Welcome to our February update, we have had another very busy quick month due to our long weekend. Here are some things we have been up to in Primary 6 this month.

Maths

We have been working hard in maths on money. We have been using our 4 calculations to work out profit and loss, bills, totals, change and even working on budgets.  We now are aware of the importance of wants and needs when we are planning our budgets and how important this will be for our future life skills. We will be moving on to measurement next which we are all very excited about.

Literacy

We have continued to apply our spelling strategies to help us learn our spelling words each week. We have continued with our new novels, applying our reading strategies to gain a greater understanding of the plot, characters and setting. One group is reading Santa Maria by Kenneth Steven and the other group is reading The Eleventh Orphan by Joan Lingard. So far both groups are really enjoying their new novels. We have really enjoyed our instructional writing this month and if you go to twitter you will see pictures of what we have been making.

Health and Wellbeing

We have been working on peer pressure and what effect it can have on our mental health. We are now aware of the importance of good friendships and how others can have good but also bad influences on you. In the month of March we are going to be looking at substance misuse.

Science

We are now looking at Space and focusing on The Solar System. We have already investigated the position and size of each planet. We are now looking at the craters of the moon and the chemicals that help make up each planet.

RE

We learned all about Saint Valentines and gained a deeper understanding of Other World Religions looking particularly at Islam. As we now move into March we are going to be learning all about Lent.

Topic

As you can see from Twitter we have been very busy making our cabins at home as part of our home project. We have had the whole school coming up looking at our display and the children all really enjoyed making them. Thank you very much too any parents/ guardians who helped with this home project. We have been really enjoying learning about the disaster that changed the shipping world and how this happened. We have recreated our own boarding passes and even painted our very own portal art which you can see on Twitter.

Welcome to the first post of the year from Primary 6. Wow what a busy January we have had and we cannot wait to tell you all about it. We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year and are ready to enjoy term 3 with us all. We only have 9 weeks left now till the Easter holidays and have so much to fit in. This term we are lucky to have Miss Carr join our class for the next 6 weeks and we cannot wait to see what she has planned for us.

Maths and Numeracy

We have continued on with Division since more reinforcement was needed. This week we will start on our new maths topic Money. We have already planned a lot of active maths games to help us gain a better understand and link this in with four key operations of maths (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).    

Literacy

We have now all finished our group novels in class and will be starting our new novels this week in class. We have also started to read a class novel called Survivor Titanic by Stephen Davies. So far we are already on Chapter 4 and we want to read more. This novel is a success as this relates to our new topic Titanic. We have been doing great with our spelling, exploring different spelling rules, and developing our skills in applying our spelling strategies. In story writing we are now working on Instructional Writing, now we are in Primary 6 we will need to go into more detail and make sure we are using our checklist properly. Next week we are starting off with making Empire Biscuits and then the following week we are getting to make Fairy Bread.  

RE

This week if First Friday mass, unfortunately we will not be able to attend however we will be watching this online in the classroom. We really enjoyed learning all about the Epiphany and investigating Missio. We have investigated world missionary organisations and discusses the poor people of the world. We are now moving on next week to Other World Religions.   

Topic

Our new topic this term is Titanic. We have already looking into what we know and what we would like to investigate within the topic. So far we have investigated on the journey she took and the stops she made before the disaster. We have researched first, second and third class cabins and compared them. We are now looking into the company who build Titanic and how she became the most talked about ship ever.   

Science

Our new Science topic is Space, particularly we will be looking at the Solar System. So far we have looked at each planet and how close they are to the sun. We have investigated each planet and now researching the size and functions of each planet. We cannot wait to create our own PowerPoints about this. We have finally managed to do our experiment ‘Rain Cloud in a Jar’ which we all loved and got amazing results from (check twitter for the pictures).     

Health and Wellbeing

During Health and Wellbeing we have been looking at food labels and identifying which foods are healthier than others. We have investigated food packaging which highlight the traffic light system to help guide the consumer. We have also created our own labels down in ICT. During PE this term we have started Badminton and slowly working on our serve.  

