Good Morning Everyone,

I can’t believe that today is the last day of term!  This has been a wonderful year, despite everything we have experienced recently. I have loved being your teacher and you have all made me so proud each and every day! Thank you so much for being an amazing class. I have missed you all these last few months. Have a look at the photos from our time together this year. Have a fabulous summer and I’ll see you all back to school in August.

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Take Care and Keep Safe,

Mrs Pollock xxx

Good Morning Everyone,

Today is International Olympic Day. Below is a range of different activities you could choose from to complete. Remember you can post on the blog, twitter or email (FionaPollock@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk ) and share which activity you have chosen.

• Train to win – keep active at home by challenging yourself to try a simple activity such as star jumps, jumping jacks or line jumps (jumping from one side of a line to the other with your feet together and knees bent) each day and track your personal best.
• Wearable colours design challenge – design a product to show support for Team GB and ParalympicsGB!
• Winter kit – research and design a piece of kit for an athlete at the Olympic Winter Games.

• Determination and courage bookmark – decorate a bookmark with a time you showed determination or courage.
• Inspiration rosette – explore the things that inspire you.

• Super friend template – what powers would a friendship super hero have?

• Respect torch and flame – share examples of respect at home, at school and in the community and create a respect torch.

GET WRITING

• Host Cities – research a former Olympic and Paralympic Games host city and create a story to share your findings.

Take care everyone,

Mrs P

Good Morning P6,

This is our very last week as P6.  Not long until you all become P7s.  I hope you all had a fabulous weekend.

Today Mr Green has posted on the school blog North Lanarkshire Sports Day.  You’ll find all of toady’s activity on the school blog.

Good Luck,

Mrs P

Happy Friday Primary 6,

Today is our last Friday in P6 and it’s FUNday Friday – Virtual Sports Day.

Today is our yearly sports day. Just because we are at home, it does not mean we can’t have a super sports day! Here is our virtual sports day agenda for you and your family to take part in at home. There are 6 main events listed below. Please share your photos and videos of your participation. Good luck!

Egg and Spoon Race · Use a boiled egg or potato, race against someone in your house over a set distance. · If you have no competitors in your house, time yourself to travel the distance and try and beat your highest score each time. The aim is to complete the race without dropping the egg. *Challenge* Make it an obstacle egg and spoon race.

Welly Boot Toss OUTDOOR · Decide on your starting point and use an underarm throw to toss the welly as far away as you can. · Each person has 3 turns, with the furthest throw being the winner.

Sack Race · Find an old carrier bag or a strong bin bag. · Hold the bag by the handles and put your feet inside the bag ready to race. · Hop from the starting point to the finish line. If you have no competitors in your house, time yourself over a set distance and try to beat your score.

Standing Long Jump · Agree on a starting point. · Bend your knees and swing your arms to propel yourself forward into a long jump. · Measure your distance using a measuring tape or by counting footsteps. Each member will have 3 jumps. The furthest jump wins!

‘Shot Put-tato’ OUTDOOR · Normally a real shot put will be used. However, we will use a potato for the ‘Shot-Put-ato’ event! · Decide on a starting point and throw the potato as far as possible using an over arm throw. Each member will have 3 throws and the furthest throw wins!

Create your own obstacle course ·

Option 1 – Basic Course · Start > Bottle Flip > Crawl under a blanket > Jumper ·

Step 1 – Balance: Balance a plastic cup on your head. ·

Step 2 – Flip a bottle ¼ of water before you move on. ·

Step 3 – Crawl under a big blanket. ·

Step 4 – Put on a jumper to finish the race. ·

Or

Option 2 – Challenge Course

Start > Bottle Flip > 10 sit ups > Plastic Cup Balance > 10 Burpees > Jumper and Shorts:

Step 1 – Bottle Flip Challenge ·

Step 2 – 10 Sit Ups and hop one footed to next station. ·

Step 3 – Balance Plastic cup and move to next station. ·

Step 4 – Complete 10 burpees and run to next station. ·

Step 5 – Put a jumper and shorts on over your clothes and run to the finish (stop the clock!)

or Option 3

Create your very own obstacle course.

