This week, our classroom was filled with excitement, curiosity, and plenty of wonderful sounds as we welcomed two  S6 pupils from Eastwood High School. They led an engaging and interactive music lesson all about the different instrument families found in an orchestra.

We learned about the four main instrument families: strings, woodwind, brass, and percussion. The pupils explained how each family produces sound and shared examples of instruments.

The highlight of the lesson was having the opportunity to explore and try a variety of instruments ourselves. Everyone had great fun experimenting with the different sounds and learning how each instrument works. It was wonderful to see so much enthusiasm, teamwork, and curiosity.

A huge thank you to the S6 pupils for sharing their knowledge and inspiring us. Who knows—we may have some future orchestra members in our class!

This week we have been using lots of different materials to help us make sense of number patterns and sequences, including squared numbers, triangular numbers and Fibonacci sequence. Not only have we learned about common difference, terms and nth numbers, we have been able to apply our learning and create patterns for our peers to solve.

We have recently completed a block of lessons developing key skills through rounders, including communication, teamwork, coordination, throwing, batting and catching. This week, we have begun transferring many of these skills into the sport of cricket. While learning new rules, procedures, language and techniques, we are continuing to work together, communicate effectively and support one another as a team. This has helped them see how skills learned in one activity can be applied successfully to new sports and challenge.

Hi P6a readers, I wanted to update you on what we have been doing in our most recent Learning Journey since my last entry.

The pupils have been fascinated with learning about AI and they have effectively used the Meta-Skills of critical thinking and curiosity to investigate the impact of this technological development in our lives. P6A displayed excellent collaboration, leadership, communication, initiative and adapting skills when working in groups for the Sky Up Academy Studios project. This challenged each group to research and summarise facts about an aspect of AI and use their extensive notes to create a script for their team’s news reporters. They then selected media clips, music and green screen backgrounds before recording their news reel. The class has also been discovering how the internet works and have learned about the different hardware pieces in computer that make it function. In addition, we discussed the limitations of AI and then the class attempted to create their own AI programmes to solve maths questions by giving it accurate and clear prompts. P6A also participated in an online workshop as part of Maths Week Scotland called “Defend the Rhino with Maths and AI” which taught the pupils how AI is being used to help assist organisations with protecting endangered species. This involved pupils applying their knowledge of maths, numeracy, and data science skills to analyse CCTV data from across a South African national park. Then they used a machine learning model to recognise images of poachers.

P6a were delighted to welcome visitors from Newton Mearns Baptist Church to our class, who came to teach them about the New Testament of the Bible and help them learn more about the Christian faith. As part of the Bible Alive programme, which will run over a three-week period, we explored key stories in a fun and engaging way. P6a especially enjoyed acting out some of the stories, bringing learning to life through drama and discussion.

On Thursday afternoon with Miss Lamb, P6a started learning how to play the Glockenspiel. We started with learning ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.’ We’re looking forward to learning more notes next week with the aim of learning a pop song!

Happy New year! 

From 2d drawings to building 3d models, we have had a busy start to the year as we revisited prior learning on 2d and 3d shapes. We have been naming, sorting and categorising as we used different materials, supporting our learning based on the properties of some 3d objects. This revision will support our learning as we begin to focus on area and perimeter.

We have had lots of fun and engaging Christmas themed lessons this week, including Christmas tree measuring, coding, using K’Nex to build Santa’s sleigh, designing Grinch self help leaflets and some class party games.

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday, and it’s filled with joy and memory making. Merry Christmas and here’s to an even better 2026, Mrs Syme

Over the past 2 week we have been focussing on decimals. To apply our knowledge and skills we were tasked with creating a class pizzeria. We allocated ourselves various roles from chef, waiter, customers and cashiers, where we had to add and subtract decimals, multiply and divide, calculate percentages, all while working collaboratively and developing our problem solving skills.

This week our classroom has been buzzing with builders, designers, and very determined problem-solvers! Pupils have been putting their maths skills of measure, length, perimeter, and area into action through a series of creative construction challenges.

They’ve worked in small groups to rescue Rudolph from a snowy field by designing mechanisms using K’Nex- turns out Santa’s reindeer are in very safe hands! They then followed a design brief to create their own rockets (all strictly between 30–60cm… NASA would be impressed with their accuracy!).

Applying their measuring skills, the class imagined and planned their own dream homes, using their knowledge of perimeter and area before bringing their ideas to life in 3D using LEGO.

Throughout all of this, they have shown fantastic collaboration, creativity, and problem-solving skills.

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Two highlights from our week have been the open afternoons, sharing our learning journey with family members. Continuing our learning journey of textiles in different cultures, we rotated around 6 different stations, applying our learning in different ways, including making Yurts from K’nex and fabrics, creating job adverts and designing our own textile products.

Thank you to everyone who visited our class this week, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.