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‘In writing this week, we were learning to create characters for stories and we had to write about their speech, their thoughts, their emotions, their actions and their looks. This stands for STEAL.’ Heather

‘I created a character called Penny who is a £5 note! My story will be a voyage and return plot from her perspective.’ Molly

‘I enjoyed this because we could make our character anyone we liked.’ Hamiz

 

‘In P.E. we learned to do a straddle position to make us more flexible. It was hard.’ Sam

‘We were also using hula hoops to travel across the hall and we were spinning them as well.’ Sophia

‘In gymnastic we were also learning different kinds of jumps like tuck and star jumps.’ Luca Fi

‘I liked playing a new game called Letter Run invented by Molly, Sophia, Jessica and Eleanor.’ Leaah

‘On Monday I enjoyed number football because it was so fun!’ Isla

‘In Topic, we made notes to help us create a poster on the layers of the ocean.’ Lauren

‘The 5 layers are the sunlight zone, the twilight zone, the midnight zone, lower midnight zone and the trenches.’ Hamiz

‘In music with Mrs Hutchison, we were learning how to write musical notes.’ Jessica

‘In drama, we were creating mime where we had to get someone off a bench, Mrs Hutchison tried to get me off the bench then I tried to persuade Lauren to get off the bench, it was really fun!’ Bella

‘In maths we were learning to multiply decimals. We were hopping our digits to the left into the next column.’ Heather

‘My group were completing problem solving using Nrich Maths. We had to solve problems with a partner. I found this tricky but it was fun.’ Ayyan

‘We also had a lesson with Tony from Active Schools about Playground Leadership. We were talking about good qualities of a leader for example, kindness and being helpful.’ Eleanor

‘In groups, we also had to create a game and present it to the class.’ Molly

‘Today was Free Choice Friday for starter task time and I enjoyed drawing a picture.’ Tia

‘Thanks for reading this week’s blog. Come back next week to find out what else we’ve been doing!’ Emilia

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‘On Monday in P.E. we played a game,  you were given a number 1-15 and whoever was called from both teams had to run to the ball and try and score a goal. Whoever scored got a point.’ Ayyan

‘We also played football tig, where you had to hold the ball and tig as many people as possible. If you were caught someone had to crawl through your legs to set you free.’ James

‘In P.E. on Friday, we were doing gymnastics. We learned how to do different leaps and travel across the mats in different ways.’ Emilia

‘We also played this game were Mrs Hobson gave us a word and we had to make it with our bodies in groups.’ Sophia

‘I liked that we did gymnastics this week!’ Tia

‘In Maths we were measuring this week. You had to go around the room and estimate the length of things and then measure them to see if you were close.’ Cara

 

‘Sam and I tried to estimate the perimeter of the classroom and we were really close! We guessed 32m and it was 32m 55cm!’ Harry

‘This week in drama we were working on mimes. We had to pretend to get into our car, we had to make our movements exaggerated and not make a sound.’ Bella

‘We also played a fun game with Mrs Hutchison, when she said your name you had to act out something you’d find in a park. I was a bench and Beth sat on me!’ Molly

 

‘In music we were practicing different types of beats and musical notes and we learned how long they last for.’ Jessica

‘Today we found out the results of our class vote for our new topic with Miss Bruce. The topic chosen was Blue Planet. We wrote down what we know already and what we want to know.’ Bella

‘The other options were Frozen Planet and the Rainforest.  Blue Planet was the topic I voted for and I am very excited to learn more!’ Lauren

 

‘We did a getting to know you lesson with Miss Bruce as well. We had to make our own Guess Who card. We passed these around the class and had to guess who owned which one!’ Sam

‘The person who got my card guessed me straight away! It was Harry and he knows me very well!’ Ayyan

‘In writing, we had to pick our favourite book or film and we had to write about the beginning, the middle, the problem and how this was resolved. This is called plot structure.’ Leaah

