Author: G Atkinson

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

It has been a brilliant final two weeks of term! Primary 5 pupils eagerly participated in the Pop UK project and the primary 6 pupils had a great time at the P1 Teddy Bear Picnic with their buddies. Some of the class also got to enjoy going on the winning house trip and most children have had the opportunity to meet their new teachers!

I will be sending home some jotters, folders and worksheets which can be kept and the remaining work will be given to your child’s new teacher as part of our transition process.

I would like to express my thanks to all the parents and guardians of P5/6 for your support this year. I also very much appreciate the kind messages I have received. It has been a great year and I am very proud of what the pupils have accomplished, some of which have been shared in these blogs.

I hope everyone has a wonderful and enjoyable summer holidays!

Literacy and English

Sara – For our final writing lesson we created acrostic summer themed poems using alliteration, metaphors, similes and rhyming.

Chloe – We also wrote letters to our new teachers about our interests, hobbies, likes, dislikes and what we are most looking forward to next year. Mr Atkinson is going to give these to the teachers for them to read.

Numeracy and Maths

Maya and John – The primary 6 pupils has been learning how to convert fractions into decimals and decimals into fractions. We have also been dividing numbers with decimals by 10 and 100.

Kyler – My group has been learning how to use calendars and timetables which will help us in real life. We have also been revising how to record the times of analogue and digital clocks in the word format.

Health and Wellbeing

Mehr – We had the opportunity to teach our friends the games/sports we had created instructions for in one of our previous writing lessons. We all had so much fun taking part!

IDL – Natural Disasters

Alfie – We have been learning about hurricanes and tornadoes which inspired us to create our very own by using a selection of colours to emphasise the detail, different lines and shading.

Sophie – In the final week of term we built volcanoes in groups. First we had to make a papier mâché mixture. We then placed this around plastic bottles, waited for them to dry and then painted them. The next day we took them outside and tried exploding them with Coke and Mentos!

Outdoor Learning

Aarohi – Our efforts with growing plants, fruits and vegetables in the courtyard and helping to maintain the Pocket Garden in this heat as well as learning about nature resulted in us achieving our John Muir award!

Clyde in the Classroom

Ruairidh – The song and lyrics we created for our Clyde in the Classroom competition entry was showcased in their end of project newsletter!

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

This week the primary 5 pupils were very excited to meet their future P1 buddies and give them the letters they wrote! The P6 children enjoyed listening to the author, Martin Stewart. Next week is going to be packed with some fantastic events including the Celebration of Achievement and Pop UK which you will hopefully hear about at home. Despite the heat the class has done a fantastic job with watering the courtyard plants and pocket garden. Also thank you for all the birthday messages!

Literacy and English

Eva – We wrote outdoor themed poems using alliteration, senses and we were challenged to write them from the perspective of the animal, object or thing.

John – During our comprehension lesson we used our skimming and scanning skills to find information to help us find evidence in the text to answer questions.

Numeracy and Maths

Heena – The primary 6 children have been adding, subtracting and multiplying decimals and using this knowledge to solve word problems.

Ruairidh – The primary 5 pupils have been learning how to record time in both the 12 and 24 hours format and calculate durations.

Health and Wellbeing

Harley – On Thursday we took part in relay races with Miss Daly’s class and in teams we ran around the school.

Maya – We have been learning how to improve our long jump and triple jump technique during our P.E. session on Monday.

IDL – Natural Disasters

Chloe – This week Mr Atkinson gave us the scenario of responding to a natural disaster of our choice. We worked in groups to form an emergency relief team and then we were tasked to create an early warning system by using the Microbits. Some of us included sounds, animations and the shake function to detect motion. We also used Tinkercad to design natural disaster-proof buildings and created presentations on what to do if our natural disaster occurred. We then presented to Mr Atkinson our emergency relief plan.

Outdoor Learning & John Muir 

Emma – We searched the woodland area in the school to find an item to sketch and to base our poems on. We then drew the object by using our knowledge of shading and different types of lines.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

The class has had a fantastic time celebrating Sports Week and enjoyed participating in a range of activities including: gymnastics, karate, tennis, basketball, listening to a Judo talk and fitness drills. We finished the week with a fabulous Sports Day and it was also great to see some of you there! Below are some of the highlights from the week.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

This week the primary 6 pupils enjoyed a visit to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and attended the “Endangered and Extinct Wildlife” workshop. Whilst we were away the primary 5 pupils had a fantastic time finishing their natural-disaster safe buildings which you can see them model below. All the P1 Buddy letters have now been typed and re-drafted for Mrs Jamieson to review. Please carefully read Mrs McGuigan’s Weekly Round Up as it will contain important information about Sports Week and upcoming events.   .

