Welcome to our Primary 6 November update. We have had a very busy month in our class. We would like to share what we have been doing with you all.

Maths – We have now been looking at multiplication and division. We all need to keep practicing our times tables but we are slowly starting to understand the process. We are really good with our multiplication and division of 10, 100 and 1000. After working hard on our maths strategies we have now developed a link between them both. We have been doing a range of active maths activities to deepen our understanding of problem solving.    

Literacy – We have now started our new novels and both groups are really enjoying them. The Dark Isle is a terrifying, touching and funny novel. It is fast paced that takes you on an exciting magical journey into a new world. Saving Finnegan is about an island in Scotland, and how a small island community is divided over what course of action to take about a stranded whale. This is a powerful and hugely enjoyable novel. We have all been working hard on our weekly spelling words and this is shown in our Friday spelling test results. 

RE – We have now completed Primary 6 God’s Loving Plan. All children acted in a mature responsible way and are now aware of the physical and emotional changes that will take place. We learned about St Margaret of Scotland on her feast day. We are now concentrating on St Andrew. We have learned all about his life and why he is the patron saint of Scotland. We enjoy celebrating St Andrew’s Day by drinking sugar free Iron – Brew and eating short bread, we also learned how to do the Scottish Fling dance. 

Science/ Topic – We have been successful learners by making our own flying helicopters and investing how air resistance has an effect on how they fly. We had lots of fun throwing them off the top floor and timing each one we made. Interestingly, our investigation showed the smaller helicopter was faster than the larger one. In December we are going to be making our own parachutes so look out for the pictures on twitter. We have been exploring capital cities and what makes them capital cities. A few we already knew about but others have really surprised us.   

H&W/ Emotion Works – We have been working hard in PE with Dodge ball and team games. Fitness has kept us warm outside with the weather. We have been practising our passing skills and learning the importance of a team. During Anti- Bullying week, we explored how to be a good friend and acted out different bulling scenarios.  

Expressive Arts – We created a lovely poppy day display and learned the importance of 11th November and why it is called Remembrance Day. We know how to be safe in Primary 6 after having a visit from the Strathclyde Fire department. We learned all about fireworks and bonfire safety when it was Guy Fawkes. We learned the story of Guy Fawkes and created our own firework pictures using oil pastels and black card. We have started to make Christmas stocking to display in the school for Christmas.  

Thank you for reading what we have been up to. We cannot wait till next month when we can update you all with our Christmas activities and show you all pictures of our decorated class this year. Pictures are always on Twitter so please have a look. 

God Bless From Primary 6 and Mrs Speirs 

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