Primary 6a have been busy!
After the New Year we were busy researching, learning and investigating our country so we could present our ‘Broons’ Guide to Scotland’ show to our family and friends. Our talents and skills allowed us to entertain an audience for the afternoon with singing, highland dancing, acting and even the bagpipes.
We continued to learn about Scotland and some famous Scottish artists. We recreated works of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Jack Vettriano, Alison Watt, Sir Henry Raeburn and Samuel John Pepole. We discussed the colours, techniques and expressions of each of the artists before selecting a style to create on our own.
February brought ‘Safer Internet Day.’ As a class it was a great opportunity to discuss and debate about our own issues and worries online. A visit from the Campus Police Officer alerted us to the serious nature of online bullying, as well as what to do if we don’t feel safe online.
We have now started our investigative research on China. As a class we all had different areas we wanted to learn about so we split in to different groups to produce a fact file. Mrs Norman allowed us the freedom to present our work in anyway we like although we need to be able to present our findings back to the class to share our learning. Our display is looking good. We have discussed areas we would still like to investigate and are looking forward to these over the next few weeks.
We were very fortunate that Henry’s mum visited us last week to share some videos of dance from the Confucius Society. We enjoyed watching her dance, exploring the fans she brought in and learning some dance moves ourselves.
Last Friday we took part in ‘Mini Mudder’ organised by the pupil council in order to raise funds for the school Activity Trail. Although it was a lovely sunny day we all ended up VERY muddy! Even Mrs Norman took part, although she may have been targeted by more water soakers than the children!
Our literacy work has been focusing on creating stories that are interesting to a variety of readers. Following our class novel ‘Chill’ we are trying to complete a reading challenge by reading as many different styles of books as possible. This is helping us to create some entries for BBC Radio 2’s 500 word competition. We are looking at editing and improving our stories as we work on them.
Over the next few weeks our numeracy work will focus on data handling and research which we have decided to link to our China research. We are hoping to investigate the current and past population of the country as well as levels of pollution. Using excel we are aiming to create a range of graphs and charts that we can share.
