P5/6 2022-23

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

The pupils thoroughly enjoyed participating in the K’Nex Challenge which required them to build bridges of a certain length. A winning design was then selected and the students went on to compete against the other class winners across primary 6 by building a crane. Well done to everyone for some excellent and interesting models!

Literacy and English

Isla – Our comprehension this week focused on exploring story plots and how characters interact.

Lewis – In Writing we wrote our final section of our “out of this world” story which focused on explaining how the issue from last week in our story was resolved. We were also encouraged to include important information such as how our characters felt about the situation being fixed. We were also reminded to include similes, metaphors, descriptive vocabulary and punctuate our sentences.

Numeracy and Maths

Ruairidh – My group has been learning the names of the different types of angles, what they look like and how to describe the features of an acute, obtuse, right and reflex angle.

Sophia – The P6 have been revising how to divide 2 and 3 digit numbers involving remainders.

Heena – Miss Hutchison gave us a problem solving task which challenged us to calculate answers to questions to find out a bank pin number.

Health and Wellbeing

Retal – In Netball we were developing our knowledge and skills of blocking, marking and intercepting.

Maya – On Monday we worked in groups to research different types of dances from other countries and cultures. We then took part in our own version of Strictly Come Dancing and performed the dances to the class!

Spanish

Sara – Miss Hutchison taught us how to say different family members names in Spanish!

Technology

Alfie – This we we started coding and programming the micro:bits which are like tiny computers. We learned how to change the light display, design short animations and even created our very own thermometers!

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

The pupils worked incredibly hard this week to plan, create and record a video entry for a Clyde in the Classroom competition! We also said goodbye to Miss Ross who has finished her placement with us. On behalf of the class and myself I would like to wish her all the best! The class organised a farewell party for Miss Ross by designing banners, decorating her chair, signed cards for her and enjoyed watching a Clyde in the Classroom/Titanic inspired movie!

Literacy and English

Ruairidh – This week we added the problem and challenge that our characters would have to overcome in our imaginative writing pieces. We had to carefully think about how this issue would impact the plot and how our characters would respond to the new situation. We have also continued to use descriptive vocabulary and speech marks.

Numeracy and Maths

Tia – My group has been exploring how to calculate the area and perimeter of shapes. We learned that to determine the area we had to use the formula l x b and to add up all the sides when finding the perimeter. Once we were confident with this we then drew our own robots and recorded their area and perimeter! We also have been drawing shapes with particular areas and perimeters.

Kate and Maya- This week the primary 6 pupils finished their number topic by applying a range of mental maths strategies such as rounding to the nearest 10 or 100 to make the numbers easier to add together. We were also challenged to solve more tricky word problems involving addition and subtraction.

Health and Wellbeing

John – With Miss Hutchison we played Netball matches and were encouraged to use our skills that we have been working on the last few weeks.

Kyler – In P.E. with Miss Ross we were introduced to different types of cultural dancing such as Bollywood and Ceilidh dancing! We all tried having a go at copying the routines.

Alfie – In groups we researched and presented on either the nutritional needs of different age groups or festival foods from other cultures.

Spanish

Aarohi and Chloe – In Spanish with Miss Hutchison we learned how to say the different types of weather. We also played a game whereby we had to act out what was said in Spanish!

Clyde in the Classroom

Harley – We researched and took note of how to keep rivers clean for our Clyde in the Classroom video entry. We discovered that by putting litter in bins, stopping pollution and reducing our use of plastic that these will improve habitats for fish. Afterwards we used our new knowledge by creating a script for our video and acted out our parts.

Expressive Arts

Sophie – We have been learning about realism in Art and how to create this. We looked at different types of landscapes and then used tone and shading to create darker and lighter areas in our drawings.

Aarohi – After learning about what Pop Art was with Miss Ross we were inspired to create our own using our prior skills of line, pattern design and colour.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

P5/6 has had a very busy week! On Monday they cleared and emptied the planters in the courtyard and planted a range of flower bulbs. Again thank you for donating pots and seeds/bulbs to help us with this project. I’m also delighted to announce that all the excellent effort done in class with the Fairtrade topic has resulted in the school being awarded the FairAware Award!

