Hello to all primary 6b families, it is lovely to be back!

This week has been lots of fun, we have all been catching up on the last 6 months and I have been meeting and getting to know some new faces!

This week for literacy we have been focussing on our core writing targets, we wrote a piece of writing about the children’s fantastic Burns Night last week, then the children used their core writing targets to self-assess so they know exactly what they want to work on next time. We also had a look at one of our reciprocal reading strategies which was summarising, the children summarised a short story which we read as a class, some also predicted what might happen next.

We have been making bar graphs this week, we collected data about everyone’s favourite movie/tv series and put this into a bar graph to display our findings.

We went out to the woods on Monday and the children had a great time playing and exploring.

We introduced our new topic this week which is Ancient Greece, the children shared what they already know about Ancient Greece and I was blown away! Then we got some time on the netbooks to research some key facts about Greece, we will be starting this topic after the February break.

Tomorrow is safer internet day, we talked about the dangers of being online and how these link to our rights. The children then came up with 4 top tips for staying safe online, we made posters to explain these.

Today we had a lovely time at mass, all of the children in primary 6 were extremely respectful and we had lots of compliments on our participation, behaviour and listening. Well done everyone!

This weeks hot chocolate winner was Olek, he has been invaluable this week, keeping me right every day and always offering help as I get back into the swing of things here in St John Ogilvie!

Thank you all for a great week, I hope you have a lovely week off!

Miss Duddy