So another week has passed by and we have had a good week. We finished off our topic of Earthquakes & Volcanoes with a bang (exploding our volcanoes!) and we had another drama session and we were just busy in general!

Read to hear more about this week.

• Brogan – on Thursday afternoon we exploded our paper mache volcanoes. We had 4 to explode and we used 3 different methods. Two groups used the same method. The elephant toothpaste explosion was probably the best but they all did explode and the rain didn’t dampen our excitement!
• Alfie – on Thursday the P6s got to meet the nursery pupils coming up to P1 after the summer. We gave them a tour of the school as well. We don’t know who our buddies will be but it was great to see them in school.
• Hannah – P6s were at Forest Schools on Thursday morning and we finished off our dens. Next week we will be building rafts from natural materials and also learning to tie knots.
• Alfie – we had PE with Mr Tennant outside with the P7s. We also did football rounders with Mrs Rankin.
• Eve – in French this week were created houses for our French Families and decorated these and added our families to them.
• Cory – in maths this week we were looking at patterns and number sequences.
• Keris – in writing we were looking at letters again and wrote a letter to either Via or Auggie from our novel Wonder and we were doing persuasive writing.
• Leah – we were given exit tickets for our Earthquakes & Volcanoes topic. We had to write 3 things we have learnt form the topic and 1 thing we wanted to know about which perhaps hadn’t been covered. Mrs Rankin will find out the answers if there are any.
• Callum – in Health & Wellbeing, we were looking at our physical wellbeing – how we look after our bodies and the our appearance and discussing why it’s important to look after ourselves.
• All – in art we were looking at the Russian artist Kandinsky and what we could see in his abstract paintings. Today we started our on Kandinsky inspired piece of art.

Here are some pictures from Drama Box and our volcano explosions!

Enjoy the extra long weekend! Back on Wednesday.

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The last full week in April has gone and we’re nearly into May. What a quick April it has been. We have a good week with our Volcano topic nearing an end and a surprise Drama Box session and then finishing up with Parent’s Evening last night.

Read on to hear what we have been enjoying:

• Fraser – we started the week making volcanoes with paper mache and then on Thursday we were painting these and looking at ways we can cause them to erupt. We plan to do this next week.
• Callum – we had a drama session with a lady from Drama Box on Tuesday morning which we all enjoyed. We had to improvise with the start of a conversation “Excuse me, have you lost a beetle?” then carry on with this.
• Brodie – our parent’s were in seeing Mrs Rankin last night. A few of us were trying to bribe her!
• Hannah – the brass pupils had a visit to Whitburn Academy with 4 or 5 other schools on Wednesday. We were playing a lot of songs and we all really enjoyed it.
• Keris – in maths this week were working rounding and estimation of number and calculations.
• Charley – in reading we had to write a letter to Mrs Ewing telling her what we thought about our reading books, if we were enjoying them and what parts we liked.
• Brogan – in writing this week we were looking at letter formats and had to write a letter to Mr Tushman, the headteacher from our class novel Wonder, apologising to him for doing something bad in school.
• Eve – we had PE with Mr Tennant and did basketball and we were looking at the rules.
• Hannah – the P6s had choir again with the P7s and we were singing Sing and also Part of This World.
• Cory – we were continuing on with Number Talks sessions during the week.

Here are some pictures of our volcanoes in progress and also some pictures from Drama Box.

Have a great weekend.

P6/5

Well another week is over and we were busy at the start of the week with our final preparations for our assembly which we hope you all enjoyed. We have had a Roman workshop, Forest Schools for the P6s and literacy team teaching. All in all, another good week.

Here’s what we have been up to:

• Charley – We had a Roman in school on Tuesday morning who did a workshop with us and the P4s about the Romans and how they lived and where they travelled and fought. He had the full armour and weapons to show us and spoke to us in Latin. We were all given the chance to suit up as a Roman and march. We were split into groups and made a turtle formation to be able to protect ourselves and were under attack from the second group who threw soft balls at us!
• Alfie – Mrs Rankin & Mrs Ewing were team teaching literacy on Thursday morning. The P6s missed out on this.
• Keris – the P5s had times table revision this week and we also did some budgeting in money with the whole class. We had to book a trip to London with transport, hotel and 3 activities for £750. Two groups managed to do this.
• Eve – we continued with volcanoes on Thursday and we worked in groups to create a newspaper front page describing a volcano eruption and have a headline, sub-headings, pictures and a story.
• Brogan – we did the bleep test in PE and Alfie was the winner reaching level 22. Well done Alfie.
• Hannah – the P6s had Forest Schools again on Thursday morning. We were building dens.
• Charley – we had our class assembly on Wednesday morning. It was a good show and nice to see the parents join us.
• Brogan – enjoyed the daily mile in the sunshine this week!
• Brodie – we had a super fast music with Mrs Malloch on Tuesday – the Romans Tale over ran so we only had a very short session!
• Alfie – we have Pupil Voice Groups this week.
• Charley – The P6s are back doing the choir with the P7s with Mrs Ewing.

Here are some pictures from our Roman Workshop.

Have a nice weekend!

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