Primary 7 have been working really hard in the month of October. They have really enjoyed being buddies this year and have been able to accompany their buddies this month on the beat the street walks. They also have had some joint playtimes with them.

In literacy we have just finished our modelling block of ‘divided city’ all of the children seemed to really enjoy this and have learned a lot about sectarianism. We have now all started novels, there are 3 in the class, ‘Mosi’s War’, ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and ‘no trouble at all’ Each group will be working on these in class and may have some reading to do at home also in the coming weeks.

In Maths we have been working on addition and subtraction. The class are very good at this and are developing their written and mental strategies. Next we will be moving on to multiplication. If they could practise times tables at home this would be great.

In health and wellbeing we have been looking at peer pressure and they effects this can have on us. We have also been looking at ways to avoid and tackle these types of situations. In October we also started to learn about DNA in science. This is very interesting and will have us all thinking about our inherited traits.

For our topic we have been looking at the continents of the world. This has been really fun and has prepared us for the COP26 conference which we are focusing on now. We will be looking at a lot of climate change problems and thinking about what we can do to help with this problem. We have a good project for homework which is due on the 16th of November.

Thanks  for reading

1. DAILY ROUTINE                                                                                                          ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING (IDL)

P1 have been working very hard and have settled into their school routine nicely.  Remembering and recognising their name labels, the children  hang up the coats and bags carefully beside them. They have also been learning how to use our Active Registration and Lunch register. The children are becoming really confident and quick to  recognise their own  names and placing them on the  colour of the lunch band, they are going to be using.  They are even recognising some of their friends  names too.   Then when all the children have registered their names on the colour chart, they help their class teacher count the total number of children on red,  green, yellow and blue colours, to give to Mrs Stirling, to help her make the correct amount of dinners.  Fantastic P1!  Well done.

LITERACY

TALKING/LISTENING , READING AND WRITING

The children are  working hard to  stay focused as they learn about their Initial sounds and how to use them, through active participation.   Using, North Lanarkshire’s Active Literacy Programme. E.g.  Magnetic Board and Letters/ etc.,  as well as Jolly Phonics/Big books/Songs / Interactive  and Animated film clips/White board and Pen/ Cut and Stick activities, etc.,  help the children  to  engage  and  develop their skills through active participation, as they learn about their initial sounds and  common words.  Their reading books also help to reinforce these sounds and common words. The children are also working very hard to  remember to use their good listening skills as well.  Such a lot of learning P1. You are becoming very ‘successful learners’ indeed!

NUMERACY

The Children are really enjoying learning about the Days of the Week/Months of the Year, through song and rhyme and also particularly with number, having worked very hard to learn about their numbers from 1-10.  They have been learning about what each number looks like.  How to form it correctly.  What it looks like as a number and a word.  How to make each number with a variety of resources. (cubes/buttons/pencils/rulers/pasta shapes (whatever resources are available.)  What number comes before and after.  As they learn through song/rhyme, active participation and interdisciplinary learning, the children have also been naturally learning about number through real life situations.   As they go about their day, your child  may say to you “Oh thats a 5″.  Or, ‘I can see 2 apples in the bowl’   Or I am using a pink/green/blue/red/orange and yellow pencils to colour my picture .  Thats 6 pencils”  Which is wonderful, as they are applying what they have been learning in the classroom, to real life situations.

R.E.

The Children have been learning about  their daily prayers. (Morning when they come in.  Before and After Lunch and just before we go home.)  They are learning about being kind and giving thanks for all we have and do.  Also in  October the children have been learning that this is a special month dedicated to Our Lady where we pray and learn about the Rosary.

TOPICS  INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING (IDL) – AUTUMN//HALLOWEEN/EXPRESSIVE ARTS

The children have really enjoyed learning about Autumn and watching out for the different signs of this every day.  They have been able to learn about Autumn through a variety of disciplines e.g.  Maths, (Months and Seasons of the Year,) Literacy, (Spelling /Writing Reading) Expressive Arts Drawing/Art Work/Crafts etc., /Health and Wellbeing (Autumn Walks/Beat the Street).The children have really enjoyed learning about Autumn through a variety of different subject areas and experiences. The  children particularly enjoyed getting ready for Halloween and making lots of different decorations using a variety of media to get their class ready  for their Halloween party.

 

SCIENCE – MINI-BEASTS             (PICS TO COME)

The children have  really enjoyed learning about Mini-Beasts at home and in school.  Before the children began their new learning, they shard   what they already know.  Then, what they would like to know.  So their Mini-Beast Science topic was Pupil lead.  Then  When they children  have completed their  investigation we  will record what they  have learned from their  investigations.  cant wait!

P1  also noticing signs of Autumn and Mini-beast activity as they have fun with P2 at  our Community Park .

HEALTH AND WELL BEING   (H&WB)                                                                   P.E AND EMOTION WORKS (EMOTIONS/FEELING)

P1 have really enjoyed  P.E. and  have also been very lucky with the weather, as they have been able to have  P.E.  outside in the fresh air most of the time. The children have been learning about rules for Health and Safety, following instructions e.g. Listening carefully and turn taking.  Also  they have been learning about working together as part of a team to achieve a successful outcome.   Fantastic work P1.  We can see you a really working hard to develop these very important skills.

EMOTION WORKS  –  (WHOLE SCHOOL INITIATIVE)

The children have been learning about their emotions through Emotion Works.   At the beginning of our Emotion Works lessons the children love to sing and act out their Emotion Works song. (Ask your child if they can sing a little bit for you. It’s called ‘These are Our Emotions’) They also enjoy learning  through a variety of fun filled activities e.g. animated film clips games song/drama etc..  They  have been learning about ways to identify what they are feeling  and why?  Also they have been learning about  different strategies and ways to deal with this.  They have also   have been learning that sharing  how they  are feeling, with an adult they can trust,  is very important,   As  they  might be able to help them  understand why they  might feel the way they  do and give them the support they need.

Lastly P1 enjoying their very first Halloween party with P2 and P3

Wow ! Can you believe everything you have achieved since starting School in August P1.   Well done.  Mrs Stevenson and I are so very proud of you.

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.

Christmas Party Day for Primary 5

Fun games at our party!

We loved making our Christmas crafts!

Time for food 🍫🍦

Do you like our elves we have drawn for the wall display in school?

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.