‘We also found about the 7 story plots they were Overcoming the Monster, Rags to Riches, Comedy, Tragedy, Quest, Voyage and Return and Rebirth!’ Eleanor

 

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‘Welcome back to P6a’s blog. We hope you had a merry Christmas. Happy New Year to you all!’ Warren

 

In writing this week, we created a Christmas recount describing what we did over the holidays.’ Sophia

‘In our recount, we had to add interesting openers and write it in chronological order.’ Bella

‘I peer assessed Bruce’s writing and I though it was very funny because he said he turned into Gordon Ramsey when he cooked breakfast!’ Euan

‘I peer assessed Eleanor’s writing, I thought it was written very neatly and I enjoyed reading it.’ Lexi

‘Unfortunately, I didn’t have much to write about as I had Covid over Christmas but I got lots of lovely presents to describe in my writing.’ James

 

 

‘In Health and Wellbeing we are working on fixed and growth mindsets. We made learning passports to describe our feelings about learning.’ Harry

 

‘On Thursday, we did drama with Mrs Hutchison and we learned about the benefits of taking part in drama. It builds your confidence and you can make more friends!’ Bella

‘We also did music and were learning to read musical notes and we played on the glockenspiels! It was really fun!’ Heather

 

‘On Friday, luckily it snowed for the first time in ages! We were very lucky because we got to go outside to play in the snow. I had lots of fun!’ Molly

‘When we were playing in the snow, Sophia and I tried to build Olaf the snowman and Lauren gave him a hug because Olaf likes warm hugs.’ Jessica

‘I did lots of different things in the snow! I made a giant snowball and smoothed it out to make it look perfectly round. I also liked hugging Olaf!’ Lauren

‘In P.E. we played a game called Scorpion Tig. You had to crawl around on your hands and feet like a scorpion, which I found quite hard.’ Lexi

‘We also played Fox in the hole, I found this easy because I like running.’ Nathan

‘Our new focus for P.E. is gymnastics. We practised balances to improve our strength. These are called the dish, arch and back support.’ Molly

 

‘Thank you for joining us in the first week of school in 2022. See you next week!’ Luca Fr

‘Welcome to the last blog of 2021!’ Emilia

 

‘Last week, in outdoor learning we were creating Santa’s sleigh out of materials lying on the ground.’ Evan

‘My team created the sleigh out of lots of wooden planks. We used logs for seats and ivy for the reigns to use for reindeer.’ Bella

‘We split our group into roles. In my group Lauren and I were Santa and some people were reindeer and some were elves!’ Molly

 

‘In design technology we had to make a different version of Santa’s sleigh that was environmentally friendly and aerodynamic. We used tinkercad.com on the Chromebook and I enjoyed this a lot!’ James

‘I also enjoyed this because I like using the Chromebooks.’ Hamiz

‘My group made our sleigh electric powered by batteries and we put a hemisphere shape at the front to make it aerodynamic.’ Jessica

‘We also had to make it aesthetically pleasing, so we had to think carefully about the colours and shapes we used.’ Molly

 

 

‘During science, we had to separate different materials. There was flour and raisins, salt and water, rice and paperclips, sand and water.’ Heather

‘My table chose a funnel and filter paper to separate the sand and water mixture and it worked!’ Emilia

‘We used magnets to get the paperclips out of the rice.’ Cara

‘Then we used a sieve to separate the raisins and the flour. This worked really well but it got our table all messy!’ Molly

‘We also watched Bill Nye the Science Guy and he taught us that we can turn ice into water and then into a gas.’ Ayyan

‘I enjoyed this task because I like science and experimenting.’ Evan

 

 

 

‘In writing, we watched a video of the new John Lewis Christmas advert and we picked one of the two characters and described their point of view.’ Harry

‘Writing was quite fun because we haven’t written about adverts before so it was quite different.’ Euan

‘I wrote from the perspective of Skye, who is an alien from a different planet and her ship malfunctions so she lands on Earth. She doesn’t know what snow is or what Christmas is either!’ Luca Fi

‘I also wrote from Skye’s perspective and I thought it was fun writing about an alien crash landing on Earth because it sounded like a real adventure.’ Ayyan

‘On Thursday it was our Christmas Party! It was really fun because we played loads of games and we got prizes like chocolate and coloured pens for the winners!’ Ayyan

‘Two of the games were pass the parcel and corners. Evan won corners and Bella, Ayyan and Hamiz won pass the parcel.’ Sam

‘Jessica won best dancer because she is really good at the Cha Cha Slide!’ Molly.

