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P6 2022

Term 4

What a fantastic final term we have had in Primary 6.  We have had a term full of new opportunities for growth and lots of fun along the way! 

Literacy

In Literacy this term we have been focusing on the genre of adventure.  Our class novel ‘Dead man’s cove’ supports this and has engaged the children beautifully in the exciting adventures of its budding detective Main character.  Using Talk for Writing methods the children have been innovating on the short story ‘Kidnapped’ by Pie Corbett creating their own characters with a particular focus on exciting sentence starters helping to engage our readers. Accelerated Reader has been ongoing as an independent activity with most children working hard to read books and then complete a test.

Numeracy

During this term primary 6 have been working on fractions, time and solidifying their knowledge of multiplication.  Primary 6 have enjoyed some maths themed play and are now confident in the four operations within whole numbers and fractions. Throughout the term we have also been revising our times table knowledge through active maths activities and games and Primary 6 now have a strong and clear understanding of fact families and multiplication with three digit numbers.

Health and Wellbeing 

In PE primary 6 always work extremely hard. We have enjoyed learning to play Cricket with some of the children going off to take part in an inter schools cricket tournament. As always it is important that we continue to work on being part of a team and primary 6 have done this well through the medium of basketball.

 

Primary 6 have had a wonderful year, full of fantastic learning experiences. It has been a pleasure being their teacher this year. I hope you all have an enjoyable and restful summer. 

 

P6 2022

Term 3

What a fantastic term we have had in Primary 6.  We have had a term full of fun and new learning opportunities

Literacy

 In Literacy this term we have been focusing on the genre of adventure.  Our class novel ‘Journey to the River Sea’ supports this and has engaged the children beautifully in the exciting adventures of its main character Mia.  Using Talk for Writing methods the children have been innovating on the short story ‘Safia and the Captain’ by Pie Corbett creating their own characters with a particular focus on appropriate paragraphing and developing adventure through the use exciting verbs and adverbs.

 Accelerated Reader has been ongoing as an independent activity with most children working hard to read books and then complete a test.

Numeracy

During this term primary 6 have been working on money and fractions.  Primary 6 have enjoyed some shop role play and are now confident in the four operations with money.  Primary 6 have also been working hard on fractions and are becoming more confident in calculating fractions of amounts, comparing and ordering fractions and equivalent fractions. Throughout the term we have also been revising our times table knowledge through active maths activities and games.

Health and Wellbeing

 In PE primary 6 always work extremely hard.  They have been working on circuits once a week and this has been extremely popular.  They have also been working on Badminton and now the children strive to hold a successful rally with their peers.  Finally, we have been playing team games which the children particularly love, this has helped us to work on communicating with peers successfully and supporting each other.  It’s been fantastic to be a part of!

Primary 6 have had a wonderful term, full of fantastic experience, We can’t wait to see what next term holds!

P6 2022

Term 2

What a fantastic term we have had in Primary 6.  We have had a term full of fun and new experiences with STEM team visitors and trips up to the church in preparation for our Christmas celebrations. 

Literacy 

 In Literacy this term we have been focusing on developing character through the genre of mystery.  Our class novel ‘cogheart’ supports this and has engaged the children beautifully in the mysterious journey of its main characters Lilly and Robert.  Using Talk for Writing methods the children have been innovating on the short story ‘The way home’ by Pie Corbett creating their own characters with a particular focus on appropriate paragraphing and developing character through exciting verbs and direct speech.

Accelerated Reader has been ongoing as an independent activity with most children working hard to read books and then complete a test.

Numeracy 

During this term primary 6 have been working on addition and subtraction of whole numbers and numbers to 2 decimal places.  Primary 6 are now fantastic at using these skills to solve multi step problems using appropriate language to share with their peers the methods they have chosen to use. Throughout the term we have also been revising our times table knowledge through active maths activities and games. 

  Health and Wellbeing 

In PE primary 6 always work extremely hard.  They have been working on Gymnastics with Miss Masson and this has been extremely popular.  They have also been working on Badminton and now the children strive to hold a successful rally with their peers.  Finally, we have been playing team games which the children particularly love, this has helped us to work on communicating with peers successfully and supporting each other.  It’s been fantastic to be a part of!

 Other 

This term we were lucky to have a visit from the RAF Lossiemouth STEM team.  With them the children engaged in STEM activities based around the theory of flight and a construction challenge.  The children loved it!  We were even lucky enough to have a RAF Typhoon fly over the school on the same day whilst the children were perfecting their own aeroplane designs.

As well as this the children have been learning about the Iron Age this term.  They particularly enjoyed learning about the difference between farming now and then and found it fascinating that that long ago farming was even a thing!

For Christmas we have been practising our Christmas carols for our carol service at St Lawrence church, and our community carols on the last day of term.  Primary 6 have been particularly engaged with this with their favourite being ‘ O’ little town on Bethlehem’

Well done Primary 6 for a fantastic term!

 

 

P6 2022

Term 1

Literacy 

This term we have been studying the genre of suspense.  We have been writing our own suspense stories based on Pie Corbett’s Zelda’s Claw and the Rain cat, thinking about all the key features involved in a successful suspense story. We have been using the Talk for Writing method to help us learn these texts, innovate on them, and then write independently.  To complement our writing, we have been reading the novel  Varjak Paw by S.F Said.  This has helped the children to draw comparisons between their own writing and the writing of accomplished authors. 

We are continuing to use The WrapAround Spelling scheme to look at spelling patterns and words in more depth and the strategies we can use to help us spell words accurately. 

Numeracy 

This term we have been looking at place value of numbers up to 100,000.  We have used various activities to explore number working particularly on representing whole numbers using numerals, words and number lines as well as partitioning whole numbers into hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands, thousands, hundreds, tens and ones.  

We have spent a lot of time linking play with our numeracy which has engaged the children in fantastic number conversations where they have successfully managed to link previous learning to new material. 

Health and Well-being 

Primary 6 have had weekly basketball lessons with Miss Masson and have also been practising their teamwork and communication skills in PE with Mrs Malcolm.  

We use our Zones of Regulation every day in class for check in to help us recognise, understand, and talk about our emotions. 

Topic – the Dandelion Festival and ‘How was it made?’ 

Primary 6 learned all about how barley is grown and harvested and what barley can be used for.  We then shared this learning at our school’s Dandelion Festival assembly in September. 

We have worked collaboratively to research the planets in our Solar System and talked about what makes the Earth different and similar to the other planets in the solar system.  We plan to continue this project into the new term by creating and designing our own ‘Mars rover’. 

 Independent Learning through Play 

The P6 children have done lots of fantastic learning through play, developing a range of skills like teamwork, communication, and problem solving, as well as advancing their learning in other areas.  For example: 

  • Using lego to build vehicles with trailers thinking about equal and unequal weight distributions and how this could affect a vehicle. 
  •  Watercolour paints to help us explore the planets in our solar system.  
  • The Kapla blocks and monopoly have been very popular this term and have allowed the children to develop their teamwork skills to work on big projects as well as literacy and numeracy skills to discuss and explain what they are doing.