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Friday 19th September 2025

What another fantastic week in P6!

In literacy, we’ve been working hard on our football-themed imaginative stories. After lots of planning, drafting and editing, we created our final drafts—full of emotion, action and amazing descriptive language. We also worked on our expression during reading, making sure our voices reflect the mood and meaning of the text.

We deepened our understanding of peace in RME. We explored how different religions promote peace and linked this learning to our ongoing work on sectarianism and our class novel Divided City. These important conversations helped us think critically about how division can impact communities — and how peace, respect and understanding can help bring people together. Using Book Creator, we began designing our very own books about peace. These digital stories allowed us to express what peace means to us.

Another creative highlight was writing our own song lyrics to promote kindness and a growth mindset, in response to learning about bullying. We used rhyme, rhythm and strong messages to help remind others how important it is to lift each other up.

In spelling, we had fun with speed spelling—racing to write our words as quickly, clearly and accurately as we could! We also visited early Christmas creativity by designing beautiful card illustrations, which we’re excited to send off and have turned into real cards!

In French, we used our growing vocabulary to research famous French people and created fact files using key language around professions and identities. We even practised addition using French numbers, which helped combine our language and numeracy skills!

Numeracy this week focused on multiplication and word problems, where we built on our place value knowledge to help us understand the patterns and strategies for larger calculations.

In PE, we brought together all the football skills we’ve been practising over the term—dribbling, passing, ball control and positioning. We put these to the test in matches that really showed our progress, teamwork and communication.

We also had our Glasgow Landmark presentations! Working in pairs, we shared our research and used clear voices, expression and confidence to teach each other about key places in Glasgow in connection to our class novel. It was great to see all the hard work come together.

It’s been a week packed with teamwork, creativity and meaningful learning. We’re so proud of all the thinking and effort from P6—let’s keep it going into next week!

By Torin and Miss Cook

Primary 6

You said:
What another great week in P6!

We started the week by diving into numeracy, where we explored more rounding and working with decimals. We worked through a variety of problems to help us better understand place value and how to round numbers accurately. This also helped us in a real context when we had to work within a budget to plan a party for Miss Cook! We had to use our prior learning to support us in adding and subtracting amounts to help us find the total cost- we even did some estimating and rounding too!

We received great news about our mini saga stories from P5, which we’re very excited to have the chance to be published! We continued developing our imaginative writing this week and we worked on our football-themed writing plans, using our novel focus as inspiration. We looked closely at how to structure our ideas and add description – including some fantastic similes (like “as cold as ice”) to bring our writing to life.

We’ve also been developing our listening and talking skills by working in pairs to prepare and rehearse for our upcoming Glaswegian Landmark’s talks. This gave us the chance to collaborate, research and practice our presentation techniques. In spelling, we visited our ‘Spelling Stations’, where we worked on tricky words through interactive activities that helped us remember their patterns. The stations included a spelling game, doodle words and a spelling craft to support us in doing our assessment at the end of the week.

In French, we’ve continued our revision on greetings and number and next week we are looking forward to researching and finding out information about ‘Famous French People’.

A big highlight of our week was learning about the Learning Pit – a way to understand how challenges help us grow as learners. We discussed what it feels like to be in the pit, how to climb out of it and how the power of persistence can lead to success. To show our understanding, we created colourful and creative Learning Pit posters filled with strategies and encouraging words.

In RME, we looked at peace in different countries, learning how people around the world promote peace in different ways. We had meaningful discussions and reflected on how we can help support peace, then we created and presented posters at the end to show off our learning.

In PE, we continued with our football focus, working on ball control, dribbling, passing and stopping the ball. We also focused on understanding space and positioning during games. These skills came together during team games where teamwork and communication were key.

It’s been a week full of creativity, collaboration and deep thinking. From writing and presenting, to exploring peace and working with decimals, P6 continues to impress with determination and enthusiasm. We’re proud of everything we’ve achieved — bring on next week!

By Neave and Miss Cook

Primary 6

We’ve had another busy and engaging week in P6!

We kicked off the week by completing a range of questions and solving a variety of problems in numeracy, giving us a chance to show off our skills and confidence. This helped us set goals for our learning journey ahead and it was also a great starting point to help us choose our personal learning targets across Numeracy, Literacy and Health and Wellbeing!

Later in the week, we began our work on Addition using the column method to add increasingly larger numbers with accuracy and confidence. There were some excellent examples of clear layout and neat working.

Growth Mindset- The Power of Yet!

