Category: Primary 6

Highlights of the Week!

Leavers’ Assembly

Anton – I enjoyed the leavers’ assembly. My favourite part was the time machine. I cried! This is because many of my friends are in P7!

Bella – I enjoyed the singing.

Emily – I enjoyed seeing the P7s dancing. I had never seen L.D. dance before. When they were spinning round in the 50s dance they looked very dizzy.

Debbie – I enjoyed singing along to the songs because I knew all of them!

Buddies

Jaxson – I enjoyed seeing my buddy. We played tig!

Hope – I enjoyed helping my buddy during their visit to the P1 classroom.

Lily-Elen – My buddy made me coffee out of sand!

Bella – I am excited because on Thursday we will be having a teddy bears’ picnic with our buddies!

Also, P6 buddies made books for their buddies.

P.E.

During P.E. we having been choosing what to do on the field and so have played lots of games.

Hide and Seek

Bella – Oscar and Anton walked right passed us!

Bailey – Fraser hid in the long grass and nobody could see him!

Oscar – Jaxson hid up a tree and I was hiding near him in the long grass.

Jaxson – I was trying not to make any noise and a big spider was on my face!!!!!!!

Emily – Hiding in the grass made my eyes sore (I have hay fever.)

Alexis – Bella walked past us 3 times when I was hiding!

Callum – I was hiding in a bush and Kaiden and Kyle walked past…I heard them say ‘All clear!’

Movie

Emily – I enjoyed watching Spiderman even though I cried. Everyone in the forgot who Peter Parker was!

Outdoor Learning

Emily – We went to the shop and put soil in the planters.

Music Appreciation

Emily – We were listening to the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack and also Kate Bush. We all knew the chorus!

Numeracy

We practised converting percentages into fractions and decimals.

Literacy

We wrote thank-you letters to the people who came to our careers fayre last week.

Science

Bailey – I enjoyed creating my life cycle PowerPoint about an eagle. I even put a video clip on.

Outdoor Learning

Jaxson -I enjoyed this. We made sure the plants were growing well in their containers.

Reading Ambassadors

Emily – We got to read to the younger children!

New Teacher

Hope – I enjoyed visiting my new teacher!

Bella – I enjoyed visiting Mrs Moyes. We were given a lolly pop and had to write something nice about another person on it.

Dear Parents/Carers

Primary 3 are having a sale of toys, jigsaws, games and books to raise money for plants to put in the planters at the shops in Deans. The sale will be this Friday, the 10^th of June from11:15am -11:45am in the Primary 3 classroom.

You are very welcome to come to school from 11:15 and join your child at the sale. This then gives you the opportunity to attend the coffee morning at 11:45 in the hall to meet The Support Squad (Parent Council).

Much appreciated

Primary 3

Literacy

Group reading – We summarized what we had read so far with our partner and then read on. We discussed any unknown words using various reading strategies.

Writing – We read through an example of an information text (how to treat a snake bite.) Then we acted out the treatment on a willing victim! Next we designed our own procedural/instructional writing based on a topic of our choice. Some of us focused on gaming and others on making sandwiches and other recipes. When we had finished we read them aloud to the class to see if our instructions made sense. This was great fun!

Numeracy

We revised fractions of shapes – mixed numbers and improper fractions. We also practised finding fractions of amounts and revised equivalent fractions.

Coding

We wrote block code using 3 different elements and linked this in to the Queen’s Jubilee.

Health

P.E.

We practised our cricketing skills. There was some excellent bowling, batting and catching demonstrated!

We also played rounders in the hall on Wednesday.

Careers Day

On Thursday we were able to interview and talk to various people representing different professions. There were scientists, artists, teachers, joiners, theatre producers and a prison warden to name but a few. We had previously written questions we had wanted to ask and so were thoroughly prepared. It was a great success.

Changing Me

We talked about how a baby is made and how a baby develops in the womb.

Finally we found out who our new teacher is going to be next year. We are delighted that we are staying together as a class and our new teacher is Mrs Moyes. We are going to be wonderful P7s!

Numeracy 

We practised recalling division facts quickly and also formal written methods.

Bella – I got my numeracy all correct.

Literacy

We continued to complete our research about extinct and endangered animals and then wrote an information report about them.

Lily-E – I learnt about a Woolly Rhinoceros.

Joel – I learnt that in 2021 there were between 30-430 wildcats in Scotland.

Anton – In 2022 there are less than 100 wildcats.

Oscar – I learnt an arctic fox purrs like a cat.

Bailey – An arctic fox lives for 3/4 years.

Health

We discussed body image and the differences between our real self and our ideal self. We talked about how if people are constantly trying to be something they are not it can lead to mental illness. We know the importance of accepting our real self.

Joel – I enjoyed creating a self-esteem smoothie. We added ingredients such as ‘being positive.’

Bella – I enjoyed looking at different people’s smoothies.

PE

Bella – I enjoyed football rounders. It was fun.

Jaxson – I enjoyed dodgeball.

Anton – I liked football rounders.

Health 

This week we talked about cyber bullying and discussed strategies to help deal with this.

P.E.

Dance – This week we continued to practise our Hip Hop dancing skills.

Rounders – We practised throwing and catching skills first then we practised our batting skills. We worked as a team to build up points then we played competitive matches.

Literacy

In group reading we read our novels and then practised our prediction skills.

Numeracy

We practised using various mental strategies to efficiently divide a 3 digit number by a 1 digit number.

In addition we also practised dividing numbers by 10, 100 or 1000. This meant some of our answers were decimals.

Topic/ Literacy

We researched extinct and endangered living organisms from Scotland.

Katie – I found out otters hold hands when they sleep.

Emily – I enjoyed finding out about the mammoth and woolly rhinoceros even though they were extinct a long time ago.

Outdoor Learning

Katie – We put soil in plant pots and moved the planters.

Alexis – We moved the pallets and we are making them into fake cars for the younger children.

Coding

This week we learnt how to write block code which increased/ decreased the speed of an object.