Primary 6 Blog May 2025
Hello and welcome to the P6 blog. This was such an exciting term for us as we had our residential visit to Lockerbie Manor with P7. It was brilliant!
Lockerbie
We had an amazing time at Lockerbie. We spent the whole week outside doing lots of new activities such as abseiling, rifle shooting, archery, high and low ropes, scavenger hunts, survival, orienteering and a really, really muddy obstacle course. We developed lots skills including communication, problem solving and team working skills.
We stayed in a pod village and were in a pod with our friends. Mrs Kennedy, Ms Cassidy , Mrs Nisbet and Mrs Hare were our neighbours! We had loads of fun with our friends and was like a week long sleepover. The food was amazing and the deserts were out of this world especially the caramel shortcake!!!!
We had lots of different instructors who were really kind and welcoming. They were lots of fun and made us laugh loads especially Blake!
Activity Week
We spent the week with Mr Connor and Miss Mackay. On Monday we went on a long walk to Chatelherault Country Park. We saw lots of animals and sneaked into some dens that we found along the way. We did some crochet art and made smoothies with Miss Mackay, We had lots of fun with Lesley, our active schools co-ordinator who taught us all about archery. We enjoyed a Peppi Lunch which was delicious. We loved the karaoke and movie day. We had popcorn and watched Cinderella. We enjoyed our week together!
by Skye, Jacob L and Heidi
Numeracy
This term in numeracy we have been learning about BIDMAS and estimating and rounding.
BIDMAS is an acronym and stands for Brackets, Indices, Division, Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction. BIDMAS tells us the order that we should complete calculations. At first this was really tricky but we practised lots and after a little bit of time were able to solve really complex calculations.
We have also been learning about estimating and rounding. We have been rounding 4, 5, 6 and bigger numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1000 and 100,000, We have been applying our skills to help us solve calculations.
Literacy
We have almost finished our class novel – The Nowhere Emporium. We always want to get to the end of the chapters as we can’t wait to find it out what happens next. We HIGHLY recommend you read this book – it is amazing!
We have been focusing on metalinguistics, inference and figurative language such as similes and metaphors. We have been looking for this within the text and thinking about why the author has used these and the impact that using figurative language has on the reader.
In writing we have been learning about procedural and exposition writing. We created some writing for the Primary 5 children about how to complete an abseil safely – they will need this when it is their turn to go to Lockerbie. We have also written about Samurai warriors and how a new pope is elected. We will know that a new pope has been elected as we will see white smoke will coming from a small chimney in the Vatican City.
Social Studies
We have been learning all about Japan. Miss Mckay held a Japanese Tea Ceremony for us and we were able to try Matcha for the first time. Some of us loved the Matcha and some of us were not so keen! We have also been learning about Samurai warriors and know that some sadly lost their lives to save others. We were learning about earthquakes and how frequently they happen in Japan. As we were learning about this there was an actual earthquake in Myanmar.
STEM
With Mr Connor we have been learning about acids and bases. We did an experiment with purple cabbage. We had to cut up the cabbage into tiny pieces and put it in a cup with warm water and we stirred it until the colour of water changed. After that we poured the water into different containers and then we tested some liquids on the cabbage including lemon juice, vinegar and washing powder. These liquids changed the colour of the water. We then tested the acidity using PH paper. The colour on the ph paper showed if it was an acid or a base. We loved this experiment!
PE
Technology
For Technologies, we looked at what makes a building stable, as part of our Japan topic, and used junk resources to create our own earthquake proof structures. We tested how these held up and wrote reports on what worked well and what didn’t!
This term we are looking forward to meeting the new P1s. We can’t wait to be their big buddies and show them how awesome Neilsland Primary is! We have a little surprise planned for our new wee buddies.
