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‘In Outdoor Learning we  were given challenge cards and were allowed pick which ones to complete. My group decided to build a structure with outdoor materials.’ Harry

‘My group  made a sculpture that you can see from far away.’ Serena

 

‘In P.E. we were using basketballs and played games with them.’ Ben

‘We were focusing on basketball skills and fitness.’ Luca Franchi

‘We also played matball and warmed up by playing the ‘group game.’ Tia

 

 

 

‘In Art we drew faces with crazy hair and painted them using water colours.’ Beth

‘We used different types of lines for our self portrait.’ Bruce

 

 

‘In writing, we wrote stories including all the different elements from our recent lessons.’ Lexi

‘We had to make sure we included adjectives, similes, pathetic fallacy, ISPACE (openers) and metaphors.’ Bella

‘Power of three and VCOP are different techniques you can use to  make your writing better.’ Ayyan

 

‘Today in our Clan’s lesson we were labelling different parts of a soldier’s uniform.’ Eleanor

‘The soldier was from the era of the Scottish Wars of Independence. They didn’t have very much to protect them!’ James

‘When we compared a Scottish soldier’s uniform to an English soldier’s uniform, we noticed the English soldiers were more equipped for battle.’ Harry

Have a spooktacular Hallowe’en and see you next week!

 

Welcome back from the October week holiday!

We’ve had lots of fun this week doing Outdoor Learning, P.E. and more.

 

‘In Outdoor Learning we made tartan. We found lots of material to dye our fabric.’ Cara

‘The materials we used were berries, wet grass, petals, leaves and some mud as well.’ Bella

‘We put the tartan on our desks and walked around them all, like an art gallery. We picked our favourite ones and explained why.’ James

 

‘In P.E. we were working on fitness and we played a game called Chicken Fight were you had to dribble your basketball and also knock another person’s away.’ Lexi

‘We also played a game called Fox in the hole were there was 1 fox in the middle and the other 3 were in the corners and the fox had to try to get the ball.’ Hamiz

 

‘In Topic, we watched a video and took notes about how clans lived and what they like to do.’ Lexi

‘We learned a bit about what it would be like to live in a clan and that their houses were also called crofts.’ James

‘We learned about handfasting and we learned that people do this at weddings and it is a Celtic tradition.’ Isla

Some of us had a go at handfasting!

‘Handfasting is were you tie a knot, the clans used tartan for this.’ Heather

‘Sometimes handfasting was a trial to see if the man wanted to take the women as his legal wife and they would each have their own tartan (if they were from different clans) and they would pull it to ‘tie the knot’. This is were the phrase comes from!’ James

‘In French. Mrs Hobson out up pictures on the board of classroom objects and we had to write them down in French.’ Sophia

‘We were learning that French objects have genders, masculine and feminine. Female is une, masculine is in.’ Molly

‘In Maths, some of us had a competition (girls vs boys) to see who could order all the decimals first. The boys won but the girls did well!’ Ayyan

‘In writing, we were working on VCOP. At the end some of us shared our work and we gave PPs (positive points) and HHs (helpful hints).’ Lexi

‘Whilst writing, we tried to include lots of connectives and punctuation in our writing. We added to a story called The Monster.’ Evan

See you in our next blog and have a wonderful weekend!

Welcome back to our blog!

This week we have been learning more about Scottish clans.

‘We created a timeline of the history of Scotland.’ Hamiz

‘Robert the Bruce gifted lands to clans.’ Warren

‘During The Highland Clearances, English landowners tried to wipe out clans. People’s houses were burned down.’ Sam

Jessica brought some books to share with everyone about the Urquhart clan.

‘I also brought in a book that I showed to the class, about a boy called Rob who fights in the Jacobite army and his clan was clan MacDonald.’ James

‘In writing we up-leveled sentences using ISPACE at the start of the sentence.’ Hamiz

‘Some of us read our stories at the end and we shared positive points about our writing.’ Molly

 

‘In P.E. we started with warm up games, like Octopus Tig. Then we played Caterpillar catch, where you have to form zig zags and pass down the line. Then we played Kingball and Mat ball.’ Ayyan

‘Today we had 2 star players! Well done to Emilia and Sam!’ Molly

 

‘In outdoor learning we went to the woodland and found natural materials to dye fabric.’ Heather

‘After the holidays, we are going to pick colours that we made from the dye and make tartan.’ Eleanor

‘I think that it was really fun finding different types of berries to make different colours.’ Ayyan

 

‘In Maths we were trying to find out how many different shapes there were in classroom.’ Sam

‘We were also learning about angles in a triangle. The triangle were all sides are different is called a scalene.’  Lauren

‘If two sides of the triangle are the same, it’s called an isosceles and if they are all equal it is an equilateral triangle.’ Sam & Harry

‘We learned about 3D shapes and learned about faces, edges and vertices.’ Warren

 

Have a nice holiday and see you again in our next blog!  : )

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello there! Today you will read all about what we have learned this week!

