P7a 31.8.18

In Turing we have been doing some revision of division. We are starting to remember it and are working on our carrying figures.

Euler have been learning about decimals and percentages with Mrs Fry.

Pythagoras have been looking at the properties of circles. We learned that the middle point is called the centre point, there diameter is double the radius and the perimeter of a circle is called the circumference. We have been using compass to accurately draw circles.

In Science we are conducting an experiment to see how hygiene can affect the rate of decay. We are doing the mouldy bread experiment!

P6 had their assembly this morning all about Growth Mindset. It was great!

We had our house captain presentations and we will complete this on Monday. It was a bit scary but we all did a fantastic job!

We finished our class charter ‘Loot Llama’, it’s looking great on our wall.

We wrote a persuasive letter to Mrs Pina to persuade her to let her class to do the John Muir Award too. We had to include persuasive language/techniques, a formal tone and reasons why it is a great award.

In Social Studies we have been focussing on the Global Goal about pollution and we have been researching solutions to plastic pollution.

In French we have been writing a paragraph about ourselves and we drew a portrait of half of our face.

We found out that our senior prefects are Sophie and Ross.

We also started our class bank! We are learning how to save!

We started using our Google classroom, it’s awesome!

P7a 24.8.18

We have started with Art this term and we were learning about different types of shading and tone. We learned about outlining shapes and hatching which involves using single lines. We also looked at contouring which was tricky.

In maths Pythagoras have been looking at BODMAS, this is the order of operations in calculations. It stands for Brackets, Order, Division, Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction.

In Science we have started to learn about micro-organisms. We researched famous scientists who made scientific observations which proved germs existed, the causes of them and vaccinations. These scientists were Louis Pasteur, Edward Jenner, Joseph Lister and Robert Koch.

Our sports council members for this year are Saffi, Caitlin and Dylan.

We held interviews for senior prefects and we hopefully find out who they will be at the beginning of next week.

In writing we wrote a new beginning for Harry Potter and we were trying to engage the reader and create an atmosphere.

In literacy we have reciprocal reading groups where each person has a role. We started to read our class novels this week in these groups.

Today we looked at bounce back and discussed how nobody is perfect. We created our perfect teacher and Mrs Lamont created her perfect pupil and we discussed the differences.

Class Blog 22/06/2018 P6b

Today we painted our volcanoes and they look amazing. We are looking forward to trying our experiment.

Today we looked at a map of the World Rivers. We used the Chrome books to research where in the world the rivers are and glued our answers to a world map.

The orange group in maths have been learning the meaning of equivalents.

The yellow group have been learning how to tell the time using 12 and 24 hour time.

22.6.18

This week we found out that Mrs Lamont was going to be our P7 teacher. Yay!

This is our last full week of P6 and it has been fun, we have had lots of things to finish off too.

Livingston won the House Cup and went to the Five Sisters Zoo today. We are sure that they’ve had lots of fun in the sun.

We had the celebration of achievement on Thursday, it was nice to say goodbye to the P7s. We walked up with the P1s and it was fun to talk to them. Miles won the Scott Trophy, we were proud of him.

We did our last health lesson and we learned all about growing up and what would happen to our bodies.

We have started to pack up our classroom so that we can start moving our things into our new classroom. We are going to move on Wednesday so that we can start trying to organise things for August.

18.6.18

We have really enjoyed perfecting this week as we have been playing some great games and teaching other children in the school how to play them.
Livingstone won the House Trophy this year and they are all looking forward to their trip to the zoo next Friday!!
On Wednesday we were presented our bikeability certificates and badges, we are all very proud.
This week we wrote instructions about how to put up a tent. Mrs Lamont put up the tent and we had to take notes on what she was doing and then create our own instructions.
We have been doing some pointillism in Art and have really enjoyed creating different pictures.
In Health we were learning about personal hygiene and we started to talk about puberty.
In PE we were working on our ball skills and we enjoyed playing games in groups to help us with our hand eye co-ordination.
The choir went to the Baptist Church and they sang with Isoble Mair and St.Cadoc’s. We sang this is me with makaton, it was fun. We were very impressed at assembly today when we heard the choir sing!