Be happy and healthy!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs P

Good Morning Primary 6,

Today, as part of our Health Week, is Thoughtful Thursday.  Here are a few activities for you to choose from:

Post a Hug- cello tape paper together. Lay down on top of it and put your hands out to each side. Ask someone to draw your outline. Colour it in.  Post your hug to someone special.

Family and Furry Four-Legged Friends – Who or what do you enjoy spending time with? Is it a family member or a pet? Spend 15 minutes giving this special person or four-legged friend some love and attention.

Write a Poem or Draw a picture for someone you love. Think about a special person in your life. This could be a friend, family member or someone else. · Write a poem or draw a picture for one of these special people. Share it with that person once you have completed it.

An Attitude of Gratitude Each day take a few minutes to talk, reflect or pray for things you are thankful for. Write or draw a picture of one of these special moments, things or people this week.

Feel Good. Do something this week that makes you or someone in your house feel happy. It could be drawing, baking, exercising, dancing or simply giving someone a big hug!

Take Care,

Mrs P

Morning Boys and Girls,

Today is Work Out Wednesday

Here are some activities for you to choose from:

• Family Boot Camp: Each member of the family chooses 5 exercises. These can be any move such as a dance move, martial arts or a fitness exercise. On your next family walk stop every 5 minutes and do one of the exercises for 30 seconds.
• Film yourself doing a short workout of 5 exercises.
• Why not try these fab Zumba for kids videos? I’m sure your family will love to join in!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DADHSfEL4U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiRpnDeAOlI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymigWt5TOV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP0wgVhUC9w

• Just Dance Use ‘Just Dance’ on YouTube. Copy the dance moves and ask your family members to join! Waka Waka http://www.youtube.com /watch?ve9AdPjMqHKE Uptown Funk http://youtube.com/w atch?v=9QAdPjMqHKE
• Move to Music. Play a song that makes you happy. Invite family members to a pick their favourite song to share. Make up a dance to your chosen song and teach it to someone in your family. Relax and enjoy some music!
• Wicked Workout Have you tried any of Joe Wick’s work outs? Try a Joe Wicks workout online: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=fomkRYcl_mo
• Super Skip Skipping is a fun way of exercising. Many athletes use skipping as part of their training regime to keep them fit. Use a skipping rope, hula hoop or simply skip in a large space to get your heart beating faster.

Don’t forget to drink lots of water when exercising.

Have fun and try your best,

Mrs  P

Good Morning Primary 6,

Today we have Tasty Tuesday.  Please have a look at the activities below and try a few.  If you want, you could post here on this blog and let me know what activities you have tried.

• Name the Fruit · How many fruit and vegetables can you name? · Can you find one for each letter of the alphabet?
• Design your own healthy smoothie then make it. Write a list of your ingredients and design a bottle or container for your smoothie.
• Think about all the foods we eat. They are broken into fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates, protein, dairy and foods high in sugar or fats. Can you group your last meal into the correct food group?  Use the Eatwell Plate to help you.
• Cook or help to prepare a healthy meal. How much did it cost to make?
• Make a healthy sandwich for your lunch. Ask someone to help you and you could even make lunch or dinner for all the family.
• Learning about how and where bacteria grow in the kitchen and how to reduce the risk of this happening by playing this game in the crazy kitchen. https://www.foodstandards.gov.scot/interactives/crazy-kitchen

bon appetit

Mrs P

Hello Everyone,

Instead of our normal learning activities, this week your Home Learning is going to be a Health Week. We have created some fun, healthy activities for you to try out at home. Each day we will post some activities, you don’t need to do them all, but we’d like you try a few each day. We hope you will all enjoying the health and wellbeing focus this week. Remember: your brain works well when your body and mind are healthy!

Mindful Monday

• Take a Moment with our very own Your Tuber, Mrs McMillan:

High 5 Breathing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRUuB4If-jY

Sunshine Meditation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjugSmJ_W3c&t=7s