‘In P.E. we were learning about the bounce pass for getting the ball quickly to our team mates.’ Isla

‘We played Kingball and added in the rule about the golden snitch. If you catch the golden snitch you can choose 2 other people to join you on the bench.’ Leaah

‘I think adding the golden snitch rule made Kingball even more fun!’ Ayyan

‘This week we had 3 star players, instead of 2 because Mrs Hobson couldn’t decide between us! Me, Harry and Cara were selected, it was fun!’ Bruce

 

This week was special as it was Maths Week Scotland!

‘Every day we had a starter task related to Maths. For example we had to memorise and draw shapes, we also played Guess the Number and we created Maths questions.’ Heather

 

‘We also got to choose a job and we had to create a poster, including the Maths skills involved in that job.’ Bella

 

‘For example, the job that I chose was a photographer. The Maths skills involved that I wrote down were, using money, IT, directions and time skills-so that you are not late for photoshoots.’ Molly

 

 

‘The job I picked was a footballer and for that job you have to work out angles and speed as you need to know were you are going to score. You also need to be able to work out money to understand your salary. Also you’d have to work out timing so that you arrive at your match on time. Footballers also have to measure their fitness ability.’ Ayyan

‘My job was a Formula 1 driver. You would need to understand speed, time, angles and measure!’ Warren

 

‘This week in our Clans topic we have been making notes about important information and events in Sottish history.’ Lexi

‘We will be using the notes to make a timeline of important Scottish events.’ James

‘I found it interesting learning about how Robert the Bruce gifted lands to clans and in return they had to fight for him.’ Euan

‘I found it interesting researching how to make colours and dye fabric for tartan.’ Lauren

‘This week in writing we were learning about something called ISPACE. It’s an acronym standing for

I- ing words

S – similes

P – prepositions

A – adverbs

C – connectives

E – ed words’ Eleanor

‘We wrote sentences in our jotters, using ISPACE to learn more about how to start sentences in different ways.’ Harry

‘I enjoyed my writing lesson because I learned new things.’ Warren

 

Thank-you for reading our blog and see you next week!

 

 

Hello again readers!

This week in P6a we have  been learning more about data analysis.

‘We analysed graphs to see if they were misleading.’ Hamiz

‘If you see a graph, look at the y and x axis before you believe the graph!’ Bruce

‘I enjoyed the video about misleading graphs which told us to not just look at a graph and think – this is true! ‘James’

 

In P.E. we played a game called Corners which involved throwing, catching and running.

 

In our writing lesson this week, we were learning about the Rule Of Three.

‘I enjoyed using the rule of three and other ways of making our writing better.’ Ayyan

 

In outdoor learning we matched the colour of outdoor objects with different shades of green.

‘My group mostly matched the dark green and overall I enjoyed it.’ Molly

 

‘Today we were doing clan research about out surnames.’ Lexi

‘We researched information about our last names and tried to find interesting facts.’ Harry

‘My name comes from Scotland and Greece.’ James

‘My name comes from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.’ Ayyan

‘Some surnames are very old from clan names and some are more recent.’ Euan

‘The MacKay name has a link with fire.’ Lauren

‘My clan originated from Kirkcudbright in Scotland.’ Bruce

We hope you enjoyed reading our blog this week and have a good long weekend!

 

 

Welcome back to P6a’s blog! We have had another busy week, read on to find out more!

On Monday Mrs Wilkinson taught us lots of different things! We played Pacman tig in the MUGA for P.E. and had lots of fun! We also learned about data analysis in Maths.

 

 

 

  

‘During our writing lesson this week, we learned a new skill!’ Lexi

 

We learned all about pathetic fallacy.

