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This week in Primary 6 we have tried to link our topic to all areas of our learning (where possible).
We have been learning about the Respiratory System and how this works effectively to help us live. We were set a STEM challenge to see if we could re-create the breathing system using a set amount of materials after identifying all of the organs involved and their purpose. We had lots of fun with this task!
Have a lovely weekend 🙂
This week in Primary 6 we have been focusing on the layout and presentation of our work. This has been something that we highlighted when self and peer assessing our work across all areas of the curriculum.
Literacy – We have been working on our joined handwriting and investigating nouns and proper nouns. This is something that we initially found tricky but we have picked up well. We have focused on how to use a dictionary effectively to assist us with learning and expand our vocabularies.
Maths – We have been focusing on how to collect information and the different ways in which it can be presented. We have gathered our own information and explored how to present this in bar graph and pictorial format.
PE – We have completed our block on handball and took part in a class tournament. We focused on team work, positive communication and enjoying ourselves.
Topic – We looked further into the process of digestion, explaining what happens at the different stages and we will be moving on to the respiratory system across the final stages of this term. This week we also celebrated International Womens Day.
 
Languages – This week we had Jess teaching Spanish greetings, numbers and colours. We are thoroughly enjoying learning different languages and are building up a bank of knowledge!
Have a lovely weekend 🙂
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
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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)
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.
This week we have been learning about Scottish Culture during our mini topic. We were introduced to Robert Burns and explored many aspects of his life using digital technology. We were asked to note down all of our information in a creative way and share this with the class. This topic allowed us to explore capital cities in Scotland which tied into places that Robert Burns visited.
During our mini topic, we have been asked to investigate The Scottish Colourists. We have chosen one of the famous Scottish Colourists and completed a fact file all about them. We were then asked to re-create a famous piece of artwork by John Peploe called Pink Roses, Chinese Vase.
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We have completed a pencil drawing and will finish this using John Peploes’ favourite technique of oil painting. We will post pictures of these when they have been completed next week for you.
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.
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’.
Have a lovely weekend!
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.
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