In Community Time we have been doing lots of things. Everybody is doing one of these activities -Knitting, orienteering, new sport, cooking, Spanish, coaching, japan, animation, unusual careers, urban myths and legends or Famous artists. Stuart Mckerlie did orienteering. Stuart says “I learnt how to use a compass point on a map, I enjoyed using the maps,” and Thomas Motler was doing New Sport he says, “I think it is good that we are learning new sports. I have learnt about curling and am going to learn about lacrosse next.”

By Thomas and Stuart

We have been learning about the Solar System. P1 have been learning about Night and Day and when they heard that we knew a lot about Space they wanted to ask us some questions. First of all they brought us a list of eight questions that they had. Then we each went in pairs to create a presentation to answer all of their questions. One of their questions was “Why are there holes on the moon?” We answered: because asteroids have crashed into the moon and made huge big holes. Most of the questions that they asked us we knew the answers to but some of them we needed the laptops to research. It was a bit tricky explaining them in a way they would understand.

Everybody who took part in the task met a primary one. They taught us some facts about the sun that we didn’t know. They told us that the sun’s temperature is 5,600 degrees, because it’s so hot it will burn us to death.

Everyone enjoyed this task they had lots of fun including the primary ones. We hoped you enjoyed reading this.

By Cara, Kasha and Ruby

P6a went on a trip to sky studio on Tuesday 1^st September to learn about making a news report about Mars!

We were split in to four teams and each person was given a job to do. First all the producers met and discussed what each groups report would be about. After that we went to our studios and then the producers told everyone about the report. Next we chose who played who and the scriptwriter made a script. Afterwards we began to rehearse followed by filming. It was a successful day for everyone and we got to take our identity tags and a copy of the film home on USB bangle!

Everyone had tons of fun but came out having learned something! Some people learned how to use a camera, some people learned how to edit, some people learned how to write a good script and some people learned how to act. We all learned about working as part of a team and listening carefully to each other. Everyone learned that making a video is not as easy as it looks.

By Julia and Anna

This is our first post in the P6 Blog. We are going to try and post more to keep you in touch with the work going on in our class. We hope you enjoy hearing what we’ve been up to.