We have been creating a pop art picture in the style of Andy Warhole. To do this we had to trace an image onto tracing paper.  Then flip the tracing paper over and copy the image onto another sheet of paper 4 times before colouring it in.

In maths the white group have finished off their work on time durations and have started learning about decimal fractions.

The orange group have been learning about co-ordinates and were making up their own puzzles this week.

The yellow group have been learning about fractions. What fractions are, identifying fractions, finding equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions.

In P.E the class have been doing football with Mrs McGreggor. We will be developing our passing skills, ball control and shooting skills next week.

In language we have been developing our understanding and use of VCOP (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation). We have been developing these through different games and activities and using these skills in our imaginative writing.  This week we were continuing a story called ‘Howl’.

In ICT we have been researching the Victorians.

In Art we have been learning how to create optical illusions. It’s really fun but some of it is tricky!

We have been making our class charter this week. We have signed the balloons, put up the clouds and we have almost finished making the house from Up.

In maths Pythagoras have been revising compound area and perimeter. It was a bit tricky at the beginning but we have got the hang of it!

Euler have been looking at different types of triangles. Isosceles, scalene, equilateral and right angled triangles!

The Comics have started to read Holes. It is an interesting book so far and we are looking forward to reading more.

The Magazines started to read a new book called The War in Jenkins’ Ear. We are looking forward to reading more of our book next week.

We had a spelling test this week which was quite tricky.

In PE, with Mrs MacGregor, we were running and playing different ball games.

We started our new topic about the Victorians. We learned that Queen Victoria became the Empress of India and she became the Queen when she was only 18 years old.

We have also fill out our action plan to try and achieve our John Muir Awards.

We have a class pet called Barry! (The spider in the corner of our classroom!)

This week Primary 6 have had P.E. in the hall and in the new MUGA. We did games and ball skills with Mr. McMillan and athletics with Mrs. McGreggor.

We have begun our new topic which is the Victorians. We have been learning about Queen Victoria and what life was like as a Victorian.

In maths the white group have been learning how to calculating journey time. The orange group have been learning about co-ordinates and the yellow group have been learning about fractions.

In language we have been doing moving images where we watch short clips and discuss the story. This week we were making predictions about the story.

Mrs. Stewart came in to P6b today and we played some VCOP games and wrote a story.

We have had a brilliant first week back at school in Primary 6B.

We wrote a letter introducing ourselves to our pen pals who are a Primary 6 class at Cross Arthurlie in East Renfrewshire.

We had a discussion about what makes the perfect pupil and the perfect teacher, and we will try our best to become these! We looked at the UNCRC and chose the articles that we felt are most important and relevant for our class.  We are going to use these articles to create an emoji themed class charter.

We found out about John Muir and this year both Primary 6 classes will try to achieve their John Muir Award.

We are all excited to be in our fabulous new school and are enjoying our new classroom and playground.

We met Mrs Lamont, our fabulous new teacher!

We have started to learn a little bit about the John Muir Award. It’s all about getting outdoors, having fun and looking after nature. There are three levels of the John Muir Award, we are going to try and achieve our Discovery Award.

In language we started to up level sentences and make them more interesting.

We designed and voted for our class charter. Our charter is going to be the house from Up.

In maths we were doing some symmetry. We were learning about Rangoli patterns and we started to make our own.

We met Miss Zeitlin and did an activity about our summer holidays.

We have also been getting to know our class routines and we decided on our group names.

We saw the new bike track and it looks very good!

We have also had our first assembly where we found out that we will be doing a class assembly and our parents will get to come along.

Hi!

This week was a great week 🙂
In maths the Fantastic Fractions and Excellent Equations are teaming up and learning about decimals. They are really enjoying it!
The Super Subtractions are working on 24 hour time and are moving on to volume next week.
In language Readosaurus enjoyed taking part in reciprocal reading using the lion the witch and the wardrobe, Writeosuarus finished A series of Unfortunate Events and Spellosaurus continued reading Fantastic Mr Fox!

