Author: WLRichard.Colverson@glow

Monday:

Extended writing on writers craft, continuing the narrative theme. The class created a story about “Sumo Joe”. The focus was on adverbs, similes and metaphors. EY was proud of their written work.

Maths was spent working on factors. JH excelled in this.

PE was spent working on hockey skills.

We also did a reading comprehension activity on the start of “Macbeth”.

Tuesday:

In Maths we continued work on factors and some of the class worked on prime numbers.

Literacy was spent bumping up narrative from the previous day as well as activities that will relate to world book day.

Today is internet safety day, and so we spent some time looking at how to keep ourselves safe online.

The class also really enjoyed coding with Mrs B

 

Wednesday:

Maths was spent working on angles. EY and MxD excelled.

Ms T worked with the class on some mental health activities.

The class were finishing their pocket garden designs  with Mrs D.

Thursday:

Amazing lesson on angles and directions.

More health activities on celebrating differences and getting to know more personal details about their class mates which generated great discussion. And in the afternoon even more mental health activities with Mark

 

Friday: Spelling, as usual.

PE: hand/eye coordination activities, also encouraging team work. Also creating our own class game: “Ball Tig”

 

Ice-cream van!

SU and KH birthdays

 

 

 

Monday:

Extended writing on writers craft, continuing the narrative theme. The class watched the first part of a short animation called “Trapdoor”, and then finished writing the story themselves. The focus was on adjectives, similes and metaphors. KH was proud of their written work.

Maths was spent continuing work on percentages. SS, LM, LH and ShP excelled in this.

PE was spent working on tennis skills. MM, MxD, ShP and EY excelled in this.

We also started a KWL grid to support our learning on vertebrates and invertebrates.

Tuesday:

In Maths we were still working on percentages, with two groups using calculators. A third group started to revise place value.

Literacy was spent bumping up narrative from the previous day, continuing to focus on adjectives, similes, metaphors and speech marks. Two groups did this by writing up their work into a word document. MDs lead the learning on this, showing the class how to make a Folder in Teams. To link with this work in the afternoon, we continued “Macbeth”, with drama and a descriptive writing passage about the battle and the witches, still focussing on adjectives, similes, metaphors and speech marks.

 

Wednesday:

Maths was spent working on angles. EY and MxD excelled.

Some people spent time during literacy today bumping up the “Breakfast Time” work from the previous day, especially speech marks.

The class were also putting up fences around the bug hotel with Mrs Dobbie.

Thursday:

In maths today one group used calculators to help their understanding of fractions, division, decimals and percentages. Another group worked on their understanding of place value while the third group worked on ways to simplify percentages.

With Mrs D  the class started designing their Mars Rovers and did French days of the week and months of the year.

 

Friday:

Spelling, as usual.

PE: activities to support awareness of space. LI “Using appropriate movement skills I can often move about shared space without anyone bumping into me.”

Maths: review of all the work we have done so far this year, looking at learning intentions and how we can transfer the skills and use them in real life.

During the assembly LM, who had also won the star award, confidently and dramatically read their great story to the whole school.

During friendship time SU, EY and SD elected to teach each other science facts! Also LH shared an activity with some friends.

 

 

 

P6/5 Week starting Monday 24^th January

 

Monday:

Literacy focus on spelling Scottish words. Also extended writing on adventure stories. KH was proud of their written work.

Maths was spent looking at mathematical patterns.

Art focus was on looking at the work of Charles Rennie Macintosh.

 

Tuesday:

In Maths most of the class continued their work on percentages, with a small group engaging in more challenging material. Another continued their work reviewing what they have done so far.

The class also finished their extended writing pieces and continued with their personal projects.

We also filmed the maths video that the class had previously written the script for.

DW was proud of their knowledge of the geography of South America.

 

Wednesday:

Maths was a continuation of yesterday’s work on percentages.

In literacy today the class got their new spelling words and continued their work on Macbeth, creating drama about the battle scene, the three witches, Banquo and Macbeth. SJR proud of their ever developing reading. SS was proud of their spelling work.

