A huge big thank you to all our volunteers who came along recently to be ‘Secret Readers’.
Our classes love listen to stories and having visitors makes it even better. It’s so important for our learners to see adults other than their teachers reading.
Thank you again. We couldn’t do it without you!
We took part in lots of different activities for Book Week. We watched Author’s Live with the illustrator Fiona Lumbers. She read one of the Luna Loves stories and taught us how to draw Luna. We had good fun adding our own things that Luna might love to our pictures. We took part in the book week competition creating our own book marks. We tried to use bright colours to make them stand out. We have been learning to write discussion text this term. During book week we wrote one with the title Should children read at home? We also had a Secret Reader who came and read some of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Lastly, we received our Read, Write, Counts bags and welcomed our adults into school to read with us.
It’s lovely to hear about our pupils achievements in and out of school. Here are two pupils celebrating their medals and hard work in their extra-curricular activities.
One pupil won five medals at the Fauldhouse Swimming Gala: coming 4th in the 200m freestyle, 5th in the 50m breaststroke, 1st place – winning two gold medals in the 50m freestyle and 50m back stroke and one silver medal in the 50m butterfly. Incredible!
Another pupil shared his success after winning two gold medals at the World Kickboxing Association (WKA), beating the current world champion! 
Well done boys, you are demonstrating many meta-skills here including collaboration and leadership.
Thanks P6 for all your kind donations. You all looked very chilled!
Another amazing haul of medals in P6. Well done Liyaa,we are really proud of your achievements.
Fun was had at our very first After School Lego Club this week. We had Lego sets of an aircraft, turtle, squirrel and more being built. Some very creative children also built their own models. Check back in the next few weeks when they will describe their models to us.
An Explanation
We have been looking at the Explanation Genre. This genre explains how or why something happens. We decided to link our Literacy to our current IDL context of Natural Disasters.
We also used our ICT skills by researching a Natural Disaster of our choice. We created notes in our first draft. We then looked at the features and layout of an Explanation and used this and the genre targets to improve our final draft, ensuring it included all the elements of the genre such as
Title
Identifying Statement
Explanation Sequence
Summary Statement
‘We were learning about money. We were counting in 2ps, 5ps and 10ps’ Piper.
‘We were learning about doubles in maths’ Harrison and Abbie.
‘I liked learning about our weather. We learned that on the news they use symbols to show the weather.’ Abbie.
‘They use numbers too’ Rudi S.
‘I liked doing our fireworks art. We used sticks to dip in the paint and made the fireworks on the page. We used (biodegradable) glitter to make them sparkle’ William.
Well done Jaysiel,you shared with us your haul of medals! Astro Gymnastics for both participation and 1st place in your competition. You also shared your Edinburgh Marathon Festival medal for completing 1.5 K,very impressive. We enjoyed hearing about your achievements!
A brilliant night with some amazing costumes! Thanks P6 and all the volunteers who gave up their Wednesday night,we all had great fun.
