End of Term Blog
November has been a month of achieving for P6b. The whole class were particularly proud of their contributions to Giffnock’s Christmas Fair. The products we designed and made for the fair were great sellers and proved to be popular stocking fillers. Emily said: ‘I worked on the Christmas Fair stall it was a good experience because it was real-life learning and I got to sell the products we created.’
This month many of our pupils have achieved in sporting activities; Ruaridh has become more confident at tackling in rugby, Iona has learned to hold a handstand and she has almost fully trained a horse. Niamh has also been an awesome fundraiser for her gymnastics club and helped to raise the fantastic sum of £275.65.
In Social Studies we have been continuing with our Victorian topic and have been developing our research and note-taking skills when reading about the life of Dr David Livingstone. We wrote emotive letters describing his first sighting of the Victoria Falls. We also linked our art work to this topic and have been working on developing our skills in line and tone by using chalk pastels to draw the scene when David was attacked by a lion in Africa. Ellis said, ‘I enjoyed learning about David Livingstone and learned that the Victoria Falls were referred to as the Smoke that Thunders.’
We have all enjoyed participating in this months ‘Readathon Challenge.’ Ross said, ‘I have become more interested in reading books and I have read 4 books this month.’
We all particularly enjoyed our reading in the dark session, Hamish said, ‘It was fun reading in the dark with our torches because we got to try something new.’
In ICT we have participated in ‘An Hour of Code,’ and have been trying out new coding apps and programs. Kirsten said, ‘Coding is a fun way to be able to learn how to create games. I enjoyed using Scratch, Flappy Code and Kodu to develop my ICT skills.’
Literacy and Numeracy
Our learning in these areas will draw upon the contexts listed above but will differ according to the needs of each class/group. Your support with consolidation of core learning through homework activities will be very beneficial to our children.