The class were also making their own pocket garden with Mrs Dobbie!

Thursday:

Digital Day all day! Great fun! 100% of the class said they really enjoyed it.

There were three different activities: stop frame animation, keyboard skills and coding. AD, LM, EC, SD, ShP, DW, CB, AS, EY, JH and MM excelled in animation. The following people also excelled in coding: AS, AD, MM, SS, SU and KH. Finally the following excelled in their keyboard skills: LH, MxD, MM, EY, LM, SoP, EC, MDs, ShP, KH, DW and SU.

Friday:

Spelling, as usual.

Maths, looking at various activities relating to fractions and percentages, including net based.

PE: activities based on basketball, including space awareness, team-work development, shooting and dribbling. The greatest thing today was that SU was able to lead the learning and introduced the class to a passing practise activity.

 

Monday:

Maths – All groups were looking at fractions again today; one group were looking at a problem solving activity that involved common denominators. They were also then given support to teach another group how to solve word problems.

Literacy – new spelling words out to all. Continuing work on our group reading books. Also started writing the script for a short film “How to use Loop Games”.

PE – team sports. Looking at strategies and applying these to a variety of team sports including football, hockey and dodgeball.

Tuesday:

Maths: still working on fractions, today we were looking at more complex multiple fractions of a whole number, and used this to help our ability to multiply and divide. A small also extended their learning by looking at word problems.

Literacy: extended writing on a narrative theme, with a focus on structure, similes, metaphors and adjectives.

In the afternoon we looked at coding with “Mrs B and the Beebots”.

Wednesday:

Assessments for both numeracy and literacy. One group also worked on writing questions about the text they were given on dog statues. Another group worked on story writing and characterisation. To support these activities we also used appropriate activities on Education City.

The class were also training to go to Mars with Mrs Dobbie!

Thursday:

Maths: finishing off work on fractions

Literacy: using questions about the groups reading texts that the children had created. Making notes for the answers and then transferring these into a short summary of the text.

Art with Ms T in the afternoon.

Friday:

Assembly, where RM got the star award for the class and the whole class won the peg challenge.

Maths: one group started a review of all the work they have done on Maths, another started work on percentages, with some of these also looking to extend their learning with more challenging resources.

 

P6/5 Week starting Monday 10^th January

 

Monday:

Maths – All groups were looking at fractions today; one group were sorting various activities and games into degrees of difficulty. We looked at the forward plan to help us discuss the learning intentions for these activities and decided most them were covered by “to sort and compare fractions”.

Literacy – reading groups have new reading books so we all looked at the skill of prediction.

PE – we all looked at possible activities for the coming term and decided to focus on tennis, rugby and continue football.

To help us with our understanding of vertebrates and  invertebrates, and our artistic skills, we drew skeletons.

Tuesday:

Maths: continuing work on fractions in our groups, looking at denominators and numerators.

Literacy: continued work on prediction (the rest of the book). Progressed from making notes to writing this up in sentences (some in paragraphs) into jotters. We also did an extended writing piece – a narrative story of each child’s own choice.

Mrs D STEM activities in the afternoon. Fractions

Wednesday:

Maths –  Fractions, with one group focusing on simple fractions of a number, the rest on equivalent fractions. A small group were also able to work on percentages and how they relate to fractions.

Literacy – generating questions (and corresponding answers) about their group reading books, which will feed into a reading comprehension activity. We also peer assessed the narrative writing from the previous day.

In the afternoon we used our drama skills to further our understanding of “Macbeth” and what a medieval battle might have sounded like.

We also continued working on our skeletons. We extended this activity today by getting some people to label the different bones while some people  drew examples of other animal’s skeletons.

 

 

 

Thursday

In maths some continued their work on fractions of a whole number, while another group worked on related word problems.

In literacy some were creating questions about the text they were reading, while others had to catch up on their reading.

In the afternoon the class continued their work on “Macbeth” and practised their drawing skills by creating an image of the three witches.

