Class of 2022c

Welcome back everyone!

It’s been a difficult few months for us all, but the pupils of Primary 6C have stepped up to the plate! A lot of excellent work was produced during Lockdown and the pupils returned before Spring Break raring to go!

In Maths, we have looked at Area, Perimeter, numbers to a million as well as the relationship between Distance Speed and Time.

In Language , we have continued to investigate grammar and spelling rules and have begun working on creating interesting ‘Setting’ scenes. We are going to be starting a book study, ‘Wonder’ next week. This is the story of a wee boy with a facial disfigurement and how he learns to overcome prejudice. It is a great story about resilience!

We focused on preparations for Easter and look forward to the month of May, when we will be reciting the rosary. We will also look at the festival of Eid. During Holy Week, the pupils raised over £100 for SCIAF which was excellent!

We are going to be looking at ways to help our planet on ‘Earth Day’… look out for our posters on twitter! Our topic this term will be Rights Respecting School and we will be looking at the right to protest, which seems to be relevant at the moment.

As always, keep an eye on twitter to see what we are doing!

Well, we’re nearly there!

We’ve managed to get to the end of term mostly unscathed. I’d like to thank you all for your support and encouragement which shines through your children.

The children have continued to work conscientiously through these last few weeks. In Language they wrote very detailed reports on life as a child worker in Victorian times. This was followed by some excellent Chimney Sweep poems which showed a real understanding of the plight of those poor kids. We finished off the year with Acrostic Christmas poems.

We finished off our work on fractions, decimals and percentages… so don’t be surprised if you get asked for 16/32 ‘s of the pizza from Dominos! We also had some fun with bar graphs (favourite Christmas food), 2D shape (cutting and gluing!!) and Christmas co ordinates (Rudolph and Frosty the Snowman). Who said Maths was boring??

We made Advent pledges which I hope were carried out at home and reflected on Piety for Pope Francis Faith Award. We also made some excellent Advent Wreaths in the Jungle.

We hope you enjoyed watching our Christmas video… we certainly had fun filming it!

Hope you all have a relaxing holiday and see you in the New Year!

Hello, hello… anyone out here?

Well, if you are, make a cup of tea, take a seat and read on to discover what we have been up to over the last few weeks.

Maths:

We have been focusing on the relationship with fractions and decimals. We have also completed lots of Arithmetic activities too.

Mr McLaughlin emptied out his plastic recycling bin and we found out about millilitres and litres. It was very exciting!

Language

In Language this month

We wrote some brilliant Haikus

They were on Autumn.

We also wrote about our heroes. We realised that heroes don’t all have to wear capes (or spandex!)

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We continued with the Pope Francis Faith Award. We delivered presentations to our classmates about our hobbies and made cards for our parents to thank them for looking after us. (We hope you liked them!)

Canon Eddie came into our class and celebrated Mass for us, which was lovely!

ICT

We have continued to do some coding in ICT and managed to create our own Google logos.

Australia

Our topic came to a close with a bang when we each delivered a talk on a particular aspect of Australia. Topics ranged from animals, landmarks, food and sports. Mr McLaughlin said that they were excellent!

Victorians

Our new topic is close to Mr McLaughlin’s heart… The Victorians! The good old days, when children were seen and not heard! So far, we have learned about The Workhouses as well as about some of the jobs poor Victorian children had to do. We realised that we are very fortunate to have Rights!

Outdoor

We completed Beat the Street and then headed back to Crookfur Jungle. We have made some Environmental Art and built a bird’s nest. We are going on a Scavanger Hunt this Thursday. We can’t wait to see what we will find!

Next stop… Christmas!

As always, keep an on Twitter for up to the minute news and photos!

Well, here we are coming towards the end of October. The leaves are turning brown and falling to the ground and the nights are fair drawing in!

