This has been quite an eventful week for everyone. The Primary 6 pupils went for a visit to the Scottish Parliament. This was arranged for them as they covered this topic last year. More details on this are below. We also had a visit from Sean Batty for the STV Children’s Appeal on Thursday which was a great morning!

Read on for more details.

• Danielle – we had our first Futsal lesson on Wednesday afternoon. We were learning how to control the ball and some other skills.
• Hannah – we had the visit on Thursday from Sean Batty which was very exciting for us all.
• Cory – the Tunnock’s man also came along with Sean Batty and left us some treats.
• Alfie – we had the wellie walk and weather themed disco during Sean’s visit and we all dressed up in weather themed clothes! During the disco we danced to Don’t Stop Believing with the P7s which we did last year – it was great fun.
• Charley – we finished off our wind models this week and were outside testing them when it was windy on Wed & Thu. We tried today but it wasn’t windy for once!
• Eve – we finished off our winter display and it is already up in the hall.
• Callum/Hannah/Alfie/ Fraser – we all had a trip to the Scottish Parliament with the P7s and Mrs Lossemore & Mrs Rankin. Miss Smith came along too. We got a tour of the building and got a chance to actually go into the Debating Chamber and get a group picture! We also saw the mace which sits at the front of the Presiding Officer during sessions – it is made of silver and gold and weighs the same as a bag of sugar. It was really interesting to hear all about it and see where the MSPs actually work. Angela Constance popped in to see us after our tour and she answered some questions we all had. It was very kind of her to meet with us.
• Leah – the P5s went to the Harvest service on Tuesday and then some of us went and joined Miss Eunson’s class and others joined Mrs Campbell’s class for the day.
• Charley – we continued on with Time in maths this week. We were converting time from analogue to digital and we started reading timetables.
• Callum – this was our first week in the Pupil voice Groups.
• All – we were given the city we live in for our French Families!

Here are some pictures from our week.

It’s the last week of this term next week! What a quick term.

Have a nice weekend.

P6/5

We have had another quick week here in P6/5. From wind energy projects, to pictures being taken, to doing Time in maths – it flew in!

Here are some of our highlights:

• Hannah – we were doing more work on our wind energy projects. We started building these and will finish these off on Monday and get to test them outside to see if they work.
• Eve & Charley – we started work for our Winter display for the hall. We were painting winter scene pictures and also a rainy day scene. We used water to help blend the colours we were using.
• Keris – we were finishing off our Achievements & Dream posters this week and some are already up on the classroom walls.
• Alfie – in French we continued with our French Families. We were given our names, ages, flags for our countries so we had to design our characters.
• Brogan – during RME this week we were learning about Ghandi.
• Callum – the football afterschool club started on Monday and it was good.
• Leah – the afterschool netball club also started this week on Tuesday and it was great.
• Charley – on Tuesday morning we all had our pictures taken both individual and family groups.

Here are a few pictures of us building our wind models.

Have a nice weekend.

P6/5

Even though this week was short, we had an exciting week with the performance of the Rookie Rockstars Concert on Wednesday night. It was a great night and the pupils involved all seemed to really enjoy themselves!

Please read on to hear what we enjoyed this week:

• Callum – we all really enjoyed performing at the concert.
• Leah – we all enjoyed challenge time with the rapping parents/grandparents!
• Jack – we found out at the concert  that Katie in P7 won the competition for the best CD cover design. This will be on the CDs with us singing. Well done!
• Hannah – in music this week we were singing a song from the Lion King – Can You Feel the Love Tonight – it was fun.
• Alfie – in French we were split into French Families and we are meant to live in a French speaking country such as Canada, France or Switzerland.
• Brogan – we were making posters this week with our Achievements and Dreams.
• Charley – we were working on our Wind Energy project again this week. We were finalising our designs for our models and looking at what resources have been brought in to help to start making these next week for the Levenseat competition. We have 3 great ideas and hopefully our models will turn out well!
• Brogan – following on from Rookie Rockstar, our writing this week was a newspaper article about the concert.
• Callum – for maths this week we were doing Izak 9 again with the cubes solving problems and Number Talks.

Some pictures from Izak 9!

A short but busy week. Back to normal next week!

Have a good weekend.

P6/5

This week has been a hectic week within P6/5. We had Rookie Rockstars in 4 mornings this week. It was also Maths Week so we have had a lot of extra maths this week.

Read below to see what we have been doing:

• Jack – For maths week we were given a Target Number to try and make calculations for. We also completed a treasure hunt outside on Tuesday but had to finish off Friday as we have been so busy.
• Callum – we had a maths lesson on Izak 9 with Mrs Robley and Mrs Rankin. This was using 9 cubes and we were set maths challenges using the cubes to help us solve the problems. We started using directions so North, South, East and West.
• Zara – we had Rookie Rockstars in Mon-Thu mornings. Nick & Aine were here to teach us 5 songs for the concert next week. We also learned some moves to go along. They had question time and also challenge time during the sessions so there were a couple of teacher challenges which were really funny. We recorded our songs and they will be on a CD to buy – all very exciting!
• Brodie – to end the Rookie Rockstar sessions we got to do the Pop/Rock Melody which was great fun. We get to do this again at the concert on Wed night!
• Callum – the school had the open evening last night which a few people came along to see our classroom. Sumdog was set up on the laptop to play and also parents could see the blog on the IPad as well.
• Brogan – our special person this week is Eve! Well done Eve.
• All – during French we were doing birthdays and learning to say which month and date ours are in.
• All – in PE we continued with Basketball and we also did a Joe Wicks session with the rest of the school on Tuesday. It was quite tiring.

Have a look at a few pictures from our sessions with Rookie Rockstars!

Have a nice long weekend!

P6/5

Now I have permission to add to the blog, please find below the blog the class created Friday 1st Sept. Apologies for the delay. Thanks, Mrs Rankin.

Well this has been a busy first full week within P6/5. We have had lots of things going on this week as we get back into the school routine. Please read below to hear some of our highlights:

• Katie – we were given a long and hard spelling test this week. This is to help the teacher to see how well are at spelling.
• Eve – we were finishing off our Class Charter for the classroom. This is all finished and up on our walls looking very colourful.
• Alfie – Mrs Rankin gave us a maths test to see how good we are at numeracy with some addition, subtraction, multiplication and division questions.
• Brogan – we finished off making our Group Points display for the classroom wall so that we can add the points we collect each day to them. This week the Wise Wonka’s got the most but it was a close call!
• Hannah – Mrs Campbell paid us a visit with P2/3 on Thursday to ask us to become Playground Pals with the P2/3s. This is to make sure everyone has a friend in the playground. We will also become reading buddies with them and will meet with them on a Tuesday afternoon for a little while. We are all looking forward to that.
• Alfie/Hannah/Leah/Brogan – we had music with Mrs Ewing for the first time and Leah, Hannah & Brogan were singing as a trio during the lesson.
• Callum – the SSPCA came to visit us on Monday. Dawn from the SSPCA came to explain what they do and what we should to do if we see a hurt animal. We played a game with questions about animals – please see the pictures below.
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• We are all enjoying our time on a Friday recapping on our week to share with you all!

  Just as a reminder, for PE, anyone with pierced ears needs to remove the earrings before the lesson or bring tape to cover these. Pupils will not be able to take part if either is not done.

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