Hola everyone! (we decided on this greeting as a class),

We’ve only been back at school for one week, but we have been working very hard! We are settling in and benefiting from reminders from Miss Mackay to stop chit chatting when we are completing focused tasks! We are getting used to our new zones when playing in the playground at break times and lunch. We are enjoying being able to socialise with the other P6 classes! We have the Adventure Trail and the MUGA to ourselves on a Tuesday at break time. Some of us came together with an idea to create things to share with others in the playground, like bookmarks; they are super colourful!

We spent some time last week thinking about and writing down our Aspirations for the coming year in P6. We created a large colourful tree on the wall to represent our collective aspirations and keep us focused on reaching them!

Along the other side of our classroom wall, we can see a big quote – ‘Dream Big, Work Hard, Stay Kind’ which reminds us, along with our Class Charter, about the importance of respect and kindness, as we move through the coming year. To create our Class Charter and learn about rights, we made little posters to illustrate key rights to remember this year, such as the right to learn, to be healthy, to share our opinions, and be heard.

We really loved playing Would You Rather, as it was a great way for us to get to know each other even better!

Yesterday, as part of our learning in Health, we discussed the meaning of the value ‘Gratitude’, how it can make us happier, and how important it is to be thankful. We enjoyed this lesson as it was meaningful and helped us to reflect.

We have also being doing some Writing this week (a personal piece), all about our fabulous lives. We included punctuation, ambitious vocabulary, and wrote in paragraphs. Each week, we will have a Star Writer!

In Maths, we have been learning about Multiples and Factors; multiples are the answers in each table, given when we multiply together two numbers, whereas factors are those numbers which we can pair together and multiply to produce a larger number.

We have been revising the parts of speech, focusing on nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, and prepositions. We played a game where we created a silly sentence by each adding a part of the sentence.

Earlier in the week, Miss Mackay handed us an outline of a deserted island and we designed it according to our own taste! We drew all of the things that we love, including houses, restaurants (some chose McDonalds) to have a food supply, portals, theme parks, a disco floor, vehicles (aeroplanes and all sorts!), trees, volcanoes … the list goes on! We are very creative indeed!

P.S. We are absolutely roasting in this hot weather but we made little paper fans and have been drinking lots of water to cool down!

Too-da-loo! Speak to you next month! (we also decided on this sign off as a class …)

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