Welcome back everyone!
January has been a very busy month and we all have been working hard on getting back into our daily routines. Primary 6 said goodbye to our Scottish Myths and Legends topic and ventured onto learning our brand-new topic of Circular Economy. Which we have all been enjoying and being able to work in small groups creating and designing a product/service that fits into the circular economy business plan model. This is a current live challenge hosted by Young Enterprise Scotland who will be visiting our class in the upcoming weeks and by the end of the challenge, one group being selected to go through to the final showcase where they will be presenting their business plan to a panel of judges.
In Literacy, we continue with our spelling programmes which is very important to keep up regular practise at home to help carry out our spelling strategies in class. We have also started new novels, Marvellous Matilda’s have been reading ‘A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll’ and Fantastic Foxes have been reading ‘Dinosaur Trouble by Dick King-Smith’. We continue to use a range of reading strategies while reading our novels which include, creating detailed visualisers of a character within the book and analysing and drawing evidence from the novel. This helps us build a character profile and we can refer to this throughout the rest of the novel.
In Maths, we completed our Term 1 maths assessments covering topics like place value, rounding, addition and subtraction. It was good to see prior knowledge coming into play when they came back from the holidays and achieving good results in this assessment. Mr Rice wants to ensure the retention of maths skills remains high so for homework each week, we will be given a worksheet covering a range of questions to consolidate prior learning throughout our new term. We have been continuing with multiplication and division through a range of strategies, looking at multiples, factors and primes as well as working with Mrs Nixon on properties of 2D and 3D shapes.
Primary 6 have also been working alongside Mossend Primary with the charity, Nil by Mouth, focusing on raising awareness of the issues surrounding sectarianism within our society. Drawing out personal attitudes, views and experiences while encouraging people to challenge sectarianism in our own lives and in wider society. We have also enjoyed participating in a NLC Resettlement workshop with Primary 6/7 which focused on raising awareness of refugees.
Within PE, we have moved on to our new topic, Gymnastics. We started learning about each other’s experiences in the topic, we have some classmates who attend a gymnastics club after school which was good to share some of our personal achievements together before we started the topic. We have been learning about different types of jumps to learning a range of different types of rolls. Performing different vaulting movements, performing a hurdle step into a cartwheel and round-off. Which has now led us onto performing a series of similar movements, linked together to form a sequence in our upcoming PE lessons.
Just a reminder for homework which will be handed out weekly on a Monday and should be brought back in on a Friday. Our PE days are both Wednesday and Thursday afternoons and children should come to school in full uniform and get changed for PE.
Thank you and have a great month of February everyone!
Mr Rice and Primary 6