Literacy and English

Leo – In our groups we have been drawing the main events that have occurred in our recent chapter and then illustrated our predictions based on the information we currently know. We’ll look back at these next week to see how accurate we were!

Eva – In our second imaginative writing lesson we continued our story from last week by writing our next paragraph. This paragraph focused on introducing our characters by explaining their personality and appearance We achieved this by including more similes, metaphors, adjectives and speech marks.

Kyler – Our comprehension this week focused on exploring characters which linked with our writing lesson.

Numeracy and Maths

Isla and Chloe – In one of our Maths lessons we were challenged to sequence numbers in both the digit and word format as well as describe their relationship by using the symbols greater than, less than and equal to.

Sophie – The primary 6 pupils have be working on adding several 3-4 digit numbers which made our calculations more challenging.

Health and Wellbeing

Harley – For P.E. on Monday we started creating new dance routines collaboratively. We had to come up with a sequence of moves for 8 beats.

Finlay – With Miss Hutchison we continued to develop our chest, bounce and overhead passes in Netball.

Outdoor Learning

Sara – During our outdoor learning session we tidied the courtyard and cleared all the planters by removing the dead leaves. Afterwards we planted different types of flower bulbs in the planters which we are excited to watch grow!

Spanish

Zainab – In Spanish with Miss Hutchison we learned how to say the days of the week and different months.

IDL – Fairtrade

Kate – At both assemblies some of us spoke about what we have learned during our Fairtrade topic this term for Fairtrade Fortnight!

Maya – As we have now finished our Fairtrade topic we went back to our KWL sheet and updated with by summarising what we have learned. Another activity we did in our final lesson was listing what we thought were the important methods of how to raise awareness of Fairtrade.

Lewis – We also took part in a challenge about cotton! We had to produce ‘cotton t-shirts’ using a certain amount of materials but as time went on Miss Ross gave us scenarios which changed how many and how quickly we could make them. This was to show us how real life issues can impact producers of these materials.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

It has been an exciting week in P5/6 with releasing our trout’s on Monday and taking part in World Book Day! Next week, in our outdoor learning session, we will be clearing out planters in preparation for creating our garden for our John Muir award. Some of the pupils in the class will also be working with Miss Ross on finalising the Fairtrade presentation which they will share with the school on Friday.

Literacy and English

Henna – This week we started our new series of imaginative writing. We were challenged to create a detailed opening paragraph about landing on an undiscovered planet. To successfully achieve this we used similes and adjectives.

Chloe – The primary 5 pupils have been spelling words that have “ch,” “sh” and “th” in them.

Retal – We all had fun trying to guess who were the Masked Readers as part of World Book Day!

Ruairidh – Also for World Book Day we researched the life of Roald Dahl in class and then presented what we had learned to the school at assembly.

Numeracy and Maths

Mehr – The P6 pupils have been learning how to estimate, measure and calculate the duration of activities in seconds. Once we were confident with this we went outside and time each other using stopwatches. Even Miss Ross and Mr Atkinson raced!

Aarohi – The P5 pupils have been revising different types of mentals maths strategies to help them solve addition and subtraction calculations.

Health and Wellbeing

Sara and Sophie – In our creative dance lesson we warmed-up by doing both static and dynamic stretching and then we made group routines which we later added to our class routine.

Maya – In groups we researched the different types of dietary restrictions some people may have due to either their religion, allergies or preferences. We shared our knowledge to the class either on a Jamboard or PowerPoint.

Expressive Arts

John – In Art with Miss Ross we created drawings of people by using a continuous line. It was challenging at first but it was interesting to see everyone’s different designs and unique features.

IDL – Fairtrade

Archie – One of our Fairtrade activities was a negotiation challenge! We were given different roles of either a buyer or seller as well as scenarios. We had to reach deals and agreements with different people and then calculate if we made a profit or loss which then helped us to determine if we could meet our basic needs as farmers.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Well done to the primary 6 pupils for a fantastic performance in their Broons Guide to Scotland show, I hope parents and guardians enjoyed watching it

If anyone has spare or unwanted flower bulbs we would welcome the donation as the class will be helping to create a Crookfur garden over the coming weeks.