Friday:

Assembly, when LH got the star award for sensibly supporting others.

Maths: how to make a loop game, and using these to practice maths including decimals and fractions.

PE: throwing and catching, relating to racket and ball skills

 

 

Monday 13th

Maths: we went back to look at measure, comparing centimetres and meters, and using these skills on classroom objects.

Personal projects: we started researching these by reading about them on the internet, books and making notes. SD, SU, AS, EY, MaD, CB, ShP, SS, KH, EC, SJR, JH and AD are all very excited about these.

STEM: for today’s challenge the class went outside to find maths in nature. We were able to identify symmetry in leaves, tessellation in tree bark and Fibonacci sequences, and spirals, in the pollen of a daisy, a pine cone and a snail’s shell.

Tuesday 14^th

Maths: continue work on measure, measuring each other’s heights accurately, ensuring the meter rules were the right way round. One group continued work on converting meters to centimetres while another group worked on fractions. KM and SU exceeded in the conversion of decimals. SJR did exceptionally well with her fractions.

Personal Projects: we continued our background reading and research and worked on our note taking. EY excelled in this activity today.

STEM: our project for today was “Dancing Salt”. We used sound vibrations to make it dance. The louder the sound the more it danced.

Wednesday 15^th

Maths: continuing work on measure, including estimating and decimals. MM and SU were very accurate in their estimations.

Literacy: we have been reviewing the spelling we have done so far this year.

History: the whole class are really into history, so we made a timeline of all the historical events that we could think of and discussed these. From these we identified what topics the class had already done and the next one they want to do: Tudors.

Silent disco: GREAT FUN!!!!

Thursday 16^th

Maths: continuing work on measure and decimals, the class found the work that we have done so far very supportive and were able to complete today’s activity much more easily. SD completed the activity especially quickly. One group continued their work on fractions, looking at equivalent fractions

Literacy/History: lead by the class’s new found interest in history they were provided with sets history reference books that split history into nine different periods. They loved reading these and sharing the facts they learned with each other. They also re-enforced their learning from Wednesday of a history timeline by putting the sets in chronological order.

STEM: the whole class really bought into today’s activity which was to make igloos out of marshmallows.

Friday 17^th

Pyjama day!

PE: mat work

Maths: practiced instant recall of addition, including decimals

Literacy: ensured that the Mr Topley publisher documents were “bumped up” and ready to print for display.

Spent time looking at the learning intentions for all the individual pieces of work on display.

 

 

 

 

Monday 6th

Maths: continuing our work on algebra this morning we looked at function machines. MM and SU continued their work on word problems. ShP was again pleased with the work he produced.

Literacy: summarising group reading books. MiD was especially pleased with the neatness of the presentation of his work. We finished reading “Macbeth” as a class.

PE: Continuing activities based on balancing, we focused this week on tightrope walking – only about six inches above the ground! AS showed her previous experience gained from doing bar work in gymnastics and MM also excelled.

Tuesday 7^th

Literacy: made notes on “Macbeth” and re-wrote these as a summary. SD, DW, KH, SP excelled in their summary, and especially AS, who has really trimmed the fat off her writing.

Maths: continuing our work on algebra this morning we looked at using symbols instead of numbers and the functions. SJR excelled, and did two sets of work. MM, SD and SU continued their work on word problems.

Wednesday 8^th

Out-door learning and Tuckshop with Mrs D

Maths: practicing instant recall of tables using BMBT, working on the application of tables to problems on Ed. City, with the children able to choose an activity appropriate to themselves. EY significantly improved her score in BMBT.

Literacy: continuing work on “Macbeth”.

Thursday 9^th

Maths: created beautiful posters demonstrating the wonderful maths we have been doing this year. SU, MM, AS and EY all excelled. In fact the whole class excelled in this activity.

Literacy: spelling assessment. Again the whole class were extremely pleased as the great emphasis we have put on spelling recently has paid off and everyone  has progressed really well. We also continued work on “Macbeth”. ShP was especially proud of the fact that he was able to incorporate his learning in this into the next activity:

Art: creating drawings of myths and legends from around the world. AD, SoP, JH, EC, AS and SB were especially proud of the work they did.

