This week in Literacy we created plans for a piece of narrative writing which we will begin next week. These plans were based on characters that pupils chose and had described.  We read some more of our class novel, Holes. We worked together as a class to find out how Stanley described The Warden. Using his descriptions we created a visualisation of The Warden.

We have continued to explore fractions, building our own fraction walls to help us gain a better idea of how fractions can be represented in bar models. We learned how to use bar models to help us order both fractions and decimal fractions.

We have been learning all about the months of the year and our birthdays in French. We have also continued to practice for our upcoming Euroquiz Heat. Pupils have worked in pairs to research Famous Scots and will share what they have found with the rest of the class next week.

This week, we have been learning how to simplify fractions and find their equivalent fractions. We have also continued to read our class novel, which has answered some of our questions about the story, such as “Why does Stanley’s grandfather have bad luck?” We are excited to continue reading.

We have started our new technology topic focused on ‘Craft, Design and Engineering’. Yesterday pupils worked in small groups to create a plan for a structure that must be able to hold a dictionary without support from pupils. Next week, we will use our plans to help us make these structures out of paper and tape.

We also continued our exploration of more of Steven Brown’s artwork, this week we focused on his use of patterns to create effect in his work. Pupils then chose a pattern to use within their interpretations.

Pupils have also worked in pairs to research various other Famous Scots and create a slide all about them. These will be shared with the rest of the class next week. This links to our whole school study of Scotland. We also participated in our Scots Verse Challenge. Our chosen finalists are Andrew, Brody, Leighton, Myia, and Poppy. The winner will be announced on Monday.

Last week we began our new PE topics – Badminton with Miss Higgins and Hockey with Mrs Cook.

We continued to explore Fractions in maths through the use of station activities. Our activities included making fraction pizzas, using beads to help us visualise our fractions, building fractions, finding equivalent fractions, and simplifying fractions.

We read some more of our novel – Holes by Louis Sachar. We used this as inspiration when beginning our narrative writing as we looked at the character descriptions to help describe our own characters for the story we will be writing.

We are currently exploring famous Scots as a topic and we began this by looking at the work of Steven Brown for our art lessons. We made notes on the techniques used by Steven Brown in his ‘McCoo’ paintings and created our own versions.

Finally, we continued to practice our poem for the Scots Verse and have done some practice for our Euroquiz.

This week marks the start of Term 3 in which we will be exploring many different topics.

To start our week we have began our new class novel study – Holes by Louis Sachar.  We will also be learning about narrative writing.

We began to explore fractions within numeracy and have learned about fractions in relation to decimals.

During our art lesson we explored the use of different media to create a picture, pupils used a mix of coloured pencils, pens, oil pastels and crayons to do so.

In PE we participated in a range of team games, including Capture the Flag, and Rats and Rabbits.

There are some very exciting things happening for P6 this term. Firstly, we will begin our whole-school topic of Scotland. During this term we will be learning a Scots Verse, pupils will be chosen to perform their verse. The verse we will be learning is ‘Up in the Morning Early’ by Robert Burns . All pupils have been given a copy of this poem to help them practice.

Secondly, P6 will also be competing in Euroquiz 2025. This is a competition held across Scotland in which Primary 6 pupils compete against each other in a quiz about Europe. The questions relate to geography, languages, history and culture. We will be exploring Euroquiz as a class and will study Europe as a topic later in the term.  Euroquiz have a website which contains many resources as well as previous questions from the heats and finals from 2018-2023. We will be exploring these as a class, however, if any pupil is interested in doing some extra exploring, the resources can be found at this link: https://scilt.org.uk/Primary/Celebratinglanguages/Euroquiz/tabid/8651/Default.aspx

Reminders:

• Our PE days are a Wednesday and Friday, please ensure pupils attend school on these days with appropriate kit.
• Our Term 3 homework focus will begin later in the term, all homework jotters should be handed back in as soon as possible so they can be checked before our new homework comes out.