Category Archives: P6

p6h

September 7, 2014 Mr Berginis 2 Comments

Thank you to all those who came along to our ‘Meet The Teacher Evening’. It was great to see so many Parents/Carers , and it was lovely to meet you all. Mrs Haddifon.

P6H are thoroughly enjoying our Space topic. We researched lots of facts and wrote letters as Astronauts leaving on a space mission. We also used wax resistancy methods to create space scenes, and created some fantastic pictures. As we go forward with our space mission we are going to build a six foot model of a Space Shuttle, looking at all the different parts it has. So if you have any spare newspapers we would really appreciate you sending them in for our papier mache.

We also had our first try at Countdown Spelling this week, which went well. We all enjoyed it and not even Mrs Haddifon’s dancing put us off!

Class, P6

Primary 6a

March 28, 2014 Mrs Hammond 2 Comments

After the success of the P6 show, The Wizard of Oz, last week P6a have been settling back into some hard work in the classroon.

The Red group have been busy working on their subrtaction. The Blue, Maroon and Green groups ahve been learning about division.

Chloe: I learned how to divide with and without remainders. It was fun.

On Tuesday P6 went to a Hockey and Basketball festival at Bathgate Academy where the children competed in teams against other local schools. Two of our teams managed to gain third place, one in hockey and the other in basketball. A big well done to all the children who competed the medals for the winners should arrive next week.

Antonia – My team played excellently with boys and girls working well together. I really enjoyed the hockey where I managed to score 5 times.

Also this week we have been looking at Climate Change and coming up with our own ideas about how to heat water or keep buildings warm using less energy. There have been some interesting ideas, including using sheep to mow your lawn instead of a lawn mower!

P1a, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, Whole School News

House Points

January 6, 2014 User deactivated 8 Comments

The leading House is STRACHAN!!

Here are our House Points this week:

Bruce – 740 Hardy – 650
MacPherson – 660
Strachan – 660

Here are our House Points this month:

Bruce –3,810 Hardy – 3,360
MacPherson – 3,870
Strachan – 4,040

From The Pupil Voice Group

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Almost there for P6a…

December 13, 2013 User deactivated 3 Comments

No, not the holidays – our marble jar. We only have 4 more marble to go until we get a reward (we hope!). We are going to spin the Wheel of Fortune (ok, really the reward wheel but just as exciting) to see what our reward will be. Fingers crossed for the four marbles.

We were very sad to hear of the passing of Nelson Mandela and have taken a bit of time out of our Jacobites topic to learn more about his life.

Nelson Mandela showed South Africans that white people and black people should be treated the same. (Paul)

He changed the world. (Taylor)

He was an inspiring man because he helped people to see the good in others. (Kendal)

He changed our world by making sure that everyone in South Africa had the same opportunities. (Jay)

Miss Anderson’s writing group have been writing biographies.

Mahatma Ghandi – Jack, Callum, Adam, Kendal and Antonia

Roald Dahl – Jay, Harry and Lauren U

Helen Keller – Emily

We had a trip to the Regal theatre to see Aladdin. It was funny.

Only reading homework this week!

Miss Anderson & P6a

P6a Get Animated!

December 6, 2013 User deactivated 1 Comment

For the last few weeks we have been learning about animation and how to create animations. Last week we created 3D animations and this week we created 2D animations. We worked in our Clan Teams for these tasks.

Here are a few examples

We used Stop Go animation for these videos.

It was the P6 party this week and we all had a great time. We would like to say thank-you to all the adults (and P7 carers) who made it all possible – THANK-YOU!

We thought that the other P6 class did brilliantly in their assembly and we really enjoyed their singing and all the facts that they shared with us.
*****Pupil of the Week is Callum*****

Lauren C won the Drama award for the month.

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Busy busy week for 6M!