On Monday we will be releasing the trout’s that the pupils have worked hard to care for. Please can pupils come to school with their outdoor clothing to allow them to full participate in this activity.

Please could the Reading Buddies bring along one of their favourite books to read to their buddy on Thursday. The Reading Buddies can also select a book from the class library that they enjoy if they cannot bring one from home.

Literacy and English

Retal – For comprehension the primary 5 pupils answered a range of questions on our group novel Stormbreaker and the primary 6 pupils completed tasks related to a Broons text.

Lewis and John – This was our final week of persuasive writing. On Friday we wrote a persuasive letter to the council requesting for more Fairtrade products to be used in schools such as footballs, chocolate and bananas. We were challenged to use all of our skills such as rhetorical questions, exaggeration, WOW words and persuasive vocabulary to create an impactful letter.

Numeracy and Maths

Emma – We started a new topic which involved writing in both the word and number format numbers to 10,000. Afterwards we ordered and put numbers into different sequences.

Kyler – In our Data Handling topic we first created tally charts to record information and then we used the results to make bar graphs. We discussed the importance of choosing an appropriate scale when drawing our graphs.

John and Mehr – We have been using timetables to calculate durations, start and finish times. After we were confident with this we then started converting minutes into seconds.

Sara – The primary 6 pupils have also explored calendars by discussing leap years and answering questions involving dates. Afterwards, we were challenged to add our own events to calendars.

Clyde in the Classroom

Ruairidh – The class wrote lyrics and created a theme song for Clyde in the Classroom this week! With Miss Ross we painted a river and learned about the different parts and features, for example; source, mouth and a tributary.

Expressive Arts

Aarohi – We have started exploring different artists and techniques. This week using our knowledge of the colour wheel we created abstract landscape paintings.

Broons Guide to Scotland Show

Sophia and Alfie – On Thursday morning we had our dress rehearsal with some of the primary 5 pupils and then in the afternoon we performed to our families! The next day we went along to both assemblies and sang all our songs to everyone in the school!

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Rehearsing for the P6 Broons Guide to Scotland show has begun! The pupils have been working very hard to remember their individual lines and songs, thank you for supporting this at home.

Literacy and English

Retal – For our first piece of writing we were asked to create persuasive speeches based on one of the following topics; Fairtrade, pollution, healthy eating or why animals shouldn’t be kept in zoos. This led to some interesting discussions!

Tia – Our next writing task was to create an advert to persuade people to buy a Fairtrade product. We drew our products and we were challenged to create an exciting description by using exaggeration, WOW words and a catchy slogan which some of us used alliteration for.

Numeracy and Maths

Ruairidh – We finished our weight topic by applying our knowledge of converting to help us with solving word problems that involved adding and subtracting.

Health and Wellbeing

Kyler – In P.E. with Miss Hutchison we have started learning how to play Netball. This week we did some chest passing games and drills.

Spanish

Zainab – In Spanish with Miss Hutchison we learned how to count up to 20. We listened to a song and played games to help us learn the Spanish numbers.

Science

Lewis – In Science we have begun investigating about sound. We found out that sound travels in straight lines but once it hits a wall it bounces back and changes direction in the form of an echo.

Chloe – In another lesson we researched and made a PowerPoint about how different animals communicate using soundwaves like whales, dolphins and bats. Afterwards, we shared our findings with the rest of the class.

IDL – Fairtrade

Aarohi – In one of our Fairtrade lessons we researched different countries where Fairtrade products are produced and recorded this on our maps. We also learned about how buying Fairtrade products supports the producers.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

This week we announced to the Primary 6 pupils that they will be performing in a show based on The Broons! Next week we will be issuing parts, lines and lyrics, some of which are already available to view on our Google Classroom. Homework will be slightly adjusted to give the P6 children more time to practise. As always we appreciate your support with this.

Our trout eggs arrived this week as part of our new topic – Clyde in the Classroom! All of the pupils have been working incredibly hard in their jobs to help the trout eggs grow.

Finally, I am looking forward to meeting guardians and parents next week at Parents Night. Some jotters and work have been sent home for you to discuss with your child before our meeting.

