In primary 2/1 we don’t just sit, we do. So here are some pictures of our learning in full bloom. 
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Primary 2/1 August Recap
We have had a fun and exciting start to our new school year. Here are some pictures from our first few weeks. 
Primary 7 – Science (Lava Lamp Experiment)
Primary 6 – Science (Lava Lamp Experiment)
Primary 1 – Science
Primary 1 managed to design and create boats from tin fold. They made predicts to see if the boats would sink or float and even see if they could hold items in them. 
Primary 2/1- Science (Floating and Sinking)
Primary 4/5 Science
Primary 4/5 have been looking at Natural and Synthetic materials. We have been researching which functions they have and how effective each one is.
Primary 6 February Update
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.
Primary 6 January Update Post
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
Primary 6 November Update
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
