Welcome, Primary 6 have had a very busy few months since returning back to school in August. We would like to share what we have been doing with you all. 

Maths – We started off with revision, after the year we have all had we needed to remember the foundations of maths. So far we have covered place value, addition, subtraction, fractions decimals and percentages (which will be getting covered again in term 2). Number Talks have really helped our mental agility and helped with our number bonds and doubles for our sums. We are now looking at multiplication and division before moving on to co-ordinates and symmetry. We had lots of fun for Halloween making 3D pumpkins and Halloween sum pictures. Mrs Speirs has planned lots of fun Christmas maths actives for us so we are really excited about this.  

Literacy- We started off this term by all reading the same novel called Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. This is called a model text so Mrs Speirs could demonstrate all the reading strategies to us and help us understand the novel/ author better. We really enjoyed this novel as we got to find out about the different countries and the history of Kensuke. There was lots of cliff hangers that kept us wanting to read more. After the October holidays we have been put into groups. The Yellow group is reading Dark Isle by DA Nelson and the red group is reading Saving Finnegan by Sally Grindley. This time we have the novels home with us to read which is helping our fluency and expression. We all still love story writing and so far we have enjoyed recount, persuasive, imaginative and now instructional. We are learning to add in more details to our story and new interesting vocabulary to make sure the reader stays engaged in our stories.   

RE – We started off by looking into the Feast of the Assumption which we celebrated back in August. We have created a wonderful RE wall and Alter in our classroom. We have been exploring the Bible in more detail and looking into Jesus first miracle. We explored the importance of Mary as a mother figure and the impact she had on Jesus. We compared Mary as the mother of Jesus and the qualities and skills she had as a mother comparing her to our own mother. We have been lucky enough to take part in our class First Friday Mass. We all loved being back in chapel to celebrate as a class and the Holy Family parishioners. The month of October being the Holy Rosary, the children have learned to pray the Rosary and have visited Holy Family Church to pray in the garden. We have been learning about All Saints Day and creating our own November List for our class. 

Topic/ Science – Our topic this term has been Oceans and Continents which has also been incorporated with climate change and COP26. We have been learning how many there are, the names of countries that are in each continent, the climate, economy, tourist attractions and culture. We have been taking a closer look at how we can help look after these continents and Oceans and how we can cut back on pollution. Having COP26 take place in Glasgow has made us very aware of the problems we face in this world and how change needs to happen and how we can make this change happen. We have been very active in this and even managed to make our own Rain Gauge. We were very shocked at how much rain we collected in such a short space of time.   

Expressive Arts – We love Art in this class and we really enjoy experimenting with different materials to create different pieces of Art. We have been learning about Vincent Van Gogh and his love for oil pastels and water colours. We even managed to recreate his famous water colour painting called Sunflowers. We enjoy mixing the paint with the water and creating different colours. We created lots of topic art included pollution posters. We also created Halloween bats and Autumn wreaths and we even collected our own leaves from the park. We have beautiful firework chalk drawings this week and we all cannot wait until we can start with our Christmas activities. 

Emotion Works/ Heath and Welbeing – We have been working hard on dealing with our emotions and talking about how we feel. There has been so much happen to us all over the past year we feel it’s better to talk and draw about how we are feeling. We have been trying out meditation in class, we found this hard to begin with as staying still and switching off was hard but now finding this a lot easier and receiving the benefits from this. We have been acting out different emotions our bodies go through and are aware that a lot can happen to us in Primary 6.  God’s loving plan will start on the 8th November for the Primary 6. 

We are all becoming Responsible Citizens, Successful Learner, Effective Contributors and Confident Individuals in Primary 6. We cannot wait to show you what else we have planned for the rest of the term and for term 2. We have really enjoyed being back at school now as things slowly start to get back to some sort of normal. Thank you for reading what we have been up to,

 From Primary 6 and Mrs Speirs