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Some fabulous and amazing sketching…
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
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
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Fergus Wilson |
Leon Cameron |
Finlay Sutherland |
| GIRL | Honor Brown
Morven Rothwell |
Rosie Flegg |
Cody Crawford |
Jenna MacNeill
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PUPIL COUNCIL
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ECO |
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Finlay Sutherland Daniel Kane Aimee Fordyce Catherine Hamilton Georgia Ireland Rachael Lamont
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Ewan Murray Kieran McIlhatton David Bennett Cameron MacInnes Ryan McArthur Luke Massie |
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RISING STARS
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JRSO |
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Leon Cameron Beth Rodgers Aileen Brechin Michaela Fioretti Kieran Kelly Aaron Plenderleith
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Cameron McCheyne Fergus Wilson Ewan Neil Thomas McIlwraith Duncan Ball Anna MacNaughton |
Our Topic…
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
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…
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!
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…
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
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.
Rock Challenge
P6/7 had a great time performing at Rock Challenge in February. All of the parents/carers/pupils/staff who seen the performance at Eden Court, the IRA or the CCC all thought it was outstanding.
I said that hopefully we would be able to get a DVD of the performance to parents/carers, however this was not possible. I have however finally found where the video is stored online via Rock Challenge- add it to your favourites, i presume it will be there for the foreseeable. I have also added this to the 2011/2012- VIDEOS page.
Click the link below for the video:
Lochardil Rock Challenge 2012
Enjoy the last two weeks of your holiday!
Mr.Cook
P6/7 (2011/2012)
P6/7 last year (2011/2012) shared lots of fabulous memories which were caught on camera.
All of the videos from this year will remain on the blog, however the rest of the content will disappear. You have the password which will get you into ALL of the videos in your email inbox.
You can access these by clicking the link below, or by going to ‘2011/2012- VIDEOS’ under ‘Our Links’
2011/2012- VIDEOS
Enjoy!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
Welcome- 2012/2013
A different year for Lochardil…
Today we looked at what the FUTURE may look like at school and at home using two clever video clips. The links are below:
A Day Made Of Glass
A Day Made Of Glass 2
We want to take this opportunity also to think about the PAST. For P6/7- this year was different. You had 3 teachers, and moved around from classroom to classroom. This has been a way of working which we have really enjoyed- BOTH pupils and teachers.
FOR WEDNESDAY 20th JUNE:
– Post your FAVOURITE event(s) from P6/7 this year on this blog post, and remember to say WHY it was your favourite…
See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice
