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Primary 6 Poets

Literacy

This week we have taken home our Scots Poems to learn for the whole school recital. We chose from a selection of 3 poems and Miss Anderson is really looking forward to our class performances next week.

We also learned more about similes and metaphors, writing a few of our own. Some of these were very effective and others were funny!

Our spelling words this week were Scots words, some of which we already knew and some which we had to learn the English translations.

Numeracy

This week the Red group have been learning more about multiplying by 3. Next steps will be to learn more about multiplying by 6 and then 9.

The Blue and Green groups have been dividing, learning a new strategy (repeated subtraction using a number line). This has proven to be very successful and next steps will be to use the same process for numbers that are not multiples (ie numbers that will leave a remainder).

Our Maths Talk was fun this week – we had a quick reminder of the different ways we could share our learning.

Science

Do you know how food is digested? Primary 6 do because we learned more about the digestive system this week.
Fun Fact – Sloths have a very slow digestive process and they can go a whole week without going to the toilet!

We also learned more about the process of breathing.

Expressive Arts

Our focus for Scots week is the Scottish Colourists. We have learned a little about Samuel Peploe but are going to learn much more next week.

We still enjoy learning Indian dancing and will have two more weeks of dance before moving on.

We have a new Class Dojo high scorer – well done Ellie. Last term we enjoyed a games day (thanks to Emma C) and are looking forward to an Anne Frank day (Nia), extra Art (Ellie) and Football day (Emma S).  Nia is our high scorer of the week.

Fingers crossed for calmer weather next week.

Miss Anderson and P6

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Primary 6 – It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

What a week! It has been another busy old week in Primary 6. Here are a few of the things that we have been learning about.

Maths/Modern Languages

We have been busy collecting information about attitudes towards Modern Languages learning. We have collected answers from all classes and are still busy putting this information into spreadsheets so that we can make graphs. The reason that we are collecting this information is so that we can apply for money to buy iPads, which would be used to enhance learning in Modern Languages. We really hope that the information we collect is good enough!

Christmas Party!

We had a brilliant time at the upper school Christmas party – lots of dancing, games and winners. Special thanks go to Miss Heatherill for purchasing refreshments, Mrs Ross for purchasing biscuits, our fantastic team of Pupil Support Workers for laying out the feast, P4-7 teachers and to Mr Eagleson for organising. All pupils were well behaved and smiling!

Golden Time Treat

It was the Golden Time treat this week – most of the class really enjoyed watching Nativity 2 – thanks to Miss Baillie for organising this treat for us. Those of us who didn’t make it will be trying extra hard to keep all our Golden Time next term.

Writing

This week we were inspired by a lego image. We used this image to type stories straight onto Glow.

If you want to write a story inspired by this image you can log into Glow and go to this link to share a story or your own.

Miss Anderson and P6

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Some Primary 7 Reflections from last week…

Sorry it’s late P7.  Miss McLennan has ‘Christmas brain’ …

“This week I learnt about Christmas history with Mrs Hull.  Mary wears blue.  In P.E I was playing football to remember the WW1 Christmas Truce”.

In Expressive Arts I was making a winter scene and I enjoyed it a lot as I got to let my artistic skills out”.

“In P.E we had a football tournament to remember the Christmas Truce.  Two of the subjects crossed over.  They are P.E and Social Studies (History)”.

“In Maths we have been learning about the perimeter.  This has a real life link to building”.

“We had our football Truce match and I’m getting better at scoring goals”.

“In topic we are making maps to show where our group attractions are in Edinburgh”.

“In music it was Lauryn’s last week so we were shown how to set everything up independently”.

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Glow Scotland

This week your child will bring home their Glow username and password. The weblink for Glow is https://glow.rmunify.com/ and it can be accessed through any device with an internet connection. As well as lots of educational resources, Glow provides access to your child’s school email account and Office 365. This allows your child to use Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint from anywhere with an internet connection, even if it is not installed on their device.

Once your child has successfully logged in they will be able to access the Apps available (including Brainpop and TigTag World). They will also be able to access the School Site by clicking on the App as pictured below.

At the moment the School Site is being developed and will contain more content as time goes on.

When your child logs on for the first time they will need to agree to the following Glow Community Rules:

Be Secure

Always keep your Glow password to yourself.

Always sign out of Glow when no longer using it.

Be Polite

Always treat others with respect.

Never post or share a message, document, image, video or any other other content that is inappropriate or likely to cause harm or offence to others.

Be Safe

Always remember to be careful when communicating over the internet – other users may not be who they seem.

Don’t share your personal details with other people.

Never agree to meet someone in person who you have only met on the internet unless accompanied by a parent, carer or other known and trusted adult.

Speak to an adult immediately if you see a message, image or anything else on the internet that concerns you

Be Legal

Never post or share a message, document, image, video or any other other content that you do not have permission to use.

Be Responsible

Always be mindful that once you put something online, that information may be beyond your control.

Never post or share a message, document, image, video or any other content online that you would not wish other learners, teachers, or parents to see.

Remember that anything you do can be traced back to you.

If you misuse Glow, this can be reported to your school.

Upper school pupils should have already accessed Glow in school and tried out a few of the resources available. If your child has any problems accessing Glow they should inform their class teacher or Miss Anderson.

Further information about Glow is available Here.

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Football Remembers

We’re sure that most of you came to the P7 assembly and have perhaps watched the Sainsbury Christmas advert.  You may well know some of the history of the Christmas Truce.

In the first months of the First World War, soldiers fighting in the trenches around Ypres held a truce.  Over the Christmas period they set aside their weapons and met in ‘No-man’s Land’.  Some of them played football.

Today, P7 took part in a football tournament to remember and feel part of the First World War Centenary.

Well done Primary 7.

Our very own Sports Massage Therapist

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Primary 6 – Get Glowing

This week Primary 6 have been Glowing. This means that we have used Glow at least once. Most of us typed up a letter to send to the Civic Centre and then saved this letter on Glow. Miss Anderson is still working out all the ways that we can use Glow to support our learning and we will be working on this all the way up to Christmas and then into 2015.

In Reading this week we all either found long and short sentences or wrote a book review (some of us did both). We talked about how authors use sentences of varying lengths for effect.

We have talked a lot about chance in Maths. Here are a few pictures that share some of our thoughts. You will notice that there are lots of colours used – ask us why each colour was used.


We have continued to enjoy Dance, and have now finished our Street Dance topic. Next up is Indian Dancing, can’t wait!

We still have lots of work to get through in the next few weeks!

Miss Anderson and P6

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