Well, November proved to be an amazingly busy month full of exciting learning experiences as well as lots of fun events including Guy Fawkes Night and St Andrew’s Day!

We have had the pleasure of having a student teacher, Miss Mooney with us this month and she has enjoyed herself so much that she will be returning in March for 5 weeks. Thank you for all of your hard work in class and we look forward to welcoming you back in the new year.

We have spent most of the month rehearsing for our upcoming Nativity play which will take place next week, 4th, 5th and 6th of December.  The children are singing beautifully and have learned all of the words to their songs and hymns and we look forward to seeing you all there next week!

In literacy, we are continuing with our reading, making sure that we use good expression  and fluency. We are learning to break down words that are unfamiliar or difficult using our knowledge of phonemes and sounds taught. I would be grateful if you could try and practise their sounds an reading with them.

We have covered some new concepts  in maths including addition of TU using the mental maths strategies learned in Number Talks.  We practised adding the tens together first then adding the units together and finally adding both answers together. I will post examples of this on next week’s homework for you to try with your child.  In the meantime, could I please ask that you begin introducing telling the time to your child in preparation for learning this key life skill.  We will start this next term but it can be very tricky for some children and will require additional support from home in order that they learn to confidently tell the time.

We spent lots of time combining our learning about the Holy Souls in Heaven with our celebration of Poppy Day in early November.   Many of our families lost loved ones in the many wars and troubles fought and we remembered their sacrifice by having a day of fundraising which helps support people in need following their sacrifice for peace. Thank you to everyone who sent in their money on this day, your donation was very gratefully received especially at this time of the year when families are busy preparing for Christmas.

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Welcome to our September update for Primary 6!

Primary 6 have been very busy in all areas of the curriculum. We have just finished our class modelling novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo and it was great to look back on some predictions made at the start of the book to see what we first initially thought was going to happen, to discovering what the book was all about through various reading strategies and summarising the events together as a class. We have now moved onto working in our groups and receiving our new novels and working very hard throughout our reading comprehension strategies. Marvellous Matilda’s have received a book called Tribes by Catherine MacPhail and Fantastic Foxes have received the book The Queen’s Nose by Dick King-Smith.

Within numeracy and maths, we have been working on place value, rounding, estimating, and now we have been working with addition and subtracting. They have been focussing a lot on reading questions carefully so that they have a good understanding of what they need to do to solve the problem. We have also been applying a variety of strategies such as using a number line, recognising doubles and near doubles and looking at patterns within number, and using friendly numbers that can help them. We will continue to apply a variety of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division strategies to help us with us our computational skills. We have been continuing to use some mental agility games and activities throughout our lessons and at home in memorising and practising our times tables.

Our first topic, The Titanic, has been a great topic so far and we have all been enjoying finding out all about the people on the Titanic and what their jobs were, who travelled on the Titanic, and also the difference in social class. We are currently creating dioramas at home of what each of the rooms looked like and identifying important features to distinguish the difference between each room. Our class display is coming along greatly with class work and homework projects.

Within Health and Wellbeing, we have recently started learning about the first cog within Emotion Works, ‘Emotion Words’. This is an educational programme within Scotland and very well aligned to the Scottish Curriculum and related policies such as GIRFEC. We have been focusing on building emotion word vocabulary which helps develop and deepen emotional understanding and we look forward to learning more about each cog and becoming more emotionally literate.

We have also been busy in carrying out the Choccy Challenge with Scotland’s Enterprising Schools and Young Enterprise Scotland which they have created a fantastic resource designed to allow pupils to work collaboratively, be creative and solve problems, which we all have been busy doing within the class. We have been working in groups creating a product, giving it a name, creating a logo and slogan, as well as creating packaging and adverts for each of them.

Furthermore, Primary 6 have been preparing for our First Friday Mass that we are hosting on Friday, 6^th of October.

Have a great week everyone!