Monthly Archives: September 2012
Say NO to Bullying!
Today’s theme across P6/7 was very much ANTI-BULLYING.
In P6 we looked at clips about verbal, physical and cyber bullying, as well as playing a bullying game. We learned that you have to STAND UP to bullies. The motto in one of the clips was: STOP-TALK-WALK
The P7s were at Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football stadium for the ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ event. This was an excellent event in which we got to do three different workshops, learning about the horrific and ILLEGAL act of bullying known as RACISM. We found out that Racism is when you treat someone differently due to their skin colour, culture, nationality or religion. This was a very exciting day as we got to meet some of the Caley players.!
Watch the bullying videos from today, play the bullying game, and visit the ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ website by clicking the links below:
Bullying Video 1
Bullying Video 2
Bullying Video 3
Bullying Video 4
Bullying Game
Think U Know- Cyber Bullying
Show Racism the Red Card
Happy surfing!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
What’s the weather like?
REMINDERS:
- P7 need a Packed Lunch tomorrow as we’re going to Caley Stadium
- CONTRACTIONS homework BELOW
What’s the weather like?
Well, I think we can all answer that- RAIN.
As part of our project, we all have to present a weather report. This can be in the form of a Newspaper, TV Report or a Radio Report. We’ve spent the past two Wednesday afternoons creating our report.
OUR NEXT STEPS
- Make final changes to the script
- Create our symbols
- Ensure that Newpaper reports are completed with all relevant details
- PRESENT WEATHER REPORTS (FIRST WEEK BACK)
REMEMBER TO CHECK OUT LOCHARDIL WEATHER by clicking the link the the right.
See you all tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
Contractions
REMINDERS for TOMORROW WEDNESDAY 26th September:
- Bring in any additional research on ‘My Hero’ that you need for your Biography writing lesson.
- Bring in any materials that you are preparing for your weather report.
A contraction is when we make two words, or one large word, into a smaller word by losing some of the letters, and using an apostrophe.
Some examples:
can’t – cannot
I’m – I am
they’re – they are
FOR FRIDAY- POST 5 CONTRACTIONS AND THEIR FULL FORM ON THIS COMMENT
Play some contraction games that we’ve been playing by clicking the links below:
Happy Playing! We’ll see you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
2-D Shape
REMINDERS for WEDNESDAY 26th September:
- Bring in any additional research on ‘My Hero’ that you need for your Biography writing lesson.
- Bring in any materials that you are preparing for your weather report.
Until the October break we are working on 2-D Shape in Maths. We all looked at the properties of 2-D Shapes last week.
Play the 2-D shape to test your knowledge by clicking the link below. When you access it, click ‘RANDOM SEQUENCE’ down the bottom left hand side of the page.
2-D Shape Game
See you all tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
Another FANTASTIC Friday!
Another FANTASTIC day in P6/7 has led to the end of another PHENOMENAL week!
In Mapping with Mrs.Mac today we learned about the different Scottish Regions. For the game that you played to day in class- click the link below:
REGIONS OF SCOTLAND GAME
With Mr.Cook in French we completed our French calendars which are now fantastic! Our job is now to change these EVERY DAY. We ended the day singing a French animals song which was a bit of a tongue-twister.
In Art with Mrs.Prentice we finished off our weaving pictures, which are now looking rather psychadelic. We then made some WONDERFUL ‘Sun Captures’ inspried by the fantastic Andy Warhol.
To top the day off, some of us went to Netball club with Mrs P and Mrs MacLeod (Finlay’s Mum) after school!
Have a wonderful weekend,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
Junior Leadership
This year Sarah Liebnitz, our Active Schools Sports Coordinator, has given 10 children from the upper school the chance to be a Junior Leader. Junior Leadership is about introducing new games to Lochardil and keeping us healthy and happy.
Every Wednesday at 2:00 until 3:00 o’clock we learn new games and techniques on safety, communication, cooperation, enjoyment, responsibility and caring .
We have made up various games called Bean Bag Track, Spinny Hop and Cop Tag.
The rules to these games are….
Bean Bag track: Make a course out of cones and different coloured hula hoops. Each player has a bean bag on their head. One person is the leader and holds up a colour that also has a hoop that colour. Everybody must run to that coloured hoop. If your bean bag falls off your head you are OUT! Last one standing WINS!
Spinny hop: Lay out a long line of cones. Put 2 hula hoops on your arms and a bean bag on your head. Then hop until you get to the end of the cones, then hop back. You can be in teams or just 2 players.
Cop Tag: You mark an area out of cones. Then you pick a cop and they wear a cone on their head. You have a bean bag in your hand and you have to throw the bean bag at somebody underneath their waist. Once they are caught they make a conga line behind the cop. If somebody goes out of the marked area they become the cop. If the cone falls off the cops head the cop has to pick somebody to replace them. The last person to be caught wins.
We look forward to continuing our junior leadership training.
Ellie, Georgia, Mackenzie, James H, Honor and Ewan M (The P6/7 Junior Leaders)
Waldorf Suncatcher
Check out the cool artwork!
