We have been working on percentages this week in Numeracy and doing a bit more work with decimals.

In Literacy we were playing detective with clues from a battle during WW2. We wrote down what we thought had happened and next week we are going to see how close we were to the true story.

In Science we were learning about different states of matter and sorting their different properties.

In P.E we have been continuing our hockey skills and are now able to play small-sided games.

In ICT we were using the 3D printer to print our Christmas tree designs. We also used the same software to design Anderson shelters.

This week we have learning about different aspects of World War 2. We learned about the Blitz and the Blackouts. We created poems about the blackout and different alphabet poems about war. In art we designed blitz pictures using watercolours.

In ICT/Science we continued to work on our water cycle animation. In Numeracy we have done a lot of work on decimals.

This week in Numeracy we were working on decimals and place value. In Literacy we wrote letters as Evacuees and worked on our listening skills by listening to parts of the class novel and then answering questions.

In Health we were learning about resilience and linking it to our learning on WW2. For our topic we learned more about local soldiers who had died during either WW1 or WW2. We discussed how we could remember them in the school and are planning a small remembrance area for them.

In P.E we are continuing to develop our hockey skills. This week we worked on striking and stopping the ball and played team games.

In ICT we started creating an animation about the water cycle.

We used small loose parts to create ideas from WW2.

This week in primary 6 we have been practising our Junior leader skills, we picked classes and then wrote what we wanted to play with them. We made a timetable for the term ahead and used some of the games that we have been learning as part of our plan.

In maths the pentagons have been finishing off their time board games and the squares and triangles have been working on their minutes and seconds.

P6’s topic this term is World War 2, we have started watching a movie called Goodnight Mr Tom so that we can compare it to the book. Our new class novel  called Hitler’s Canary about a boy who lived in Denmark during the war. We are planning to compare the life of a child in a neutral country during WW2 to the life of a child in Britain through these two novels.

This week we were given the option to take part in the BBC 500-word story but since not everyone wants to take part P6 will have the opportunity to work on it at home.

In science this term P6 are learning about water conservation we made posters about why it is import.

Written by Saoirse

 

In P6 Pentagons have started making board games that is teaching others about Time. The whole class have been put into groups to learn a game and then teach others the game that they learnt as part of our training for Junior Leaders.  We have enjoyed taking on these new skills. People have chosen a skills academy to take part in. This has been fun.

We have had a fun week back.

 

Written by Lucy

This week we have had lots of fun making our Christmas cards. We tried a few different designs but landed upon a Christmas tree decorated with delightful bobbles and a Christmas message. They have now been sent off to get put on cards and cups and much more.

 

We have also enjoyed our committees having a responsibility in either JRSO, health and wellbeing, charities and enterprise, rights respecting or eco. There  has also been an apple competition organised by the charities and enterprise committee everyone has had fun making their apples.

 

In our novel, Divided City, there is a lot about discrimination which has been one of our learning focuses this term. We did talks on discrimination about what we have learned. It was our first paired talk of P6 and everyone did very well.

 

We have worked hard designing and drawing football boots with anti discrimination messages on them. We cut them out and stuck them on our classroom wall. They look amazing!

 

For our writing we have been using characters in our book and writing diary extracts about them. We wrote it in first person and had to write it in informal text like we were talking to the diary.

 

In PE we have been working on our football skills. Learning to pass the ball with our inner foot. We have also been working hard on our netball skills preparing for the last term when we might play Wormit.

 

Skills academy’s are going to start up again next term we have all picked our academy and are excited to learn new skills such as STEM gymnastics origami playground games or board games.

 

And last but not least we have been learning and creating posters about friction and force in football. We shall hopefully present them next term and have enjoyed working with our partners to learn more about friction and force.

 

We have had a very successful and fun term but we definitely deserve a rest. See you next term. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

Written by Morag

Maths- This week we have been practising our time work in the textbooks.

 

Art- In art we have been doing one point perspective line art. We watched a  tutorial step by step to make a tenement street.

 

Writing- In our class novel we read a chapter and pretended we were in first person as Joe and Graham.

 

P.E- In P.E we have been practising our football skills, by practising our dribbling, passing and control of the ball. We’ve also done a mini game with the benches in the hall.

 

ICT- In ICT we have been working on Excel. We learned which jobs might have to use Excel. As well as using Excel, we have created an animation on the I-pads on a football match between Celtic and Rangers.

 

Topic- Our main topic this term is Glasgow and Celtic vs Rangers. We have been enjoying our class novel Divided City. We wrote a piece of writing for the book.

 

Spelling- All week, we have been practising our spelling words on Spelling city. We have been told to practise at home and school. Spelling City is a great place to practise.

 

Dictation- We read a paragraph of our class novel and did dictation for the first time this year.

 

Drama- In drama we read a paragraph of Divided City and acted it out in groups of 4 or 5. Afterwards, we presented it to the class. Each person had a different role to play.

Written by Nairn and Soren C

 

This week we have been busy designing and making our football stadiums. We then made an animation with them.

This was the first week of pupil committees.

For Literacy we were writing summaries of jobs within a football club. We were very good at taking notes for this.

In P.E we did football skills and netball.

In Maths we were working on budgets and perimeter and we also took part in a maths challenge,

We cycled on Monday ,Thursday and Friday on the road with Miss Stevenson and Mrs Mackenzie

This week some of us finished making our Bus Tour/Flower

We started doing our football stadiums too and we went in twos or threes to work on these.

We also did our maths and learned about perimeter and area.

We did our spelling and reading test

In P.E we did netball and piggy in the middle and we also practiced our throwing skills.

Written by Kitri.

In PE, we have been doing dodgeball and netball. We learnt that in netball, when you catch a ball, you can’t move your landing foot and you can only swivel around with the foot you didn’t land with.

 

In numeracy/maths, we have been doing board sums. We also have been doing assessments to see where we are with our learning in maths.

 

In drama, we acted out whatever our teacher said and at the end she asked questions and we had to see if we got any in our performances. My group, personally, got 4/5 for the questions.

 

In literacy we made bus tour leaflets and we searched up famous landmarks and museums in Glasgow. We decorated the leaflets after and put them in little compartments on the wall.

 

In art we made Charles Rennie Mackintosh flowers and we are going to print them and put them on our class wall.

Written by Arielle