‘Back in class we watched a clip of The Snowman and had crisps, juice and a chocolate treat.’ Heather

‘What I liked about the party, was making a huge conga line, corners and winning chocolate!’ Bella

‘Thank you for reading today’s blog and we will see you in 2022! Have  a great Christmas!’ Molly

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‘On Monday, Miss Bruce joined our class. She is a new student teacher who will be with us after Christmas for 10 more weeks!’ Isla

‘In Science, we had ingredients like sugar, salt, flour, pepper and rice. We put them into 100ml of water and investigated if they would dissolve.’ Hamiz

‘Our experiment was all about dissolving materials in water.’ Warren

‘We learned that soluble materials can dissolve in a liquid. If it is insoluble, it won’t dissolve.’ Jessica

‘Each group had a sheet and we had to predict which material would dissolve in the beaker of water. After that we found out the real answers by testing them. Soluble materials were salt and sugar. Insoluble materials were pepper, rice and flour.’ Ayyan

 

‘During Maths, some people were learning to place decimal numbers on a number line. We got to go into groups and create a giant number line and tried to figure which number goes where.’ Lexi

‘Other people were enjoying playing their favourite Maths game on a Chromebook. My favourite one is called Guardians of Mathematica!’ James

‘My favourite Maths website is Sumdog  because there are lots of fun games to play.’ Molly

‘When we were learning about algebra, it was tricky because there were two letters in the equation, instead of just 1.’ Sam

 

‘This week we also got to go on a trip to the local church! I enjoyed this not just for the cookies and juice we got but also because of the funny actors.’ Hamiz

‘The trip was all about advent and actors explained it.’ Skye

‘When we arrived at the church we got to watch the drama team acting out stories about advent.’ Lauren

‘We got to decorate larger tiles with mosaic tiles with different pictures, a candle, a stable or a present.’ Tia

‘Another activity that we did at the church, was writing on the back of a scratchy star what we had learned about the birth of Jesus and the nativity. On the front we got to decorate with a pattern.’ Molly

 

‘On Thursday, a class at time, we got to see our buddies do their nativity play.’ Luca Fi

‘The nativity was really good and all the P1s were great at acting!’ Sam

‘I really enjoyed hearing their songs!’ Cara

 

 

‘In P.E. we did fitness in our classroom, as it was icy outside, with Joe Wicks.’ Hamiz

 

‘Our new reading book for the next few weeks is different because it is a whole class novel. We started by trying to draw out the front cover with Mrs Nasar describing it.’ Euan

‘The book is called Chill and we read that it is set in a haunted house, surrounded by snow and ice!’ Eleanor

 

‘On Friday it was Christmas Jumper Day but we also got to visit the present room! Everything was just £2.’ Heather

‘Thank you for reading our blog this week, have a great weekend!’ Ayyan

 

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‘This week we have been learning about Road Safety. Our JRSOs quizzed each class and we had to vote on the answers to each question.’ Bella

‘We had a choice to write a letter to an MP, create a logo for social media or design a poster to share about road safety.’  Warren

‘I think creating the posters was really fun and Mrs Hobson will reveal which ones are the winners in our class for a smelly sticker!’ Sam

‘In writing this week, we were redrafting our edited text from last week. I found this really fun because I never knew that my writing could improve this much!’ Molly

‘I up-levelled my magical forest story and I thought this lesson was really fun. We got to improve our stories.’ Lexi