If you have been keeping an eye on Twitter, then you’ll see that we have been very busy over the last few weeks. Here’s a quick run down:

In Maths we have been looking at fractions; simplifying, equivalent, fractions of… we just can’t get enough of them! We have also been adding and subtracting HTU. We also drew some geometrical shapes like Mr McLaughlin did when he was a wee boy five or six years ago…

We have written some amazing stories based on characterisation. We looked at what a person does, says, acts like and how others react to them. Mr McLaughlin said they were some of the best stories he’s ever read!

Our Australian topic trundles on and everyone agrees that it’s a fantastic subject to explore. Mr McLaughlin is looking forward to hearing us present our Powerpoints to the class in a few weeks time.

We have been out completing circuits for Beat the Street and have enjoyed it immensely.

October is the Month of Mary and we have been saying the Rosary.

Keelan said, “I enjoyed portrait Art and Maths. I like fractions too!”

Leo said, “I enjoyed Aboriginal Art because using the pastels was fun. I also like PE.”

Orlaith said, “I enjoyed created characters. My character was called Louis. She was a confident person who had her own style.”

Sophie said, ” I enjoyed writing because I like being imaginative. I enjoyed the kite story it was exciting! I like Language work!”

Please keep up to date with all things Primary 6C on Twitter.

Hello and welcome to our first class blog in Primary 6!

We have all settled in nicely to our ‘new’ routine of starting work, in uniform,  at 9:00am … rather than 2:00pm in our pyjamas!

We have been reflecting on our Lockdown experiences… what we learned, how we felt and how we can re engage with our learning in the physical classroom.

We are all now ready to move forward!

We voted for ‘Australia’ to be our first topic. So far, we have made fact files about cities and Amazing Australian Animals. We also looked at The Great Barrier Reef and the dangers it is facing due to Climate Change.

Talking of which, we have been out in the rain (a lot!) wind and sun in the Lower Forest for Outdoor Learning. We did a litter pick, wrote sense poems and had fun avoiding falling into the burn!

We have revisited nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives. We looked at pronouns and how they can be used to show possession. We are focusing on Characterisation at the moment for writing and will be creating our own characters soon.

We have done lots of revision in Maths and are moving on to fractions, time and number work. Mr McLaughlin is ensuring that we are trying our best and presenting our work as neatly and accurately as we can.

Mr McLaughlin regularly posts our work on Twitter… so check it out and if you like lit… like it!

Tarini said, “I love being in the Learning Lodge because it’s a new experience!”

Ciaran said, “I liked doing the self portrait because I liked the bright colours and how they turned out.”

Ava said, “I like doing spelling and I liked the portrait- it was fun!”

Ubaid said, “Like Maths because I find it relaxing!”

This week is STEM week so we did some STEM activites with Miss Harvey. We did a gummy worm experiment and a dancing ghosts experiment. The gummy worms experiment didn’t really work which was a shame! For the ‘Dancing Ghosts’ experiment we learned about satic electricity! We rubbed balloons against our hair and then used the balloon to make a tissue dance, it was really cool! We also did an engineering challenge and built bridges which could hold a 1kg (1000g) weight!! Mostly all of our bridges were able to hold it!

We also read chapter 9, 10 and 11 of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. We wrote a summary of the story so far and we did some comprehension questions to check our understanding.

We did problem solving with Mrs Reid in Maths and some R.E about the woman in the well.

Newtons have been learning about Volume this week, Pythagoras have moved on to perimeter and area and Pythagoras are working really hard on their times tables.

We learned about information leaflets in Writing and created our own on the Great Wall of China.

We did P.E with Mrs Glancy. We all did some quiet reading for 20 minutes which we all loved (Well… mostly all of us).

From P5c and Miss Harvey (written by the pupils).

Welcome back to the P5c blog!

On Thursday this week it was World Book Day! Greta Thunberg, Matilda, Miss Petula, Horrid Henry, Princess Jasmine, Marie Curie, lots of people from Harry Potter, some of the Sufragettes and some others joined our class! (Not really, but the costumes were that good we almost believed they were real!!)