December 5, 2013 Miss McDougall 2 Comments

This week we have been busy practising for our class assembly 🙂 It is on Friday and we hope you can make it! We chose two of our favourite Christmas songs ever to sing! 🙂 We had a wonderful Wednesday afternoon….it was our Christmas party and we played loads of party games and enjoyed our party food. Have a look at our pictures! We have also been busy practising songs for the Church Service. We have been trying hard to practise our long multiplication sums in maths and we are finding it a bit tricky!

Introducing Dorothy

November 22, 2013 User deactivated 7 Comments

This week Miss Anderson was very excited to act like Andrew Lloyd-Webber and say

“Lauren, you ARE Dorothy!” not once, but twice. That’s because both Lauren K and Lauren C have both won the role of Dorothy in our P6 production of The Wizard of Oz. Lots go us auditioned and half the class have speaking roles. Don’t worry about the rest of us- we want to take on backstage roles (and there is always lots of singing!).

Antonia interviewed both Dorothys. If you like this video let us know by leaving a comment… We might make it a regular feature!

Meet Dorothy and Dorothy

Best comment last week goes to Lauren C, who will get her prize next week. There will be another prize for best comment this week (open to everyone – pupils, parents and school staff).

Enjoy your weekend.

Miss Anderson and P6a 🙂

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Primary 6 Nursery Carers

November 19, 2013 User deactivated 1 Comment

This session the Primary 6 children are Nursery Carers and visit Bathgate West Nursery School as often as is possible during the year. They really love the experience of being good role models for the children in the nursery. Here are some pictures of the P6 Nursery Carers in action.

P6a Moon Landing

November 15, 2013 User deactivated 4 Comments

This week we have had another very busy week. Not only did we start our Literature Circles, we also prepared for a moon landing by designing vehicles and space buildings. Here are a few of our finished products.

It has a camera on the top so that it can take pictures of The Moon. It can move so that it can explore the moon and pick up rocks.

Chloe and Emily

The building on The Moon is about 5′ tall, which is the same size as Emily! We are a good team.

Here are our models. One is a NASA rocket, it can fly up to the moon and 100 miles per hour. It can carry up to 1000kg. Our other model is a space probe, it has a bin and arms at the front and a satellite at the top.

We also learned about the phases of The Moon and how The Moon affect the oceans on Earth. We are trying to make a video of our work so hopefully we will be able to upload that soon!

Hope you have enjoyed reading about our learning this week. If you have why not leave us a commnet? Miss Anderson will give a prize to the person who leaves the BEST comment for us.

Miss Anderson and P6a 8)

P6 school trip

November 1, 2013 User deactivated 2 Comments

On wednesday 30th october primary 6 went to dynamic earth. We had a very exiting time and we learned lots of new things. We went in a time machine that took us 50,000,000 years into the past. We also touched a large chunk of ice and we had a tasty lunch in the cafe. We also learned a bit more about our solar system. Then went into a 4D cinema that was really 4D . It took us through deserts and rainforests and through a rhinos horn too!

By Antonia, Lauren K and Olivia

What abusy week we have had! Not only have we been on our school trip but we have had a dress up/down day and a visit from Mr Welsh. We think that Mr Welsh enjoyed learning with us because he looked happy 😀

This morning we worked in our Big Balbardie Blether groups, which was fun. It is always good to work in different groups and learn from each other.

Miss Anderson and P6a 😎

P6a Visit Mars!

October 11, 2013 User deactivated 2 Comments

This week P6a have been very busy preparing for our assembly. We have been making props, learning our lines and learning the songs.

My Favourite Assembly Activity

Jack – I enjoyed making the props

William -I learned other people’s lines as well!

Lauren U -I liked singing the songs

Kendal – I enjoyed our parents vising for a cup of tea!

Olivia – I enjoyed performing

Miss Anderson is very proud, especially because we wrote the script ourselves!

Numeracy

As it is money focus week we learned more about money.

Jack – We played money games on the Smartboard

William – I learned more about money

Lauren U – I’m now better at counting up with money

Kendal -I liked playing the games on the Smartboard

Olivia – I liked making moneyboxes from 3D shape nets

*****Paul is our Pupil of the Week – well done Paul!*****

Busy busy week in 6M!

