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
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.
This week we’re learning to tell the time. Some of us used Play Dough to create the hands of a clock to tell o’clock & half past times. Others tested each other telling quarter past & quarter to using the clock faces. Some were working on changing between analogue & digital times. We also used the laptops to test our knowledge.
This week we started learning to use questions marks. First we practiced writing them, then we had to think about question words. Next we looked at a picture and worked with a random partner to come up and write down questions about it. Lastly we became Question Mark Detectives and hunted for question marks in our reading books.
In Art we thought about the colours of leaves we see just now and then created Autumn pictures.