Thank you for taking the time to read what we have been up to in the month of January. We are looking forward to sharing more pictures on twitter of our work so please remember to have a wee look.

From Mrs Speirs and Primary 6

Well here we are again, what a busy month we have had in Primary 6. We have been so busy with our Christmas party, Christmas Jumper Day and watching our Pantomime. We are all really looking forward to Santa coming but first we would like to share what we have been up to in class with Miss Verrecchia

This month our story  writing has been Christmas themed . We have really enjoyed the story starters Miss Verrecchia has been given us. ‘A Special Snowman’ was a story about a griping tale of a snowman that came to life on Christmas Eve.

This maths we have been working on division and we have been learning how to do division mentally. This month we have also been focusing on data handling. We know what a bar graph and a pie chart are. We have been working very hard on these topics this month.

December is the feast of the Immaculate Conception which we enjoyed learning about. We  also reminded ourselves of the importance of advent. We made our own advent wreath and learned about the significance of each candle.

Active schools have been coming with in on Tuesdays. Firstly we tried orienteering and also athletics. It has been really good fun having someone new take us and we have really enjoyed learning new skills (Map reading and more team work).

In our topic (China) we have been learning about lots of things. We now have a deeper understanding of Christmas in China and got to learn more about the Giant Panda and Mount Everest. We have also been learning about the history of China and how that has shaped the country today. We really enjoyed trying to write in Chinese, we even learned how to write Merry Christmas .

In P6 we have been doing lots of fun art, recently since its Christmas  we created a Grinch art with oil pastels.  We created a Christmas tree picture which is displayed in out hall .

Primary 6 and Miss Verrecchia  would like to wish everyone a very happy and healthy Christmas.

Welcome to our Reflective Friday post for the month of October. We seem to have lost our post, so here we are again.  We have been learning lots and having a great time in the lead up to our Halloween celebrations.

Literacy

We have been looking at the area of persuasive writing with a focus of completing an essay on” Should we have school uniforms”. We looked at the importance of persuasive language and making sure we get our point of view over to the reader. We have continued our ongoing work on accurate spelling, grammar and presentation as well as working hard to improve our reading fluency. Our class novel The Tribe is now finished, we have loved this novel and we didn’t want it to end. Due to this we have all been given our reading groups. the three groups are now reading; The Hundred Mile An Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong, Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, and The Eleventh Orphan by Joan Lingard. We are all excited to be in our reading groups again and to get started these novels.

Numeracy

We have been reinforcing our understanding of place value and using this effectively in our estimation and rounding work. We worked hard with our Addition and Subtraction sums and are currently working on Multiplications. Every Wednesday we have a break and work on Data Handling which is a lot more hands on but are really enjoying this. Drawing the graphs with a ruler was challenging to begin with but getting there now.   In our ICT time we have also worked with Sumdog to increase our mental agility and enable us to explain our thinking in number talks.

ICT

In ICT we are learning how to join a teams meeting on Microsoft teams. This is really useful in case we need to self isolate but also it is a skill we will need in the world of work. We are making sure that everyone can send emails properly and Miss Verrecchia is setting our homework on the school website under the P6 class tab. That is where you will find your work if you are isolating too.

RE

In RE we have been learning about St Mungo and discovering many interesting facts. October was also the month of Our Lady and we remembered her when we prayed the Rosary.

IDL

Our topic is Scottish Inventors and we have enjoyed learning about Alexander Fleming and  Alexander Graham Bell etc. We have now decided that we have come to an end with this topic and voted for our new mini topic that will take us up to Christmas. We took a vote in class and decided our new mini topic would be “China”. We are so excited to find out about the culture, language, food, traditions, and other interesting facts.

HWB

We have been enjoying outdoor PE  with a focus on Badminton and moving on to Ball skills . This has involved a lot of hand and eye coordination and focus, which can be challenging at times. We are still exploring the emotion works wheel and talking about friendships and our own personal qualities. We looked at food labels and the effects healthy and unhealthy food has on our bodies. At the end of November we will be looking at Gods Loving Plan and working our way through the P6 programme.

