We have had an extremely busy week in P7/6.

Literacy

All children in our class have now been issued with their reading books.  All areas of their literacy have now been assessed.  Miss Preston will be focusing on development of spelling, grammar and writing skills.  Mrs Harrison will be focusing on reading skills.  We will be linking our writing into our topic which for term 1 is Global Citizenship, Fair Trade and Eco.

Numeracy

As with literacy all the start of term assessments are now complete.  Our focus areas are place value, fractions, decimals, percentages and data handling.  We will be linking our numeracy learning to a variety of real life and interdisciplinary contexts using a variety of teaching materials and media.

HWB

Throughout the term we will be looking at ‘teamwork’ skills as our HWB focus.  This week we had a challenge!  Each team was given a number of plastic cups.  The aim of the challenge was to build the highest tower.  All teams worked very well in this challenge – each team having to work together and pull on their skills of resilience and patience as ultimately each tower fell down at least once! :O

 

Congratulations to the winning team, who managed a very impressive ’13 cup high’ tower!  Well done to Amyleigh, Caiden C, Cameron, Aaron W & Summer 🙂

Expressive Arts

Our EXA focus this week was art, looking at the artist Kandinsky.  Last year our P7s (P6 then) learnt about concentric circles.  Mrs Harrison discussed and drew on our P7s existing knowledge, who shared this with our P6s.  As a class we then transferred this k&u into a more complex piece – The Autumn Tree.  I’m sure you will agree that the results were fantastic.  (pics to follow on Monday)

On Monday String Sounds performed to the whole school.  Our P6s and Miss Moir’s P6 class were then entertained further in a class workshop.  It was fabulous to see and hear the differences between the three instruments (big bass, cello and violin) and hear them working in harmony.  We especially enjoyed hearing tunes we knew like the ‘Jaws’ soundtrack played on the big bass!

We were exceptionally lucky to be entertained by M&M productions on Wednesday with a performance/pantomime of the Wizard of Oz!  It was fabulous!  The costumes, characters and props were fantastic!

Modern Languages

We have been using our ICT skills to research information on France.  Next week we will begin to revise our existing knowledge of the French language and begin to develop this.  We will also start to look at how to write in French.  Once we have our ‘French’ heads back on we will begin to look at some Spanish too 🙂

School uniform:

Can I please take this opportunity to remind all parents/carers that plain black indoor shoes are part of our school uniform.  This is particularly important in the upper years where  children are developing an awareness of ‘brands’ and the apparent status that comes with them.  In line with our school uniform policy, if you choose to wear a white shirt/blouse then a school tie has to be worn.  Ties are not required if wearing a yellow polo shirt.  No hoodies are allowed.

Homework:

Our class homework schedule is:

Monday                       Spelling, reading, reading comprehension and math issued.

Wednesday                 Children’s reading will be listened to by class teacher.  New reading homework issued due on           Monday.

Thursday                     Spelling, reading comprehension and math homework to be handed in.

Hope you are all having a great weekend.  See you on Monday!

Miss Preston and Mrs Harrison xx