Primary 6 have been busy in all areas of the curriculum this month, learning new skills and working hard within the school too.
In Literacy, we have been working in our reading groups working very hard throughout our reading comprehension strategies. Marvellous Matilda’s have been reading a book called Tribes by Catherine MacPhail and Fantastic Foxes have not long finished the book The Queen’s Nose by Dick King-Smith. We have also been continuing to work our way through the NLC Active Literacy programme focussing on spelling strategies and rules, and a range of writing genres with both Mr Rice and Mrs Nixon.
In Maths, we have been currently learning about Multiplication and adding and subtracting Decimals, multiplying large numbers, and using different strategies to work out our answers. We continue to focus on mental maths skills and have been learning a variety of strategies during Number Talks to explain our thinking.
Primary 6 have been working collaboratively with the Primary 6’s from the Primary 7/6 class on their Scottish Song ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)’ by The Proclaimers, which they performed on St Andrews Day at the school assembly. Well done to all that practised their lyrics and did a fantastic job on the day!
In RE, Primary 6 have been learning about the different Saints we have and researching about the faith and inspiration of the Saints. Also, we have been carrying out God’s Loving Plan and have been making great progress in this aspect of the curriculum. From making class contracts and having great discussions in class together to understand what God’s Loving Plan is.
In IDL, we have moved onto our new topic ‘Scottish Myths and Legends’ and have been carrying out a lot of independent research as well as group research. We are currently working on home projects, creating a Scottish Myth or Legend out of recyclable materials to display at our IDL wall. The class have really enjoyed this topic and enjoy sharing what they know about different Scottish Myths and Legends they research.
In PE, we have not long finished Target Games which we have all enjoyed and, in the end, creating our own target game in small groups and presenting these games to the class to carry out as a whole class, demonstrating our skills that we have learned and consolidating our learning together. We have also moved onto Social Dancing for the lead up to our Christmas Party this year and have been working hard alongside Primary 7/6 and Primary 5 in practising different Scottish songs and dances to carry out at the Christmas Party.
Some of our Primary 6 pupils also participated in Cross Country which we were training for during parts of our PE slots and some Friday afternoons. A couple of pupils in Primary 6 had some successful high places within our Primary 6 Boy and Girl races, which we were all so happy for and congratulate them in reaching the finals for next year to participate in! Congratulations to all pupils in Holy Family that had taken part, you should all be so proud of yourselves!
Primary 6 also carried out the Christmas Fayre and Tombola stalls which was a great success, and we are all very proud of each other for how busy the day was and to have a result of each stall sold out by the end of the day was a great success for each of the classes Christmas Crafts. Well done to everyone who worked extremely hard in creating these Christmas Crafts, they were all fantastic!
We have a busy and fun filled couple of weeks leading up to Christmas so please continue to check the school website for any important updates.
Thank you and have a great month of December!
Mr Rice and Primary 6
