Week beginning 28th September 2026 Well, it is now October, so Mr Eden and the class are awaiting the arrival of the Great Pumpkin… Also this week we have been deepening our knowledge of quadrilaterals by focussing on a particular type of quadrilateral, the triangle. We looked at how the length of the sides, and… Continue reading P6 await the Great Pumpkin
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European Day of Languages
The European Day of Languages is the 26th September this year (Saturday) and to build up to this we have been looking at various language activities. One of our P7 pupils led the whole P7 class in a Turkish vocabulary lesson. They learned numbers to 10, some common greetings and colours. They also did some… Continue reading European Day of Languages
P6 and all that language…
This week we celebrated European Languages Day (26th September) a little early with several tasks on top of our normal language learning. We looked at the way different languages write down the various sounds that animals make. Some were very very different to English. We also worked on the different parts of a tree and… Continue reading P6 and all that language…
P6 are going around and around…
This week saw a focus in maths on rounding whole numbers. We used number lines to model our thinking and represent our work. This pictorial way of showing thinking is really important. Then we thought about why we round numbers, where is it used in real life? We learnt that in Australia they do not… Continue reading P6 are going around and around…
P6 All about Uno and rods
Week Beginning 7/9/26 This week we have been using Uno cards in loads of our work, take a look how. We started out by using them to generate multi-digit numbers to aid us when looking at subtraction. We used number lines, Bar Models and the standard method (columns) to answer our subtraction questions. Then we… Continue reading P6 All about Uno and rods