P6a 8.6.18

We have started sexual health and we have spoken about what babies need when they are born and how their needs change when they become a toddler. We spoke about friends, family and starting school.

In Maths we did a relay race, we had lots of questions to answer. One person would run up to the box, take a question and then as a group try to work it out. We had to show Mrs Lamont and she would tell us if we got it correct and then we could get other question or if we got it wrong we had to go back and check it. It was fun!

Yesterday was Sports Day. We went into our house teams and did lots of different activities and then we had the house and class races. It was really fun and the sun made it even better! Adam’s mum won the ‘Mums’ race and Fleming won the relay! Mrs Lamont and Mr Walker won the teacher race (even though their 3 legged band fell off and they ran!!!!)

We were introduced to the summer book/reading challenge at assembly today. You have to read six library books during the summer holidays to achieve this challenge.

The Eco committee took part in the Greenbank Gardens Wheelbarrow competition and we helped them to finish off the design. We were very happy with how it turned out.

We finished making our volcanoes this week and are looking forward to making them explode next week!

Primary 6B Class Blog Friday 8th June 2018

This week we have been learning about what happens when a baby grows up to a toddler and the developmental milestones they go through.

We had sports day on Thursday. It was very fun.  We did lots of different activities like javelin throwing and racing space-hoppers!

In maths the white group have been learning about money and bank cards (credit cards). The orange group have been converting units of measurement using a decimal point.  The yellow group have begun a new topic on 12 and 24 hour time.

In science we have been learning about different animals and how they communicate. They can use seismic, electric, auditory, touch, olfactory, visual.

On Wednesday the nursery had their sports day and a number of the pupils did an excellent job of helping the nursery pupils.

In writing we have been learning how to write instructions. Today we wrote instructions on a topic of our own choice.  We were to include; an introduction, put it in chronological order, use sub headings and headings, imperative verbs, list of equipment and a conclusion.

This week we have been researching a volcanic eruption so that we can use the information to create a drama script which we will perform.

P6B Class Blog Friday 1st June 2018

This week has been an extremely short week but it was a fun week.

We held a heat for the relay race next week on sports day. A boy and girl from each house in p6 have been selected to represent their house.

In science we were listening to each other’s presentations. We took notes on a different types of communication which animals use and shared these with each other.

In social studies we used the chrome books to access Google maps as well as maps of Britain to identify rivers within Britain and the seas surrounding Britain. We had to identify features of the map in order to locate the correct river.

In P.E we did 5 bat cricket with Mr. McMillan. With Mrs. McGreggor we worked on our javelin skills.

Neilston Cycle Group came to our school on Wednesday and held a bike maintenance workshop for us and then led some bike games for us.

In writing this week we wrote a persuasive argument about a topic of our choice. We were to back up our opinions with reason and evidence as well as using persuasive techniques.

Some pupils presented their Natural Disaster homework task.

1.6.18 P6a

This week we have been finishing off our paired presentations about the Kilauea Volcano eruption. It has been really fun being able to use the chromebooks and work together to decide how to create our presentation and do the research.

We found out who would be running for each house in Sports Day next week. We went to the track at Eastwood and had a race to decide. We are looking forward to Sports Day and the many different activities we’ll get to take part in.

At assembly we were talking about safety in the playground and the school equipment. We need to try and look after the playground equipment so that is doesn’t get damaged.

We had the Biker’s Breakfast on Wednesday and the bikers played some game with us. It was fun especially as the sun was shining.

We filled out our prefect application forms in preparation for moving into P7. We are looking forward to taking on more responsibility.

P6b Class Blog Thursday 24th May.

This week we had our Bike-ability tests and are now waiting to hear how we did.

In Social Studies this week we gave our solo talks about Natural Disasters. We had talks about tsunamis, volcanos, forest fire, flooding and limnic eruption. We really enjoyed listening to each other, especially to Omar’s which was the funniest.

In PE we were improving our tennis skills and finished by playing matches with each other.

In Maths the Orange group have been learning about percentages of numbers. The White group have been learning percentages and fractions of amounts. The Yellow group have been calculating volume of cubes and cuboids.

On Monday, we went up to Eastwood High School to do maths relays as well as maths games.

In Science we have started presenting information about different types of communication.

 

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