Author: Mrs Stewart

P6 Scots Week

In P6 we started by looking a whole range of Scots words and trying to decipher what they may mean….most of us knew Mingin! For the ones we were less sure of we used a Scots online dictionary. Once we had worked out the Scots translation, we used these words in a variety of ways. Some created their own Scots comics whilst others used the words to translate the poem A Dug, A Dug by Billy Keys. Some members of the class learnt a Scots poem whilst others decided to recite a Roald Dahl story which had been translated into Scots!

Profiling in P6

We were fortunate enough to have a visit from some members of P7A today. They were sharing their learning and experiences of using a Profile folder on One Note. A profile is a snapshot of a young person’s best achievements at a given point in time. The content of the profile is decided by the young person following a conversation with their teacher or key adult. This is a great opportunity for the class to showcase their achievements and work they are proud of. The class are taking real ownership of the profiling process by choosing not only what they incude in the folder but also when. Each piece of work will be labelled with an explanation to why they have chosen a particular piece of work. The profile is divided into 4 sections

  • Maths/Numeracy
  • Literacy
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Other Curricular Areas

The profile will be populated termly

Community visit to Manse Court P6

It was great to start making links with our local community once again. With it being the festive season P6 were keen to visit Manse Court in East Calder and share some Christmas Joy. We exchanged christmas cards, some Christmas goodies and even a rendition of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer!  We hope that this will be just the beginning of developing our links with the community with a planned visit to the Partnership Centre already in the diary. Many thanks to our parent helpers.

Using our Literacy Skills in an Everyday Context

In our Literacy lessons we are looking at the features and layout of a Procedure. We discussed the 4 parts to a set of Instructions

Title

Goal

Materials

Steps

We also looked at adding a Top Tip and diagrams to help our reader!

Using these skills in an everyday context we had a fantastic melted snowman sugar cookie made by a member of our class.She told us how she carefully followed a procedure,a recipe in this case to make this yummy creation. Well done! It looked amazing.

Maths in an Everyday Context P6

We know how important it is to use our Numeracy skills in an everyday context and with our current topic of Money we have had plenty of opportunity to link our learning to the real world. The class have brought in a whole range of shopping receipts and we have used this to not only devise our own set of questions,so also linking to our literacy outcomes but also  answering our peers questions using all 4 operations. We also had the opportunity to demonstrate our skills further as P6 both collected and counted the Children In Need Donations. We had a group of bankers that did an amazing job! I think we can all see how important Numeracy is in our everday life and just how many times we use Maths perhaps without even realising it!

Ranger Service Visit P6

We were lucky enough to have a visit from The West Lothian Ranger Service this week. This was an environmental workshop which engaged the class by running a range of nature inspired games to help them understand the community and environment around them. We started with a mapping activity where we saw an aerial shot of East Calder taken by a satellite. It was interesting to discuss what our access rights were to the land that surrounds us and how by following a few simple rules it will allow us all to assist in managing our natural heritage whilst also enhancing biodiversity.

P6 Reading with P2

Reading with P2 gives the children the opportunity to practise, the important values of respect, care, valuing difference, responsibility, friendship and including others.  Through reading and caring for smaller children older children learn the skills associated with empathy and compassion through activities in the classroom. It allows them to embed a culture of reading for enjoyment across the whole school whilst also being able to identify the needs of a different audience to their peers.

P6 Health and Wellbeing

As we welcomed P6 back after the summer we decided to look again at the Wellbeing Indicators,School Rules and LEARN Values. We looked at how these link to the UNCRC Rights of a Child. We decided which elements we could use effectively when creating our Class Charters. We were surprised to see how many rights were already embedded in both our rules and values. The class created a brilliant display of both their Charters and and Indicators.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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