This week P6 started their new topic WWII. 

We learned about the leaders of the countries involved in WWII.  We know that during the war Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of Britain and that Adolf Hitler was the leader of Germany.  We realised that although Hitler was elected to be the leader in a democratic way, he was a dictator because he even put his opponents in concentration camps so they couldn’t stop what he wanted to do.  We used our mapping skills show which countries were allies, axis countries and which were axis controlled.

We have also been journalists from 1939 this week and have been writing a newspaper article announcing the outbreak of war.  Life in the 1930s was very different from today.  Houses in towns and cities were back to back, they had tin baths in front of the fire and everyone in the family shared the same water….YUK!  Most houses didn’t have inside toilets and only some electricity.  Hot water bottles were made of china and were VERY hot and then VERY cold!  Families listened to the wireless, a radio from that time and children liked to listen to ‘Children’s Hour’ which was on at 5pm.  At the weekends some children liked to visit the Picture House to go and see the latest serial.

In PE with Mr Muldoon we started work on gymnastics.  We have been improving our gymnastic skills by practising forward rolls, lazy backward rolls, cartwheels and pencil rolls.  Chloe said “I found it really fun and I was trying to improve my lazy backward rolls”.

In drama we have a chance to teach our welcome dances to the rest of our class.  Emily thought it was a bit hard to learn other people’s dances but quite fun in the end.  Emma said “It was amazing because you get to learn other people’s dances and get to share yours with others.”

We also started to research the Jewish religion.  We discussed the 10 Commandments and thought about whether any of them are still relevant and useful today. 

The P6 Garden Groomers were back out in the garden areas this week.  Katie is glad to be back at work as she has missed it.  She said “Mrs Thomson is perhaps going to return next week to give us a hand because we are really missing her support”. 

We’re all working towards our fun day reward for this month as we all like the idea of a hotdog and ice cream at the end of the year!

Next week, we’re going to do lots more WWII and Judaism research and Elise is going to bring in some WWII medals for us to have a look at.  Another busy week to come in P6!

We have begun learning about the Ancient Egyptians.  We have looked at where the U.K. is on a world map, and found Egypt in the continent of Africa! Also we have had our Stars Homework for only a week and already people are learning new facts.

‘I have learned where the pyramids were built and how they were built.  I loved seeing pictures of mummies when my mum showed me them in my book.’ Isabel.

‘I have learned how Egyptians moved water, but I have forgotten the name of the machine!’ Zoe.

‘I learned that Egypt is very hot, I was there at Christmas!’ Alexander.

‘I learned about how the Ancient Egyptians found food.’ Carlos.

‘I know that camels live in Egypt.’ Ryan.

In art, we have begun to learn about an famous artist, Wassily Kandinsky, he is said to have been the first artist to develop abstract art.  We enjoyed painting concentric circles.

‘We painted a circle and then painted other circles around it.’ Brooke

‘I liked the painting called Yellow, Red, Blue by Wassily Kandinsky.’ Lucca

‘He was born ages ago.’ Erin (1866)

‘We are going to use our circles to create a display on a tree.’  Laura.

In Maths we have been learning the Days of the Week and the Months of the Years.  Also we have been working to improve our jotter presentation.  Hanna had the best handwriting in her maths jotter so she got the Handwriting of the Week award.

In Literacy we have been learning to use better punctuation.

In Maths we have been learning the Days of the Week and the Months of the Years.  Also we have been working to improve our jotter presentation.  Hanna had the best handwriting in her maths jotter so she got the Handwriting of the Week award.

In Literacy we have been learning to use better punctuation.

This week we were left some magic beans!! We have been working hard to build Jack a beanstalk, our favourite job this week!

Tiana has enjoyed making the different leaves for it.  Louise has had fun making the beanstalk.  Linda was pleased that we used her idea for the stalk.  Mackenzie has also enjoyed making the beanstalk.

We have also been learning some new sounds this week and Emma has enjoyed doing the differnt tasks.

P6 have had a great first week back.  We have been to West Lothian Collage. This week we were doing Athletics which was our last activity. We were so sad. We have included photo from our rugby week so that you can see how much fun it really was!

We also started a new topic, WWII. Amber thought that WWII was exciting to start and can’t wait to find out more about WWII. Abby thought that WWII was very interesting and can’t wait to find out more about Adolf Hitler.

We were finishing our old topic our world! This has been great. Isra thought that our world topic was amazing! We talked about our holidays which sounded great. We all can’t wait for June because for good girls and boys they are getting a fun day!!

We are getting ready for P7 next year. Erin says that getting ready for P7 is exciting, scary and it feels like just yesterday we were in P1. Zoe thinks it is exciting and scary.

By Amber, Abby and Zoe

It was a bit of a shock to the system being back to school this week- setting the alarm, getting up earlier to come to school and getting back into the learning groove. .  Leah enjoys our check ins/ outs in class where we talk about how we are feeling and what we have been doing.

We finished off the science work connected with the ‘Our World’ topic. Leon said that he enjoyed learning about the different types of rocks that we have on Earth and Sonny brought in some of his dad’s rock collection from home. Jack really enjoyed making the rock posters because you learned about the different rocks that you see in everyday life but don’t know about. Did you know that slate is a type of metamorphic rock?

Joshua found the division work in maths really satisfying. He said, “I really liked doing the great big division sum. It was easy when you knew how to do it.” Shannon thought that this work was fun and challenging too.  Caitlin liked our Countdown warm up in writing where we had to use the letters to make a word. ‘It was a good way to warm up and it was fun. The teachers always make our learning fun.’ Hannah- Beth said the she enjoyed writing ‘Into the Future’  because it makes you think about how you feel about going to High School

We are looking forward to starting our WW2 topic next week, especially Jak who is really keen to get going.

We have had an exciting week in P1b this week.  We had a visit from the Friendly Dragon.  He has asked us to help him rebuild Fairyland.  We will let you know what we have been doing to help him each week.

This week has been really busy. Mackenzie said he has had lots of fun.  Caiden enjoyed learning another new sound this week.  Oskar has enjoyed seeing his friends again after the holidays.  They have had lots of fun playing together.  Tiana had fun drawing the Friendly Dragon after our special visit.

Next week we look forward to starting to help rebuild Fairyland.