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

It was great welcoming some of the guardians and parents to our classroom this week! We hope you enjoyed your time visiting and helping with the natural disaster themed stations.

Literacy and English

John – In writing the primary 5 pupils created letters to their future P1 buddies. They wrote about all the exciting things at Crookfur Primary as well as some memories from primary 1. The primary 6 pupils wrote recounts about their favourite memories from P6.

Chloe – To help us with our writing Mrs Jamieson came to our class and explained to us the role of being a P1 buddy and the primary 6 pupils shared their experiences.

Kyler – The reading skill we have been developing in our comprehension lesson this week was inferring. This involves carefully studying the text and looking for clues or suggestions that the author makes to help us write a sensible answer.

Numeracy and Maths

Emma – My group has been continuing to revise multiplying and dividing with 2,3 and 4 digit numbers involving remainders, carrying and exchanging.

Health and Wellbeing

Lewis – This week in P.E. we applied the skills we have been learning in tennis to rounders! We used our forehand stroke to hit and direct the ball.

Ruairidh – On Monday we learned how to serve over the net in tennis. Mr Atkinson told us that when serving you need to be behind the baseline and make sure to aim the ball diagonally into the service box. We worked hard to improve our technique including throwing the ball in the air correctly and we got two serves to get the ball into the box. We also took part in volley rallies with a partner which was challenging but fun!

IDL – Natural Disasters

Archie – For our open afternoon we had six natural disaster themed stations. In groups we created earthquake proof structures out of materials, using the Kapla we built a structure that could withstand a tornado, we wrote an imaginative diary entry of us surviving our chosen natural disaster, we researched and created an information leaflet of a natural disaster, we painted  The Great Wave by Hokusai and we had to solve a maths challenge whereby we had only £20 to spend to buy items for a survival kit.

Aarohi and Sophie – This week we learned about how tsunamis occur and the journey they take to reach land. We also discovered the terrible destruction they can cause to coastal areas.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Once again thank you for the donation of materials that we will be using for our open afternoon and I very much look forward to seeing parents and guardians during these sessions.

Literacy and English

Harley – This week was our last week of creating instructional pieces of writing. We were challenged to design a new sport that we could either use with the pupils that we look after when we are prefecting as well as try some of the activities during our upcoming P.E. lessons which we will then evaluate. We also illustrated our instructions so that the reader can check that they are doing everything correctly and we used time openers and bossy verbs.

Mehr – We all took part in a spelling check-up to see the improvements we have made over the year.

Leo – All the groups have finished their books, Stormbreaker and Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief, so we worked in pairs and created questions based on the novels which we asked each other to answer. 

Numeracy and Maths

Finlay – One of the activities we did this week was designing posters based on all the different concepts we have learned recently. We have put them on our Maths display!

IDL – Natural Disasters

Kyler – We have been learned about the different types of volcanoes and how they are formed. We then chose which type we wanted to draw and labelled the features of volcanoes.

Emma – To help us better understand why natural disasters happen we have been learning about tectonic plates and how they move. We also explored where the boundaries are and what the Ring of Fire is.

Aarohi – Working in groups we painted a tsunami, volcano, tornado and earthquake.

RME

Mehr – With Mrs Nasar we learned about the 10 plagues.

Expressive Arts

John – We have reviewing our art pieces and chose our favourite to be displayed in our P5/6 Art exhibition. We each gave our artwork titles and wrote which artistic style inspired us.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

This week the pupils enjoyed learning about the coronation of King Charles III and his life. Having been inspired from some of the videos they watched the pupils went on to create some fabulous artwork!

Literacy and English

Archie and Tia – In Literacy we have been learning about how to make conclusions. We discovered that by using our knowledge of inferring and summarising then we can make sensible conclusions based on clues from the story.

Ruairidh – In our writing this week we upleveled recipes we had used during our Eid celebration last week, making sure we included time openers, imperative verbs and detailed descriptions.

Numeracy and Maths

Zainab –  My group has been revising how to multiply four digit numbers by one digit involving carrying.

Harley –Primary 6 have been learning how to order fractions by applying our understanding of simplifying and making fractions equivalent.

Health and Wellbeing

Kyler – In P.E. we have begun to apply our skills of hitting the ball with our forehand, aiming and control to competitive games.

IDL – Natural Disasters 

Retal – During one of our natural disaster lessons we learned about the different layers of the earth and used Play-Doh to recreate the inner core, outer core, mantle and crust. Afterwards we cut our planets in half to see the layers.

Leo – We also learned about the differences between the natural disasters.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Thank you for all the lovely messages regarding my wedding this weekend, it is very much appreciated! This week the pupils have thoroughly enjoyed all the wonderful events with us celebrating Earth Day and Eid as well as attending the primary 4 show rehearsal. Below is a picture of the class modelling their t-shirt bags!

