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Term 1 Human Body Topic

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This term Primary 6 have been learning all about the Human Body as part of their class topic. Each week we focused on a different system and carried out practical investigations.

We started of looking at skeletons, how they change over time and the name of different bones, we combined this with looking at the joints and muscles and made our own model fingers demonstrating the hinge joint.

We then moved onto the nervous system and looked at our reaction times with the drop the ruler test. We calculated our average time over 3 tests. We looked at optical illusions and how our eyes react to changes in light and depending on emotions we feel. We then created out own optical illusions which are on display in school.

We researched our inherited and non inherited characteristics for a homework tasks and drew portraits of our future selves. We also investigated if height corresponded with age and used excel to show the results.

We then moved onto the respiratory system. We first of all looked at our resting and active heart rate and created graphs using data we gathered in PE and maths.

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We then  made model lungs to demonstrate how the respiratory system works and silently matched all the cards together during our observed lesson with Mrs Tait. We completed the lung capacity experiment to see who in the class had the biggest lung capacity. We then used this data to make graphs in excel.

We then moved onto the digestive system which the class have enjoyed learning about the most. We first looked at how food is broken down by saliva in our mouths. The dry cracker experiment was a hit with the class!

We then investigated what happens to food once we have eaten it.

The class enjoyed the practical experiment demonstrating how our food is broken down into nutrients and waste products.

The class have made survey on Microsoft forms for P1-7 to see what snacks people enjoy and what healthy alternatives they would like to see on offer in school.  We will make graphs with the data collected next week. This project will continue into term 2.

The last area we will look at in this topic is the circulatory system next week.

Hope you enjoy reading this as much as we enjoyed learning about our topic!

Term 2 Improving Writing Programme

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This Term Primary 6 have been taking part in the National Improving Writing Programme. The class have been writing 3 times a week in 15 minutes slots focusing on very specific targets.

We took the data from our Pareto chart to see what the class needed to work on first.

 

The class started with punctuation working on capital letters, full stops, commas, speech marks and apostrophes. Here are examples of punctuation we used highlighted in yellow.

The class used the talk for writing style to retell the story of the gingerbread man. Some of the class changed he characters to create their own version of the gingerbread man.  We got really good at speech marks using familiar stories!

Once we achieved this target, we moved onto conjunctions. Conjunctions are highlighted in green. We still needed to remember our punctuation to achieve the target.  The class then get 5 minutes to self/peer mark their work to see if they have reached their target by highlighting their success criteria

We used a range of different stimulus from Pobble pictures, non fiction writing, well known stories, films and personal writing.

 

Lots of good writing came from using the John Lewis Christmas adverts as a stimulus. Monty the Penguin, and Edgar the Drag were a big success!

 

Our next teaching aim is grammar, which will run from January until the end of the programme in February.

Here is out class progress report. The red line shows a shift in data, which happens when the class achieve 6 consecutive points above the median line. In other words six lessons where the majority of the class have achieved the teaching aim.  The class have worked very hard and are looking forward to focusing on grammar for our final teaching aim which will run until the start of February.

We are very proud of P6 for their amazing progress!