Category: Primary 6

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P6 Community Proposal Models

This term, Primary 6 have been investigating the local area. We carried out research and collected evidence to identify what the strengths and areas for development were for Pumpherston and Uphall Station. Using this as inspiration, we came up with proposals for things that could be added to or changed in the local community. We wrote letters to West Lothian Council to persuade them to introduce our ideas and made 3D models of our proposals.

Suggestions included: car parks, cycle paths, shops, a community centre, a skate park, a swimming pool and extra maintenance for existing buildings in the community.

Here are some of our 3D models:

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Health Week Carousel

After yesterday’s karate input our Health Week continued today with the first set of a series of carousel activities.  This is where each member of staff offers a 30 minute activity and pupils, in their Pumphie Pals groups, rotate around these.  On the carousel today and tomorrow are:

  • Meditation
  • The Eatwell Plate – food nutrition
  • Curling
  • Sun Safety (ironic today)
  • Healthy Lunchbox choices
  • making fruit smoothies
  • Dance
  • Hula Hoops
  • Go Noodle (movement and mindfulness activities)
  • Yoga Bugs
  • Emotional Literacy
  • Blind food tasting

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P6 Blog

P6 were responsible citizens this afternoon and set out to contribute to the care and maintenance of our school by litter picking around the school grounds. This links to our work on investigating the local area, as we are looking at the care and maintenance of Pumpherston and Uphall Station. We will be carrying out a research walk around Pumpherston next week to assess care and maintenance as well as other factors such as public transport and housing.

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P6 Blog

This week we have been making the most of the good weather by taking our learning outdoors. We practised giving and following directions in French by playing games outside and made links to maths by using compass points.

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We also had lots of fun speaking to our visitors for DYW week. We got to meet a nurse, a head chef, a brick layer, a motorbike builder, a marketing student, a music instructor and an Autism support worker.

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P6 Gardening

Today we spent a lovely sunny afternoon out in the school garden with Sarah-Jane. She taught us about the different vegetable families, including which parts of the plant we eat, what different seeds need to grow and how gardeners plant them. We then had the chance to get our hands dirty (some dirtier than others!) by helping out with jobs in the garden. We planted potatoes, sweetcorn, pumpkins, kale, onions, garlic, leeks, brussel sprouts and sunflowers. Thank you Sarah-Jane, it was great fun!

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Le Blog de P6

Bonjour! Today P6 learnt how to give and follow simple directions in French. We learnt how to say ‘go straight on’, ‘turn left’ and ‘turn right’. We then played a game of Hot and Cold in French; one pupil had to follow directions from the class in French to find a hidden object. We called out ‘chaud’ (hot) when they got close and ‘froid’ (cold) when they were far away. Unfortunately, technology let us down today so we don’t have a video but we will try to one for the blog another day!

 

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Outdoor Learning (P4-7)

A Miss McLaughlin post this time…

On Friday, both the upper and lower school trialled our new approach to Golden Time. Children were able to sign up to a particular activity and were in mixed groups to take part. It was lovely to spend time with some familiar faces! Below are photos from my Outdoor Learning group – we had a smashing day for den building and the teams were fantastic!

Looking forward to next week’s session already!

Until then…
Miss M & the Outdoor Team 🙂

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P6 Computer Coding

This term, P6 are learning about computer coding. This involves putting together pieces of code (instructions for the computer) to create an animation or a game.

Today we learned how to code a simple computer game called Pong (adults at home might have played this when they were younger!). We had to add sprites (characters) and a backdrop then use a variety of code to make a ball bounce off a paddle. We even added a scoring system to make the game competitive.

P6s can log in to their Scratch account at home to share their game with others.

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