We learned all about how our brains grow and how we can become stronger learners through making mistakes and showing perseverance. We explored the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset through class discussions, sorting activities and a fun mindset quiz that got us reflecting on our own attitudes. We know that even if we can’t do something yet, that doesn’t mean we won’t ever!

This week in Literacy, we had fun preparing for our spelling test in a creative way — by designing graffiti style spelling art! This helped us remember tricky words and brought lots of colour and personality to our work.

We also continued reading our class novel ‘Divided City’, digging deeper into themes of Discrimination and Sectarianism. These big ideas sparked some very thoughtful conversations. To support our understanding, we created our own ‘Divided City Dictionaries’, where we recorded and explained key vocabulary in our own words.

To brush up on our French skills, we played games and sang songs that helped us revise greetings, numbers, colours and more. It was a lively and fun way to get back into speaking and listening in French — très bien!

In P.E., we focused on core football skills like ball control (touches), dribbling, passing and stopping. We applied these in team games and challenges, where communication and teamwork made all the difference. Our skills are definitely improving already!

It’s been another fantastic week full of learning and creativity and growth. From developing our number skills to exploring big ideas in our novel and building confidence in football — we are so proud of what we’ve achieved together. Bring on next week!

By Ella and Miss Cook

Primary 6

What a fantastic week of learning we’ve had in P6! The classroom has been full of energy, teamwork and creativity. Here’s a look at what we’ve been up to:

Numeracy – Place Value & Rounding

This week, we explored place value in numbers up to 7 digits through games, hands-on challenges and written work. We practised identifying the value of digits in large numbers and our rounding skills — we experienced rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, 100,000, and even up to the nearest million!

Literacy – Diary Writing & Peer Assessment

In Literacy, we stepped into the shoes of a character from our class novel ‘Divided City’ and wrote diary entries from their perspective. We did an excellent job thinking about what our character may have seen and how they might have felt, spoken and reacted through internal monologue. After drafting, we peer-assessed each other’s writing using 3 Tickled Pinks (things we loved) and 2 Greens for Growth (areas to improve). We then used this feedback to type up our final diary entries.

Exploring Glasgow – Our Class Novel Setting

To connect with the setting of our class novel, we used Google Earth to explore the city of Glasgow. We identified at least three key landmarks, did some note-taking and compared different parts of the city- recording any similarities and differences. This activity sparked great discussion and curiosity! Next week, we will use iPads to create a guided digital tour with voiceovers, sharing our thoughts and findings.

Art – Geometric Football Designs

In Art, we linked geometry to creativity by focusing on shapes like pentagons and hexagons. We used these to design realistic footballs, practising line work to do this accurately- they look great!

P.E. – Teamwork & Skill Building

This term, we’re focusing on football and netball. This week, we practised essential skills such as dribbling and worked on team-building games to build cooperation and communication. We are already showing great progress and teamwork!

Our Class Charter – Fruits of Uniqueness

To celebrate the individuality of every one of us, we each chose a different fruit to represent ourselves and created a “Fruits of Uniqueness” display. Each fruit is a symbol of who we are and what we bring to the classroom. We also discussed positive class slogans to reflect our values and how we treat one another. Some great examples include “In our bowl, we all belong- working together makes us strong.” And “Bananas, berries, grapes and more- together we open more learning doors”.

It’s been a week packed with exploration, expression and enthusiasm. We can’t wait to see what next week brings!

Have a lovely weekend.

By Reuben and Miss Cook

Primary 6

In Primary 6, we made PowerPoint presentations with information all about ourselves. At the end, we shared them with partners during a paired talk. We knew what to include based on Miss Cook’s presentation and we created our success criteria together so that we had shared goals and knew how to get there.

We also made visuals to show how we wanted our classroom to be and feel. We drew 5 pictures to match our chosen ideas that we felt were important to us. We included that we wanted to feel Happy, Creative, Valued and we also involved all of the SHANARRI Indicators.

We learned about United Nation’s Convention’s rights of the child, we picked rights that we wanted to be central in our Classroom and make a priority in our Class Charter. All of us had picked Article 24, which focuses on our overall health and the safety of our environments. After voting in our groups and sharing back, we have chosen Article’s 27, 24, 19 and 12 to feature in our Class Charter.

Lastly, we all enjoyed a well-deserved brain break in-between creating our self-portraits on Thursday afternoon. We did a dance that we have named ‘the crab dance’. It was lots of fun, we even had a whole class conga!

By Lewis and Miss Cook