‘I really enjoyed rewriting an old story and I made the redrafted version more entertaining and joyful.’ Evan

 

‘In Outdoor Learning we used the leaves that we collected last week to make Autumnal bunting.’ Cara

‘We completed this lesson in class so that the leaves wouldn’t blow away and so we could use a flat surface to make our bunting.’ Lauren

‘I enjoyed making the bunting because we got to try out different methods of attaching the leaves, such as using glue, tape or string.’ Beth

 

‘In Maths, some people were learning about decimals. We used chocolate to  help us understand this.’ Tia

‘I go to be the teacher and explain which answer I thought was correct and why.’ Euan

‘Some people were learning to complete algebra calculations involving 2 steps.’ Luca Fi

‘In Maths, we were also learning about lines of symmetry in different shapes. We watched a video with a funny song – Everywhere you look, you see lines of symmetry, lines of symmteryyyyyyy…’ Lauren

‘In Health and Wellbeing we were learning about BOUNCEBACK. We got a text to read and each paragraph described helpful and unhelpful thinking.’ Jessica

‘After that, we read a cartoon and decided on which phases were unhelpful thinking and then we suggested advice.’  Eleanor

 

‘In P.E. we played a 5 a side basketball match and there were commentators who were Molly and Bruce. They gave all the spectators detailed information about the game.’ Ayyan

‘Star players were Ayyan, Luca Fi and Eleanor. The commentators helped Mrs Hobson to decide this.’ Molly

‘We also played a new game called Chase the Rabbit. Eight people had to lie down in a circle. There was a chaser and a rabbit and the chaser would try to catch them. The rabbit could decide to lie down and then a new rabbit had to pop up!’ Bella

 

‘I hope you’ve got to learn a bit about what we have been doing this week. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading from P6a’s blog.’ Isla

‘Welcome to P6a’s blog. This week was Anti Bullying Week. Let us explain what we got up to!’ Molly

‘On Tuesday we got to meet people who work for I Am Me Scotland and they taught us about antibullying and how to stop bullying.’ Bruce

‘One of the workshops included writing a thank you message on a paper heart to help kindness spread through  the school.’ Sophia

‘Another workshop included thinking of ideas on how all the classes can show kindness to each other.’ Bella

‘After the workshops we went round each of the classes to teach them about what we had been learning.’ Isla

‘Now P6 are ambassadors for kindness in our school. Me, James and Molly got to go with Mrs Slorach to record a video for assembly all about kindness.’ Euan

 

‘During writing we chose one of our previous stories and rotated around five different stations, each had a different editing theme. We are going to redraft our writing next week with all of our changes.’ Molly

‘I think that editing our stories will make all of them better.’ Ayyan

‘My favourite was the Punctuation Station because it reminded me to add more commas to my work.’ Lexi

‘My favourite station was the Spelling Station because I got extra time to read over my work and correct any spelling mistakes.’ Dylan

‘I enjoyed all of it because it gave me a chance to improve on my writing.’ Lauren

 

‘In Outdoor Learning we were collecting leaves of different shapes and colours. Next week we are going to make bunting with these.’ Cara

‘There were lots of good leaves for this because they have fallen of the trees. When we collected them we wiped them down incase they had mud on them.’ Heather

‘We got lots of heavy books and used these to press the leaves down so next week we can use them for our bunting.’ Evan

 

‘In P.E. we were learning about fitness in basketball. At the end we got to play a 5 aside match and it was really fun because we got to use the hoops.’ Luca Fi

‘We played ‘Chicken Fight’ which is when some of the class were dribbling basketballs and the other half had to intercept them.’ Jessica

‘We also played Octopus Tig to warm up and I enjoyed this.’ Tia

‘It was really fun playing the 5aside matches because the game was so fast and it was hard to get the ball from the other team.’ Euan

‘There were 3 Star players this week because we all tried so hard and Mrs Hobson was delighted.’ Lauren

