The spheres maths group have been exploring decimals. Today they looked at how decimals are used in real life contexts.

The pupils highlighted different amounts of money and then wrote them out as a decimal. They then ordered the decimals from each page from smallest to largest.

Primary 6 have been learning about Poppy Scotland. They used research skills to find information on the history of the charity and how it helps people. They displayed this on creative and informative posters.

They completed a variety of art work to explore the poppy, the wars and the people affected by the wars.

They used note taking to gather their information and chose important pieces of information to display on their own poppy.

Through the exploration of  a case study about an ex-serviceman, they understood where the money raised by Poppy Scotland goes and the important impact it has on people lives who have been affected by wars.

primary 6 took turns to go around the school each day selling poppies and raised a fantastic amount of money for Poppy Scotland.

Well done Primary 6!!!

…but don’t worry. Our firefighters know that CO2 is able to extinguish fire by taking away the oxygen which fire needs.

The children experienced creating a chemical reaction to make CO2.

Prinary 6 /2 have been working on their basketball skills. The last few weeks they have practised passing, dribbling and travelling with the ball.

Today the focus was shooting. P6 identified the skills needed which included accuracy, eye contact and control.

Have a look at some of the pupils in action!

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Thank you to all of the visitors at our open afternoon on Thursday!! Primary 6 enjoyed showing you around our classroom and thank you for your help colouring, cutting and sticking!!!

Here are the finished artwork pieces. I think you will agree they are ‘out of this world’!

We are finishing our planets from last week. They will be used as a wall display along side some fact charts to show what we learned.

Welcome to Primary 6/2!

We have had a busy  but exciting start to the new term. The pupils took ownership over their new classroom and  decided the different areas they wanted.

Have a look at some of the areas we have set up and the fantastic work the pupils have produced already!

Literacy Area

The pupils can explore different aspects of literacy through active resources, games and  challenges.

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Maths Area

The pupils can consolidate their learning using a variety of resources and activities  and  challenge themselves with puzzles and problems available to them on the learning wall.

Tuff Tray

The tuff tray is changed regularly depending on the topic, theme or curricular area being explored by the class. This week it allows the pupils to explore fractions using a variety of resources and challenges.

Class Charter

The class decided on emotions as the topic for our class charter. Each pupil created their own emoji and choose the rights we will focus on in our classroom this term.

Calm Corner

Meet our class worry monster! If anyone has a worry they can tell the worry monster and the problem can be shared and hopefully solved! The calm corner has lots of strategies and resources for the pupils to use if they feel a variety of emotions.

P6 are beginning to make their own solar system. They will use paper mache to create the spheres before leaving them to dry. In addition, we will use them to look at the enormous size of the solar system.

Tune in next week to see them being painted.

Science – Our Air

As part of our preparation for our visit to the Science Centre on the 14th of June we have been learning about ‘Our Air’. We explored the human body’s defence mechanism for protecting the nose from small particles of matter in the air around us (for example sand, dust). We used our sticky ping pong bats to represent mucus in our noses and the tissue paper as particles in our air, we caught the air particles from going into our lungs (the floor) by catching them with our bats (mucus).

Enterprise

For our Enterprise project we created a product that was locally sourced. We did this as we have been learning about air pollution and understand the importance of buying produced that haven’t had to travel from a far away country. In groups we thought about the product we could make, then we researched the ingrediencies needed and made sure we could buy them within the UK.  We then created a product name, picture and UPS (unique selling point). Finally, in our groups we presented our product in front of the class, we created a mini advert and  received feedback about our product. We loved this project so much!

Music

Mrs Carey came to visit us and we got to work in a groups to compose a four beat rhythm pattern, using the beats ta, tete, tiri tiri / tiri te / te tiri. We used claves to create out beat, other groups then had to guess which beats we had used. We were super good at this!