Friday 10^th

PE: football, star of the match was MxD.

Maths: algebra using letters instead of symbols and briefly looking at equivalence, which MxD showed a good understanding.

Literacy: looked at some of the best examples of persuasive writing, CB, SB, AD, DW and EY excelled in this.

 

 

Monday 22^nd November

Maths: Word problems relating to long division. A small group (SD, AD, SU and MM) were working on decimals and fractions word problems. CB also lead the learning of a group that he was working with.

Literacy: Reciprocal reading – questioning. ShP and JH were proud of their work in this.

Writing: persuasive with one group lead by SB, with a smaller group with Miss T.

PE: activities relating to team sports. We also noted that in one of the activities people were practising transferable skills that could be used in rugby and even fencing (AS and MM), relating it to “Hamlet”.

Tuesday 23^rd

Maths: long division of decimals. CB again excelled in this and is proud of the work he produced, as are JH and SHp. In another group SJR lead the learning, supported by MDr.

Literacy: one group continued their work on persuasive writing, with the learning lead by SB, who also identified the pronoun. LM, once again demonstrated his wide vocabulary, as well as his drama skills, when doing Hamlet.

ICT: continuing work on Teams and Education City, DW continuing to be very supportive.

Wednesday 24^th

French with Mrs D

Maths: Fibonacci Sequence, and fractions and degrees

Literacy: self-assessing and “bumping up” work

Thursday 25^th

Another hard working day of assessing, up-levelling and flling the literacy work we have done so far this year.

We also played games to help us practise and learn our times tables, decimals and fractions.

Monday 15^th

On Sunday AD laid a wreath at the local church for remembrance day.

In maths MM, AD, SD and SU continued to lead the learning on long division.

In PE MaD managed two and a half lengths on the bar and then SD did ten!

DW has made some excellent notes to support his learning about COP 26 and climate change.

SJR and SP are  especially proud of the work they did in front of lots of other children from across the cluster in reciprocal reading.

Tuesday 16^th

Maths: long division

Art: displays

Persuasive writing: Frank Lampard should be the manager of Rangers. CB excelled in this activity and was also able to be supported by his elder sibling, DB. MM and ShP (who whispered!) were also very supportive in this activity.

Summary: COP 26

Ms T also supported a group for their persuasive writing

ICT: we tried to log on as many people from the class onto GLOW, and AD was especially supportive

Wednesday 17^th

We worked on pronouns and MM excelled in this.

JH shared his love of the ukulele with Mrs D

COP26: note taking. SB and MDr did exceptionally well.

Maths: continuation of work on tables and long division.

Thursday 18^th

COP 26: What happened (summary) – stickers for KH, MiD

Whole class very excited about new drama activity: Shakespeare’s Hamlet!

Maths: angles – acute, obtuse and right and the corresponding number of degrees. NB and LH are especially proud of the maths work he did.

EY has been working with another member of the

Friday 19^th

Literacy: the whole class are now really into Shakespeare, which we continued.

PE: rolls with SD and SU leading the learning. EC very proud of her achievements in this

Maths: Education City progressively more difficult levels

 

Following the recent feedback I am going to try to increase the presence of P6/5 on the blog.

This week in maths we have done long division. During this lesson SD, AD, SU, DW and MM were leading the learning. Also KH and SJR did some awesome work on their chimney sums. We have also been working on decimals, probability, continuing our work on times tables and fractions.

In literacy we have been writing pieces of exposition work on windsurfing and other hobbies. Our reading work has focused on summarising. We have also been able to incorporate our work on climate change and COP 26 into literacy.

EC, KM, LM, SJR, AS, SU, DW and EY have all demonstrated a very good understanding of what COP 26 is about.

For STEM this week we have made and improved (bumped up) paper aeroplanes. KM made an especially good one that flew far and was the most stable (the success criteria). We also made wind turbines from cut out card.