In PE, we have been practising games and activities for sports day and we cannot wait! 😀 (we are keeping our fingers crossed it will be sunny!)

As part of our flight topic we are designing and creating our very own aircrafts and are going to see how far they can fly! There is going to be a prize for the design that flies the furthest.

We are having a summer disco on the 15th of June and are very excited!

We hope everyone has a wonderful weekend 🙂

We had relay race heats in P.E to decide who would be representing each house on Sports Day next Monday.

We had some visitors from America in class on Wednesday. We used Lego to build our own ship and create a story about the ship.

The white maths group have been learning about different types of triangles.

The pink group have been learning about decimals.

The orange group and the yellow group have been carrying out surveys and writing their findings up on graphs/ charts.

We were closed on Thursday for the General Election.

In ICT we did coding using Kodu.

We had Bikeability on Wednesday. We had a 10 minute free cycle assessment to begin with and then had 3 stations.  At one station we had to slalom in between the cones and then throw a bean bag into a hoop.  At another station we had to cycle down the hill and stop in a safe zone without skidding.  And at the last station we cycle round in a circle and had to look over our shoulders to see a number that was being held up and also at this station we had to complete different actions.

The orange group have been doing symmetry and have been researching symmetry which they have put into a Powerpoint.

The pink group have been calculating distance, speed and time.

The white group have been working out fractions of numbers. They have been working on word problems.

The yellow group have been interpreting data from various graphs.

All reading groups have been reading their own novels and working on predictions and summarising.

On Monday, we researched different inventions that can fly.

With Mrs. Watson in bounceback we drew pictures of our happy place and what we are scared of. We also made a love logo for a gang.

We have a new pupil! Zahara has joined us this week!

Hello,

Firstly, we would like to apologise for the delay in posting our blog! Here is an update… 🙂

In maths, the Excellent Equations have been learning about the properties of 2D shapes and are almost ready to move on! The Fantastic Fractions have been learning about the properties of 3D shapes and have been creating 3D prisms and pyramids for our maths wall. The Super Subtractions have enjoyed learning about direction and have been using the 8 compass points to help them. They have created their own set of directions and followed the directions of their classmates.

In language, Readosaurus are enjoying reading The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe while Spellosaurus have started reading Fantastic Mr Fox! In writing, we have been learning about the difference between similes and metaphors and have been using song lyrics to help us! We have also been using Lego to create settings (a castle) to inspire us to develop plots in our writing. It was really fun!

In art, we created silhouettes of Stirling Bridge as we had been learning about the Battle of Stirling Bridge during our Scottish Wars of Independence topic.

In ICT, we have started learning how to use Sway to make presentations on the Chrome books. On Friday we created Sway presentations on The History of Flight (which is our new topic) and we are planning to add information to these each week. 

In PE, we have continued with athletics and are finding it fun. We have also been taking part in relay races in our groups (in preparation for sports day! 🙂 )

Last week, Primary 5 were busy delivering their solo talks on their favourite authors. Everybody did a fantastic job! 🙂

Pictures to follow 🙂

The white group have been finding fractions of numbers, and some very big numbers too!

The orange group have been learning about symmetry and looking for lines of symmetry.

The pink group have been calculating distance, speed and time.

The yellow group have been reading bar graphs.

The red group have been reading Little Manfred.

The purple group have been reading Friend or Foe.

The blue group are reading the Eighteenth Emergency.

The green group are reading The Frankenstein Teacher.

We have started our new topic which is flight.

It has been digital learning week. Mrs. Bishop came in to our class on Monday and we used chrome books to access a programme called Sway.

In music we were using hand bells to make our own Scottish waltz.

In P.E we are doing badminton with Miss Black and have been doing athletic’s stations with Mr. McMillan.

In Bikeability we had three stations; one where we had to throw beanbags into hoops as we were cycling. Another where we had to follow a narrow, wavy path. And one where we had to hold the beanbag out in one hand as we were cycling.