Yes your eyes are not deceiving you ………..it’s Perfect Princess Prentice on the blogg!!!!!
An Active Day for P6/7
REMINDER: We made a START to our Biographies today. If you need any more INFORMATION on your ‘HERO’, bring this in for NEXT WEDNESDAY 26th September
This morning the P6s were doing a PERIMETER investigation with Mr Cook and Mrs MacLeod.
P6 COMPLETE THIS SENTENCE:
The perimeter is…
In teams, we had to find a way of measuring a section of the playground, without using: rulers, metre sticks or trundle wheels. Some people used their bodies, others their shoes, some also using cardboard.
An fantastic result from the ‘Measuring Kids’ who managed to calculate the perimeter within 70cm of the official measurement!
BIG MATHS 19.09.12- RESULTS
The P7s on the other hand were putting their fitness to the test, in a series of fitness tests with Mrs Prentice and Sarah Liebnitz.
An excellent result by Scott and Rachel who managed to get 79 and 56 on the bleep test.
In the afternoon we begun planning our weather reports- Just another day in P6/7
See you all tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
REMEMBER: Stop – Talk – Walk!
REMINDERS:
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Bring in your research of ‘My Hero’, ready to start your biography writing tomorrow.
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P7s- BRING PE KIT. You will have fitness testing with Sarah Liebnitz
Tonight you should be finalising any research on your hero, ready to start your biography writing tomorrow. Today in Writer’s Craft we looked at the layout of a biography, and the important information that we need to include.
To continue the theme of ‘Bullying’ which was highlighted in assembly, here is today’s video:
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Comment on this post to say what you think the important message is from the video!
See you all tomorrow!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
A Happy 21st Birthday!
HOMEWORK REMINDER: POST your HERO on the blog, and complete your research for Wednesday.
Today we celebrated the 21st Birthday of our very own Mrs.Mac. Her face lit up in delight when she saw not one, but two cakes coming her way! 3 cheers- Hip Hip Hooray!
Today our theme in assembly was BULLYING. We were reminded that Lochardil is a BULLY FREE ZONE.
TOP TIPS
- Let someone know if you feel you are being bullied. This can be a teacher, Head Teacher or someone at home.
- DON’T BE A BYSTANDER. If you see someone getting bullied- Tell them to STOP, or speak to an adult.
Watch the video below on CYBER BULLYING.
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See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
Friday again…
HOMEWORK REMINDER: RESEARCH YOUR HERO FOR WRITING AND POST YOUR HERO ON THE BLOG POST BELOW
Another fun-filled week in P6/7. The beginning of LOCHARDIL WEATHER has definitely given us some interesting weather data. We have however got to report the tragedy of our loss of Rain Gauge and our Weather Vane. Hopefully we will be able to repair these.
This afternoon we were very busy in our Specialist Groups.
With Mrs.P- the weaving of some funky patterns is well underway. Your mind boggles just looking at them.
Mrs.Mac took us on a journey across the UK stopping at the main cities along the way.
Mr.Brasier set us the task of using our French vocabulary to create a French calendar. After some of the groups revising their original plan, all of the groups are now on track for completion next week.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
MY HERO!
Today we introduced what our genre is going to be in writing over the next few weeks, before the October break:
BIOGRAPHY!
A BIOGRAPHY is an recount of someone’s life, written by someone who has shown an interest in them.
We will be teaching this through the theme of:
MY HERO!
YOUR HOMEWORK: DUE Wednesday 19th September 2012
- Choose your HERO. This should be someone who has made a DIFFERENCE. This could be a difference to your life, or the lives of many. Think- “What have they done for the world?“
- RESEARCH your hero using books and the internet. Our advice is to AVOID Wikipedia, as the information is not necessarily true.
- YOUR TASK is to BRING IN as much information you can find about your hero- NOT to write about the person- we will do that during writing time.
We look forward to hearing out who your hero is.
COMMENT ON THE BLOG TELLING US WHO YOUR HERO IS BY WEDNESDAY
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
Lochardil Weather has begun…
LOCHARDIL WEATHER– Our weather station within Lochardil has begun. Each day there is a rota for collecting the rainfall, temperature, cloud coverage, and wind speed and direction.
We are using a rain gauge, thermometer, cloud mirror, anemometer and wind vane to collect the data. Each day at 9am after we’ve collected the data, we record it on our weather chat which makes us use a variety of different scales.
Once we have collected the data for September, we hope to create a month by month report about the weather in Lochardil- tracking the coldest, wettest, windiest and cloudiest months in the school.
We also hope to get a blog created that will host all of our weather information, and give a daily weather feed for the rest of the session.!
See you all tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
What’s in the news?
Today in Reading for Information and Writer’s Craft, we looked at how news articles are laid out in a newspaper, and learned about the impact of a hurricane.
In our writing this week, we will be writing a news report on the events of Hurricane Katrina.
