Category Archives: Primary 6

Numeracy, Primary 6

Maths homework

As you will already know, this week P623 is trialling doing our Maths homework online using Google Classroom and Forms.  There are many reasons why we have decided to try this out

  1.  This will save a lot of paper and resources.
  2.  This will save time for our office staff who have to photocopy 33 booklets.
  3. Homework can be done anywhere, at anytime, on any device.
  4. Hopefully, children might find this more enjoyable.

Obviously, there will be some teething problems as this is the first time we have attempted this and we appreciate your patience and feedback in these first few weeks.

Health & Wellbeing, Primary 6, Special event

Anti-bullying week

This week is National Anti-bullying week.  Today, we attended class P726’s assembly on Anti-bullying and followed it up with a class discussion.

We discussed what bullying means and what the difference between bullying and the kind of conflict we sometimes have with school friends in the playground.

Then we thought of strategies we could use if we are being bullied or know of anyone who is being bullied.

Finally, we designed our own Anti-bullying posters to show our understanding of what we’ve learnt.

Numeracy, Primary 6

Active maths

This week we have been using more active ways to learn Maths.  One Maths group have be estimating the length of everyday objects in our classroom as well as the length of our corridor and the perimeter of the pitch.  We then selected the most appropriate tool to measure these object from rulers, metre sticks or even a trundle wheel.

Another Maths group have been creating their own measuring cylinder and using them to check their estimations of volume.

 

Home, Primary 6, Science, Technologies

Request for resources

Primary 6 and 7 pupils and families have be asked to donate resources to help Mearns Primary with their STEM plans for this years.  We are in desperate need of resources for our Tinker Lab and for construction materials.

Tinker Lab

We need various electronic devices to allow the children to open them up and take them apart  to see how they work.  Understandably, anything donated cannot be returned as it will be destroyed in the process. Items required are

  • mobile phones
  • laptops
  • desktop computers
  • games consoles
  • game controllers

Construction material

The items we require in this section are

  • Lego
  • K’nex
  • Mechano

These construction resources are highly beneficial for the children’s learning in our STEM lessons and clubs. We understand that these are high value items and therefore please only donated them if you are certain that you no longer want or need them.

Numeracy, Primary 6, Special event

Maths week Scotland

 

We kicked off Maths week Scotland in ICT doing research on the famous mathematicians that our Math groups are named after: Pythagoras, Fibonacci and Lovelace (not technically a mathematician).  We then took part in various mathematical activities to support what we are currently learning in class.

2D shape (2D shape drawings)

Equivalent fractions (fraction dominoes)

Whole number ( +, -, x and / board game).

 

Finally, we had an attempt at John Swinney’s first problem with one successful solution in class.