Primary 6 have had a busy November, we have welcomed back Mrs Speirs and she will be teaching our class on a Thursday and Friday. We are all really excited to have her but sad to see Miss Gallagher leave but wish her good luck in her new school.

This month we have been focusing on Scottish castles, we have been in groups and have been researching a different castle each and have been learning about the history of each and why it is important. We will be presenting short group talks on these to the rest of the class.

In literacy we have been working really hard on our novels Tribes and Kensuke’s Kingdom. We have been using the comprehension strategies to help us gain a better understanding of these and we are really enjoying the storylines of both books.

In Maths we have been focusing on mental and written addition and subtraction. We have been trying out different strategies and using these to solve a variety of problems. With Mrs Speirs we have also finished measurement and moved on to learning a little about coordinates, these are really fun.

As it is the month of the Holy souls, we have focused on remembering those who are no longer with us and praying for them. Along with this we have learned about the lives of some of the saints and have been creating our own power points about a saint that is important to us. We especially loved learning about Maximillian Kolbe, be sure to ask us all about this special mans life as it is very interesting!

We are looking forward to December for lots of fun Christmas activities and learning some traditional Scottish dances for our parties!

We have now well and truly settled back into our school routine and we are enjoying being in the senior section of the school.

Our class in Harry Potter themed this year and in line with this as our model study novel we have been reading Harry Potter and the philosophers stone. We have been working together to fully understand this novel and developing our knowledge of the comprehension strategies. We have also been focusing on spelling strategies weekly and will continue to do so for the rest of the school year.

Primary 7a have been working really hard in the past month!

They have been continuing to read their class novel ‘Divided City’ and are really enjoying looking at the different themes and ideas that this book explores.

In Maths we have been working hard on our times tables and learning to use them in different ways. They should be encouraged to practise these at home as much as they can. The class have really challenged themselves to try more complex math problems involving their times tables and have learned how to use the lattice method to solve multiplying digits with more than one number.

In Health and wellbeing we have been exploring substance misuse and the class have worked really hard to learn about the negative impact that substances can have on their bodies. They were really shocked to hear some of the facts behind smoking and drinking alcohol. I am sure they be happy to share some of what they have learned with you at home.

We have been learning about the lives of some Saints this month as our focus has been the month of All Saints and we have enjoyed learning about how they have became Saints and how they lived their lives.

We are really looking forward to the month of December and all the fun activities we will have during this time!

Primary 7 have had a great month of February, we started back our sessions with the senior pupils from CNHS on Thursday’s which the primary 7’s really enjoy. This is an important part of our transition time. We have also been working with Science ambassadors and cannot wait for our next visit to CNHS next month.

In literacy we have been continuing our class novels, Goodnight Mister Tom and The Boy in the Striped Pjs. These relate really well to our WW2 topic which we have been working on since the start of January. The children are really knowledgeable in this area and are really enjoying finding out about life during this time in Britain.

In literacy, we have been focusing on money and learning about many of the situations they will face when they are adults. This has been really interesting for the class and they have really focused on this well. Next month we will be starting to look at fractions, decimals and percentages which some of the children are feeling quite nervous about but we will work really hard on this.

We have continued our preparation for the sacrament of Confirmation. The children have been so invested in this and have put in much thought and researching into learning about their chosen Saints. They are so excited to be making this Sacrament next month. If we could continue to practice our knowledge of the responses in Mass this would really help as well as completing our home tasks.

We have lots to look forward to in the month of March. We have another teacher starting with us who will be here before and after the Easter break. We are looking forward to working with Miss Taylor.

November has been a very exciting month for primary 7. We have had a few visits from CNHS to our class to prepare us for our move there next year. We also enjoy weekly PE lessons with some of the students from CNHS, which are really fun.

Literacy

In literacy we have been continuing with our weekly spelling words and work hard to learn them. It is important that we practise these at home as well as in school for our weekly tests. We are all working on our group novels, Mosi’s War, Kensuke’s Kingdom and Dragon Ride. We have weekly reading to be completed at home and it is important that we do this reading so we can complete tasks in the class. We have also been learning how to correctly use the apostrophe. This has been a little tricky but we are getting there now.

Numeracy

This month we have been focusing on multiplication. We need to make a real effort to learn these off by heart. We started by learning to multiply by 10, 100 and 100. This was easy but became tricky when we looked at multiples of 10, 100 and 1000. We have also been working on long multiplication and so far seem to be doing very well with this. We just need to remember to add our zeros (smiley faces).

Health and Wellbeing

This month we have been looking at peer pressure and how to tackle situations if we ever feel pressured into situations we don’t feel comfortable with. We have spoken about friendship and what makes a good friend.

Science

We have continued to look at inheritance and DNA this month. We have a good idea about what DNA is and made the basic structures. We also have learned about inherited and non inherited traits. We are able to describe where some of our traits have came from.

Expressive arts

Following on from the visit from the firefighters at the start of November learning all about being safe on bonfire night, we create our own firework images using oil pastels and scratch art. These were very effective. We also used pointillism to create some autumn tree images.

We have had such an exciting November and cannot wait for our Christmas activities in the month of December.

Thank you for reading.

Mrs Anderson and Primary 7

Primary 7 have been working really hard in the month of October. They have really enjoyed being buddies this year and have been able to accompany their buddies this month on the beat the street walks. They also have had some joint playtimes with them.

In literacy we have just finished our modelling block of ‘divided city’ all of the children seemed to really enjoy this and have learned a lot about sectarianism. We have now all started novels, there are 3 in the class, ‘Mosi’s War’, ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and ‘no trouble at all’ Each group will be working on these in class and may have some reading to do at home also in the coming weeks.

In Maths we have been working on addition and subtraction. The class are very good at this and are developing their written and mental strategies. Next we will be moving on to multiplication. If they could practise times tables at home this would be great.

In health and wellbeing we have been looking at peer pressure and they effects this can have on us. We have also been looking at ways to avoid and tackle these types of situations. In October we also started to learn about DNA in science. This is very interesting and will have us all thinking about our inherited traits.

For our topic we have been looking at the continents of the world. This has been really fun and has prepared us for the COP26 conference which we are focusing on now. We will be looking at a lot of climate change problems and thinking about what we can do to help with this problem. We have a good project for homework which is due on the 16th of November.

Thanks  for reading

Hi Primary 6,

I hope you are all well.

I have set up Microsoft teams for our class for the school closures. I will send an email later today to you all so that you all have my correct email address and can contact me on this. If you could try and access Microsoft teams before Monday that would be great. You should be able to see this on your launch pad on glow. If you click on the left you should see Primary 6 2020. You may need to set up an account using your glow email and it was simple enough to do.  Any issues email me.

Thanks

Mrs Anderson