‘I was the best commentator for the games and was describing ever single move by every single team member,’ Bruce

 

‘In our Clans topic we had to guess what a painting was all about.’ Skye

‘The Painting was called The Last of the Clan and it was about the young, fit men emigrating to the new world (Canada, U.S.A and Australia.) At the start women, young children and old people were not allowed on the boat.’ Molly

‘This will be one of our last Clan lesson as we are going to move on and learn new things soon.’ Ayyan

 

‘Lastly, we also made Christmas cards to enter two competitions. We could enter competitions for Whitecraigs Care Home and a local MP. Myself and two others were picked as finalists for our designs.’ Leaah

‘My design had a snowman, gingerbread men and snowballs on it.’ Hashim

‘My design had Santa falling down the chimney!’Ben

 

‘We hope you enjoyed reading P6a’s blog this week!’ Hamiz

‘Stay tuned for next week as it is Road Safety week and the JRSOs will be holding a quiz in each class.’ Ayyan

‘Welcome back to P6a’s blog. This week has been Book Week Scotland and we have been reading Charlie and the Chocolate  factory. We took part in special lessons related to it!’ Euan

 

‘We were writing about setting and describing The Chocolate Room from the book.’ James

‘During the lesson we watched clips from the older film and the newer version. We described what was inside the chocolate room, using our senses.’ Harry

‘In the Chocolate Room there was an enormous chocolate waterfall, which churned all of the chocolate ready to be made into  chocolate bars.’ James

‘There were also buttercups which Willy Wonka drank out of and then he bit into them!’ Luca Fi

‘I found it quite hard trying to imagine what the sweets would taste like, as I have never been to Willy Wonka’s factory!’ Molly

 

 

‘In Maths, we invented different chocolate bar combinations. For example, Maltesers, M&Ms and milk chocolate. We picked 4 combinations and surveyed the class.’ Ayyan

‘After, we made a bar chart showing how many votes we got for each chocolate bar combination.’ Luca Fi

‘I really enjoyed going around the class and asking people what their favourite new chocolate bar would be.’ Bella

‘On Wednesday afternoon, we got to design our own chocolate bar wrappers and gave them names. We also made them 3d using the chromebooks.’ Lauren

‘Our chocolate bar was called Noreo, which is a combination of Nutella and Oreo!’ Tia

‘Our design was a half and half bar called Bronkat. One half was oreo and KitKat and the other was brownie and KitKat.’ Warren & Hamiz

‘On Friday in our table groups we all had the chance to make our own chocolates!’ Heather

‘We melted chocolate and had the option to put sprinkles, oreos, smarties and marshmallows inside. In mine, I put oreos and marshmallows.’ Leaah

‘I enjoyed this lesson because I love chocolate! We learned that the chocolate turned from a solid into a liquid and then back again.’ Sophia

‘This process is called solidifying. My chocolate was called Oreo Delight and I made a poster to advertise my chocolate bar,’ Molly

‘Today we also got to go down to the P1 classrooms and read to our buddies.’ Eleanor

‘When Luca and I went to read to our buddy, he had chosen Monkey Puzzle for us to read to him. It included lots of rhyming words.’ Euan

 

‘Our buddy picked a book called Giraffe Can’t Dance. Other animals were making fun of him but at the end he learned how to dance and they all encouraged him.’ Lexi

 

 

‘I hope you have learned more about what we have been up to this week and see you soon!’ Isla

We are off to eat our chocolate now!  🙂

 

 

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‘In Outdoor Learning, Mrs Hobson gave us two tasks. Our group completed a task were we  had to  wedge an object between 2 trees.’ Hamiz

‘There were a few tasks like stacking stones, tie two sticks together or create a spiral.’ Nathan

‘Me and my group made a circle using leaves and then we started to make a structure you could see from far away. We used wooden planks for this.’ Harry

‘I created  a shape using sticks and made them stand up in the mud.’ Hashim

 

 