Literacy and English

Ruairidh – This week for writing we wrote a persuasive letter to Mrs McGuigan requesting for the upcoming renovation to include areas where we can create animal habitats such as ponds and grow a Crookfur garden. We also mentioned how these ideas would help us with achieving our John Muir award. In our letters we included rhetorical questions, persuasive openers and engaging vocabulary.

Numeracy and Maths

Eva – We have been continuing with trying to improve the accuracy of our weight estimations and we learned how to read scales by closing looking at the intervals.

Emma – With Miss Ross we took part in a scavenger hunt weight which challenged us to convert weights into grams and kilograms.

Science

Tia – During our science lesson we discovered that shining light from a torch through coloured cellophane will change the colour of the light on the object in front.

IDL – Fairtrade

Zainab – We have been learning about how Climate Change affects farmers and the impact it can have on their basic needs. Using this knowledge we then created mind maps summarising the key information.

Clyde in the Classroom

Lewis – We have all been given important jobs to help the trout eggs to develop. These include replacing the ice bottles, changing the water daily, removing eggs from the hatchery and recording the temperature.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Thank you to all the families who have donated empty plastic water bottles, these will be used to help keep our hatchery cold once filled with ice.

Literacy and English

John – For our persuasive writing this week we created scripts for our TV commercials. The purpose was to encourage people to buy the items we had brought from home. To achieve this we included persuasive openers, exciting descriptive vocabulary and wording opinions as facts which can sometimes be challenging.

Numeracy and Maths

Harley and Archie – This week P6 finished learning about ml and l and have started our new time topic. We have been revising how to use AM and PM when writing times of events that happen throughout the day. We have also been discussing how to record time in 24 hours.

Ruairidh – P5 have moved onto learning about weight. One of our activities involved making weight estimation of items and deciding whether they weighed more or less that 500 grams.

 Health and Wellbeing

John – We have started learning about Healthy Eating with Miss Ross and this week we took part in a quiz guessing the amount of sugar there is in products we eat or drink.

Alfie – In the MUGA, for P.E. with Miss Hutchison we played a couple of football matches. The captains helped to train their teams and teach them new skills for the upcoming games.

Science

Kate – In Science we did experiments to change the shadows of objects. We discovered that by adjusting the angle or distance between the light and the item this will impact on the shape and length of shadow. We also wrote a report on these tests.

Sara – On Monday, Toby from the Glasgow Science Centre came to set-up our hatchery and answer any of our questions about how to look after the trout eggs.

IDL – Fairtrade

John – In our Fairtrade lesson we created mind-maps on what impacts farmers and affects their basic needs.

Outdoor Learning

Finlay – After working to create updated maps, this week we were challenged to use Tinkercad to design new school grounds that linked with the important messages from John Muir. Some of us built new habitats for animals and others created gardens to encourage creatures to visit so that we could study them.

Expressive Art

Mehr – With Mrs Hutchison, the primary 6 pupils took part in the forbidden rhythm game and played on the glockenspiels.

RME

Aarohi – I shared with the class a drawing I made about a festival that is celebrated by Hindus called Makar Sankranti. Makar Sankranti marks the commencement of the sun’s (the god of the sun is Surya who we pray to) journey to the Northern Hemisphere (Makara rasi).

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

This week the class a wonderful time visiting the Glasgow Science Centre where they explored many different areas and learned about Clyde in the Classroom which will be one of our upcoming topics. We are going to be receiving lots of trout eggs and will look after them until they are ready to be released. The class enjoyed listening to the presentations about the River Clyde, different fish and how to properly look after trout in hatcheries by using cold and clean water. Everyone is very excited for getting our equipment delivered to the school and working with scientists.

Literacy and English

John – This week in writing we created a persuasive flyer on Scotland encouraging people to visit here. We used a lot of engaging, exciting and descriptive vocabulary on different topics such as landscape, food, traditions and famous sites to visit. To make it move appealing and persuasive we drew pictures to match our sub-headings.

Emma – To support our learning of different persuasive techniques we looked at an article about food and eating. We discussed how the writer was trying to get their point across and then we answered different questions based on the the text. We were also were challenged to decode words and phrases we were unsure by looking at the sentences surrounding them.

