This week we really enjoyed taking part in World Book Day Activities. We tested out book knowledge in a number of quizzes and we were challenged to design the front cover of a secret book after hearing the story. We really enjoyed reading stories to P1 on Thursday. We practised reading aloud with expression and created puppets to help the P1s really understand the story. It was so much fun.

In art we looked at “The Great Wave” by Hokusai and created our own version using paints. We really enjoyed it and the results look fantastic.

P6/7 have had a super week this week. We have been finished off our work on tsunamis and produced some excellent pieces of writing to go alongside this. We have also finished our tsunami art work using a range of oil pastels to represent the ocean colours.

On Wednesday we teamed up with P1 and read them a story as part of World Book Day. We made characters for them to play with as we read and then we showed them how to animate a character they have drawn and bring it to life. Mrs Smith was very impressed with how enthusiastic and helpful we were when supporting the little ones.

On Thursday was it was World Book Day. We made some origami bookmarks and decorated them with our own theme. We then had a lovely assembly ran by Mrs Strathearn who told us a little about herself and then shared the 2022 World Book Day song. At the end of the assembly she set everyone a task to tell her something about each of us. We made a start on this on Friday. For the rest of World Book Day we took part in a corridor scavenger hunt looking for famous book characters around the school. The winning class will be announced next week and they will win a book of their choice for their class. We also created some gifs based on popular children’s books. Take a look and see if you can identify which books have been animated.

On Friday we made our Powerpoint pages for Mrs Strathearn and completed a comprehension passage about World Book Day.

John also took an excellent video of one of our stick insects eating their moult. They shed their skin so that they can grow bigger and then they eat it for the nutrients. It was a bit gross but interesting at the same time. Please see our Teams page for John’s video as unfortunately we are having upload difficulties.

What has been your highlight of the week?

This week we have started learning about tsunamis. We watched some videos and looked at websites, books and powerpoints about what causes tsunamis and the impact they can have on both humans and the environment. We then took this information and added extra pages to our Natural Disasters Book on Book Creator.

In writing we have just finished some terrific reports on earthquakes and we also made a start on our tsunamis one. We also focussed on adding diagrams to our work and discussed how to make these look scientific with the use of labels, ruler work and accurate pencil work.

In maths we have finished our block on division and next week we will be moving on to look at fractions as well as data handling.

In our health lessons we have been talking about consent and how we are the boss of our bodies. We looked at different scenarios and discussed what to do in these cases to keep ourselves safe. A big message from these lessons was to always tell a trusted adult if our ‘belly voice’ (the feeling in our tummies) tells us that something doesn’t feel right.

In art we have started some beautiful work on tsunamis and will finish these off next week. We will post photos up when they are finished.

We have had a great week and are looking forward to World Book Day next Thursday and the fun activities that have been planned.

Members of P6 wearing their Cubs and Guides uniform for World Thinking Day!

This week we have really enjoyed learning about earthquakes and will be finishing our writing based on this after the holidays.

We have used oil pastels and water colours to create art based on seismographs, the instrument that measures earthquakes. We have included some pictures below.

We have worked very hard to improve our skills in division and some of us were introduced to algebra.

We are looking forward to exploring natural disasters further after the holidays.

Have a great holiday P6 and P6/7!
Mrs Brown and Mrs Smith

This week was all about poetry and presentation skills.

We were all very proud of ourselves and the winners and runners up are in the photos below.

We had a right gid Burns Supper to celebrate after and competed in a kahoot quiz about Scotland.

Well done to our winners and runners up. Well done to everyone who took part.

This week has been great. We have….

-Continued to work on division strategies

-Completed our McCoo art which we are all very proud of.

-Continued to learn our chosen Scottish poem in preparation for our class Burn’s Supper on Wednesday afternoon.

-Completed our limericks and created GiF’s to bring them to life.

-Continued to explore the book, “neaps and tatties”.

-Explored friendships and focused on the differences between online and in person friends.

-Worked on the o sound in spelling.

What have you worked hard on this week?

Happy New Year Everyone.

We have made a fantastic start back to our learning  in both P6 and P6/7.

We have started learning our Scottish poems. Those wishing to take part in the competition have been asked to focus on ‘Address to the Toothache’ and the rest of the class have been given a choice of two other poems to practise and learn. Our focus is on the performance aspect of the poems and they will be shared with the rest of the class. All poems are available on our Teams pages.

We have also been reading a story about ‘Neeps and Tatties’. The book is about a fall out between Neeps and Tatties and what happens as a result of this. The book held many topical themes and we were able to relate these to our own lives as well as events in history. We have also identified Scot’s words and there meanings within the text to get a deeper understanding of these. Next week we will be looking at the text in even greater detail.

In writing, we have been focussing on limericks and have written some class examples based on different themes. We have been learning about the rhythm of limericks, the structure and also rhyming words. Next week we will be starting to write our own limericks about scottish animals.

In maths we have started working on division and angles and this will continue until the February break. Continue to practise timestables games at home as this is linked to division and will help us in this area. Use the link below to access games to help you practise… Math Games | Educational Games for Kids | Toy Theater

We have also looked at the artist Steven Brown. We found out about his life and inspirations and then created our own McCoos. We will share these with you when they are finished.

We have had a super first week and are looking forward to the term ahead.