Thank you to Clyde River Foundation for delivering an excellent day learning about the River Clyde, the Capelrig Burn and how we can look after our local environment. Staff commented on how engaged and polite the pupils were – well done!

This week we celebrated health week! We participated in a wide range of learning experiences including yoga, karate, judo, World Cup themed lessons, the Commonwealth Baton Relay and sports day.

Welcome back to the P6c blog! We hope you enjoy reading about what we have be exploring with Mr Atkinson in his Learning Journeys.

We  have nearly finished our Adapting to Climate Change Learning Journey! P6C has been discovering how animals communicate and we revisited different types of measurements in order to understand distances. We started off with converting and then the pupils were challenged to solve calculations involving measurements.  The class also made information posters on Adobe Express about an animal and recorded key details about what they need to thrive and how they have adapted to survive. We also created maps of where climates can be found and constructed some habitats that you might find in the different zones using KAPLA. Whilst building these models, I was impressed with how resourceful the groups were and it was great to see them apply a variety of Meta-Skills!

We are coming to the end of our learning journey exploring Greek mythology. This week we retold the story of Theseus and the Minotaur then the pupils worked in groups to create their own Kapla labyrinths. They guided their ‘Theseus’ around the maze using very clear instructions to make it to the minotaurs lair.

This week Primary 6 had a great football session with Coach Craig. They demonstrated great communication and team work. Well done!

Our class novel is Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. We have been learning about Ancient Greece and myths to complement our understanding of the novel. Some of our highlights from this week include beginning to explore pottery and how it was used for storytelling aswell as investigating Greek architecture.

Next week we are looking forward to creating our own vases to depict a famous Greek story.

I hope you enjoy reviewing your child’s jotters over the weekend and I look forward to meeting with you next week.

This week Primary 6 had their first introduction to the Playzone Leadership Training Programme. This is an opportunity that is offered to all primary six pupils within ERC.  The pupils enjoyed their workshop which was delivered by our Active Schools contact, Tony Bryson.

The pupils learned about the important attributes that will help them promote their leadership skills. Over the coming weeks, pupils will work in teams to plan and deliver the Playzone activities to their classmates, then eventually to the younger pupils. Tony will be popping in to see their progress and the learners will be awarded a certificate upon completion of the course.

We started our final term with a mini learning focus about religious milestones. The pupils understand the importance of a milestone in someone’s life and some religious milestones within Christianity and Judaism. Everyone chose an additional religion to investigate which religious milestones they celebrate. The pupils demonstrated excellent curiosity and respect during the lessons.

Primary six created personalised picture books for their P1 buddies. This afternoon we opened our buddy shop! The P6’s created money wallets and helped their buddies ‘pay’ for their books.  The P1 buddies were extremely excited to receive their special books and P6 enjoyed the gifting experience. The P6’s truly embodied Crookfur’s value of kindness today!

This week we continued our learning journey which is related to British Science Week. We combined our knowledge of salt to conduct an experiment to investigate the impact of salt on watercolour. The pupils applied their creativity and curiosity to create a hypothesis then created very unique pieces of salt watercolour art.