Numeracy and Maths

Heena – The primary 6 pupils learned how to convert ml in to l including using a decimal point! We also used this knowledge to help us with adding and subtracting ml and l.

Eva – The primary 5 pupils have been continuing to measure lengths by using a ruler, converting cm and m and using this knowledge in calculations.

Spanish

Sara – With Miss Hutchison we learned about how to describe the appearance of someone in Spanish.

Health and Wellbeing

Mehr – In P.E. with Miss Hutchison we played a football match, P6 versus P5!

Harley – With Mr Atkinson, half of the class performed their gymnastics floor routine which we assessed in our groups. Next week the rest of the class will demonstrate their sequence of a roll, jump and balance.

Science

Retal – Last term we did an experiment testing whether ships made of recyclable material float or sink. This week we were taught how to write and structure a science report. Some of the features we had to include were observation comments about the floating and sinking experiment, conclusions we reached at the end of the test, listing our methods chronologically and in clear steps and how to form a hypothesis.

Finlay – With Miss Ross we used torches to determine if light travels in a straight line or not – it was so much fun!

Ruairidh – We discovered that tinfoil and mirrors are reflective.

IDL – Fairtrade

Alfie – Before beginning our new Fairtrade topic we all completed a KWL which Miss Ross will read to help shape our lessons and activities.

Aarohi – With Miss Ross we started our new IDL topic – Fairtrade! In our first lesson we discussed what wants and needs are. Afterwards, we sorted  statements into the two categories.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Welcome back, I hope everyone had a great holiday and are looking forward to the new term ahead. Miss Ross will be joining the class for the next couple of months and will be teaching a variety of subjects. Homework was issued this week and should be returned on Monday. Our Woodland sessions are on Mondays and they are scheduled for the weeks beginning January 9th, January 23rd, February 6th, February 20th, March 6th, March 20th, April 17^th, May 1^st, May 15^th, May 29^th  and June 12th.

Literacy and English

Alfie – In our Grammar lesson with Miss Ross we were focusing on punctuation and revising how to correctly use capital letters and full stops. We visited different stations and either fixed sentences, identified where punctuation is needed and upleveled sentences.

Maya – This week our writing was based on a personal experience. We chose from four of the options and then wrote three or four paragraphs on the memorable events. Mr Atkinson challenged us to include a variety of connectives, time openers, descriptive language and punctuation.

Numeracy and Maths

Chloe and Harley – Miss Ross taught us different Mental Maths strategies this week. The primary 5 pupils discussed the counting on method and the primary 6 pupils answered questions that were worded in a variety of ways.

Health and Wellbeing

Emma – In the MUGA, for P.E. with Miss Hutchison we continued with our Football training. This week we were developing our dribbling, passing, shooting and defending skills.

Mehr – Miss Ross did a Getting To Know You lesson with us all. It was really interesting learning some facts about her!

Sara – In gymnastics with Mr Atkinson we began to practice our individual floor routine involving jumps, roles and balances.

Isla – In our primary 5 Bounceback lesson we learned about the word catastrophizing and what strategies to use to avoid doing this.

Heena – In our primary 6 Bounceback lesson we discussed how to give ourselves reality checks when faced with difficult situations. Some of the ideas we came up with included asking for a second opinion or gathering and checking for evidence.

Outdoor Learning

Aarohi – This week we wanted to update old maps of the school grounds. First we walked around the school to see how it has changed over the years and then we returned to class to create our own versions with a key. Mr Atkinson also challenged us to find different locations on the maps and some of us discovered that our houses were not even built at the time of when the map was published. We also learned about Ordnance Survey and some of the features on a map.

Science

Aarohi – With Mrs Lamont the primary 5 pupils did experiments involving ice. We were challenged to find out what material melts ice the quickest.

Spanish

Lewis – Miss Hutchison has taken over from Mr McMillan. We have started learning how to greet people and to say some colours in Spanish.

Expressive Arts

John – On Friday with Mrs Hutchison the primary 6 pupils learned about the different notes in music and we got a chance to play the glockenspiel.

RME

Sara – This week we learned about good deeds and how they are linked with karma and reincarnation in Hinduism.