We have been doing volleyball in PE. We started the block doing some exercises that involved us tracking, moving and collecting the ball. Next we used beach balls to learn the 2 main volleyball passes. We finished the block playing games over the very high net, trying to get used to passing the ball over the height and catching a high ball.
P6a have been learning about music in Victorian times. They’ve learned about different musical inventions including the player piano, penny-in-the-slot, music box, phonograph and street piano.
The barrel organ was an instrument which would have been played in the streets during Victorian times. We learned a tuned called ‘Kafoozalum’ which would have been played on a barrel organ and we played an accompaniment to the tune using tuned percussion and boomwhackers.
In PE we have been doing games and activities that involved team work and cooperation.
In PE we started the term with Table Tennis. The main focus was on developing our hitting ability, trying to get the ball to bounce on our opponents side of the table. To achieve this, we looked at holding the bat correctly, turning our feet to hit the shot and bringing the bat up and forwards towards the ball.
Primary 6 & 7 recently had representatives from the Knab Redevelopment Project Group to visit them with an update on the housing project and to share who the winners and runners up of the ‘Design A House’ competition were! Congratulations to Ayla who was the overall winner of the competition and also to Eve, Katie and Aoife who were runners up.
In Art p6 have been learning about the French Artist Claude Monet and have used chalks to recreate his impressionist style.
We started by mixing and blending the chalk to achieve different colours and tones. We then layered on top of that with more chalk, trying to add different marks to create the impression of detail.
The class have worked very hard and has resulted in lots of beautiful pictures, well done p6!!
We will now be moving on to do a similar thing, but this time using paint.
Please find Primary 6A’s Curriculum Information for Term 3 below:
Thank you,
Miss Simpson
P6B joined us today for our Christmas party games. Here we are in action.
In Art p6 have been learning about the process of design.
Pupils were given with the tasks of designing a character pot, which had to have an open mouth; the rest was up to them!
During the first lesson, pupils were introduced to the idea of mind maps to generate different ideas and think through the various options for their pot. The next job was to choose their best idea, draw it out, in detail and think about the colours.
The following week we spent sculpting the pots. Pupils learnt how shape clay and join it using the scratching and smudging technique.
The final step was to paint our pots, we spent 2 weeks doing this to ensure the colours were bright and the pots were neatly finished.
The results were fantastic, excellent use of the visual elements p6, well done!
We had a few changes to the equipment this week. The wide box was a section higher, the narrow beam came after the wider benches and at the frame, the ropes were out. When discussing the equipment set up, we spoke about changes of height, direction and width.
Here we are in action.