‘The sun was in my eyes!’ Bruce

‘When we were doing our Topic lesson, we created three questions each and sixteen of us quizzed the class.’ Sam

‘The quiz was all about the battle of Culloden.’ Isla

‘I asked the class – What were the Redcoat soldiers given to celebrate the Duke of Cumberland’s birthday? The answer was, extra rations.’ Tia

‘I learned that some Scottish clans fought on the Redcoat’s side of the battle.’ James

”In Maths, my group were learning about multiplying numbers by 10, 100 and 1,000. We pretended that we were bunnies and had to hop!’ Molly

‘The cuboids were learning about fractions. We had to find equivalent fractions and matched them up.’ Evan

‘I was learning multiples and square numbers. We completed a multiples worksheet. ‘ Nathan

 

‘In P.E. we were developing our fitness through hockey. We were playing a game a game called Traffic Jam, were you had to stop the ball if Mrs Hobson called out red. You had to dribble through the cones if she shouted green. If amber was called, we had to change direction.’ Luca Fi

‘We also got into partners and had to pass the ball using a push pass in hockey.’ Nathan

‘At the start, we played two games to warm us up. They were Chaos Tig and Port, Starboard.’ Ayyan

 

‘In Health and Wellbeing, we were learning about COP26. We got little cards that mentioned a problem in our world. For example, heatwaves.’ Luca Fr

‘Then we took turns to discuss the ones that we thought were most important and tried to convince our team.’ Lauren

‘This activity was called Diamond 9. My group thought that animals becoming extinct, was the most important problem to be solved.’ Leaah

‘In Writing, we had to imagine we were in the battle of Culloden or the battle of Stirling Bridge We had to write about what we could see, hear, touch, taste and smell.’ Bella

‘I enjoyed imaging what it would be like fighting the enemy with the Scottish clans.’ Ayyan

‘We had to include senses and describe the setting.’ Hamiz

Thank-you for reading this week’s blog. We hope to see you next week. Have a good weekend!

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‘In P.E. today, we started off with a warm up game (Octopus tig) then we moved on to our new focus, which was fitness in hockey. We learned to control the ball and how we should hold the hockey stick properly.’ Ayyan

‘In outdoor learning we had to find a natural object that looked like a 3d shape. The second task was to build a 3d shape!’ Hamiz

‘My team built a square based pyramid, using wood and a pallet.’ Warren

 

‘During writing, we were working on creating a setting by looking at a picture of a snowy woodland scene and trying to describe it.’ Molly

‘I liked to imagine myself inside the cozy house, sipping some hot chocolate, watching the snow fall down.’ Ayyan

‘With Mrs Hutchison, we were focusing on drawing continuous lines. This is when you draw one line and you finish when you have lifted the pencil off the paper, when the drawing is complete.’ Harry

‘I found it quite easy drawing scissors but it was harder to draw our hands.’ Heather

‘Everybody in class had to create Rangoli patterns to celebrate the festival of light, called Diwali. We drew flowers with chalk and we walked around to see what everyone else had created.’ Warren

‘We had a sheet with different examples of patterns.’ Lexi

‘The patterns included different shapes and lotus flowers.’ Bruce

‘In Maths we were learning about quadrilateral shapes. There was one called a parallelogram. Parallel means two lines that will never meet each other.’ Harry

‘There was also a shape called a rhombus, which is like a square version of a parallelogram.’ Eleanor

‘The reason why we look so funny in some photos, is because it was Break the Rules Day today!’ Lauren

‘Some of the rules we could break were wild, crazy hairstyles, we could wear onesies to school and we were allowed to wear different socks and shoes.’ Bella

‘Some people wore dressing gowns or onesies  or brought in diluting juice in their water bottles. This is all to raise money for new P.E. equipment.’ Evan

‘You had to bring 50p in for every rule you broke. Hopefully  we raised lots of money!’ Hamiz

Thank-you for reading this week’s blog, We hope you have an amazing weekend!