Category: Achievement

Every year we produce a document to look back at the year and describe the progress we’ve made; this is our SSES (School Self Evaluation Summary).  The SSES then helps us prepare our plans for the coming year and what we need to work on to continually improve; this is our SIP (School Improvement Plan).

I have uploaded this sessions full SSES and SIP to the blog in the section – Our School – Useful Documents.  To make it easier to see at a glance we have created a one page summary of our SIP and I attach this below.  It should give you an idea of the areas we are working to improve this session.  All planned priorities are focussed on the over-arching aim of raising attainment for all learners.

This has been a short but very active week for P6! On Wednesday we started hockey with Mrs Cullum in PE, on Thursday we had a whole school Daily Mile and on Friday we had basketball with Ms Pender in PE. Throughout all of this, we have been monitoring our breathing and heart rate to recognise how exercise affects our bodies. This links to our learning about the circulatory system in science.

A special mention to our cross country runners who have really been pushing themselves in the Daily Mile in preparation for their competition next week. Keep it up and good luck for Wednesday!

Mrs Cullum and P6

This week, Primary 5 started their new topic – Life in a Burgh town! We built up a Burgh town on our classroom wall and used collage to create our own medieval characters.

“I enjoyed drawing and painting my character/the Burgh animals and learning the different parts of the Burgh town.” Boe

“I enjoyed learning about the Burgh town and making my character.” Oliwia

“I enjoyed making the Mercat Cross for our Burgh town.” Kristina

“My favourite part was using the different fabrics to make my character.” Lauren

“I enjoyed drawing and painting my market stall.” Cerys

We also found out about our new Technologies project from Miss McLaughlin and Sarah-Jane. We are going to build a medieval market! We worked in groups and began to plan each of our stalls (the blacksmith, the tanner/butcher, the potter/weaver, the baker and the grocer).

Keep checking in to see how we are getting on!

Until next time…

Primary 5 & Miss McLaughlin 🙂

This week we have had a focus on languages in school and in P6 we learnt Spanish. We listened to native speakers and practised saying some Spanish words. We noticed that lots of letter sounds were the same in Spanish but there were a few that we had to watch out for like z, c, rr and ll.

Then we learnt how to describe people in Spanish. When we were doing this, we had to be careful to make sure we changed the ending of our adjectives to masculine ‘o’ or feminine ‘a’ depending on who we were describing. This made a link to what we have learnt about masculine and feminine words in French.

After that, we used what we had learnt to describe famous Spanish speakers, including Pablo Picasso, Queen Letizia of Spain, Fernando Torres, Shakira and Rafael Nadal. We talked about which countries other than Spain have Spanish as their national language, for example Columbia, where Shakira is from. P6 produced some excellent pieces of writing to describe these people in Spanish!

Finally, Katie, Mya, Miai and Oskar teamed up with Boe, Lauren and Oliwia from P5 to share what they had learnt. P5 had been learning the words for family members in Italian so the P6s taught them how to describe their family members in Spanish. You can see them working together in the photographs below.

Adios,

Mrs Cullum and P6

Remember that the school will be closed on Monday and Tuesday for a local holiday and a teacher in-service day.  Pupils in school and nursery resume on Wednesday 21 September.

Steven Eagleson

This week we wanted to show you some of the ways we practise our writing! We don’t always use a pen. The boys and girls here are showing you one of the fun activities we use.