Category: Our Learning Stories

It has been another quick week in Primary 6 – perhaps we are so engaged with our learning. Here are a few highlights:

Health & Wellbeing

We are still learning about different substances. This week we were learning more about alcohol and the different ways that alcohol companies advertise their products. We talked about adverts that appeal to children and young adults, and why there needs to be rules against this. We talked about adverts that make alcohol seem fun and exciting and why it is important to protect children and teenagers from being influenced by these adverts.

Miss Anderson set us a challenge to advertise a new type of alcohol called Bam. Bam is a sugary, sweet cocktail that is bright pink and has a yellow label. We had to decide what group of people we should advertise to. Most of us decided that this product should be aimed at young adults aged between 20 and 26. Here are a few of our adverts.

There is not a dry eye in the class this afternoon because we performed our assembly to say thank-you and goodbye to Miss Speirs. we really are going to miss her LOADS! We did have fun shaking it off though.

Our footballers are looking forward to the match this afternoon.

Class Dojo – Emma C is still our high scorer with 71 points.This week our high scorers was Nia with 15 points. Nia became the first person in the whole country to add her work to the National Glow Gallery. Here is her poster.

We hope everyone has a good, and safe, weekend. Hopefully everyone will have stopped crying by Monday!

Miss Anderson and Primary 6

A Winter Scene

It was a cold night and the snow was shining on the ground.  The buildings lights were shining while the river was frozen below. The trees were covered in ice.  You can hear the cars and you can touch the fluffy snow.  You also can taste cooked chestnuts and see the dark sky and the tall buildings.

By Craig, P7

The lights were on, there was nothing but candle light dying slowly as the terrain got darker and the sky changed colour into romantic pink. It was bitterly cold outside, and you can smell the ginger cake as well as cookies and roasted chestnuts. At night time you can hear owls and Christmas carols. You can see the snowmen being created by the merry, joyful children. You see the city, the slush and the angry, strong men digging out their covered, snow white cars from the brown, awful snowy grounds of the city. It was a marvellous sight, the house was next to an enormous ever green forest – half empty. It grew the best trees ever, the empty skies of the country felt as if it were magic. You could feel the snow against your freezing feet. It felt like a thousand knives digging into you. You could taste the hot cocoa going down your throat as you sit near the everlasting fire.

By Molly, P7

As the steam flew up from the chimney, the smooth, white sheet of snow was changing colour, white to black. It smelt like roasting chestnuts alongside the taste of hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows. Yummy! As the sun was setting, the wolves were howling at the full, corn moon.  There were engines roaring in the slushy snow.

By Finlay B, P7

It’s been a week that has just whizzed by! We can’t believe that it is the weekend already. Here is a summary of our learning for the week.

Dance

This week we have been learning how to ‘lock’ in dance. This is a basic move for all kinds of street dance, but it is harder than it looks. We are all participating well in dance learning and becoming great street dancers.

Music

This week we have continued to work with Lauren to develop our musicality. This week we were using small electronic instruments and Yann told us more about hardware hacking. We also became songwriters, writing songs about Livingston. One group have recorded their song and it will be added to the blog (if Miss Anderson can work out how!).

Writing

We had a free choice in writing this week. Lots of us decided to include a spooky setting. We are all working towards our personal targets and it is almost time to set new targets.

Reading

We all had different tasks this week. The Jaguars completed a character profile, the Tigers a labelled location from the text, the Panthers looked for interesting words to define and the Lions designed and created a birthday card for a character in their novel.

Maths

This week we completed games on Education City, which required us to log in and find our games. It wasn’t too difficult and we will do this again in Maths and English.

We have lots more to learn next week. Miss Anderson and Mrs McCulloch will be doing a wee day swap so Miss Anderson will be in class on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and Mrs McCulloch will be in on wednesday.

We have lots of high scorers for Class Dojo this week! Nia, Carys, Chloe, Ellie and Emma S all have 15 points. Overall Emma C has the most points with 61.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

This week in Maths most of us really enjoyed learning about coordinates as it was quite a challenge! You could start to predict what the next coordinate might be because it started looking like a picture. 