‘This is when you put the weather into writing to tell us what might happen next.’ Warren

‘It basically creates an atmosphere.’ Sam

 

 

In our Topic lesson, we have been learning about clans.

‘Each table has created a clan name, clan tartan, clan motto and put this on a poster.’ Emilia

 

‘My table (Clan McFour) even decided who would be clan chief, clan farmers and clan warriors!’  Molly

We also designed front covers for our clan booklets and are going to present and peer assess our posters soon!

In Maths we have been analysing data. Some children created surveys and questioned the class.

‘My survey was about favourite colours. The most popular colour in the class was blue and least was silver!’ Nathan

‘My group had a choice between Olympic medals and football points and had to present the data in bar graphs.’ Ayyan

‘Some of us had another choice of graphs. One about airplane  travel and football teams. We had to make 10 questions about the  graphs.’ Emilia

 

‘I enjoyed listening to Mozart in our Art lesson with Miss Hutchison.’ Euan.

 

Tune in next time for more!

 

 

 

 

Wow!

What a busy time we have had in P6a. We hope you enjoy finding out about some of our learning highlights of the last week.

We chatted to Ms Biggart this afternoon about our learning this week.

Lexi

In P.E. we made up a game with our table group. Then we got to show everyone else what we came up with.

In maths we were learning different times tables and we played Sumdog.

Euan

I enjoyed listening to Johann Sebastian Bach with Mrs Hutchinson. We thought about how the music made us feel and what images the music creates in our mind.

Harry

On Thursday with Mrs Hutchison we listened to a famous piece of music and we wrote what its tempo was and what was the mood. I really enjoyed it.

Jessica

I enjoyed re-planting plants outdoors and finding out information about them on the Chrome book.

I really enjoyed doing prediction on my group book ‘Holes’.

Eleanor

In P.E. it was fun when we played a game called Matball. It is like Dodgeball but if you get caught you stand on a mat (jail) and then try to catch the ball and if you do, you’re free and back in the game again.

Welcome back to our blog! This week we have been very busy. Have a look at some photos below, to find out more.

In Literacy, we learned about the Writer’s Craft and continued a story, focusing on adding senses to up-level our work.

 

  

In Maths, we have been developing our problem solving skills. We used our times tables skills and we had to work out the question instead of just the answer. We also  used match sticks (don’t worry, wooden sticks appropriate for school) and Miss McKee displayed pictures. Then we had to move matchsticks to solve the problem in groups.

‘What I found tricky, was working out which match stick to move.’ Bruce

‘I found working out the questions instead of the answer a little tricky but I got it in the end!’ Ayyan

   

This week, Miss McKee presented three Scottish history topics for us to explore and then vote on. These were, Wallace & Bruce, Scottish Clans and Mary Queen of Scots. In the end, the majority voted for Clans and this will be our new topic!

In our first Clans lesson we had lots of activities relating to Scottish culture. This included, piecing together a jigsaw of Scotland and placing on cities and tourist attractions on the map.

We also were sketching pictures of Scottish thistles and we matched up Scots words with English words. Lastly, we researched information about Scottish clans on Chromebooks to help us get started with our new topic.

‘There were lots of words that I never even knew existed!’ Molly

‘I found it interesting comparing Scots words with English. For example, ‘bonnie’ means beautiful!’ Bella

‘I found it really interesting that some people in our class (including our teacher) may be related to the clans of the past!’  Ayyan

Also this week, we completed our Wow Wall display, which includes frames that we designed and then we chose our best piece of work so far to display. We even added our names in calligraphy and finally some gold leaf!

Tune in next week for more from P6a!

Welcome to the first blog of Primary 6a!

We have been busy doing different subjects and learning lots this week!

In Health & Wellbeing we have been learning about the ‘Rights of the Child’.  We have also explored how children across the globe have similar or different lives to us.

Here we are sorting 9 out of the 45  ‘Rights of the Child’ and discussing with our groups which are the most important and why.

 

‘In Outdoor Learning we created our names out of nature!’ Jessica

P6 have been selected to ‘buddy up’ with the Primary 1s! We were very excited about this!

‘In these photos we are writing letters to let them know who we are and what we are like.’ Molly

‘The first time we met our buddies they showed us around their classrooms and we got to know them. On the following days we met them at lunch time and helped them get ready to play outside.’ Lexi

So far a good first full week in P6a! We hope you enjoyed reading our first blog!

 

 

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