Primary 6.1 have been learning crucial first aid skills in Heartstart. By watching videos, P6 learned how to react to someone who is suffering from a cardiac arrest. We discussed how the heart works normally and how a cardiac arrest could occur. Using mannequins, pupils were able to try administering chest compressions  using the anagram DRS ABC

• D – Check for Danger
• R – Are they responding?
• S – Shout for help.
• A – Clear the Airways.
• B – Check for breathing.
• C – Call 999 for an ambulance and begin chest compressions.

We are so excited that Halloween is here this year. We had a brilliant afternoon dressing up in our costumes, listening to Halloween songs, dancing and watching Tom and Jerry Trick or Treat!

At our party we dooked for apples, took photos in our Halloween photo booth, made drinks potions, played Ten Pin Boo-ling 👻 and made beautiful colourful candy skull decorations.

Everyone had a great time!

Mandarin lessons have returned to Cross Arthurlie, taken by our lovely new Mandarin teacher Mrs Cao.

Mrs Cao is a very experienced teacher who is teaching in our colourful  Mandarin Room. We are learning all about Chinese culture and language. It has been fascinating to learn all about Mrs Cao’s hometown and we have loved seeing pictures of her family. We are revising Greetings, Numbers and Countries before moving onto Days of the Week, Months and Colours.

Our first day of Primary 6. We can look back on these photos at the end of the year to see how much we’ve grown.

We look forward to a great year of learning in P6.

Primary 6 have been busy learning new routines and have settled well into their new classroom. We have been exploring our new surroundings and resources  so that we can work independently.  We have had fun playing Numeracy and Literacy games to revise our previous learning.

We have been making the most of learning outside in our lovely school grounds and the beautiful weather. In maths we have been revising P5 concepts, including subtraction, division and symmetry.  In Art, we have been exploring the visual elements line, tone and pattern.

We studied the patterns created by a range of beautiful mandalas. We discussed how the often have multiple lines of symmetry and lots of detail. We decided to recreate some mandalas using natural materials. We had fun selecting the objects in the playground  then arranging them.

We have also started our new Interdisciplinary Learning topic of Space! 🚀We joined our learning in Literacy and Science when we created these fantastic informational leaflets using our notes from a National Geographic video. In Literacy, we learned about the importance of layout and lettering when creating an informational text. We are going to share our leaflets with each other so we can learn all about the 8 planets in our Solar System. What a fantastic job our P6.1 class have made! 👏⭐ Here are some finished examples so far…

We also got to be the first class in the school to meet our new Mandarin teacher. We are looking forward to working in class with her next week and for Mandarin lessons to start again. 🇨🇳