October 10, 2013 Miss McDougall 1 Comment

We have had a busy P.E week! We started the week with Streetdance, had basketball mid-week and ended the week with Destination Judo!

In our reading groups we were learning about EVALUATING questions. The Astronauts made a character profile and had to judge which ones were most suitable to comment on. The Stars reading group created illustrations which would be suitable for a younger audience and assess which ones would be most important. The Planets and the Moons were using our Bloom’s Bakery evaluation questions to discuss our reading books and give our opinion of them. We found that it is quite hard to EVALUATE our work but we are going to enjoy practising 🙂

In art this week we created autumn trees using pastels and paper. We had a little walk around the playground to look at the differences between the trees and we used this information to help us with the pictures.

This week in maths the Hexagons have been working on the i-pads and learning to subtract 4-digit numbers.

We learned about the ‘Curiosity Rover’ and its mission to Mars. We found out that this rover is collecting rock samples and looking for ‘life on Mars!’…( not aliens!)

Achievements

Liam won a Bronze (patterns), Gold (sparring) and gold (high kick) in Tae Kwon Do!

Kieran T is practising to become a Rookie Lifeguard!

Kieran S has moved up a level in piping!

Katelyn moved up a swimming level!

3 more people achieved step 3!

P6a – 2 for the price of 1

October 4, 2013 User deactivated 3 Comments

Jay is a superstar because he is both our Pupil of the Week and also Mr Jefferies’ MVP (Most Valuable Player) for Primary 6.

Literacy

This week we have been redrafting our stories of the skies. We have been continuing to develop our skills when asking and answering analysing questions. We also had to correct a piece of work that had lots of spelling, punctuation and grammar mistakes.

Antonia – I enjoyed reading this week because I like my new novel.

Lauren C -I liked redrafting my story.

Harry – I enjoyed creating a powerpoint.

Paul – I liked typing a powerpoint.

Finlay – I already know how to work with powerpoint.

Jay – I feel like I have got faster and better at reading.

Maths and Numeracy

The red group have started learning about fractions

Antonia – We are no now learning about decimals

Lauren C – We now have Countdown on our maths wall. I liked trying to work it out as I liked being challenged.

Harry -I like that we have moved onto a different kind of fractions (decimals)

Paul -I am working hard in maths to ‘step up my game’

Finlay -The red group have started learning about fractions.

Jay – I feel like I’m starting to get the hang of multiplication and fractions. I have also been chosen to be one of the Countdown assistants.

LATC

We have been working on our songs and scripts for our assembly next week. We have also used powerpoint to research the planets in our solar system.

Antonia – I have enjoyed making the powerpoint for our assembly.

Lauren C – I am enjoying creating the choreography for our assembly songs.

Harry – I like being a timeline person as I get to find out events that happened before we went to space.

Paul – I like being an astronaut because we are all working together to finish our script.

Finlay – I like that I am an alien because everyone is working together to make the assembly good. The aliens are a big group.

Jay – Miss Anderson said I’ve got the timing right for our song Variation in Space.

Achievements

Antonia – My team won our football match.

Lauren C -I have learned more notes on my clarinet.

Harry -I have learned about tenths in maths.

Paul -I have made a big effort to think about what I say and I feel that I have achieved this.

Finlay -My team won our rugby tournament

Jay -I am pupil of the week and Mr Jeffries’ MVP!

We hope you all have a lovely weekend

Miss Anderson and P6a (the Starships in particular!)

*** We will have basketball outside on Tuesday (and for the next 4 weeks). Please bring an outdoor P.E. kit. If you have black/grey joggers you can wear them to school with your polo shirt/school jumper. ***

P6a – Constellation Designers

September 27, 2013 User deactivated 2 Comments

This week in P6a we have been learning more about the stories of the skies and how to spot constellations. We are so good at this that Miss Anderson challenged us to design our own constellations and write our own stories to explain these constellations. We all wrote a different story.