• Using materials of your choice, create a positive/motivational message. This may be a single word e.g. SMILE using stones. Take a photograph of this and share on Twitter, Email or Blog.
• Are you feeling a little worried just now? This lovely book might help answer some of your questions. It’s called Everybody Worries by Jon Burgerman Everybody Worries
• Make a list of 5 things that make you happy, 4 things that worry you, 3 things that make you laugh, 2 things that make you sad and 1 thing that makes you angry. Discuss these with someone in your house. It’s important to share our emotions.
• We are heading for summer so think about ways to stay safe in the sun and think about a way you can share this information. You could: – make a leaflet – film a television advert – write an information leaflet
• Put away all technology and talk to a family member. What is the best part about being at home? What is the worst part? Talk about any worries you might have.
• If you can, source natural objects like leaves, twigs & stones see if you can arrange them to spell the names of family members or recent common words or make a symmetrical design.
• Concentrate Colouring. Colouring is a good way to help you relax and give your brain a rest. Choose a picture or colouring book and colour within the lines. If you don’t have colouring pages, draw some lines on a sheet of paper to create your own. Listen to your favourite music while you colour.

Let me know what activities you decide to do, and if you want to, you can email me – FionaPollock@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

or leave a comment, I’d be really happy to hear from you.

Take Care,

Mrs P

Happy  Friday, Primary 6!

Yet another quick week.  How are you all?  Yesterday Rory and I cycled around Broadwood Loch.  What have you been up to?

Here are today’s tasks:

LITERACY

Starter:

Should hoverbikes be a form of public transport? Your task is to write a balanced argument about the general public using hoverbikes to get around town.

Watch this video to remind yourself of how to write a balanced argument:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zm3nvcw

Activities- I can write a balanced argument

Begin by making notes on:

• Reasons for having hoverbikes – what’s good about them? Who would benefit?
• Reasons against having hoverbikes – what might happen? Is it safe?

Go back to the video clip at 3.04 mins and list useful ‘for and against’ and these words to link the arguments together:

Use this template to help you write a balanced argument:

Here is the success criteria for your argument:

• The title is a question

MATHS:

Starter:

Activity: I can investigate the probability of getting heads or tails.

• We are going to investigate whether we have an equal number of heads and tails when we toss a coin 30 times.
• We will also investigate whether we get an equal number of 1s, 2s, 3s, 4, 5s and 6s when we roll a dice 30 times.
• Record your findings.
• Perhaps we will have 15 heads and 15 tails when we toss our coin 30 times??
• Perhaps we will have each number on the dice 5 times. (five scores of 1, five scores of 2 etc.)
• It’s up to you to find out!

Challenge and Finisher:

Write out 2 events which have:

• Likely chance to happen
• Certain chance of happening
• Impossible chance of happening
• Unlikely chance of happening
• Equal chance of happeningActivity: I can investigate the probability of getting heads or tails.
  • We are going to investigate whether we have an equal number of heads and tails when we toss a coin 30 times.
  • We will also investigate whether we get an equal number of 1s, 2s, 3s, 4, 5s and 6s when we roll a dice 30 times.
  • Record your findings.
  • Perhaps we will have 15 heads and 15 tails when we toss our coin 30 times??
  • Perhaps we will have each number on the dice 5 times. (five scores of 1, five scores of 2 etc.)
  • It’s up to you to find out!

Have a great weekend and look after yourself,

Mrs P

Good Morning Everyone!

Can you believe it’s Wednesday already and we’re almost halfway through the week?

Here are today’s tasks:

LITERACY

You work for The Iconic Transportation Company who have invented a new method of transport – the hoverbike!

It is your job to let people know about the new invention and increase sales of hoverbikes.

Let’s remind ourselves of the features of advertisements by watching this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8thrJwnKft0

Activities: I can use language to persuade my reader

Your task is to create a persuasive advertisement and persuade people to buy one.

Think about:

• what the hoverbike is?
• who the hoverbike is for?
• what the hoverbike can do?

Remember to:

• ensure the advert is attractive, colourful and eye catching
• ensure the reader knows the name of the hoverbike and where they can buy one or find out more information
• exaggerate
• tell the reader the benefits
• use powerful adverbs
• repeat good points
• include a snappy slogan
• ask the reader a rhetorical question

Plenary:

Self-assess you advertisement then, if you can, send me a photo of you advert to FionaPollock@woodlands.n-lanark.sch.uk

NUMERACY

Starter:

Activity: I can list all the possible outcomes.

e.g. 1a) There are 4 odd numbers out of 9 possible outcomes: 11, 3, 7 and 21.

Challenge:

*Challenge*

Finisher:

http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L115/index.html#

Have  a great day everyone and try your best,

Mrs P