2025/26 Primary 6/7 (Miss O'Connell)

Today Enid and Chloe visited us from Coalfields Regeneration Trust. They were interested in how we thought our local community could be improved and the services that would benefit us. We had lots of amazing ideas, from golf courses and swimming pools to making better use of some of the buildings in the main street. We also said that we would like it if our streets were free of litter and dog mess. We’d also like more play grounds, less graffiti and a McDonalds!

A really interesting opportunity to have our voices heard and to contribute to our Local Place Plan. We also discussed and evaluated our town on how good it is just now, and where we would like to see improvements in the future.

A big well done to Sophia whose Christmas card design was selected by Lillian Jones MP to be published on her website and Facebook page celebrating the 2nd day of Advent! Sophia took great care with her design and we are all very proud! Well done Sophia!

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This week we have been learning about the history, function and current developments at the Barony A-Frame. We wrote information reports about what we found out and on Friday we used art straws, pasta and marshmallows to create our own models of the A-frame. We drew designs and used our meta-skills including, communication, collaboration, creativity, sense-making and critical thinking to come up with design solutions so that our models looked like the A-frame and were also sturdy enough to stand up.

Congratulations Codi for winning this amazing trophy! And for bringing it in to show us all. Codi won her trophy at a national Dance competition, super work Codi!

This week P6/7 have been learning more about making art with 1-point of perspective. We know how to create art that has a foreground, midground and background. This week we drew cityscapes with 1-point of perspective disappearing towards a vanishing point to create sophisticated artworks with depth and interest. Great work P6/7!

P6/7O and P6/7D had a wonderful morning, developing their meta skills such as Creativity, Collaboration and Communication to complete a series of Halloween inspired activities. The classes took part in K’Nex Haunted House builds, Spooky coding as well as composing scary musical themes and budgeting for a Halloween party! It was great fun and everyone worked so well together!

Well done to all of you, your costumes were fabulous! And some a  bit scary! Have a wonderful and safe Halloween weekend!

This week we have been learning about synonyms, antonyms and homonyms. We enjoyed coming up with uplevelled vocabulary to help improve our writing! We found synonyms for lots of common words and created our own synonym swirl art to display in class… and even got some synonym swirls to eat too!

Today we participated in a live art lesson facilitated by the National Gallery. We learned about the work of sculptor Eduard Paolozzi and then created our own cardboard sculptures which had to be held together with paper joins and seams… no glue or tape allowed!