Taylor’s story was about a giraffe that had a neck that grew so long that his head ended up in space.

Ellie’s story was about a shark that was different and wanted to visit space.

Adam’s story was about a cat that wanted to go to space. A dog chased the cat and the cat ended up in space.

Callum’s story was about a dog and a human that went to space and got super powers.

Kai’s story was about a dinosaur that had a fight.

In maths this week we have been continuing to learn about fractions and multiplication.

Taylor – I find my times table work quite easy as I know the quick way to do the 9 times table.

Ellie – I thought that the 2 times table was easy.

Adam – I thought that maths was easy and I liked it as I now understand fractions a bit more.

Callum – I think fractions are easy after a few weeks as we do more work on fractions.

We have also been working on our assembly songs and writing our scripts.

Taylor – We had fun writing scripts whilst sitting on the comfy couch.

Ellie – I found the songs fun, particularly Variations in Space.

Adam – I quite liked singing because the songs are catchy.

Callum – The songs are really good.

Achievements

The class have been getting on better in the playground and have been playing football sensibly. Callum thinks that the new rota is good and leads to less disagreements.

We also think that the playground is getting tidier – it is everyone’s job to keep it tidy!

Quite a few of us received our new instruments – how exciting!

Finally, we all enjoyed the coffee morning this morning!

Miss Anderson and P6a (and in particular the Mars Mallow Mountains) 😀

P6a Get Creative!

September 20, 2013 User deactivated 6 Comments

This week in P6a we have been very creative! We have worked on a collage task with our P1b buddies. We have also created some beautiful pieces of art work based on stars and constellations. Click here for a sneak peek of our work.
It is our assembly in a few weeks and we have decided which songs we are going to include and everyone has part of the script to write. Next week we will start to write the scripts and learn the songs. Lots of us are excited about our assembly.

In Maths the Blue group and the Green group have been learning more about fractions. Lauren K liked completing 2 pages of maths and is happy that she can now find tenths and fifths of numbers. Adam liked maths this week because he didn’t understand fractions until Thursday but now feels confident when finding tenths. Chloe likes maths because she quite likes a challenge. The Red group were revisiting the 2, 5 and 10 times tables and then worked on the 4 and 8 times tables. Taylor found her work fun because we learned in different ways. William found his maths quite east.

The Underdogs won in a Dodgeball Competition in P.E. with Mr Jeffries. Well done to The Underdogs.

Isla is our Class Dojo Champion with 21 positive points (and no negatives!). Well Done Isla!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend,
Miss Anderson and P6a 😉

Our week in P6M

September 19, 2013 Miss McDougall 10 Comments

This week in maths the Hexagons have been learning about addition and subtraction of 3 and 4 digit numbers. The Pyramids group have been using our new i-pad minis to practise our mental maths skills 🙂 The Spheres have been learning about time and have been using smartboard games to help. We learned about what constellations are and we learned that they are like dot-dot pictures in the sky. The stars are not connected but appear to be so in the sky. Some constellation names are Leo the lion, Hercules, Pegasus and Andromeda. We also found out what our astrological signs are! We made our own telescopes and we chose a constellation to view through it. We wrote constellation stories where we chose our heroes and villians. In French this week we learned about flags from different countries and we helped to make them for our Day of European languages.

Achievements this week-

Melissa and Rachel are starting Orchestra!

Findlay has moved up a level in golf!

Millie is going to hold back the tears….she is starting at a new school 🙂

Jamie is joining a pipe band!

Katelyn has nearly completed level 2 in baking!

Have a great weekend!

P6a Reach for the Stars

September 13, 2013 User deactivated 1 Comment

This week in Primary 6a we have been learning about stars. Did you know that our sun is really a star? We are going to learn more about the stars and planets that make up our universe.

