Expressive Arts

Expressive Arts -P6 / P3 Assembly -The chocolate room

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We worked collaboratively with P3 on creating props and artwork for our joint assembly.  We looked at images of the chocolate room from the movies based on  the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  We had been learning about Roald Dahl  when celebrating 100 years since his birth. We thought about colour and form then created our own paintings.

P3 chose their 3 favourites which we used during our class assembly.

Thomas – I made my chocolate room nice and colourful and was really happy it was chosen.

George – My chocolate room was designed to look like the one in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie.

Kirstie – My chocolate room came  partly from the movie version and some of my own ideas.

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Literacy and English, Social Studies

Scottish Parliament – Social Studies

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On 19th September  our local MSP Tom Arthur came to visit the two primary six classes . Mr Arthur is the MSP for Renfrewshire South.  We had written a formal letter to Mr Arthur inviting him to come to our school. We prepared questions to ask about the Scottish Parliament and about his job as an MSP. Everyone in P6 had the chance to ask a question.

Lily – It was fascinating to hear all the different things he had to do as part of his job.

Jamie – We learned a lot about the Parliament building in Edinburgh.

Olivia – His answers to our questions were very interesting.

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Numeracy & Mathematics

Numeracy – Scale drawing

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We drew a line drawing of a boat using a grid.  We then used a larger grid to upscale our drawings to A3 size. We then painted our boats in the style of the artist Claude Monet.

We looked at the map of the Scilly isles and we used the grid system to create a larger version of the map. We worked in groups to draw and paint our enlarged maps. We will use this to record our personal points each week , our boats will sail around the Scilly Isles.

Connor  – I enjoyed painting the sea scape, using different colours to create the effect of movement.

Kenzie – I enjoyed the challenge of up scaling the boat from A4 to A3

Mia – I enjoyed mixing the paints to create different shades to create the effect of the sea and sky.

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Literacy and English

Literacy Circles

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We sorted our class library into different genres e.g. adventure, friendship, fantasy, horror, comedy. This enabled us to easily  choose  books  according to their genre.

We selected 5 books that we would like to read, 5 books that we might want to read and 5 books that we didn’t want to read. We had to justify our reasons for our choices . We recorded this information in a table.

We started a reading log of books we are reading which will help us make our reading. We will write a book review which other boys and girls can use to help them select a book. Once we have completed books, we will discuss the books with our peers .

We selected our favourite texts to discuss with our peers and we made recommendations .

We are aiming to create a community of readers within our class.

Lewis  “at first I was not keen on reading but once we got started and I read my first book, I am more interested and I found I enjoyed reading my book”.

Kirstie ” We thought that if sorted the library , it would help us find books we liked”.

 

Literacy and English, Technologies

Functional Writing: Instructions 2

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This week we finished off our Functional Writing topic on Instructions. We have been learning to logically organise steps and information and to use a variety of connectives to join them together. Today we tied our learning in Writing to Technologies where we developed our understanding of food preparation by using different resources to make Ice Lollies from fruit juices. After that we wrote a set of instructions based on what we had learned to do.

 

 

“They were delicious!” – Paige

Health & Wellbeing, Sciences

Trip to Amazonia

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This week we went on our School Trip to Amazonia in Strathclyde Country Park. Building on our learning of how sound vibrations are carried we learned about different animals who live in the rainforest and how they communicate with each other. We even got to hold some of them!

 

 

“It was a really cool experience and we got to see animals we usually don’t get to see in this country.” – Lily

 

“I loved holding the animals.” – Gary

 

“I loved getting to see all the animals.” –  Aiden

 

Sciences

Electrical Circuits

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In Science we have been learning about electrical components and how they can be used to make a variety of electrial circuits. We started by looking at different symbols and what they represent. Then, after learning how energy travels around a circuit we used a range of electrical components to help make a variety of different circuits e.g. a torch, buzzer and an electric motor.

 

 

“I really enjoyed experimenting with the different components.” – Kenzie

 

“I had an amazing time doing this and it was so fun.” – Paige

Expressive Arts, Health & Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Numeracy & Mathematics, Religious & Moral Education, Technologies

RME Assembly

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Over the last few weeks we have been learning about celebrations in different religions. To do this we looked at weddings and the various aspects of these celebrations in Christianity, Islam and Judaism. We tied our learning in RME to other curricular areas e.g. Technologies where we designed and built window frames.

 

 

We also used Weddings as our topic for our work in Expressive Arts. As part of this, with Primary 2 we turned our frames into stained glass windows just like you might see in a cathedral.

 

 

We then learned the song ‘Love Story’ by Taylor Swift and prepared and performed a drama of a Christian Wedding at our learning and teaching assembly.

 

 

“It was really good fun and amazing!” – Emily

 

“I really enjoyed preparing and performing the drama of a Christian wedding.” – Lewis

Health & Wellbeing

Helping around the home

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This week we have taken time to develop different domestic skills in order to help around the home. This involved taking responsibility for washing, ironing, cooking and hoovering around the school. These are skills that will help us throughout our lives and support us to develop as Responsible Citizens.

 

“I now know how to use a hoover, which means that I can help around the house” – George

 

“Now that I know how to cook, I look forward to helping to cook dinner for my family” – Kirstie

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