P6K had a fabulous time at Pierburg, Dumfries House.
We spent the day learning about plants and vegetables with Michelle and Trudy. We were lucky enough to harvest our own vegetables from the garden, make some delicious soup and plant some Chard.
Category: Primary 6
P6A to Valentin Farm at Dumfries House
Today P6A headed to Dumfries House to visit Valentin Farm. The children had a great day and learned lots along away. Highlights from today were ‘milking’ a cow, feeding the animals and holding chicks.
Thanks to our parent helpers for their fantastic assistance today!
No Pens Day Wednesday
Today as part of our Dyslexia Friendly Schools journey, the whole school was involved in NO PENS DAY WEDNESDAY. This is a national speaking and listening event which encourages exciting classroom discussion. Check out the blog for class photos.
No Pens Day in P6A
Primary 6A have had a very productive day during their No Pens Wednesday. The class worked hard and participated fully in talking and listening activities, maths using laptops, drama work portraying John Muir’s life and nature art work where the children studied the leaves, colours, textures to create a new picture.
Joe commented, ‘ Today I liked the fact that we could just put our pencils down and get up instead and be more active in our learning. My favourite bit was using my imagination to create my leaf ladybug.’
Phoebe explained, ‘Sometimes today I wanted to write things down but instead I had to talk and explain myself.’
Dean Castle Rangers to P6
Primary 6 will be working with two Dean Castle Rangers on Tuesday 2nd October and Tuesday 23rd October. In these sessions, the children will participate in tree identification and den building activities at the Foxes area near the school. These activities link into our John Muir Award and the Wilderness Wars novel that we are currently reading in class.
Parents, carers and grandparents are welcome to join us on these sessions. If you can come along then please complete the form below.
Children should wear outdoor clothing to school on these days but have their school uniform in their school bags to change into afterwards. Wellies/boots should be worn also. Spare socks are always a great idea!
P6K – 9.15 – 10.45
P6A – 11 – 12.30
P6M – 1.30 – 3pm
P6 Trip to Dumfries House
The Primary 6’s are heading to Dumfries House as part of their Outdoor Learning experiences.
Complete the form below if you are able to help on the day. Please note, each class is going on a different day.
P6M – Wednesday 3rd October
P6A – Thursday 4th October
P6K – Friday 5th October
The office will contact you if your help is required for this trip.
All About Us
P6K have been finding out a little bit more about each other. The pupils presented a solo talk all about themselves and brought in an interesting item from home to show the class. 
Celebrating Wider Achievement??
Congratulations to Kayla and Carrie who both received awards for their skills in gymnastics?.
Potato Harvest
P6K endured the heat of the last day of school to harvest their potatoes. Mucky hands and smiley faces all round.
Adam’s Achievements
Well done to Adam Thomson (P6K) for all his achievements in swimming. Adam brought a few of his medals and trophies in to school today to show his class!
World of Work
We have all been enjoying learning about ‘Our World of Work’.
We have shared ideas of careers which we think we might enjoy in the future and we have been considering what steps we would need to take to be able to do certain jobs.
Importantly, we have been discussing the strengths and talents we have already and how we can continue to develop these.
We have had lots of fun playing games, participating in roleplay and some of us have even tried to fill in application forms for our dream jobs.
P6K worked with Miss Smith to create a ‘World of Work’ Assembly. Through drama, music and dance they demonstrated that if you are determined and work hard you can achieve your dreams.
The whole school enjoyed the assembly on Monday and today we welcomed parents and relatives to watch.
Well done P6K!
Rag Bag Collection -284kg!!
The Eco Committee collected a fantastic 284kg with theit Rag Bag appeal. Thank you to everyone who donated. Here’s some P6 children at the uplift day.
John Muir Award Ceremony
Congratulations to our P6 pupils and teachers who received their John Muir Award today. It was a super busy afternoon with parents and guests invited to see all the hard work which has been done over the last year. Well done everyone!
P6 John Muir Award Celebration
P6 had a great turnout for Onthank’s first ever John Muir Award Celebration this afternoon. Our P6s have been learning that John Muir was a Scottish born conservationalist, who lived in the late 1800s and later moved to America to found of some of their National Parks.
The award encourages children to explore natural areas near the school and over time develop and conserve them. You may have noticed that trees have been planted at the front of the school and a wide selection of vegetables have been planted near the nursery.
Congratulations to our P6 pupils, you have worked extremely hard! Thanks to all who came along to help us celebrate. We hope you had a good time and learned something new!
Please contact the office if you would be able to help us water and care for the plants over the summer holidays.
P6 K’NEX Club
Well done to the P6 pupils who have taken part in the lunchtime K’NEX club.
Here are some of the impressive bridges pupils have created.
Our P6 Euro Quiz team headed to the Scottish Parliament today. They competed against 31 other schools from around Scotland, in the final of this year’s quiz. While not coming top 3, our team answered many challenging questions. Huge congratulations to the boys for their hard work in studying for the quiz. Everyone is very proud of you!
P6A created Nature Palettes
P6A headed out to garden to look at the colours, scents and textures in nature. The children selected natural items and stuck them to their ‘Nature Palette’.
Rhys said, ‘I was surprised by how soft the leaves were.’
Owen shared, ‘When I was looking at the flowers, I saw lavender and it smelt so good!’
Once back in the classroom, Liam interviewed Ellie and they discussed the lesson and heard more about Ellie’s choices for her Nature Palette. Watch the video below.
P6K’s Trip to Amazonia
P6K enjoyed their recent trip to Amazonia at M&D’s Scotland’s Theme Park. The handling session was a definite favourite for most of the children.
