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This is P6/7s first blog. You will be joining us on our journey throughout the year.
We will be sharing with you our achievements, work, presentations and more.
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Primary 6/7
A Recipe For Success
We are P7 pupils from Gourock Primary School. We took part in the Blogging Bootcamp last year and we are looking forward to participating again and taking part in new challenges this upcoming year.
Primary seven is a big year for us because we are getting ready for moving up to the high school, which means we need to push ourselves to our limits and ‘take every opportunity’, which is our class motto!
We have been looking at poetry and figurative language and decided the best way to introduce ourselves was through a ‘Recipe for Success’.
We have used alliteration in our recipe to make it sound more interesting. We hope you enjoy it!
Matthew Orr.
Sports Leaders
We have been learning sports leadership skills and leading sessions with our buddies in P1. The first thing we had to do was in a group we planned our session using the STEPS principles which is Space, Time, Equipment, People and Speed. We had to organise a warm up, main activity and a cool down. Since we have a wheelchair user in P1, it was really important to think about the activities and how he would be able to take part in our session. We decided to play Boccia which is a sport that wheelchairs users can play, (my buddy is a wheelchair user) it is like bowls and it is really fun! Then we collected any equipment and practised it first to check the space we needed and timed it.
Leading the session was hard at first because at the start the P1s were a little hyper but we managed to calm them down and then get some of the shy ones to come out of their shell. Sometimes it was hard to stop them from running about and get them to listen. It was good teaching them some cool activities they can play when they are in the playground with their friends or even show their parents. It was our first time teaching P1 and also we were the first P7s in Whinhill to do Sports Leaders.
We will be doing it again tomorrow so we had to reflect on how our last session went and write an evaluation before we planned our next session. The session we planned this week is a bit more advanced. We had to change what sort of sponge balls we were using because we needed bigger ones for the P1s who found it hard and smaller ones to make a challenge for the good ones. The first session went really well and next we are going to work up the classes and lead more sessions. We have learned loads of new skills so far like planning and organising the session and working with others in a group. We hope you enjoyed reading this post by Scott and Nathan in P7.
Exploring Europe!
This term we have been learning all about Europe. We decided for our topic that we would like to participate in the Inverclyde Euro Quiz. There were some useful resources we used to help us get ready.
To help us study, we used books and the internet to gather lots of information. We have been making fact files on different countries too. Each group in our class has a different country to become experts on and we have to design our own wall display, TV challenge and think about what we will have organised for our table at the Europe Day celebrations.
Mrs Falconer has taught us about the European Union, focusing on the history, the Euro and map work. We had challenges set each week, for example; learning all the member states, recognising each of the flags and identifying all the capital cities on a map. One of the hardest was learning the dates each country joined the EU!
We have been using a really good website to learn more about Europe. It’s the Europa website which has a Kids’ corner. This website has games including an online board game you can play alone or with family and friends. It tells you about different currencies, famous people and landmarks, flags, languages and the European Union.
It definitely helped us because we got a good place in the Euro Quiz! We came 5th out of 16 teams!
Learning in P6
In P6 Mrs Falconer tries to make learning as active and fun as possible. My favourite subjects are science, p.e and there are a lot of intelligent people in P6 and Mrs Falconer is a really fun teacher. There are lots of after school clubs such as skiing, basketball, athletics and football that we all take advantage of!
A Picture of Learning in P6
In P6 we love art, the latest thing we did in art was recreating famous paintings from famous European artists. I think this is useful because it gives us a chance to build on our observation skills.
We also love our Europe topic and 2 weeks ago a group of pupils from our class went to the Euro quiz and came 5th out of 16 teams! We are really proud of them! We have also been studying 7 specific countries for our Europe day celebrations.
In maths we have been learning how to multiply while using decimals, this is useful as it will help us when we are older for any jobs we get. We know we have to use decimals for lots of things like measure and money.
A Picture Of Learning In Primary Six
Primary six is full of opportunities. What I like about primary six is there is a new sport or activity opening up every week such as:
- After school skiing – we have been visiting Bearsden for some lessons up on the slopes with Primary 7.
- Our athletics team who made it through into the finals.
- Cross country over at Tower Hill.
- Ardentinny
- After school basketball.
The person to thank for most of it , is our teacher Mrs Falconer. She participates in things like skiing and Ardentinny and I know everyone is very thankful for the time she gives up to join in with us.
Right now we are focusing on the European Union. Everyone has a set country to research. For instance, my country is Spain so my team need to create a wall display, TV show and a fact file.
We learn up to our full potential in every lesson and have fun without fail. My favourite thing is probably our Group Responsibilities, we each have a special responsibility including;
- PPR: promoting positive relationships team who are in charge of our schools equipment and playground pals.
- Fit for life team who are in charge of our running around Europe program and keeping us fit.
- GIRFEC group who are in charge of the schools health and wellbeing and make sure everyone is SHANARRI. Currently they are working on a game board for the school to learn more about GIRFEC.
- Global citizens who sell the Malawian farmers rice for £3 and have completed 4 90kg rice challenges.
- Journalists who type out our newsletter blog posts.
We all have carried out our duties well and I hope we will be successful in the future.
By Orla Mcallister P6
A Picture of Learning in P6
Primary 6 is a fun, active and intelligent class. We love P.E, Art, Writing and Science.
Art is a great way to express your creativity.
Writing is good because once you start writing, your story will flow and turn into something amazing!
We love science because it tells you, if you mix different things together, it can turn into something really cool!
Finally, we love P.E because we love keeping fit, healthy and active. We recently learned how to ski at an after school skiing club. Skiing is now my favourite sport and hobby!
Primary 6 are included in groups.
The Journalists write the class newsletter for the parents so they know what we’ve been up to.
The Global Citizens order fair trade rice from Malawi and sell bags of rice to the school for £3 a bag. They are currently on their 4th batch of the 90kg rice challenge and are doing very well.
The PPR Team (Promoting Positive Relationships Team) are in charge of Playground Pals. We typed up a rota for who is in the upper school playground and who is in the lower school playground. We read it out every day. Playground Pals is a massive part of the school. Primary 6 play games with pupils from P1-P7. We recently ordered new equipment which will be available to play with soon.
The GIRFEC Group makes sure everyone is SHANARRI. They are currently working on a GIRFEC Game board which the whole school can play soon.
Finally, we have the Fit4Life Team who organise and count the points for Running Round Europe. They are doing a great job!
Primary 6 is a great class and we are looking forward to further challenges.
By Emily Watson P6
Our Class Bio Poem
Primary 6 GPS!
Fun, active, talented, responsible.
Class of Mrs Falconer, pupils of a great school!
Love science, art, athletics and working together
Healthy, confident, included!
Who fear no Golden Time and wet plays
Proud of St Andrew’s assembly, Global Citizen’s success and sporting achievements
Championing GIRFEC, the right to an education and treating everyone equally
The wee roun’ school.
Gourock Primary
