club reading resource to aid our active comprehension skills. Pupils can access this at home too.

Writing

This term Primary 6 will be focussing on Narrative writing and Tools for Writing – VCOP (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, and Punctuation). We will focus on a different aspect of grammar/punctuation each week. Our writing day will be on Thursday. The class will be told the focus of their writing in the homework grid sent out on a Monday.

Spelling

The spelling groups will continue to experience the Active Literacy spelling program, this will introduce common words and focus phonemes pertinent to their stage. The pupils will revise the Active Spelling strategies throughout Term 1.

Numeracy

This term we will be focusing on Place Value (whole number and decimals), Rounding and Estimation, and Addition and Subtraction. Mrs. McIntyre will focus on Beyond Number topics on a Friday. The pupils will experience activities at their stage and level. The revision of multiplication tables will be encouraged across all groups. Sumdog and Topmarks games can help with the rigor of x-tables at home.

Health and Wellbeing

Our focus this term is Growth Mindset and The Compassionate and Caring Classroom. These topics cover themes such as Children’s Rights, Relationships and Friendships, Emotions and Behaviours, and Resilience. These topics tie in nicely with our PATHS lessons. The ‘Pupil of the Day’ is up and running and this year we are complementing each other based on each other’s skills and talents.

Mark Devlin from Active schools will be coming in on Tuesday mornings to lead the Playground Leaders scheme. It is important the P6’s have a change of shoes and a jacket as this will be taking place outdoors.

RME

Throughout Primary 6 the pupils will listen to and engage with stories from the Gospel of Matthew. We have already started looking at The Bible as our sacred text. The pupils have already learned lots of amazing facts about The Bible. Next, we will focus on how Christians use The Bible, explore different text types in The Bible, and discuss what is sacred to the pupils. We will also reflect on people who use their gifts to enhance the world.

Thank you,

Miss Mudge 😊

This morning we said our final farewells to the Primary 7’s. We were able to have them back into the school for a gift presentation. It was lovely seeing them all and how grown up they all look. It has been a different farewell this year but they will always hold a special place in MCPS hearts for being the ‘Lockdown’ Class of 2020.

We are so proud of them and wish them all the best at St Joseph’s.