Category: Primary 6

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

 

Green Gym

Once again we were outside. This time we were designing habitats for various creatures to keep warm in the winter months. Using natural materials we had to create a place for the creature to stay. Then we tested if it would be warm enough. We did this by placing some hot water which was in a container in the den. Then using a thermometer we measured the temperature change of the water.

Kyle – Our creature was a hedgehog. It was supposed to be kept at 26 degrees celcius and it went down to 23. We think it would have died.

Emily-Our animal was too cold. It was fun.We worked together.

Bella – It was fun.

Numeracy

We continued to practise our addition skills. We learnt how to solve addition problems using our mental maths strategies. This week we added numbers larger than 1000.

We also practised using formal column addition for larger numbers and decimals and discussed when we would use this strategy.

Literacy

On Monday we had a remote learning lesson with Mrs Cochrane and we were able to practise our clarifying skills which help us to understand a text we are reading.

We practised our handwriting skills and some of us showed our beautiful work to Mrs Wallace(Oscar,Hope and Lily-Elen).

We practised learning our spellings by counting the number of syllables in each word.

In writing we persuaded people that school uniform should not be worn!

Topic Work – WW2

We continued to have to dive under our desks whenever our air raid siren went off!

We researched the different types of shelters used during the war using a non-fiction text and the laptops.

Hope – It is really scary! In the old days people didn’t have a mobile to make sure their friends were O.K.

We also had a WW2 workshop which was really interesting.

BOOK WEEK

It was also Scottish Book Week. We discussed our favourite books.

Bailey – My favourite book is ‘Grandpas Great Escape’ because it has a lot of adventure and action in it.

We also chose book characters and made props and hats for them.

Kyle – We made Willy Wonka’s stuff. I made a hat. Hope made the walking stick and Callum made the golden ticket.

Emily-Me and Lily made wands – like Harry Potter.

Kaiden – I made a suitcase that Paddington Bear carries.

PE – Football

Debbie – I have improved my tackling. I used to stay away from the ball and now I go and get the ball.

Lily-Elen – I am less scared of the ball. I faced my fear and am proud of my football skills.

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.

Literacy

We continued to practise our summarising skills in group reading.

In addition we had an online lesson with Mrs Cochrane who helped us practise all of our recipricol reading skills.

Numeracy

We continued to practise our addition skills. Also as part of our learning for Angles week we drew a treasure map and used the compass and angles to describe where the treasure was.

I.C.T

We practised our computer progamming skills using coding skills. It was great fun!

Topic

This week we learnt about air raid shelters. We practised diving under our desks when the siren went off and discussed how terrifying that must have been in real life during WW2.

Bella – I enjoyed this.

On Thursday we paid tribute to those that had lost their lives in conflict by taking part in a 2 minute silence.

Bailey – We made a poster about Remberance Day.

Leo – We made poppies.

Hope – We then put all the poppies together on green backing paper to make Flanders Fields.

Eco-Learning

As part of our work with Mrs Dobbie we are learning about waste.

Kyle-Jaxson and I painted bins.

Bailey-This is so people know which bins to use for recycling.

Health and Wellbeing

Emily – We made posters to represent what Health and Wellbing means at our school.

Literacy

We have been learning how to summarise.

Hope – Only pick out key points.

Debbie – Write in your own words and put events in order.

Writing

Hope – I enjoyed planning the persuasive writing. You need to include facts.

Lily-Elen – You need to use persuasive language.

Numeracy

We have been adding numbers which bridge ten or a hundred using mental methods.

Amy – We can use partitioning.

Joel – We can count on.

Emily – When adding several numbers we look for ways to make it easier such as making number bonds to 10.

PE

Kyle – I liked playing football outside this week .

Bailey – My team won!

Topic – WW2

This week we organised events on a timeline.

Bailey – I didn’t know Hitler went to jail. He wrote a book called ‘My Struggle.'(Mein Kampf).

Lily-Elen – My Grandad told me they had to put guards outside his prison cell.

Bella – Germany invaded Poland.

Kyle – I loved playing Mallets Mallet.

This week we have been looking at the events in Glasgow, COP 26 and climate change.

For one of their activities related to this the children created and published web based interactive quizzes. I am trying to work out how you can all access them.

Watch this space!

Mr C

We watched a creepy film and enjoyed extra friendship time. But we have been working hard all week too! We wrote spooky stories and practised the ‘Timewarp’ dance. Miss Dufton was very good!

Literacy

Also we have now moved on to a new writing genre – exposition. This is a form of persuasive writing.

Topic

We completed our research about how WW2 started.

Outdoor Learning

During our Green Gym session we planted seeds that will bloom next year. They are bee-friendly.

Art

This had a halloween theme. Here is a terrific piece from Piotr:

Literacy

In order to help understand a text in more detail we have been designing our own questions before reading, during reading and after reading.

Oscar – I liked doing questioning – it was different.

We read Gorilla by Anthony Browne.

Bella – The story was interesting. The gorilla fit the dad’s clothes perfectly.

Anton – I enjoyed questioning.

Numeracy 

We have continued with our topic on TIME.

Grace – I feel I am improving.

Debbie – I am getting better at am and pm.

Fraser – I enjoyed learning about time.

Amy – I feel I am improving.

IDL/Topic

Kyle – I like doing the WW2 topic. I learnt how it started – it was because Hitler wanted to make Gerany great again.

Naavah – I enjoyed the WW2 topic.

French

With Mrs Dobbie we learnt the French alphabet.

Health

Our new topic is ‘Celebrating Difference.’

We learnt about a boy called Theo who was visually impaired.

Kyle – Even though he was blind he wanted to be treated like everyone else.

P.E.

Piotr – I enjoyed P.E. because we played some games first and then we played football if we wanted to.

Hope – I enjoyed playing games.

 

Maths: today we did some clockwise stuff. We drew circles clockwise and we used compasses to help. This week we have also been rounding decimals. We have also been doing various activities related to time and times tables.

For spelling we have done another spelling test.

For reading we read a book that helped us understand how to make persuasive writing. We also read our group novels and did questions on them. We also did questions on COP 26. We read an article on the BBC to find out information to create and answer the questions.

Our new topic is now COP 26 and climate change.

In PE we did basketball. We practised dribbling and shooting.