Primary 6 2018-2019

We love learning about Maths outdoors.

We worked in pairs to find the area of objects in the infant playground.

Even though it was freezing, we still had fun using the trundle wheels and metre sticks.

To find the area of a rectangle, you measure the length and the breadth of a shape and then multiply them together. We know the formula is

A = L x B

We took our Maths learning outdoors and measured the perimeter of objects in our playground.

We used different apparatus like trundle wheels and metre sticks.

To find the perimeter of an object, you measure each side and add them all up together.

Through our Health and Wellbeing learning, we are learning to give and receive compliments.

We have discovered we find it hard to take compliments and we said we find it awkward and embarrassing so we are working on being able to take compliments well and appreciate what others have to say about us.

Each day, one person in our class is selected as the VIP of the day and they are treated extra special. We all give them compliments which are recorded on a certificate and given to us. Every person who has been the VIP of the day and been given compliments has said it makes them feel happy, excited, more confident and proud. They’ve also said it has improved their self esteem.

We also realised we find it hard to say positive things about ourselves and so Miss McCue got us all to stand up one by one and shout something we are good at. It was embarrassing at first but really fun.

Mrs Alexander even stood up and shouted out that she is good at general knowledge!!

Then we travelled round the room and when Miss McCue shouted ‘freeze’ we had to stop and give the person closest to us a compliment. It was hard to give someone a compliment who isn’t one of our best friends but we are getting better at it. 💜💜

Last Thursday, 45 children and some staff stayed overnight in school to raise money and awareness of homelessness.

We believe that nobody should be homeless in today’s society and we are working to try and eradicate this problem.

We had lots of fun activities when we arrived at the school like samba, yoga, music from a band and we had a bedtime story read to us by a storyteller.

Even though lights out was at 10, the teachers could still hear some kids chatting and giggling at 2.30!!!!

There were some tired teachers the next day.

 

We have been improving our digital learning skills this week by using the iPads to research dyslexia.

We worked in groups to research dyslexia as it is Dyslexia Awareness Week.

We then presented our research to the rest of the class. We are trying to improve our public speaking skills by presenting work to others at least three times per week.

After that, we worked in pairs and used the iMovie app to creat short films about dyslexia. This was fun and it was good to explore the app and it’s features.

We then created a short film as a class …

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Wednesday was a day like no other.  It was an interesting day because our school changed into a haunted house.

In Primary 6, we had Harry Potter and Hermoine, creepy zombies, meowing cute black cats, spooky skeletons, superheroes like Spiderman and Ironman who were trying to capture the escaped prisoner, Eyeless Jack from Slenderman who was looking pretty blue, a hacker, a magical pink fairy and a couple of witch-like bossy teachers.

 

We went down to the hall and had a parade.  Every class had to dance round the hall and show off their costumes.
One person from every class was awarded Best Dressed and from our class it was Jazil, the Headless Zombie!!

Even the teachers dressed up!

Khadija came in full glam!!

The prize for the cutest person on Halloween was Audrey Brightman.

We were lucky enough to have sessions with The Scottish Ballet which was so much fun.

We learned how to move our bodies in different ways and discovered new moves.

When creating a dance, you can perform moves at different levels like up high or down low on the ground.

It’s so much fun being able to express ourselves through dance.

We worked in pairs to draw a human template of one another which we then filled with facts about ourselves. It was interesting to see the differences between us all.

We had live music while we worked and the pace of the music told us the pace we should be working at. When the music got fast, we knew we didn’t have long left and we had to finish what we were doing quickly.

It’s amazing the shapes and movements you can make with other people …

As part of our Talking and Listening assessment, we presented our work to the class.

We worked in groups to analyse characters, setting and plot from the book, Oranges in No Man’s Land.

Our group was analysing Ayesha and because she is the main character in the book, it was easy to analyse her because we knew lots about her. – Zaynab

It was hard working in a group because we had to make sure we weren’t repeating each other all the time. – Sarmud

Analysing the Granny was hard because she wasn’t mentioned that much in the book so we had to think of the qualities our own gran has and transfer these into our work. – Zack

I thought it was hard to analyse Ayesha at the start of the story because we read it a while ago. – Zain

It was hard to present our work in front of everyone because we hadn’t learned it off by heart and so had to read from the sheet which meant we weren’t looking at the audience when we were presenting. – Jazil

It was difficult to present the plot because we had to summarise the story in order which was hard and we had to think carefully about the order of events. – Zoha

 

To finish off a fun-filled outdoor learning week, Miss McCue challenged us to complete an obstacle course and then answer multiplication sums at the end. The first person to get the multiplication correct,  won a point for their team. 

It got pretty heated and the competitiveness was blooming!! 

This is a great way to get fit and practise our times tables at the same time.

In the end, Teams 4 and 5 both had 9 points so it went to sudden death. Mujtaba competed against Abrahim and Abrahim came out victorious!!

Well done Team 5 🤩🎉

We worked with our friends in Primary 6/7 and Primary 7 to prepare for building a tyre mural in the upper playground.

Some of us recycled soil from the school grounds by digging it up with shovels and forks.

Once the soil was dug up, we transferred it into bags and wheelbarrows and the transporters worked hard to take it from the soil patch to the grassy area in the upper playground.

In the upper playground,  the team of artists designed and painted our recycled tyres. They look amazing!!

What a great afternoon, proving that teamwork really does make the dream work!! 

Watch this space for the end product of all our hard work!!