Over the last few weeks, we have been designing a stadium for the 2026 Commonwealth Games with a retractable roof as part of our Engineering project. We have created our firms with logos and slogans and assigned different roles in our groups.

We first had to research the different types of retractable roofs and decide which one would best suit our design. We created sketches of our design and used these to build a prototype using K’Nex. We presented our designs to each other. Have a look at the amazing designs below!

Over the past couple of weeks we have been introduced to the Glockenspiel. We have learned that it is a member of the tuned percussion family. We have been practising playing various songs. It has been really fun trying something new and learning some musical terms!

This week on Thursday we have a visit from Jamie, a civil engineer, who told us about his job. We learned lots of interesting information about the role of a civil engineer and project manager. Lots of P6 had very interesting questions! Jamie set us our challenge of building a stadium with a moving roof for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow using K’Nex. We can’t wait to get started and Jamie will be back to judge our prototypes at the end of the project!

This week we had our third and final ‘Bible Alive’ session delivered by members of Newton Mearns Baptist Church. This year our learning focussed on the New Testament of the Bible. We learned lots of the stories and lessons. The sessions have been a fabulous way for us to learn more about Christianity with lots of us being able to get involved and show off our acting skills!

We are really grateful to the members of NMBC for their engaging sessions. 🙂

This week in Maths, we have been learning about area and perimeter. We have been thinking about how maths could help us in the real world and discussing all the different types of jobs needed to build a house.

We created blueprints of a house using tape marked out on the carpet. We had to use rulers to measure accurately and then we calculated the area of each room. We added the totals of each room to find the area of the whole house.  Some rooms had unusual shapes as we discussed houses are not always perfect squares and rectangles!

This week a highlight was definitely our P6 Christmas Party. On Monday we had fun in the hall with lots of dancing, some games and a snack to cool off. Some lucky winners even won a prize!

We have enjoyed the festivities this week in class and across the school.

I hope everyone has a fantastic Christmas if you’re celebrating and a wonderful holiday. Many thanks for all the lovely cards and Christmas gifts I have received, they are all very much appreciated.

Have a happy new year when it comes and see you in 2026!

Miss Ross 🙂

With Mr Atkinson we were learning about the meta-skill sense-making. When we use our sense-making skills, we’re trying to process large amounts of information. This helps us to solve problems.

We had to make a Lego model of somewhere we wanted to visit or a future career we are interested in.

P6 were extremely lucky to be visited by 2 members of the Caledonia Gladiators basketball team. They told us about their journey to playing professionally and answered lots of our questions.

We learned lots about the importance of team work and growth mindset.

We created our own tartan patterns by weaving with yarn. We used our fingers and developed our dexterity as we fed the yarn through over and under, over and under.

We had some frequent reminders to use our growth mindset to keep going!

They turned out great and we hope lots of parents and carers will get to see them on display at the Open Afternoons next week 🙂

On Wednesday we enjoyed a fabulous trip to Sky Up Academy Studios in Livingston. We all took on a different role to bring a news report about AI to life. Some of our roles included director, presenter, scriptwriter, editor, camera operator, producer.

We used our collaboration, co-operation and creativity skills to bring our news reports to life. We all had such a fantastic time and are grateful to Mr Atkinson for organising this worthwhile opportunity.

I was so impressed by all the pupils, they were fantastic ambassadors of Crookfur and worked extremely well together 🙂

We hope you have had the chance to watch the video by scanning the QR code that was handed out to see us in action. Here are some behind the scenes photos from the day: