Monthly Archives: August 2012

Bon week-end!

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REMEMBER: Your picture homework for the ‘Family Favourites Cook Book’ for MONDAY!

Another fabulous week for Primary 6/7. Seems like only yesterday we were updating the blog last Friday. The good news is as of Monday we have INTERNET in our new building meaning that we can get the ‘Building Blog’ up and running again, and get our Smart boards up and running!

A fantastic Friday afternoon in specialist groups:

With Mrs.P, there was the creation of some beautiful watercolour still life sweetpea paintings which have been added to our display cabinet. We now have enough art work to start a small art gallery.

Mrs Mac took us around the world again in another episode of Geography. Check this GAME out by clicking the link below. There are 3 levels. You could all manage ‘intermediate’, but we challenge you to do ‘expert’.

CONTINENTS AND OCEANS GAME

Finally with Monsieur Brasier, we were able to say what the weather was and each of our four seasons. Equipe Lyon and Equipe Dijon are joint top on our leader board with 30 points, and in joint third place, Equipe Marseille and Equipe Nice with 27 points.

Visit the new ‘En francais’ page to the RIGHT of this blog under ‘Pages’ by clicking the link below. There are lots of French activities to try at home:

en francais PAGE

Have a fantastic weekend!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

A windy day in Lochardil…

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Today seemed to fly right passed us like a gust of wind on the Beaufort Scale. We had an extremely busy day.

Well done to all of those people who researched the American political system. Here is the website that we mentioned today that has some great American information:

AMERICAN POLITICS WEBSITE

We also looked at the Beaufort Scale- a way of measuring the strength of the wind. A chart of this can be found below:

See you all tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Current Affairs…

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This morning we were talking about American Politics during News. We realised that we didn’t know a lot about the politicians in America.

Your task to try and find out for tomorrow:

1. What is the American Government called?
2. What are the two main parties in America called?
3. Which party does Barack Obama lead?

YOU CAN POST YOUR ANSWERS ON THE BLOG/PIECE OF PAPER

REMEMBER TO BRING BACK YOUR LETTERS WHICH WERE GIVEN OUT TODAY!

Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

The Water Cycle

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Today we begun looking at the four terms which make up ‘The Water Cycle’:

  • Evaporation
  • Condensation
  • Precipitation
  • Accumulation

With a partner, we had to try and find a way of how we would teach P4 these terms. We realised that with a diagram, we could show and explain ‘The Water Cycle’

HOMEWORK: FOR TOMORROW- WEDNESDAY 29th August

– Create a diagram of the FOUR stages of ‘The Water Cycle’, highlighting the four key words and what they mean.

This will be a great help for your writing tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

What goes on inside the kitchen?

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HOMEWORK: DUE MONDAY 3rd September 2012

The Parent Council are busy making the ‘Family Favourites Recipe Book’. The Pupil Council have asked us to design a picture which can be used for the back cover.

–  Draw a FUN picture which shows the ‘Family in the kitchen’ or ‘Your favourite meal’.
– This is to be BRIGHT and COLOURFUL.

Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

End of another week…

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This week just FLEW by! It seems that we have just raced on and reached Friday. And what an excellent week of hard work, and our favourite, HOMEWORK, we’ve had!

Today was our first day of our Specialist Groups.

From flying around the continents with Mrs MacLeod,
learning  our hellos and goodbyes with Monsieur Brasier,
and beginning our fantastic rainbow weaving with Mrs Prentice–

all in all, it was a fabulous end to Friday.

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!
Monsieur Brasier, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

The mystery jumper…

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Today we are left wondering if people went home with 1 sock, half a pair of trousers, and a sleeveless jumper.

Even with JUMPER CHECK in full force after PE, a few of you managed to slip out without picking up your school uniform. The only problem is there are NO NAMES on the uniform.

Your HOMEWORK task for tomorrow:
– MAKE SURE ALL SCHOOLWEAR IS LABELED WITH YOUR NAME

We will be checking tomorrow, to ensure that our nameless friends don’t have a full wardrobe!

Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Save A Life

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REMEMBER: YOUR PE KIT FOR TOMORROW

Today our P7s had Save a Life training. They were taught how to put someone into the Recovery Position, how to give CPR and how to help someone if they are choking.

REMEMBER: YOU CAN ONLY PRACTISE THE RECOVERY POSITION AT HOME. You should only use the other ‘Save a Life’ procedures in an emergency.

See the photographs from today below:

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Descriptive Weather…

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Today we begun looking at descriptive language within Writer’s Craft. We read some excellent examples of how writers can describe the weather using adjectives, similes, metaphors and personification.

HOMEWORK TASK: For TOMORROW, Wednesday 22nd August
– Choose a piece of weather that interests YOU.
–  Find 5 words/phrases to describe your piece of weather. TRY AND BE IMAGINATIVE. These can be adjectives, similes, metaphors or examples of personification.
Write this in your homework diary/ a piece of paper!

Here are the examples we read today:

‘It was a cold grey day in late November. The weather had changed overnight, when a backing wind brought a granite sky and a mizzling rain with it, and although it was now only a little after two o’clock in the afternoon the pallor of a winter evening seemed to have closed upon the hills, cloaking them in mist.’

‘The sunset filled the entire sky with the deep colour of rubies, setting the clouds ablaze.’

‘I wield the flail of the lashing hail
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.’

Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Youth Music Initiative

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Over Term 2 and 3 we will have tutors from the Youth Music Initiative (YMI) in to work with our P6/7 children. The P5 pupils worked with Feis Rois last session, this being an extension to their prior learning, as well as an introduction for the P7s. This will be done during 12 Music sessions during two 6 week blocks.

Information about the YMI can be accessed by clicking the link below:
Youth Music Initiative

Information for local out of school Traditional Music Classes (TMCs) can be found using the link below:
TMC (PARENT/CARER) information

Some fabulous and amazing sketching…

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What an excellent first week we’ve all had in P6/7.

Today we begun developing our line drawing technique using chalk, pencil and pen. We had to use our observation skills to really study our umbrella to see where all the lines met. This was pretty tricky, but we did a fabulous job. Here is the beginning of our fantastic gallery.

REMINDER:
Bring back your signed information slip letter and plastic folder for Monday.

Have a brilliant weekend!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

P6/7 Representatives

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HOMEWORK REMINDER FOR TOMORROW:
– NEWS ARTICLE
– UMBRELLA

As promised… we will now reveal our P6/7 representatives for the ECO, Pupil Council, Rising Star and JRSO groups, as well as our P7 House Captains as decided by P6/7.

Remember to check out the blogs for each of the pupil groups to see what they’re getting up to.

Here’s to a year of Responsible Citizens.

House Captains

BROOM ASHIE RUTHVEN DUNTELCHAIG
BOY

Bradi Hulme

Fergus Wilson

Leon Cameron

Finlay Sutherland
GIRL Honor Brown

Morven Rothwell

Rosie Flegg

Cody Crawford

Jenna MacNeill

PUPIL COUNCIL

ECO

Finlay Sutherland

Daniel Kane

Aimee Fordyce

Catherine Hamilton

Georgia Ireland

Rachael Lamont

Ewan Murray

Kieran McIlhatton

David Bennett

Cameron MacInnes

Ryan McArthur

Luke Massie

RISING STARS

JRSO

Leon Cameron

Beth Rodgers

Aileen Brechin

Michaela Fioretti

Kieran Kelly

Aaron Plenderleith

Cameron McCheyne

Fergus Wilson

Ewan Neil

Thomas McIlwraith

Duncan Ball

Anna MacNaughton

Our Topic…

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To start off the year we are combining the work we have done in citizenship and ECO to investigate the topic of ‘Weather and Climate Change’.

Today we did our topic plan as a class, deciding the areas and questions we want to investigate, as well as the skills that we aim to develop.

Our aim is to:

    Produce a weather report using factual information and present to a group/ the class.

We have separated our topic into three main themes:

Local Weather: On Our Doorstep (OOD)
What causes Inverness weather to change so quickly?

National Weather: Great British Weather (GBW)
Why is the weather different all across Great Britain?

Global Weather: World Wide Weather (WWW)
How does the weather have an impact on climate change?

The skills we are going to focus on developing are:

Basic Skills

  • Research
  • Critical Reading
  • Critical Writing
  • Measuring and Testing
  • Reading Scales
  • Note-Taking
  • Presenting information

Social Skills

  • Listening
  • Co-operation
  • Presenting as a group
  • Agreeing to disagree
  • Sharing ideas
  • Reaching group consensus
  • Talking aloud

If Mum, Dad or anyone at home has any fabulous ideas for ‘Weather and Climate Change’, or any expertise which you would feel useful, please pop into see us, or drop a note in.
P6/7

Young Writers

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Last session, our P6/7 pupils entered the ‘Mini Saga’ writing competition in which they had to write a story in only 50 words. We are delighted to see that 59 of our P6/7 pupils from last session have been chosen to be published.

All children who are to be published should have received a letter. The book will be published in September. The school will receive a copy for the class library.

Can’t wait to see all of the Mini Sagas in the book!

Well done to the following for getting published:

David Bennett Jaimes Burton Rachel McRobert Angel Hillhouse
Ewan Neil Lewis Fraser Kelsie MacLeod Scott Fraser
Honor Brown Mackenzie Brown Kieran McIlhatton Bradi Hulme
Cameron MacInnes Luke Bremner Gemma Urquhart Cody Crawford
Ryan Hussain Rhoda Duncan Catherine Hamilton Jenna MacNeill
Anna Nairn Mya Craigen Finlay Sutherland Holly Davidson
Duncan Wiseman Charlie Thompson Helen Stewart Leon Cameron
Charlie McGoldrick Ewan MacLeod Sophie Douglas Alexander MacPhail
Emily Twaddle Brooke Armstrong James Haston Jake Morrison
Natalie Cowan Rosie Flegg Morgan Smith Cameron Scott
Morven Rothwell Euan Wheeler Fergus Wilson Jude Christison
Jack Leil Lewis Mitchell Lucia Matheson Blythe Hepburn
Josie Steele Ellie Sinclair Aimee Vincent Molly Ferguson
Reece Musgrave Cameron McCheyne Cameron Brechin Cameron Fortey
Andrew Bowey Lomond Nicoll Luke Allan

Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

The work begins…

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REMEMBER:

Your PE KIT for tomorrow

We had our first assessment for Maths today, and it was quite tricky. It was really useful to show us what we have remembered from last year, and what we need to learn next in number work.

We also decided on what our P6/7 Agreements and Responsibilities should be within the classroom and the school. We will add these to the blog tomorrow along with our House Captains, JRSO, Pupil Council, Rising Star and ECO representatives.

HOMEWORK REMINDER: FOR FRIDAY 17th August


1. Bring in a news article from a newspaper/online that interests YOU!
2. Bring in an umbrella for Friday (If you have one)- It’s time to get ARTY!

See you all tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

We’re BACK!

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Well, P6/7, that’s day 1 over- and what a QUICK day it was!

   
It was brilliant to be in the new buildings- and in the fabulous new classrooms. Each of the rooms are almost finished, with just the internet access to be added now! Well after Mr Cook managed to fix his air conditioning.

REMEMBER: PE kit on BOTH Tuesday and Thursday

HOMEWORK for Friday-
Bring in a news article which interests you from either a newspaper or online.

See you all tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

One more sleep…

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One more sleep until you all get to come back and join the madness and fun of P6/7. W were very busy today sorting out MOUNTAINS of boxes and trays that were in the Learning Cabin, in an attempt to organize 3 brand new rooms. Here’s a photograph of what one corner looked like this morning…

We’ll let you see the finished result tomorrow- without revealing a photograph tonight.

Remember: Your PE kit. Mrs Campbell is in!

See you at 8.50am tomorrow morning-
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Building Update 09.08.2012

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Everyone on site is working extremely hard to ensure that the building works are completed for the return of all pupils on Tuesday 14th August. Fingers crossed everything runs smoothly over the weekend and we are able to get into the two new buildings on Tuesday.

Have a lovely last weekend of the holidays.!

The photographs below were taken today.