We had an exciting afternoon campaigning for votes. Our party leaders gave interesting speeches to persuade voters and the rest of the party handed out their party propaganda.

We have learned so much about the process of making a new law, devolved and reserved powers and even found out the current political issues about Brexit.

But most importantly we have been busy writing our own manifesto,   party leader’s speech and designing advertising posters for our Election Campaign. Each party will present their policies and persuade as many voters as they can on Thursday afternoon and our polling station will open on Friday.

Good luck to all the parties.

As part of our learning in Social Studies we are focusing on The Scottish Parliament. We don’t know much about what the Parliament does and we are looking forward to learning lots of important information about the features of a democracy.

Today we were organised into ‘Political Parties’ and agreed on our party colour, logo and name and designed our party rosette.

Watch out for updates as our Election Campaign gets underway…

We all enjoyed playing games, dancing and pulling our Christmas crackers with our friends at our Christmas Party.  

We also enjoyed designing some pop out Christmas cards.

P6.1 wish everyone a happy holiday!

We have been learning how to say different colours in Chinese and what each colour represents. We now know how to say red, yellow, blue, green, black and white.

We coloured in Chinese masks and got to try on some real Mandarin masks.

We have been learning all about Scotland’s landscape and how it’s features are formed. We worked in collaborative groups to research the mountains, glens, lochs, rivers and coastlines using technology and reading fact sheets. Some of us were interested in finding out if Scotland had any volcanoes so we added this into our research too!

We created a group poster and presented our findings to the class.

We have been learning about cooperation. We played some team games to identify how important it is to work together and cooperate with everyone to achieve a shared goal.

We loved learning about the different types of Chinese tea and the traditions in China.

Was lovely to welcome so many parents and carers as we shared our learning about Poppy Scotland and Remembrance Day in a whole school assembly.

This week we will begin selling poppies to raise money for members of the armed forces and their families.

P6.1 have been learning what to do if someone goes into cardiac arrest. We learned about DRS ABC to help us remember the steps when helping in an emergency situation.

D – check for DANGER

R – check for RESPONSE

S – SHOUT for help

A – open the AIRWAY

B – Check if the person is BREATHING

C – Start CPR

We learned how to give chest compressions

using the mannequins.