A good tip to remember the order for coordinates is:  ‘Along the coridoor and up the stairs.  Numbers on the line and not the squares’.

Lots of us enjoyed visiting Broxburn Academy last night especially the Home Economics taster session.  Some of last years P7s shared some of their recipes.

In the guidance department some S1s talked about settling into high school and guidance and support we could get.  They said the homework diary really helps. 

In Writing we continued a story called ‘The Cave of Dur’ .  It was really good as we could end it in any way.  We trying to use a range of VCOP particulary openers ending in ed, ly and ing.  

In P.E we enjoyed basketball with Grant as some activities were challenging but fun.  We were shooting and practising jump stops.

It’s been another busy week in Primary 6 – here is a summary of some of our learning.

Maths

We have continued to learn about area this week. We have drawn rectangles of specific sizes, using times tables to calculate the area. We really need to know our times tables and Miss Anderson has found a few songs to help us remember. We will be listening to them next week as well. One of our tasks was to design a zoo. Brandon’s work was chosen as our WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like) as he had remembered to include an entrance, exit and car park. All the enclosures were a good size for the type of animal that would live in them. Well done Brandon.

Literacy

We have been writing imaginative stories, set in a school. We had a few stories set in our school but lots were set elsewhere (including a school that can teleport!). We were all trying to include speech marks this week (with partner punctuation) and we were all working towards our personal targets. Miss Anderson is really enjoying reading all our stories.

Social Studies

We are still learning about Livingston – this week we started to work in groups to research housing, work, leisure and tourism. Hope fully we will be able to update you with more info next week. In the meantime, here is a photo of the class map we created last week.

Science

This week we started to learn more about eyes and sight. We learned that out retina actually sees things upside down and our brain turns it around. We talked about how clever our brains are!

Other

Children in Need was great fun – the school raised lots of money to help this great cause. Emma C is still our Dojo high scorer (with 50 points) and it was a tie for our weekly high scorers; Ann, Ellie and Emma S. Keep up all the hard work!

Last week we finished our large map of Livingston for our wall display. We used printed a large map and cut it into 12 sections. Then we worked with a partner to recreate the map, on a much larger scale. We will add a photo of this for you all to see.

We also continued to learn about area. We are beginning to make the link between times tables and finding the area of rectangles and squares. We will continue to work on this and hope to get really speedy with our recall of times tables.

In Science we are going to be learning more about the human body. Last term we learned about the auditory system as part of our learning about sound. This term we will be learning about the digestive system and micro-organisms.

Emma C is our current Class Dojo champion with 44 points and Oktawia was our high scorer last week with 5.

Miss Anderson and P6

“I am proud of getting our assembly rehearsals 100% because we only had 4 days to prastise.” (Hollie)

“The thing I loved the most was when we sang.”(Ellie)

“I am so proud of myself because Miss Speirs said I should do something in my life and perform on stage.”(Boyd)

“I enjoyed being up on stage with other people.”(Molly)

“I enjoyed when I had to throw the rat on the stage.”(Ciaran)

“I am proud of myself for standing on stage remembering my lines, even though I was nervous.”(Finlay B)

” I enjoyed in the trenches and being Walter.”(James)

“The thing I liked the most was the song because we had to learn it off by heart and I wish I could do it again.”(Jamie-Lee)

Although we have only been in school for two and a half days we have been very, very busy.

On Wednesday we started our new topic Livi Living, which is all about Livingston. We created a class book with all the information and facts that we already know. A few of us drew maps of parts of Livingston that we know. We still need to create a cover for our book and would like suggestions for what we need to include on the cover.

In Maths we have been transferring our skills to create different versions of our names. We create symmetrical patterns and wrote our names using block letters, with a set area (52-62 cm2). This was great fun, Then we coloured in our names, using fractions to help. Most of us had to use rounding to decide how many squares to colour. Here is an example:

If your name took up 55cm2 and 1/4 of it to be blue then you would divide 55 by 4. This would give you an answer of 13.75. Because this is not a whole number you would round up and colour 14 squares. This means that 1/4 of 55cm2 is approximately 14cm2.

We can’t wait to find out what we will be learning next week…

Miss Anderson and P6