Primary 6’s current learning journey is focusing on engineering. The learners have created engineering firms and they are working towards building a new sporting venue for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

Thank you to two of our amazing volunteers who have visited the school to speak to the learners about their careers in engineering, the meta skills they use within their work and the link between engineering and maths. It has helped the learners gain a better understanding of how their learning relates to the real world.

Next week is Safer Internet Day. In preparation for Tuesday, P6 invited their buddies to their classroom to discuss how to stay safe when researching online. They showed their buddies how to use Kiddle (a child friendly search engine) and helped them to find facts. The P1’s will use this to help them write a fact file about their favourite animal next week.

This week we applied our learning of finding the area and perimeter of 2D shapes through our new learning journey. The learners discussed the job that require strong knowledge of these math skills. Everyone worked well with their team to recreate the floor plan of our client’s new home then priced up different flooring options.

Miss McNeil

It has been a very exciting week in primary six.  Yesterday was a two-day show day where the pupils showcased their learning about Robert Burns, Scots language and Scottish culture.  The learners put on an excellent show, thank you to all of the children for their hard work! The whole school

A big thank you to all of the parents and families who helped the children learn their lines and lyrics at home and organised their costumes. It is greatly appreciated!

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend and that you enjoy your Burns’ Supper on Sunday!

P6C had a lovely visit from members of the Newton Mearns Baptist Chruch this week. Over the next three weeks they will be delivering the Bible Alive programme. This compliments the pupils previous learning in Primary 5.

We look forward to welcoming you on Thursday at our performances of ‘The Great Scottish Story’!

We have been learning about Christianity and on Wednesday we visited the Newton Mearns Baptist Church to learn more about advent. They had a fantastic morning learning about the Christmas story through drama performances, games and crafts. Thank you to all of the volunteers for such an engaging morning!

We were very lucky to receive a visit from Hannah and Jett from the Caledonia Gladiators this week. To prepare for the visit we applied our skimming and scanning skills to learn about some of the players. The learners used Google Slides to create Top Trump cards which have been printed and they are ready to play!

It was really interesting to hear how the players growth mindsets have supported them in their careers and the skills we need to be good team players.

This week we continued our health and wellbeing focus of learning about growth mindset.  We understand the difference between a fixed and a growth mindset.  Our learning this week has been about parts of the brain and how they can influence our behaviour.  We created models of the brain using knex to show the prefrontal cortex (the wise leader), the amygdala (the guard dog), the hippocampus (the librarian) and the neurons (the connections).

Thank you to everyone who visited our class on Wednesday and Thursday this week. The learners really enjoyed sharing their learning and classroom with you.

Have a lovely weekend!

Over the last few weeks, Primary 6 have been lucky to have several special guests. Our guests have supported us to develop our language learning skills within French and British Sign Language (BSL)! Thank you to the S6 pupils from Eastwood High School who prepared and delivered very interactive and fun experiences over the last three weeks.  We will continue our fantastic BSL lessons with Emma in November and December.

This week P6C had a very exciting week! Mr Atkinson planned a fantastic trip to the Sky Academy Studios in Livingstone. This was an excellent experience for the learners to showcase their learning of AI, whilst also having the opportunity to apply their meta skills and gain first hand experience of working within tv production.

A special thank you to the staff at the Sky Academy for making us feel so welcome and to all the parent volunteers who very kindly gave up their time to support this experience.