We have really enjoyed October in class and hoping that we continue to grow, develop, continue to learn and stay safe during these hard times. November has so much going on like Poppy Day, Book Day, DYWF and many more. Hope you enjoyed reading about our wonderful adventures of Primary 6.

Welcome to Primary 6 and our first Reflective Friday post. We are all excited and happy to be back at school even thou it is different to what we remember. Since we have come back we had to learn about our new rules and routines, it was hard trying to remember our one way systems, our Zones and bubbles but after a few days we got there. First Friday Mass has been different for us as we are unable to go, however due to technology we have been lucky to watch it live in our classroom which makes us still feel included.

We have been talking about our emotions and feels a lot since we have come back to school and emotion works have helped us understand these emotions. During class we have been working on our class novel The Queens Nose which we all enjoyed. Our new novel is called Tribe by Catherine MacPhail which we started this week in class. We are already gripped by the new novel and enjoying the main themes it already covers. In Maths we have already covered Place Value, Rounding and estimating and currently on Addition/ Subtraction. Our mental agility is improving everyday as we work through our Number Talks. Our new Topic is Scottish Inventors and Inventions which we are really enjoying, especially how Scotland has helped create and shape the world we living today and how the inventions was created so long ago but we still use them today. We did have suggestions about creating our own from new games, flying boards to even finding a vaccine for Covid- 19. Primary 6 also started Science last week which takes a deeper look into our Solar System, which have been researching facts and information about each planet including our own planet Earth. We have still managed to do Art in class and looking at various artists including Vincent Van Gogh. We are looking at how he used his emotions through colours to create his paintings, which even inspired us to use happy colours to create our own replica painting of Sunflowers.

Primary 6 still all had the chance to write application forms for Vice captains for each house, everyone took part in this and a few where selected by Mrs Willison. On Thursday the 10^th Sep P4-7 got a chance to watch our campaign videos and vote for their vice-captain.

After the September weekend we have a lot more planned with ICT, PE, Spanish and Heath and Wellbeing. Miss Verrecchia is going to try and included as much as possible in our timetable to make sure we are slowly getting back to the new normal. We are all still excited for this year and to make Primary 6 the best year yet.

Thank you from all of Primary 6.

Primary 3/4 returned to the school after the Christmas holidays very excited to start their new topic Antarctica. At the start some of the children got confused with the North and South Pole including Penguins and Polar Bears, but we got there in the end.

During maths Primary 3/4 remembered a lot about 2D and 3D shapes. We are still working on Money and playing with fake money and shops have really helped reinforce the importance and value of money.

All the children enjoyed listening to the story of ‘The Epiphany’ and discussed this special feast day of The Three Kings bearing gifts. The Primary 3/4 have started work on their booklets and preparation for Fist Holy Communion and Reconciliation. The children are very excited to be making these sacraments.

In science we have been working with Mrs Le Blond on global warming. This has been very exciting as we carried out an experiment looking at ice melting and the raise in water. We only have one plant and we really need to start looking after it.

February will start with our first Friday mass which we have been working really hard on.

Wow what a busy October we have had in Primary 3/4. In maths we have continued to work on subtraction and working on a variety of different tasks to help us. We are also looking at multiplication with Miss McCluskey. We are already really good with our 2, 5 and 10 times table.

In literacy we have been busy doing lots of reading. We loved our visit to our local library. We have been working hard on story writing from reports, recount, and even Halloween acrostic poems.

Within PE we are still working with Greig in musical theatre, for Halloween he taught us a scary dance. We have been given the wonderful opportunity to work with Hazel, who is not just a GB champion but she’s a World champion for Taekwondo. She has been showing us moves and helping us learn all about it. We are loving learning from an expert.

This month we have loved going out on our Autum walks, making Autum Wreaths with the leaves we had collected. We have also been busy craving our own pumpkins.  With the other pumpkins we decided to make pumpkin soup. The Halloween disco was so much fun, we got to dance and play games.

We now can’t wait till Christmas but for now we must work on our Nativity, and all the other exciting things that Miss Verrecchia has planned.