Miss Walkingshaw

March 4, 2022March 4, 2022

P6 Weekly Update

Hello everyone,

Another busy week, so here is what we have been up to.

Literacy – We started the week by revisiting imperative verbs and recapping our knowledge of this through interactive stations. World Book Day 2022 was yesterday, where we were able to share our love of literacy and reading with the whole school and our class. We were given the opportunity to read for enjoyment, share our favourite stories with friends and show off our creativity. We were set a drawing challenge where we were asked to draw our favourite character from from a book of our choosing.

Numeracy – We have been focusing on squared numbers where we used our knowledge of multiplication to help us.

Maths – We have been developing our knowledge of information handling. We will be looking to develop this further over the coming weeks.

IDL/Topic – As part of our Human Body Systems topic, we have now moved on to investigate the purpose of the digestion system. This week we looked at the organs involved in this and will be looking into this further next week.

PE – We participated in a class Handball tournament, where we were asked to work collaboratively as a team, use positive language and bring together the skills we had learnt over previous weeks. We did a great job!

We also had pancakes on Tuesday for Shrove Tuesday! They were delicious!!

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Walkingshaw and Primary 6

February 25, 2022

P6 Weekly Update

Morning everyone,

We have had another busy week in Primary 6. Here is what we have been up to…

Literacy – We have been working on imperative verbs (bossy verbs) to help us when we begin writing our next piece of writing this term, which is a procedure. We were provided with our feedback from our information report, where we discussed our targets and areas of strength/improvement. As a class, we developed our knowledge of how to link and join our writing which is one of our core targets. We also worked on our knowledge of prediction and clarifying.

Numeracy/Maths – We have been learning about the Order of Operations. We have worked hard this week to understand the correct order to work out different sums. Mrs McConville continued to develop our knowledge of perimeter.

IDL/Topic – We have been learning further information about the skeleton. We did some personal research where we picked an area of the skeleton and had to find out key facts/information. We will be moving onto the digestive system next and we can’t wait!

Languages – This week we had Christina introducing us to Romanian. We started by learning basic greetings alongside numbers. We are loving this opportunity to learn different languages!

Have a lovely weekend!

February 18, 2022

P6 Weekly Update

Hi everyone,

During our short week back to school after the holidays, we have completed lots of fun and engaging learning activities.

Literacy: We have been working on our ability to read for information through our use of skimming and scanning techniques. We looked further into how to summarise information from a chapter in our class novel, where we focused on picking key phrases/words from the text to show our understanding.

Numeracy: We have been developing our knowledge of multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. Mrs McConville began teaching us about perimeter and area this week.

Topic/IDL: We continued our topic of the Human Body – Body Systems where we looked further into the Skeletal system. We identified the key facts surrounding the Skeletal system and completed a task where we had to work collaboratively to name all of the bones in the body (this was tricky!).

Health and Wellbeing: We looked into gender stereotypes and ensuring that everyone is treated fairly and equally. We had many class discussions where we were able to listen to the opinion of others and express our own opinions.

Have a lovely weekend!

January 28, 2022

Primary 6 Weekly Update

This week we completed our Scottish Contexts topic. We recited our Scottish poems in front of our peers, where two winners were chosen to perform in front of the whole school. We all did a great job and are so proud of our representatives!

In Numeracy, we have been working on adding and subtracting decimals using mental calculations and column sums/chimney sums/formal written method. We have grown in confidence in this across the week, where we were then able to answer and create our own word problem examples for our peers.

We began our new topic for the remainder of the term, where we will investigate Body Systems. We began this through sharing what we know as a whole class and coming up with questions we wanted to investigate across the coming weeks.

In Health and Wellbeing, we looked into what a friendship and/or a relationship is, what makes us a good friend and how to maintain each of these. We collectively created a ‘P6 Friendship Soup’ which incorporated all of our ideas for maintaining positive relationships and friendships. This is now on display in our classroom as a daily reminder.

Have a lovely weekend!

January 21, 2022

P6 Weekly Update

Good morning everyone,

This week we have been continuing our learning across the curriculum where we have created links with our topic, Scottish Contexts.

Literacy

We have been developing our linked handwriting skills this week, where we have used our knowledge of Scots language and alliteration to complete various activities. Our spelling patterns for this week have also helped us work on our handwriting skills.

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We are continuing to enjoy our class novel for this term which is ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl.

Reminder that Scots poems should be ready for Monday 24th January 2022. Please check the criteria on Teams to show you what is expected on recital.

Scottish Contexts

This week we have been completing our Scottish Colourists artwork. We have finished re-creating John Peploes famous piece of artwork – Pink Roses in a Chinese Vase. We hope you are impressed!

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We were also given the opportunity to create a personal project about a Significant Individual from Scottish history. We had taken a vote as a class and chose David Livingstone. We also chose the way in which we wanted to display our learning (i.e posters, powerpoints, quizzes etc)

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Numeracy and Maths

This week we have been exploring measurement where we were asked to work out the difference between estimating, rounding to the nearest cm and accuracy.

We have been working on column addition and subtraction where we have been working on the correct layout, carrying, borrowing/exchanging terminology with numbers up to and over a million.

December 17, 2021

P6 Weekly Update

Over the past two weeks we have been learning Italian courtesy of Anastasia. She has been teaching us how to say basic greetings, months of the year and colours. We have loved getting to share our passion for languages as a class.

We have been learning about different types of angles this week. Miss Walkingshaw taught us about the different types of angles and how to use a protractor correctly to work them out. We also searched for angles within the classroom environment and symmetry using mirrors.

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Miss Walkingshaw set us a challenge to re-create a scene from the movie, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. We used oil pastels and different shading techniques to create the ‘Grinch Pinch’.

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Have a lovely weekend!

December 3, 2021December 3, 2021

P6 Weekly Update

Physical Education – Volleyball

This week in PE we have been developing our knowledge of Volleyball and introduced the underarm serve. Once we practised this skill, we moved on to using this in small games. We are improving our skills every week and we are enjoying trying a different sport. Next week we will be moving on to learn the overarm serve.

Modern Languages – Polish

This week we have been learning more Polish vocabulary. We have been learning how to say basic greetings, colours and recapping our knowledge of the alphabet. We want to say thank you to Ola for sharing all of her knowledge with us, creating resources for us to use and we can’t wait to use this on a daily basis.

We are looking forward to the next couple of weeks where we get to take part in lots of Christmas based activities alongside our learning.

November 26, 2021November 26, 2021

Primary 6 Weekly Blog Post

Good afternoon,

This week in Primary 6 we have been learning about the festival of Hanukkah with Mrs McConville. We created a Menorah handprint to represent the eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

Today, Ola took on the role of the class teacher where she was sharing her knowledge of the Polish language. She taught us how to say the alphabet alongside some basic greetings. We loved having her as our modern languages teacher!

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In Literacy, we spent time planning and writing a persuasive letter in support of refugees. We are looking to draft these into a letter format and send them to Boris Johnson to see if he can provide more support for refugees coming over to the UK.

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Have a lovely weekend!

Primary 6 and Miss Walkingshaw

November 19, 2021

Blog Post – Primary 6

Today we took part in various activities to show our support of Children in Need.

We learned about the history of Children in Need through a literacy based task, which provided us with the knowledge to create a quiz for our classmates and adults at home.

During our smart start, we were given the opportunity to create a t-shirt in support of Children in Need where we were able to show our creativity.

We took part in a Dance-a-thon alongside Primary 7 pupils using our outdoor area. We enjoyed showing off our dance moves. We were lucky enough to have our very own judge helping us score some of the dances too!

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