Category: Primary 6

Skin Surprise

Jaxson bought in the skin from his pet snake. The snake had out grown it and shedded it. You could even make out where the eyes had been!

Jaxson – I liked bringing my snake skin in.

 

Dance – Hip Hop

We watched a video in the hall and copied the moves. Some of us really excelled at this. Afterwards we had time to choreograph our own Hip Hop dance routine in groups and we could perform this to the whole class if we were brave enough!

Judo

We had a judo taster session – it was great fun! We played some fabulous warm up games and then learnt how to throw people. Finally, we practised pinning people on the mat!

G- The warm up games were fun!

Hope – I liked throwing people to the ground.

Kyle – When I was pinning other people to the ground no-one could get up!

Leo – I liked getting thrown!

Bella – When I was pinning Bailey he escaped! I liked throwing people across the mat.

Cameron – Piotr was good at pinning people.

Topic

We applied what we had learnt about vertebrates in a fun game of 4 in a row. Then we carried on researching life-cycles of various creatures.

Writing

We continued our information reports about natural disasters.

Reading

In group reading we read a section of our books and then practised asking open-ended questions about what we had read.

Numeracy

We practised using mental and formal methods when multiplying decimals.

We also practised dividing with and without remainders.

E – I liked learning about division.

Health

During our visit from Mark, from Headspace, we talked about change. Mrs Stewart sat in as well!

Joel – We had to sit in different seats, wear some clothes inside out – including our shoes. This was in order to experiment with our ‘normal.’

 

 

 

Today (Friday) we went out to deposit our painted rocks around Deans in order to make the local community smile.

We hid them in lots of different places!

Hope – It was soaking but I enjoyed it!

We went into the Post Office to deposit the money we raised for Ukraine when we did the quiet day in school but the lady behind the counter didn’t know what to do with the money so we brought it back to school and Tom, the janitor, is going to take it back another day.

Emily – It would have been more fun if it wasn’t raining but the concept was fun!

Bella – I enjoyed it-I like walking in the rain!

 

Numeracy

We practised using informal and formal methods to multiply 2, 3 and 4 digit numbers by 1 digit. In addition we continued to practise recalling our table facts as quickly as possible. We do this in various ways including singing and dance with this link : https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/times-table-collection/z4vv6v4

Literacy

We combined our new topic (Natural Disasters) with literacy. We researched various disasters using the internet and non-fiction books and made notes with a partner. Then we created an information report based on our findings and included pictures too.

P.E.

This week we practised our badminton skills.

 

Health

This week we continued thinking about loss. We had various situations such as moving house, falling out with a friend or a pet dying and we had to order them according to which would be the most difficult to deal with. Then we wrote down words to describe how we might feel if we were going through these scenarios. Finally, we talked about the different stages people go through before acceptance of these situations.

Coding

This week we designed and wrote an app that had a loop and a variable.

 

Here we are checking on the trees we have planted!

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Literacy

We continued to read our group novels and practised visualization skills – drawing a key moment from the text.

We chose an animal and researched using non-fiction books and the internet. We practised taking notes with a partner. Later we wrote an information report about the creature, shared with our class-mates and self-assessed our work using the West Lothian targets.

Bailey – I enjoyed writing the report. We wrote about sharks and I found out that the Whaleshark is the biggest shark.

Jaxson – I liked researching snakes. I found out that snakes use their tongues to smell and their scales help them breathe under water.

Bella – I enjoyed writing about Red Pandas and Pandas – they are very interesting.

PE

In P.E. we continued to practise our gymnastics and tennis skills.

Anton – In tennis I hit the ball to Emily 4 times in a row!

Health

We talked about loss and bereavement and strategies to help us deal with these situations. This was difficult but lots of good ideas were suggested to help us cope.

Numeracy

We have been practising our mental multiplication facts. We have applied this knowledge in order to solve problems and multiply by multiples of 10. In addition we have reinforced how to mentally multiply a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number.

Science

We continued to learn about the life cycles of different creatures.

 

Literacy

We continued reading our group reading novels.

Maths

This week was ‘Data Handling’ focus week. We revised the different types of tables and graphs and then answered questions in order to show our understanding of them.

Health

Mental Health

As a warm-up we used our teamwork and communication skills to pass the hoop around the circle without breaking the chain.

We discussed what makes us feel stressed and strategies for dealing with this. Then we wrote these different strategies on the faces of a cube. We can roll this cube whenever we are stressed and the strategy can help us.

Headstrong

We had a visit from Mark and drew a picture to represent the positive and negative elements of our mental health.

Jaxson – I liked the drawing – it was fun.

P.E.

We practised our throwing, catching and hitting skills using tennis balls and racquets on the field. We greatly improved our skills during this lesson. CI, PJ and K were particularly good.

We also practised our gymnastic skills in the hall using the apparatus.

As a warm up we worked with a partner and played the mirror game. Our partner performed a balance, shape or jump and we had to show the mirror image.

Leo volunteered to show the whole class his run onto the springboard and then his jump off it!

Kyle performs a star jump.

Lily-Elen performs an arabesque balance.

Coding

This week we  practised writing code with a loop, variable and repeat function.

Anton – In my game there are planes and hot air balloons flying everywhere. There is a spider hanging onto the hot air balloon and after  5 seconds it falls off. After 10 seconds the spider shows again and everything is back in the same place – this is the loop.

Oscar – My game is underwater and the fishes move around in different directions in a loop.

Science

Our new topic in science is life cycles. First we did some revision – learning about how animals are classified into groups.

Bailey – I liked learning about animals with backbones.

Kyle – These are called vertebrates.

Anton – I liked researching invertebrates. I learnt about unusual creatures.

K – I learnt about the naked mole rat – it has no hair.

Hope – It looks like a staffy with no hair!

 

Literacy

In group reading some of us practised our inference skills, some of us our prediction skills and some of us worked out what tricky words meant using our context skills.

Writing

This week as part of our descriptive writing we wrote about about a friend or family member.

Joel – I wrote about Fraser. He is sometimes energetic and a technology mastermind!

Bailey – I wrote about Piotr because when he is near the goal in football he passes and doesn’t always shoot.

Debbie – I wrote about my friend who is really nice.

Bella – I wrote about my sister Cara because she is very special to me.

Here we are Group Reading

We read our group novels, listening to each other and use our contextual skills to work out any unknown words!

Numeracy

We practised subtracting decimals to 2 decimal places. We used mental and formal methods.

We also played SUMDOG to practise our general maths and numeracy skills.

 

ICT – Coding

We practised using our coding skills to turn an object, use a loop and a variable. We also debugged when there was a problem.

Health

We learnt about the importance of eating a balanced diet and looked at the ‘Eatwell plate.’

PE

We continued to improve our gymnastic skills. Watching olympic gymnasts online has given us inspiration.

Here is Piotr’s balance.

We peer assessed our work.

Science – The Water Cycle

In groups we acted out the water cycle.

Fraser is the sun and this group have evaporated to become a cloud!

Outdoor Learning

Katie – We planted more trees.

Emily – We had to clear out the compost bins and had to take everything out in a black bag.

Alexis – Debbie said she felt sick because she was holding the bag of compost.

Debbie – The paper came and took pictures of us planting trees with the P1s.

Some of us were still thinking about Ukraine.

 

Deans Primary are trying to create a suitable and exciting outdoor learning space within the school grounds. Unfortunately, we are being hampered by vandals who destroy our newly planted trees, take apart out new Willow shelter and continually damage our bug hotel and newly erected structure that will be part of our area of biodiversity. On the last occasion some of the nursery items were also destroyed. The children and staff of the school would like to ask the community to support our endeavours.