This week has been another busy week in P6. We started off the week with a visit from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service who were teaching us all about firework safety in the lead up to bonfire night. We also started preparation for Sportshall Athletics in PE.

On Tuesday we had our 3rd swimming lesson, and everyone is making great progress and trying very hard.

We had our first Discovery Den on Wednesday and what a range of experiences everyone had, from cooking, to arts and crafts, sports, music,  coding and more.

We were learning all about mime in drama and had great fun acting out different scenarios.

Title:  Me, Myself and I

Following a class discussion today, pupils have chosen to prepare and present a five minute talk all about themselves.

You should include as much detail as possible and can include a range of different subjects such as hobbies, family and pets, not forgetting any talents and personality traits you have that make you extra special.  You can chose whatever you would like to use to enhance your talk e.g. PowerPoint (saved on GLOW or pendrive), poster, photographs, bringing in items.

You should practise your talk at home in order to be able to fluently present it to the class, you might want to use notes on paper to help you remember your talk.

All talks will be assessed using the school’s Talking & Listening criteria, which is also available on Glow.

Talks should be ready to be presented on Monday 17th November.

This week we had our second swimming lesson, and are all making good progress.

On Wednesday we had a visit from an anti-social behaviour officer who was teaching us about anti-social behaviour and informing us of consequences for those who are involved in these types of incidents.

In numeracy we have been learning about multiples and factors and revising our table facts. We created some fabulous art work this week, where we were focusing on our painting skills.

Today we enjoyed some Halloween fun & hope everyone has a great time celebrating. 🎃

Term 2 has been off to a busy start, we started reading Part 2 of our class novel and it has led to some great interesting discussions. We have also been learning about different homophones as part of our spelling work.

In numeracy we have been learning about multiples and being able to identify common multiples. We have also been learning to use the grid method to answer multiplication calculations.

In RME we started looking at different world religions and festivals that are celebrated by others, such as Diwali.

We had our first ever swimming lesson on Tuesday afternoon and had a great time at Visions. We can’t wait to go back again on Tuesday. Remember – We need to come with our swimwear already on, a bus pass, towel and underwear to put on once we come out of the pool.

This week we were learning to run in and skip in the big rope and then run back out. We  also focused on our passing during basketball and got the chance to play some mini games.

This week we were learning about the suffix – ful and finished part 1 of our Holes novel. We have been learning to use descriptive and figurative language in our writing and wrote our own descriptions of a storm scene.

We also got the chance to make our very own play-dough, it was great fun and we loved getting to play with it after.

Remember: Swimming starts on our first day back – Tuesday 21st October. Please remember your bus pass and come prepared with everything you need.

This week we have been continuing to work on our skipping and basketball skills in PE.

In numeracy we’ve been working on completing a range of addition and subtraction calculations, involving money. We have been  continuing to work on telling the time, using analogue and digital clocks.

In literacy we have been learning about the soft c spelling rule, and applying this correctly within our work. We have also been continuing to work on our descriptive writing, using similes, alliteration, personification and interesting adjectives to improve our writing.

We have also been exploring the different emotions that we might feel and discussing situations when we might experience these.

We also created our own lava lamps in science. We discovered that the salt pulled the oil down to the bottom & once the salt dissolved then the oil went back to the top.

This week we have been working on our basketball skills in PE. We have also been learning to play the glockenspiels in music and some of our class went along to Brass for the first time this week to try out some of the different instruments.

We have been continuing to work on subtraction with exchange and we have been learning to convert times between 12 and 24 hour clock.

We also used Microsoft Word to create our own positive affirmation posters and added our first target onto our digital profiles.

This week’s homework is multiplication based. Each child has been given a worksheet home, either a multiplication fact families sheet or a multiplication wheel. These should be returned by Friday.

This week we have been continuing our skipping block in PE, and have been learning some new skills.

We have continued to work on our knowledge of homophones and have been focusing on using descriptive language in our writing. In numeracy we enjoyed getting to share our learning with our visitors from home & we have also been working on completing subtraction calculations with exchange.

In science we completed our own experiments around dissolving, we investigated what impact the temperature of the water had on the speed of the substance dissolving.

This week we have been learning about prefixes in spelling, and we have been reading more of our book study and focussing on our different reading strategies. In numeracy we have been working on time & being able to tell the time using an analogue clock.

We have been learning about reversible and irreversible changes in science & we also completed our own chromatography experiments.

We also completed our own Wassily Kandinsky inspired artwork.