Literacy and English

Ruairidh – For writing we have been learning how to write instructions for drinks. We were challenged to include time openers so that we follow the steps in chronological order. We also used ‘bossy verbs’ and illustrated the steps so that they were easier to follow.

Lewis – We also turned our previous writing pieces into chapters and stapled them together to create a short story book. We then illustrated the front cover, wrote a blurb at the back and recorded the price, author and illustrator in the corner.

Numeracy and Maths

John – My group has started learning about how to create equivalent fractions and find a fraction of a quantity.

Retal –  Some of us learned how to multiply using factors which made multiplying two-digit numbers together easier.

Health and Wellbeing

Eva – In our tennis lesson this week we were developing our accuracy by hitting forehand shots towards targets. It was challenging but very fun!

Tia – In the P5 philosophy lesson we took turns reading sections from a passage and then discussed the main points from it. We listened carefully to each other and shared our opinions.

Leo – For our final Substance Misuse lesson we acted out scenes of what can happen to someone when they misuse medicine by ignoring the side effects or guidance.

RME

Tia, Aarohi and Chloe – On Friday the school celebrated Eid! Some of the activities our class took part in included making fruit salad and a traditional cookie, getting henna on our hands, designing lanterns and visiting the hall to see the different stations.

IDL – Natural Disasters 

Kyler – This week we started our new natural disasters topic! In groups we researched the types of disasters that occur in different parts of the world on the Chromebooks. We then typed some of the information onto our Google Slide presentation.

 

 

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to all the well researched Solo-Talks that have been shared recently with the class! I am very proud of the pupils and thank you for supporting them with this activity. This week the pupils have been learning about Ramadan and designed cards to celebrate Eid.

Literacy and English

Zainab – This week in our writing lesson we created poems called ‘I Am..’ which were about us.  We included information about our hobbies, interests and feelings that we experience. Afterwards, we re-drafted them and decorated a border with themes from the poems which we then mounted our poems onto for our new display.

Archie –  Our reading skills that we have developing this week was predicting. We discussed how to make predictions and what strategies we can use to make an educated guess with the help of clues within a text.

Ruairidh and Maya – The primary 5 children were learning how to make words plurals by using “ves” in their spelling tasks and the primary 6 children were growing different words.

Numeracy and Maths

Harley – My group has started a new topic about fractions. This week we have been revising what fractions are and discussing examples of fractions in real life.

Eva –  Some of us have been learning about multiples and what is a lowest common multiple. We have also been revising our times tables to help us with this new topic.

Health and Wellbeing

Aarohi – In our Substance Misuse lesson we learned about the different types of medicine, where to store them and the warnings and side effects associated with them.

Isla – We have started developing our tennis skills this week, focusing on our forehand and aiming.

Outdoor Learning

Emma – When we returned to school we removed all the dead leaves that had fallen into our planters and watered the soil to help the plants and seeds grow.

Technology

Chloe – This week we finish our technology block of learning by creating our own step counters using the Microbits which we tested outside! We also programmed the Microbits to play the game Rock, Paper and Scissors against us.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter break and I look forward to hearing all your stories when you return!

Literacy and English

Ruairidh – This week the primary 6 pupils delivered their Solo-Talks to the class. It was very interesting listening about all the different topics and when we return from the holiday the primary 5 pupils will then present their Solo-Talks.

Finlay – We have been continuing to read our group novels and our focus was on clarifying unfamiliar words. We achieved this by using different strategies to help with determining what  word means, then we checked their definitions in a dictionary and finally we wrote a similar word to our new word that we had just learned in our jotters.

Numeracy and Maths

John – We have been learning how to use estimating and rounding to help with solving challenging addition and subtraction questions. However, we also assessed the usefulness of estimating and decided that although estimating can make calculations easier to solve, this method can be inaccurate and unhelpful with real life examples such as building.

Tia – This week my group learned about Complementary and Supplementary angles and how to find out the missing angle. We also explored how degrees are linked with directions and we then solved map questions that involved applying all of our knowledge to reach a destination.

Health and Wellbeing

Kate – For Rights Respecting Week we all took part in a competition to design a new logo related to the UNCRC.

Sara – In groups we chose from one of the UNCRC articles and then created presentations based on our chosen article. We then shared the information that we had researched with the rest of the class.

Chloe – During our Substance Misuse lessons we learned about how our vision and other senses can be negatively affected.

Technology

Aarohi and Retal – This week we programmed our Microbits to become compasses and thermometers. We also created fading heart animations and sent messages to each through the devices.