Riding for the Disabled Moray are back in operation after winter storm damage meant they could no longer use their Burgie location. They have secured new premises at Miltonduff and carried out extensive work in order to resume the riding sessions this month. There have been news articles in the local newspapers to publicise this and currently the Co-op have them as one of their featured charities.
https://www.forres-gazette.co.uk/news/children-s-horse-riding-sessions-are-back-269748/
Woodland Group
All the class have now had the opportunity to gain their Hi5 award and have been looking after their local environment. Hi5 Awards | Youth Scotland
During independent learning, some of the children have been learning magic tricks with playing cards. They have also mastered Uno Flip and various card games as well as perfecting their origami skills.
HWB
In Embodied Learning, we have been practising yoga and mindfulness and learning to move our bodies in lots of different ways to help us express our feelings. The children have all enjoyed the programme immensely and a Sway with photos and video clips is in production.
Numeracy
We have been learning to convert 12 hour to 24 hour time and reading and creating timetables. We have also been practising mental maths and converting larger numbers from Roman Numerals.
Literacy
We have been working on exciting writing and so far we have explored how to describe a setting for a story. We will be working on characterisation next term. We have also been exploring parts of speech, such as verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives.
Class Advent Calendar
We look forward to welcoming Mrs Malcolm as our new teacher in January and it was good to have a Google meet with her.
Primary 6 Termly Reflection Term 1
Talk for Writing
During term one P6 focused on recount and instructional writing by using the Talk for Writing approach. The children learnt how to create story maps to retell the tale of The Enormous Pumpkin. The children also learnt how to write a set of instructions about trapping a mythical creature. The highlight of the writing block was our celebration event. The class were delighted when they were given the opportunity to share their writing with children in the upper stages. The event was a great success as it showcased how proud the children were of their efforts and enabled them to share the progress they had made since the onset of the writing block with their peers.
Expressive Arts
Another of our highlights from term one was creating artwork inspired by Pablo Picasso. The children especially enjoyed creating their own portraits which was inspired by Picasso’s Cubist style.
Term 2
This term our focus in Primary 6 will be as follows:
Reading
The children will be working in small working groups during weekly Guided Reading lessons. During these sessions the children will continue to develop their knowledge and understanding of the different reading strategies. Our class novel this term is The Witches by Roald Dahl. The children have engaged well during whole class discussions about the text and have enjoyed opportunities to discuss the characters and themes. They are looking forward to finding out what happens to the main character as the plot develops.
