It’s been an extremely busy week in P6. We had a STEM day at RBA on Monday, Danger Detectives on Tuesday and an athlete visit on Wednesday.
It has been a brilliant week listening to everyone’s Big Talks, and hearing what changes they would implement if they were to rule the world, or in fact, if they would hate that job.
We went down to the park to practise our races for sports day, and what a laugh we had. Group B went down to the ECC on Tuesday to walk their buddy up to the school for an afternoon in P1 and Group A went down on Thursday. We also had Round 3 of the Chess Championship this week.
For PE on Wednesday we were playing football, and learning to improve the accuracy of our passes.
On Thursday we were learning to use persuasive language in our writing, and focussed on using the OREO method again to make sure that we give examples to back up our opinions.
We have also been learning about 3D shape nets and have been creating our own 3D shapes. We have also been learning about tessellation and today we investigated what shapes can tesselate and what ones can’t.
It’s been a short but busy week this week. On Tuesday we played round 2 of our Chess Championship and it’s getting very exciting, well done to those who are through to round 3.
On Wednesday we went to an exciting assembly for the big reveal to find out what athlete is going to be visiting us in a few weeks time. Then we went outside to participate in the 100m sprint as part of our Sports Championship.
We look forward to hearing everyone’s Big Talk presentations next week.
This week we have been continuing with our book study. We have also been learning all about persuasive language in writing, and we were trying to persuade Mr Wonka to create our new chocolate inventions.
This week our chess championship kicked off and we completed round 1. Well done to all of our round 1 winners, we are looking forward to round 2 already.
We went to the park to practise our races in preparation for Sports Day. We also went to the ECC to collect our buddies and walk them up to the school, to spend an afternoon in P1.
Big Talk
Title: If I could Rule the World
You have been given a project to prepare and present a short 5-minute talk, linked to our literacy focus this term of using persuasive language.
If you were to rule the world, what changes would you make?
Use the OREO method to help you create your presentation.
The presentation should be as detailed as possible and could include:
You can use the internet or books to find out facts to back up your ideas. You could also use other ideas to enhance your talk e.g. PowerPoint , drawings, diagrams or items from home.
You can make your changes as serious or as fun as you like.
For example:
If I were to rule the world I would make sure that everyone had a safe space and house to live in, as according to Shelter Scotland a household becomes homeless in Scotland every 16 minutes. I’m sure you would agree that this is unacceptable figure and everyone has the right to somewhere safe to sleep at night. Therefore, I would build more houses and have more clothes, food and resources available to people.
It is my opinion that I would make a good world leader because I would make every weekend a long weekend. Fridays would no longer be a school day. It is easy to see why this would be a fantastic change because people would be happier as they would have more time to spend with their friends and family. They would also have more time to go and explore different places and spend more time outdoors. This is good for your health and wellbeing and can improve sleep.
You should practise your talk at home as often as possible and use a timer to help. You may want to use notes or prompt cards to help you stay on track.
Talks should be ready to be presented the week beginning Monday 11th May.
We’ve had a great first week of term 4. This week we started a new novel study, The Butterfly Lion. We have been looking at persuasive language and how we use this in our everyday lives.
In maths we were revising our multiplication and division strategies. We also started learning about 2D and 3D shapes.
As part of our topic work we were discussing what we already know about natural disasters. This week we focussed on volcanoes and looked at how volcanic eruptions happen. In ICT we were learning how to create a secure password and we were using a website to check how secure a password is and how quickly it could be cracked.
We were also working on our skills development by building bridges that had to be at least 50cm long & that a small car could go across.
It’s been another busy week here for P6, where everyone got the opportunity to showcase their creativity skills in our Easter Egg competition.
Have a look at some of our amazing creations.
We hope you all have a lovely Easter break. 🐣
This week we designed and created our own Easter game, then we went along to P3 to teach them how to play them. Everyone had great fun.
We also got to plan, organise and set up a literacy afternoon for our ECC friends on Tuesday afternoon.
It’s been another busy week in P6.
On Tuesday we visited the ECC with P1 to have a Teddy Bear’s Picnic with our new buddies. We read a lovely story together & enjoyed playing in the greenspace.
In literacy we were learning about suffixes as part of our spelling. We were also focussing on metalinguistics in reading, to help us work out the meaning of new and unfamiliar words.
In maths we were learning about pie charts and have also been learning to calculate the fraction of a quantity.
We also created some lovely spring and Easter themed art work.
This week we have been working on our gymnastics skills in PE. We have been learning to use the springboard and improve our balancing skills.
In literacy we have been learning about words with silent letters. We have read some more of our class novel & have been trying hard to read with more expression.
We were also learning about the importance of recycling & how this can help the environment, and the best ways to encourage people to bin their rubbish properly.
Today we took part in a music workshop with the Benedetti Foundation, we were learning all about rhythm and took part in some fantastic activities. Some pupils even the got the opportunity to play some of the different instruments we were learning about.
