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My Future Career

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Recently our class have hosted a World of Work Week event to got us thinking about our future careers and inspire us to choose a job we would be interested in taking on. The week was very successful and due to this we all have a good idea of what we want to be when we are older. For my job I would like to be a Media Makeup-Artist.

This would involve travelling around different countries and applying makeup to celebrities, performers and other clients. In addition to this, I wold get to work with makeup, as well as getting to do something I enjoy as a job and meet new people

I would be interested in this field of work because I would get the opportunity to travel around the world, meet new people and do something I enjoy. To be able to get this career, I will have to train at college and take a course in Media Makeup then get some practical experience by assisting a professional. To complete tasks, I will have to have a variety of skills and qualities, for instance; to be creative, have confidence, possess good communication skills, have patience and concentration, be tolerant, use teamwork skills and be able to work well under pressure.

Therefore I think that this career is perfect for me and when I’m older this job will be a good choice. I had lots of fun at World of Work week and I have learned loads about not just my chosen career but others too.

 

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Exploring Europe!

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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.

Euro Quiz team

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.

Europa Screenshot

It definitely helped us because we got a good place in the Euro Quiz! We came 5th out of 16 teams!

 

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Learning in P6

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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!

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A Picture of Learning in P6

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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.

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A Picture Of Learning In Primary Six

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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

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A Picture of Learning in P6

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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

 

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Our Class Bio Poem

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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.

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Science Week – Van De Graff Generator

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Yesterday we were learning about static electricity. We put our fingertips on a Van De Graff Generator and the hair on our heads and arms started to stick up.

Emily

We had to stand on polystyrene as an insulator otherwise we’d be earthed and would get a small shock. When we touched the Van De Graff Generator, while standing on the polystyrene; we became positively charged! When we stood on the polystyrene, we became a conductor of the static electricity.

The reason our hair sticks up is because the positive charge has nowhere to go and it tries to get away from the other positive charge.

Matthew

To discharge the Van De Graff generator you can touch it with a wand attached to something that’s earthed (like a tap) or you can take your hands off then touch someone else by shaking their hand and giving them a slight shock.

It was  very funny and when people looked at in the mirror  everyone was killing themselves in laughter!!!  After  the Van De Graff generator was turned off, the person who had been using it had to shake the static electricity off and wait for their hair to calm down before they stepped off the polystyrene.

Isla

Thank you for reading this post and we hope you  have learned  something  new!!!

Isla and Abigail 🙂

 

 

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Science Week – Viscosity

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One of the topics our class have been focusing on for science week is viscosity.

We learnt that the viscosity of a liquid is how thick or thin it is. If a liquid has high viscosity, it is very thick and moves very slow when you pour it out, but if a liquid has low viscosity it is very thin and runs quickly when you pour it.

Each of us brought in a different liquid and we made a viscosity chain using our knowledge, putting the thickest liquids first and the thinnest ones last. It was sometimes quite  challenging to work out a liquids place in the chain.

For example, a lot of people brought in different types of oil and it was hard to try and work out the viscosity of each one.

We also learnt about non Newtonian and Newtonian liquids. Non Newtonian liquids do not change when force is applied but Newtonian liquids  do change like tomato ketchup when you shake it, paint when you stir it and toothpaste when you mix it.

One good example is cream, when you whisk it, it changes consistency and becomes really thick and no longer takes the shape of its container. It behaves more like a solid.

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Science Week – Making a Lava Lamp

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This week is Science Week, so we decided to make a lava lamp!

We used pure vegetable oil , red food colouring, water and Alka-Seltzer tablets. First, we put in a little bit of water into a big 2 litre bottle then filled the rest of it up with vegetable oil, almost to the top. The water and vegetable oil don’t mix so the vegetable oil sat on top of the water, making two layers.

The next step was to put ten drops of red food colouring into the bottle and wait until they all sank to the bottom and rested in the water.

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Lava Lamp

Now the fun part! We dropped in half an Alka-Seltzer tablet, put the lid on and watched a miracle happen…

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It looked like a volcano had erupted – it was so awesome!!!

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After we took the lid off, it made a fizz noise. It  sounded like when you take the cap off of a bottle off coke.

The reason it made an eruption was because it has a chemical reactions to make the red food colouring burst to the top. The gas in the Alka-Seltzer tablets react to the water and the gas that is produced wants to escape. The little gas bubbles push up through the water and oil, taking some of the food colouring with it and that’s why it sounds like coke when we took the cap off.

We turned the classroom lights off and tried it again, this time with SIX Alka-Seltzer tablets and the mixture went crazy! We put a torch underneath the bottle and it lit up like a real lava lamp.

Then Mrs Falconer left it over night to settle and we when we came back into school the vegetable oil was separated from the water again.

We learned that this is called Molecular Polarity! 🙂

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