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Our Bikeability sessions have now ended for this year. Our P6s have done brilliantly over the past 5 weeks, learning new skills to keep them safe when out cycling on the roads.
Well done P6!
When we created our Class Charter at the start of the year, the most important quality the children wanted to see in their classmates and staff, was kindness. With this in mind, we set out to create a ‘Ripples of Kindness’ display in our school foyer so that others could be made aware of the importance of small acts of kindness too.
We used oil pastels to create the ‘ripple lines’ that would be seen if a pebble was thrown in water. Then, we experimented with water colour paints, using the ‘wet on wet’ technique. It was so relaxing, watching the colours spread and mix, as we placed our wet brushes on the card.
Time spent playing around with the paints, mixing colours and adding more or less water to our card, definitely paid off! The finished results are beautiful! Well done P4-5-6!
Now, we are thinking about the different ‘types’ of kind acts we can do and the positive ‘ripples’ they can send to others in school, at home and in our community.
Please stop and take a look when you visit school next week.
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Please see below, some of the learning activities going on in P4-5-6 this term.
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We are enjoying spending time together as a new P4/5/6 class, doing the things that we enjoy most.
We have been playing with Lego, making comics, setting up a cafe, reading our books, decorating stones, doing some origami, playing board games and drawing.
Through these activities we are:
I wonder what everyone will enjoy playing with next time!
This year, P4-5-6 are taking part in the STEMSpace Project. Its main aim is to improve spatial reasoning skills using a fun, hands-on approach, encouraging pupils to Visualise, Predict and Check as part of the learning process.
Here are a few photos from Week 1 of the project. Please look out for more over the coming weeks. We are very excited to see where this project takes our learning!
Lesson 1 – Shapes in Shapes
The class explored making shapes using the pattern blocks and created bigger shapes, with smaller shapes within them.
Lesson 2 saw us exploring tessellated patterns in more detail and exploring what ‘tessellation’ means and why some shapes tessellate and others don’t. Then we used our shapes to trace out our tessellated patterns on paper. This was a great motor skill activity too! We had to carefully line up the edges to make sure there were no gaps. It took time, but the results were great! 👍🏻
We are looking forward to future lessons!
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That’s been a fast start to the new term! P4-5-6 have spent time getting accustomed to their new teachers, classmates and new rules, routines and expectations. They have all settled in really well and we feel sure it’s going to be a great year of learning and fun!
We spent time doing lots of ‘getting to know you’ activities and taking part in team building challenges that required good communication skills, supporting group members and giving advice and resilience when things went wrong!
We also took part in a group drawing competition. This was definitely harder to do than expected! The end results caused great hilarity!
Each morning, we settle into school with a Soft Start. This might be a whole class game, an individual or paired challenge or a quiet task before our lessons begin. Here’s a small selection of Soft Start photos…
Please keep an eye on our class blog as the weeks go by and give us a comment or ❤️ to let us know you are following our learning journey. Thank you!
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This term, P5/6 have been working really hard on their enterprise project – Dragons Den. We had 6 teams who all created a prototype, and pitched their products to a panel of “Dragons” – who then had to choose teams to represent the class at the Summer Gala to raise funds for the school. The teams have all created their own products, looked at profits and expenditure and also created advertisement to help them in their pitches. The successful teams were “Lucky Lemonade” – who will sell lemonade and lucky dips, and “Sweets n’ Treats” who will sell fruit kebabs and chocolate covered strawberries.
A huge thank you must go to our Dragons – Mrs Leslie, Gus Dow (Bigton Bakery) & Sarah Green (D.P.C & Stakkadale Coffee), as well as Derry (Community Champion – Tesco) – who has donated lots of items to help keep costs extremely low!
P5/6 worked so hard at our Robotics workshop this week. They learned about the circumference of a circle, by programming a robot based on the rotations of its wheels. They then had fun creating their own shapes, which they then coded their robot to travel around, based on the shapes perimeter.
After a lot of work on weight in maths, it was only right we put our extended knowledge into context – we measured toppings to make “the Perfect Pizza”.
A huge thank you to our Community Champion at Tesco, Derry, who provided us with all of the ingredients we needed!
