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Primary 3: Our Class Charter

Over the first two weeks of this session, we have been working hard on creating our class charter. We used the book ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ by Drew Daywalt as our inspiration.

By doing this, it allowed us to focus on the main purpose of the story which is to show an understanding of empathy, problem solving and inclusion. In other words, it showed the children how it feels to walk in another persons shoes as each of the crayons shows the emotions of people which they can relate to.

We focused on the important role that the UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) plays in their lives and chose certain rights that we felt linked to our life in school. Our charter makes reference to Rights Holders (children) and Duty Bearers (adults) as you can see from the charter display.

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Primary 3 Weekly Update

This week in Primary 3 we have been getting used to our classroom surroundings, routines and showing off our learning from Primary 2.

We have focused on our listening skills over week 1 and 2 where we have used the Teaching Children to Listen resources. These resources have been uploaded onto our Seesaw page for you to try the games at home.

Every child has been provided with their Seesaw and Sumdog log in this week which will allow them to access this at home.

Here are some pictures from our second week in Primary 3.

 

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P6 Weekly Update

This week we were lucky to receive a visit from the Scottish Parliament education department. We were able to share the information we had learnt this term alongside some inside facts about the Parliament itself. We thoroughly enjoyed this experience and were grateful to have the opportunity to engage fully in the different, interactive activities.

We had our assembly this week, which we really enjoyed sharing with the whole school and parents/carers. We hope you enjoyed hearing about our learning and we will keep you posted on who wins the election!

Thank you so much for coming to support us!

Thank you - International Students House

 

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P6 Weekly Update

This week we have been putting the finishing touches towards our assembly – which will be next Wednesday 15th June 2022. We will be sharing our knowledge from our topic this term, Democracy and the Scottish Government.

In PE this week, we have been preparing for sports day alongside competing in our own mini ‘Wimbledon’ tournament. We were able to bring together all of our skills from the past 5 weeks and worked well as part of a team to compete against our classmates.

We added the finishing touches to our Queen’s Jubilee artwork. We hope you like them!

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P6 Weekly Update

Today we helped to raise  money for a charity close to our hearts. May is the month of the year where people raise awareness for Vasculitis. In Primary 6 we created badges and asked all the children in the school to wear something red to show our support `for this special cause.

We hope we have raised lots of money for this amazing charity!

#VAM2022

Thank you for supporting us,

Primary 6

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P6 Weekly Update

This week we have been learning how to explore character descriptions and consider how this indicates personality traits. We also looked into how to extract quotations and retrieve information from a novel or piece of text effectively. We used our class novel ‘Why the Whales Came’ by Michael Morpurgo to complete this task.

We looked into narrative voice, description, language and dialogue used to create an image of the Birdman in the readers head. We drew the Birdman based upon the descriptions given by the author and other characters in the novel, backing this up with direct quotations from the text to emphasise the way he is portrayed.

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P6 Weekly Update

This week in Primary 6 we had a visit from Zoe Gordon who shared her knowledge of languages with us. She will be working with us over the coming weeks to further develop our knowledge of French and Spanish. This week we worked on getting to know Spain and basic Spanish greetings.

In Science, Mrs McJimpsey worked with us on our knowledge of forces. She challenged us to create a Tin Foil Boat which was able to float on water. We then had to add one penny at a time onto the boat, counting them as we went along to see how long it would take for the boat to sink. We really enjoyed this activity!

Today we have went over the Mini-Health and Wellbeing Champs application. We have been asked to think about if we would like to apply for this role which will go with us into P7. The applications will be handed out on Monday 16th May 2022 and must be returned by Monday 30th May 2022. This can be completed at home however we advise the children to complete this themselves.

Well done to our certificate winners for this week, Sophie-Rose and Finlay.

 

 

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P6 Weekly Update

This week we continued to focus on different drawing techniques and how they can be used to create still-life images, using items from our classroom.

We investigated how different amounts of pressure on the pencil, can create different shades and effects on an object. We  looked into where the light was hitting the object and by doing this we were able to show where different types of shade could be seen.

Here are some of our still-life images using natural light from our outdoor area:

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P6 Weekly Update

We had a great first week back after the Easter holiday. We returned from our holidays in good spirits and enjoyed sharing our news through a recount piece of writing. We self and peer assessed this piece of writing which allowed others to see what we had been up to.

We have been focusing on growth mindset this week where we were set mini challenges, under time constraints. These tasks lasted for 5 minutes and challenged our own mindsets. We created posters for around the classroom with positive quotes on them. These will be used by the whole class when they find a task difficult or overwhelming and need some help to overcome their negative feelings.

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