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Primary 6

Primary 6- January Reflective Friday

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Primary 6 have had a very good start to the year 2020 and have lots to look forward to before June!

We settled back in really well after the holidays and started off learning about Elephants and the poaching problem that is affecting their well-being.  Since then we have started our new classroom topic which this term will be World War 1. We are loving this so far and cannot wait to learn more. So far we have looked at how the war began and what countries were involved, it has been so interesting.

Still working on our class novels and trying to develop our comprehension skills. In Maths we have been looking at multiplication and division. It’s really important that we practise our tables and learn them off by heart.

We are looking forward to February and all the learning we have to do. Mr Ewing will also be back with us by the middle of the month, we are really looking forward to this.

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Primary 6 have had so much fun in December. We have learned all about the season of Advent and practised for our Christmas party with some traditional Scottish dances.

We have also completed lots of Christmas activities, in the pictures you will see our Christmas tree STEM challenge using cocktail sticks and sweeties. This was so much fun seeing who could build the biggest one that looked the most like a tree.

Primary 6 and Mrs Anderson are looking forward to 2020 and would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year.

Primary 6

Primary 6 October Reflective Post

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Primary 6 have had a very exciting October, first of all we welcomed another teacher to our class for 4 weeks. Mr Ewing who has been working with the class and doing lots of exciting lessons with us.

We finished our class novel Tribes, we all loved this book and the ending was fantastic. We are now looking forward to starting 3 new novels in our different groups. We have been focusing on discursive writing in October and have been looking at some really important issues such as homework, animals in captivity and most recently fireworks. We enjoy looking at the positives and negatives of these issues and then build our own opinions on the subjects.

Lots of Halloween art and spooky stories also this month. We created our own silhouette haunted houses and made a story to go with it, this was really exciting. Mr Ewing also helped us make our own Halloween lanterns.

In Maths we have been working on addition and subtraction, using both mental and written strategies, we are working really hard with this.

We cannot wait for November as it is going to be a very busy month for our class.

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Primary 6

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Primary 6- September reflective post

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Primary 6 have had a really fun September. We have been doing lots of fun tasks in class and learned lots of new things.

In maths we have learned all about place value and have now moved on to decimals which we have found a little more difficult but getting the hang of it now but we know we still need to practise. We are still reading our book Tribes and cannot wait to find out what happens next.

We have learned lots about the Scottish Parliament and have been trying to follow what has been going on down in Westminster with Brexit. We are looking forward to our visit to Holyrood in November to learn more about it.

Recently we have started our new topic about Endangered species and will be learning lots about climate change and how it is affecting our world. We have also just started Cricket for PE and are looking forward to our lessons in this sport.

Lots to look forward to in October!

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Primary 6

Primary 6

Reflective Post Primary 6

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Primary 6 are settling in well to their new class. We have been having lots of fun already and are looking forward to the rest of the year. We have a lot more responsibility this year and have been doing many jobs around the school.

We have started to work with the children from primary 6 in Mossend primary and will continue to do this all year by participating in the daily mile and workshops together. We have started a mini topic all about the Scottish Parliament and are really interested in whats going on in our country right now and are hoping to visit the Scottish Parliament later this term.

In Maths we have been focusing on place value but also know that we need to practise our times tables often as these are extremely important. We have started a new novel Tribes by Cathy MacPhail and so far we are really enjoying it and can’t wait to see what happens next.

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Mrs Anderson and Primary 6

Primary 6/7a

Primary 6/7a Reflective Friday post

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We have had a very busy start to our new term, We had a great video chat with Dawn Childs, a group engineering director at Merlin Entertainment, where we learned all about her job and asked lots of interesting questions. We also had a visit from the SSPCA and really enjoyed making our own robots. The Cardinal Newman science ambassadors came to use this month also and taught us all about air resistance. We all had the opportunity to make our own parachutes to protect an egg. Our class really enjoyed this.

In Maths we have been working reading both digital and analogue times as well as changing 12hr time to 24hr time and back again. We have also been calculating time duration and looking at the various units of time. If we could ask that a focus is given to this at home we would appreciate it as it would really help us to improve.  We have also been learning about length and measuring a variety of items using mm, cm and m. We will continue to work on these next month.

We started our new topic Natural disasters and all cannot wait to learn more about each of these extreme weather situations. So far we have learned a lot about Volcanoes and have investigated some very famous volcano eruptions. This allowed us to learn about the structure of the earth and how volcanoes are formed and erupt. Next we will be learning about earthquakes and how they occur.

We are looking forward to February and can’t wait to learn more.

Primary 6/7a

December Reflective Friday

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Primary 6/7a have had a very busy month and have learned lots of new things.

Firstly we really enjoyed producing all of our entrepreneur me products and had fun selling them after the Nativity performances. This was a great success and we would like to thank you all for buying all of our products.

In class we have learned a lot about the season of Advent and have prepared ourselves to celebrate the birth of Jesus. We also have learned about Christmas in the past and how it was celebrated during the Victorian era.

In Maths we have been working on mental and written subtraction and also about co-ordinates which has been really fun. We have continued to read our Cathy MacPhail books and will continue these in January.

We can’t wait for our holidays to spend some time at home with our families. Primary 6/7a would like to wish everyone a healthy and Holy Christmas. See you in 2019.

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Primary 6/7a November update

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November was a very busy month for primary 6/7a, our Primary 7’s spent a week away in Kilbowie with Miss McGuire and the Primary 6’s stayed here with Mrs Leblond and Miss Gallagher. The primary 7’s had a great time and enjoyed all the activities that we took part in, coasteering and gorge walking were our favourites. Primary 6’s did a lot of learning while we were away, they designed their own children’s hotel and learned about remembrance day too.

In literacy, we all started new novels. We are using 2 Cathy McPhail books, Mosi’s War and Tribes, we are really enjoying them so far and can’t wait to keep reading. In Maths, we have been doing written and mental addition and subtraction. We are getting much better at this but need lots of practise. We have loved learning about schools in the Victorian era, we were really surprised about the punishments they used to receive and are very grateful that they are no longer used in schools.

We have also been very busy working on businesses for Entrepreneur me. We enjoyed thinking about what we could sell and creating our business plans. We are ready to start making our products and can’t wait to sell them during the nativity shows in a few weeks.

We are looking forward to the month of December and all the Christmas activities that we have coming up.