To celebrate World Book Day we watched an Author’s Live with Jaqueline Wilson and she told us lots about her inspiration behind books, it was very interesting. We’re all inspired to create fantastic stories during writing!

We’ve read more of The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe. Edmund has just betrayed his siblings… We’ve left it on quite the cliffhanger!! We can’t wait to read more next week and find out what happens!!

In writing we learned about report writing and all chose our own topics to write about which we researched on the Chromebooks. Miss Harvey can’t wait to see us writing for the Glasgow Herald one day!!

We’re loving our topic: China! This week we learned about the Great Wall of China. We all want to go on a trip and toboggan down it!

See you all next week!

From P5c and Miss Harvey.

Welcome back to p5c’s blog. This week it is read aloud week so we had a really nice time reading quietly for 20 minutes in class each day and on Monday we read to the nursery children. It was very hard to get the nursery children to concentrate, Mrs Mooney spoke to us about using our voices to keep them engaged and focused! We’re going to work really hard on this in class. Miss Harvey also read part of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to us this week and demonstrated using her voice in an exciting way.

On Thursday we did writing and it was about description, we looked at how we can help our reader visualise the story. Miss Harvey has enjoyed reading all our stories with extra description in them and can’t wait to see it continue in our other stories!

On Thursday and Friday we all did drama scenes on the ten commandments (one pupil slipped on a book by accident – but she was okay and laughed it off)! We based our short scenes on 10 rules we made up for our classroom that would help us be happy because we know that if we follow the Ten Commandments we will lead a happy life.

We continued working on our Scream art pieces and some of us have now finished. Miss Harvey is going to put them on the wall for everyone who visits our classroom to see!

There were a lot of special days this week! First up we had Shrove Tuesday (also known as Pancake Tuesday!) and we got to make pancakes with Mrs Cameron. On Wednesday it was Ash Wednesday and we had to walk up to St Cadoc’s Church for mass – we filled the whole church up and some children had to sit on the floor! to mark the start of Lent we had a woman in from SCIAF to chat to us about all the great work they do! Our school will be fundraising for SCIAF during Lent and some of us are doing a stall to help out!

On Thursday and Friday we were all dressed extra nice because it was our individual and family photos this week! Miss Harvey is now confident she has a class full of models we posed so well!

See you next week!!

P5c and Miss Harvey

(written by the pupils in Primary 5c but completed by Miss Harvey as they ran out of time!)

This week in p5c we practiced the Gay Gordons (it’s a ceilidh dance). We also read chapter 3 of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and then we predicted what would happen next in chapter 4. We did maths with Miss Harvey and Mrs Reid, it was very fun. With Miss Harvey we also learned about different types of energy like heat and chemical energy. We met a new teacher who did Scratch with us (a coding website).

In art we remade the scream by Edvard Munch. We’ve almost finished our backgrounds and then we’re going to take pictures of ourselves pulling a ‘scream’ face and stick this on our background, we can’t wait to finish them and see how they look!

On Tuesday some pupils took part in the UK’s biggest Chess Competition and will be featured in a newspaper! A few of our classmates made it into the final and they all received medals. Well done!

From P5c and Miss Harvey

(written by the pupils of P5c)

Welcome back to p5c’s blog. Yesterday we did maths three times! We did our novel study (The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe). We read and answered questions on chapter 2 and then drew a picture of Mr Tumnus’ house! In chapter 2 Lucy went to Mr Tumnus’ house and then realised he was supposed to be kidnapping her and reporting her to the white witch. In the end Mr Tumnus decided not to tke Lucy to the White Witch and let her go home. We’re very excitd to read more!!

In P.E we had some people be Joe Wicks (A famous fitness trainer) while some people played tennis in teams against the other team. Today we did our spelling test, maths,we played games in P.E and we did Valentines day activites like valentine cards,bookmarks,wordsearchs and paper chains.

From P5c and Miss Harvey

(written by the pupils of P5c)