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Scotland Street

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Primary Six have been working very hard learning all about The Victorians. We have had our own experience of what life was like for a Victorian child at school when we went to Scotland Street.

We learned that children who were lucky enough to go to school had a very hard time! They started each day by chanting their multiplication tables up to 12. They needed to do this to help them work with their money. Lessons were carried out on slates or using a quill pen. If you got any ink on your hands, spoke out of turn, were naughty or even late you got the belt or even worse, the cane!  The classrooms were poorly light by gas laps and heated by a coal heater making it very cold, dark and grim. The children sat on wooden benches and the boys and girls were separated at the door.  Their P.E was called Drill and they had to wear a dreadful uniform. The girls had lessons to help them become a good wife and mother a learned to cook and clean. The boys learned practical skills with lessons like woodwork.

We were all very scared of our teacher and we are so glad schools are not like that now!

The teacher was very very scary! Josh

Luckily,  the teacher was happy with our work so we didn’t get the belt. I was so scared that my face turned very hot! Anna

 

 

New this week!

This week Primary 6 have been so busy! We started our Bikeability lessons where we learned how to oil our bikes and pump up our tyres. We learned how to change gears and fix our chain. We built up our confidence through games like high fiving each other and other control games. It was really good fun!!

We started to learn Mandarin this week and can now say hello, thank-you and goodbye. We also learned about the population, landscape, capital city, food, environment and culture of China. We are looking  forward to learning more next week!

We had our first swimming lesson today, it was very fun! We practised all the different strokes and diving.

“I swam front crawl and learned how to glide for the first time!” Gabby

“I managed to swim front crawl and back crawl, even with my sore leg!” Lyla

We all managed to swim in the big pool and can’t wait until next week!

European Union

Amy’s Video ItalyAs part of our European Union topic, we have been researching countries within Europe as a home research project. We found out interesting facts about our chosen countries currency, location, climate, population, history and much more. We all displayed our information in a PowerPoint and presented it to the class. It was great fun learning from each other!

Czech Republic by Sophie

Finland by Elliot

GREECE by Maddie

Hungary by Rachel

Ireland by Lilah

Monaco by Iman

Portugal by Gabby

Estonia by Susie

UK by Vaneeza

Italy by Amy

Amy’s Video Italy

Numeracy

Primary 6 have been learning many interesting and challenging concepts in Numeracy.

The triangles have been learning about coordinates and plotting some tricky points!

I find it very fun and it can be easy to find the points on a graph but it can get confusing when plotting points for a shape – Josh

The Squares have been working hard learning about compass points and direction.

I enjoy following compass directions but you need to take care for the harder questions! – Iman

The Circles are learning how to order calculations through BODMAS. They have been working extremely hard!

We like BODMAS and think it’s fun but it can be tricky!- Lyla and Amy