Your homework task: For tomorrow WEDNESDAY 12th September 2012
-Write your opening paragraph which SUMMARISES what your WHOLE news article is going to be about.
Watch the video from today which gave us information on the devastation of Hurricane Katrina by clicking the link below:
HURRICANE KATRINA- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
See you all tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
Kirking of the Council Experience
Yesterday we were representing Lochardil at the Kirking of the Council. The Kirking of the Council is when the Provost and the new Council Members get together to celebrate the new Provost of Inverness.
We were chosen to join the parade through the town. We met Mrs. Caddell and Mr. Cook at 9:30 on a Sunday MORNING!!!
The parade started outside Marks & Spencers. It started at 10:00 am. The parade took us down the High Street, down bank street and along Bridge Street. We got to walk on the road. They stopped all the traffic for us. We felt like celebrities.
During the parade James got to carry the flag that he designed.
When we got to the church Reverend Nimmo and Reverend Slack (Mr Slack) did an excellent service that was an hour and 15 minutes long. We heard 3 stories from the bible and we sung some hymns.
After the service we paraded back to the Town House. By this point we were starving! We got into the town house which was very posh. They had put on a fabulous buffet with sandwiches, sausage rolls, quiche, cakes and juice. There was Oasis! 😀
We are really glad we were part of this unique experience. We even got to see Mrs. Graham. Her husband is now the Provost of Inverness.
Ellie, Cameron Mac, James and Amy. M
CHECK OUT ALL OF THE PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS by clicking the link below:
Kirking of the Council- Professional Photographs
Half way…
MONDAY REMINDERS:
– Junior Leadership APPLICATON
– GO FOR IT FORMS
– CDs FOR THE MUSIC GROUP- HALLOWE’EN DISCO
That’s us HALF WAY through Term 1 already! It is absolutely crazy!
Today we talked to you about the JUNIOR LEADERSHIP scheme that the Active Schools Co-ordination- Sarah Liebnitz will be beginning on a Wednesday afternoon.
We gave out the ‘application forms’ this afternoon. If you’d like to become a ‘Junior Leader’ you need to fill out your application by:
MONDAY 10th SEPTEMBER 2012.
It asks you three questions:
- Why do you want to become a High Life Highland Junior Leader?
- What qualities and skills have you got that will help you to become a Junior Leader?
- Have you done anything in the past that you think will help you become a leader?
Next week:
- We’re aiming to begin LOCHARDIL WEATHER– our very own weather station.
- We’ll continue our planning for the Hallowe’en disco-
Have a WONDERFUL weekend!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
Pupil of the Month
WELL DONE to our August ‘Pupils of the Month‘. It is great to see our two new pupils Katie and Jamie receiving Pupil of the Month for settling in and making a good impression on everyone in Lochardil.
Let’s see why our 3 ‘Pupils of the Month’ received their award this month:
Katie because she has joined our school with a positive attitude, quickly making friends and showing her fun personality by making us laugh.
Jamie has made a great start to his time at Lochardil. He’s shown that he’s kind and helpful. He has been friendly to all the people that he has met.
Ryan has shown that he is a responsible individual. He has taken on the responsibility of queue/door duty at lunch time, being a great asset to Mrs Caddell and the kitchen.
WELL DONE!
FROM ALL IN P6/7
Global Warming: ACT NOW!
Today we created a campaign speech in writing to STOP Global Warming. We realised that there are lots of things we can all do to prevent the effects on the planet.
Your BLOGGING homework:
For tomorrow (THURSDAY)
– Write a sentence IN YOUR OWN WORDS answering the question ‘What is Global Warming?’ and post it on the blog.
This afternoon we also begun planning LOCHARDIL WEATHER– our very own weather station in Lochardil. We’re aiming to measure and record the rain, wind, cloud-cover and temperature in Lochardil twice a day. This will begin next week. We’ll update when there is more information.
Watch the videos and play the games from this afternoon by clicking the links below:
See you all tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
Climate Change and Global Warming
Today in Reading for Information we developed our note-taking skills by watching a clip from the National Geographic on Climate Change and Global Warming.
We found out that if we don’t change our behaviour, attitude and actions towards the world soon, the world will continue to deteriorate at a rapid rate.
YOUR HOMEWORK TASK: FOR TOMORROW 5th SEPTEMBER 2012
- Choose 5 things that you can do at home to lower your carbon footprint and prevent global warming.
E.G- Walking to school whenever possible.
E.G- Walking to school whenever possible.
Watch the video from today by clicking the link below:
Climate Change VIDEO: National Geographic
See you all tomorrow & happy blogging!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
Achievements…
Today we had our first achievement assembly as a whole school since 2011. It was great to be back together as a school.
Mrs Caddell shared some interesting achievement quotes. Click the link below to read some more:
Achievement Quotes
We also begun planning our Hallowe’en disco. All of the groups were extremely busy deciding and conquering their action plan. The Music group would like to remind you:
BRING IN ANY CDs THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PLAYED AT THE DISCO BY THIS FRIDAY.
See you all tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
