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Maths Week Scotland
This week in Primary 6 we have been using digital technology to further enhance our learning of Information Handling. We created different types of graphs and simple pie charts to show our knowledge gained this term. We collected our own data based upon our own interests, collated our findings in a table which was then displayed in a way of our choosing.
Literacy (Class Novel)
This week in Primary 6 we have been getting used to our weekly routines. We have been introduced to our new class novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio where we were asked to predict what might happen. This term we will be focusing on prediction where we will develop our skills in this area.
Topic – The Jacobites
We were introduced to our new topic for this term: The Jacobites. We shared what we knew already and what we want to learn so the topic can be shaped around our questions.
During our first week in Primary 6 we worked on ‘Building Our Community’. This is where we were reminded of school routines, expectations and standards, alongside getting to know our new teacher.
As part of this we created our Class Charter which displays our understanding of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) which applies to all children. We recapped about ‘Rights Holders’ and ‘Duty Bearers’ which we then added to our charter.
We worked as a class to pick UNCRC rights that we felt were most important to us and matched our shared vision for this year.
Our shared vision for this year is displayed in our classroom.
I have attached an update with our PE days and times for this term alongside some additional information to keep you updated on our focus for the first 2 weeks of term 1.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Miss Walkingshaw
In primary 6, we worked together to build our class charter. The class voted on a “pipe” theme.
We explored the different rights children have based on the UNCRC, and decided to focus on article 28 (I have the right to an education), article 31 (I have the right to play and relax) and article 24 (I have the right to make sure myself and others act respectfully). We then came up with a class agreement on how the children, as rights holders can keep these rights and how the adults, the duty bearer, can help maintain these rights.
We spent a lot of time considering which articles, from the UN convention of the rights of a child, were most suited to us in school.
We read the articles.
Highlighted the one that applied to us in school/class.
We considered the most important to us.
We then thought how we as Rights Holders could keep these rights and how the adults as Duty Bearers, can help us maintain our rights.
From Primary 7
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!
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.
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.
It was lovely to be back with all our friends again.
We started a new Numeracy topic on volume. We have been learning how to read volume scales on beakers and jugs in millilitres and litres, working out problems with volume and we have begun learning how to calculate the volume of cubes and cuboids in cubic centimetres.
In literacy, we watched a short persuasive animation and tried to work out the message it was showing us. We then looked at the different devices the animator used to persuade us and discussed how effective these were.
In art, we started using the new drawing pencils we got at the end of last term. We learned how to draw a realistic mouth.
Have a great weekend everyone.
From Primary 7 and Mrs Andison
