{"id":13768,"date":"2021-11-02T15:32:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/?p=13768"},"modified":"2021-11-02T15:32:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:32:54","slug":"primary-6-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/2021\/11\/02\/primary-6-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary 6 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Maths \u2013 We started off with revision,\u00a0after the year we have all had we needed to remember the foundations of maths. So\u00a0far\u00a0we have covered place value, addition, subtraction, fractions decimals and percentages (which will be getting covered again in term 2). Number\u00a0Talks have really helped our mental agility and helped with our\u00a0number\u00a0bonds and doubles for our sums. We are now looking at multiplication and division before moving on to co-ordinates\u00a0and symmetry. We had lots of fun for\u00a0Halloween\u00a0making 3D\u00a0pumpkins\u00a0and\u00a0Halloween sum pictures. Mrs\u00a0Speirs\u00a0has\u00a0planned lots of fun Christmas maths actives for\u00a0us\u00a0so we are really excited about this.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Literacy- We started off this term by all reading the same novel called\u00a0Kensuke\u2019s\u00a0Kingdom by Michael\u00a0Morpurgo. This is called a model text so Mrs\u00a0Speirs\u00a0could 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\u00a0out about\u00a0the different countries and the history of\u00a0Kensuke. 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\u00a0Grindley. 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\u00a0interesting\u00a0vocabulary\u00a0to make sure the reader stays engaged in our stories.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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RE\u00a0\u2013 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\u00a0Bible 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.\u00a0The month of October being the Holy Rosary,\u00a0the children have learned to pray the Rosary and have visited Holy Family Church to pray in the garden.\u00a0We have been learning about All Saints Day and creating our own November List for our class.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Topic\/ Science\u00a0\u2013 Our topic this term has been Oceans and Continents\u00a0which 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.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Expressive Arts\u00a0\u2013 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\u00a0oil\u00a0pastels\u00a0and water colours. We even\u00a0managed\u00a0to recreate his famous water colour\u00a0painting\u00a0called Sunflowers. We enjoy mixing the\u00a0paint with the water and creating\u00a0different colours.\u00a0We created lots of topic art included pollution posters. We also created Halloween bats and\u00a0Autumn\u00a0wreaths\u00a0and\u00a0we even collected our own leaves from the park. We have beautiful firework chalk drawings this week and we all cannot wait\u00a0until we can start with our Christmas activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Emotion Works\/ Heath and\u00a0Welbeing\u00a0\u2013 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\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0better to talk and draw about how we are feeling. We have been trying out meditation in\u00a0class, 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.\u00a0 God\u2019s loving plan will start on the\u00a08<\/span>th<\/span>\u00a0November for the Primary\u00a06.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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,<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0From\u00a0Primary 6 and Mrs\u00a0Speirs\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 Maths \u2013 We started off with revision,\u00a0after the year we have all had we needed to remember the foundations of maths. So\u00a0far\u00a0we have covered place … Continue reading Primary 6 Update<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary-6"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13769,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768\/revisions\/13769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holyfamily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}