On Monday we had a visit from Childline, which was really interesting and we learned a lot about how Childline can help. We also memorised the phone number for Childline 0800 1111

We shared our Home Learning on Tuesday and we also learned more about remembering types of questions. This type of questions tests what you can remember from your home reading. We can remember a lot and are going to work on understanding questions next week.

We have had many achievements this week, both in and out of school

Callum was signed by Murieston Whites FC and will now play alongside Nathan.

Flyn drew in his muay thai fight (against a more experienced opponent)

Adam did NINE backflips on his trampoline

Chloe achieved grade 2 in tap, ballet and jazz

Finlay was asked to join Linlithgow Rugby Club

Harry and Jay both passed the pre-grading black belt

Isla is our Class Dojo champion with 11 points. The class total for positive points is 179.

*****Antonia is our Pupil of the Week!*****

Hope you all enjoy your long weekend (and remember that Home Learning should be handed in on Wednesday next week).

Miss Anderson and P6a 8)

P6a are happy to be at school (well, most of us)

September 6, 2013 User deactivated 3 Comments

In assembly this morning we learned that there are millions of children in the world who do not get to go to school. This makes us think that we are very grateful that we have the right to an education.

We enjoyed eating lunch with our buddies and we still check up on our buddies to make sure that they are ok in the playground.

In Maths the Blue group and the Green group started to learn about FRACTIONS! Lauren U thinks that fractions are easy but quite a lot of us think that fractions are tricky. Miss Anderson is sure that by the end of next week more of us will think like Lauren. Kai managed to accurately complete 2 pages of maths in under 10 minutes. Jack was our big improver in BIG maths with 9 more correct. Jack and Antonia got our high scores with 14.

Mr Welsh joined us for our Spelling lesson on Tuesday, which was good fun. We enjoy learning our spelling words using a variety of activities. Here are a few photos of our work. ***TO FOLLOW*

We also started to learn about Space and Miss Anderson reminded us that we can find lots of information and videos using Twig on Glow. We do need to log in using our Glow Log on. Here is the link http://www.twigonglow.com/

Lauren K achieved the highest score in Class Dojo with 9 points.

*****Flyn is our Pupil of the Week*****

Have a nice weekend

Miss Anderson and P6a 8)

Achieving our Goals in P6a

August 30, 2013 User deactivated 1 Comment

This week we have been very busy setting our goals. We have all thought about what we want to achieve over the next few weeks and are looking forward to working towards achieving them. Here is a photo with the details.

We decided on our iPad rules and have been busily creating posters to help us remember to always follow these rules. We all agree that we have to follow the rules to make sure that everyone in the class can use the iPads to support their learning.

Flynn had a super success in BIG Maths. He managed to improve his score by 9 marks. Other fantastic improvements were shown by Lauren K (5), Lauren C (4), Callum (3) and Isla (1). Hopefully this will inspire us all to practise our table facts at home.

Ellie was the first class member to get onto Step 1- Well Done Ellie! Everyone is so proud of you. By the end of the day there were more class members who had achieved this. Keep up the hard work and good behaviour.

Kendal was proud of writing 70 words during handwriting. She also used correct letter joins!

Emily was our Pupil of the Week for her hard work and diligence 😀

Class Dojo points winner was Isla with 9 points. This week we had 127 good things happen in our classroom. Fingers crossed for even more next week!

Next week we are all looking forward to having lunch with our P1 buddies and are hoping to start our weekly Buddy Time sessions.

Miss Anderson and P6a 😎

Welcome 6m!

August 23, 2013 Miss McDougall 1 Comment

We were very excited to start back at school this week but we did have a few sleepy heads by Friday morning! This week we have been busy creating our Class Charters and have been looking at our rights and actions. We have been busy creating dioramas about our first week in P6 and have been busy making comic strips for our summer holiday snapshots 🙂 We have been busy earning house points and creating new house point posters for our new classroom. We discovered that we have a very democratic class and we work well together in groups. Miss McDougall thinks we are fab at this! 🙂 We are also looking forward to using our new I-pad minis and using our own devices in our class work. Have a brilliant weekend !