This week we started our new maths focus: equivalent fractions!  We are applying our knowledge of fractions, whilst training to be hairstylists and barbers.  All our maths tasks will help us become more confident about fractions and understand how they are used in real life.

This week was our final time learning about light and our first learning journey of P6.  The class decided to showcase their learning and invited their P1 buddies to provide them with an opportunity to share their learning.  The class created four stations including a clay symmetry display, a chance for the P1’s to create puppet shadows, they shared their presentation posters that they made with Adobe Express and they shared their jotters too.

Mrs Docherty and I are looking forward to planning more buddy events throughout this year!

I hope you have a lovely October break.

This week P6C celebrated maths week and this years theme was ‘wild maths’.  We had lots of maths focused experiences this week including:

• We learned about symmetry throughout our learning journey.  We created symmetrical buildings with Kapla.
• We continued learning about symmetry and created symmetrical clay models using things we found in the Woodland.  We created prints with natural resources and explored lines of symmetry.  We plan on painting them in a couple of weeks.
• We have also been learning about money.  During one of our tasks we pretended we got a new job as the head cashier at Nandos and we had to calculate the totals and change.
• We also learned about budgeting. We created a weekly meal plan then used supermarket websites to find the total of our weekly food shopping list.
• We had a live lesson with Barclays bank about safe spending and saving.
• We incorporated maths into our PE lessons and created symmetrical balances during our gymnastics lesson.

We hope you have a lovely September weekend!

Our meta skill of the week was cooperation. Although we have also developed our adaptability skills whilst we have continued to work hard in a slightly darker environment last week. It was a spooky coincidence that the lights went out on our first week of our new learning journey: how is light used creatively.

We used our cooperation skills when…

• Revising our French colours and playing twister
• Working together to order the times on our post-it notes without speaking
• Working with a partner during our hockey lesson
• Exploring light and reflections

This week in P6C we have been focusing on the meta-skill creativity.

We used our creativity when…

• Creating triorama’s to present our global goal action plans
• Planning for a debate about deforestation
• Using Numicon to help solve division calculations
• Using Knex to create an invention to help target a global goal
• Creating a model using Kapla to solve a problem in maths

This week we focused on the meta-skill of cooperation and reflected on this today. We had lots of experiences which helped us develop this skill including the Academy Awards problem solving challenge, working together on our fitness stations and the dictionary scavenger hunt.  The class reflected on some of the challenges and set personal targets for next week.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Miss McNeil and P6C

P6C have had an excellent week and a half back at school. This week’s blog post will focus on our learning about the UNCRC and our class charter.

We made our class charter. But first we had to decide which rights we would like to focus on. To do this we had a class debate then voted for four rights; article 19, 27, 24 and 28.

At the end of the week we have been working to finish our class charter display which was designed by the class.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss McNeil and P6C