Author: Mrs Roy

Teacher voice:

What a busy week for all of us in P6/7!

The focus has been preparing for our Global Goals showcase with our families.

Miss Lydon led the class in a tutorial for Imovie and the DoInk app on Monday to set us up for the week ahead.We were all working in our teams to film clips for our movies. This was happening all around the school with groups setting up filming areas with props, green screens, costumes, etc. Then we were given time to edit our clips and create an imovie project. For some of us this was a new experience and we had to rely on one another’s support and guidance.

By Thursday we all had our trailers and films ready to present to our families. This was a great afternoon with lots of families coming along to support us. Miss Lydon and I were really proud of all the groups!! See Twitter for photos.

It was also National Digital Learning Week so our movie projects were a great way for us to develop our digital skills and be creative!

National Numeracy Day started with a puzzle to crack during Smartstart and then we continued our learning about measure in mathematics.

Our P7 House Captains and Vice Captains led their final assembly about ‘INCLUDED’. They did a great job and we want to thank them for all of their efforts this year.

Next week the P7 pupils will be holding a Bake Sale during Parent’s Evening to raise funds for their leavers event in June, any donations of home-baking would be appreciated and should be handed into P7 classrooms on Wednesday morning.

Pupil voice – our highlights of the week:

Toni – Running 2 miles during PE!

Bea – Our showcase!

Thomas – The House Captains dance performance at assembly!

Cole – Writing a description about mobile phones!

Ethan – Winning maths countdown this morning!

Matt – Counting the money for Malawi and my last assembly!

Lorena – Our final House Captain assembly!

Beth – Filming and editing our imovie!

Brooke – Our showcase!

Jay – Our showcase!

Abi – Our showcase!

Mirren – Filming our movies!

Daniel – Editing our films!

Joshua – Our showcase!

Lorenzo – Making a movie!

Ryan – Filming our movies!

Ambra – Showcase event!

Harley – Filming our movie!

Lauren – Art – making artwork for Global Goals!

Teamwork has been awesome this week in P6/7 across our learning experiences. Well done everyone!

There has been a buzz about the place as we prepare for our showcase event next week.

All groups were putting the finishing touches to their research and storyboards in preparation for filming our movies next week. Our wall display is looking great with mind maps, posters, leaflets and photographs.

In maths we have been focusing on measure and have had lots of opportunities to put this into practice this week in  practical lessons.

In numbertalks we continue to develop our mental strategies for division and have updated our maths working wall.

It got noisy in PE as we were all cheering one another on in the high jump. It was great to see so many people jump heights they didn’t think were possible! Well done to Ethan and Matt who cleared 1m35cm. Crab football was also good fun with Mr McCurdy.

Miss Lydon had her tutor visit this week and we were all really proud of how well it went for her!

Good luck to Beth and Abi from our class and also to Emily P5 and Vanessa P7 who are competing in a gymnastics competition tomorrow, go girls!!

P6/7 busy week!!! 

Pupil voice

This  week in primary 6/7 we have being doing lots of hard work. 

 Everyone-We learned  about the 17 global goals everybody  got put into teams and worked on one of them. 

Everyone-In writing we wrote about how good our school is and we got to choose our title. 

Everyone-In PE we did high jump and it was super duper FUN!! And everybody enjoyed it. 

Teacher voice

This has been my first full week working with P6/7 and I have loved getting to know the class. The energy and enthusiasm in this class is amazing!

This week we have been working hard on introducing measurement, our new topic in mathematics. We have been measuring our own items around the classroom and converting the measurements. We wrote all about St. Ninian’s for descriptive writing and learned pets in Spanish so it has been a busy week for all of us.

We had an entertaining drama lesson with some very funny improvised sketches to warm up and then made ‘freeze frames’ about one of the Global Goals in teams. Photos should be on Twitter so check them out! Our topic wall is starting to look amazing with all of the work we have been doing ahead of the showcase.

Miss Lydon

 

 

 

Welcome back everyone to our final term in P6/7! It’s going to be a busy one!!

This week we welcomed Miss Lydon who has joined us from the University of Glasgow and will remain with us until the end of May. She will be planning and leading some of the learning experiences this term alongside Mrs Roy.

We also welcomed 2 students from Edinburgh University who will be assisting Mr McCurdy in PE lessons this term. The focus will be athletics so come prepared for indoor and outdoor lessons. Bring a water bottle!

Our new topic will be ‘Global Goals’ and our class have been split into teams to work on researching a goal of their choice and then creating a movie about it. These movies will be premiered at our topic showcase in May – all welcome to come along!!

In writing this week Miss Lydon asked us all to imagine what our lives would be like in the year 2030 – we had some great ideas!! Mrs Roy was not happy as she was envisaging her life at an older age!!!

In literacy we have been learning about the ‘Description’ genre and next week we will have a go at writing some descriptions. We have also been looking at structure of texts.

In numeracy we had a go at investigating number patterns – square numbers, cube numbers, Pascal and Fibonacci – it was pretty tricky!

Some of our P6 pupils went to Lowport this week for an overnight stay. They all agreed that it was a great experience!

A gentle reminder that all pupils should have a separate pair of soft shoes for indoor wear to protect the flooring and for PE lessons in the gym hall. Thank you.

Pupil voice

Mirren- I went to camp this week and it was really fun and i enjoyed it.

Beth-I liked working in our groups for our new topic (Global Goals.)

 

ITS SHOWTIME!!!!!!! 

We have had a busy term doing all sorts of fun things! Here are some highlights of this week and term 3. 

The Gospel show has been a big part of this term. We went live this Wednesday and Thursday, and there has been a lot of pupil voice about it: 

Ryan- This was our last week of the Gospel show and I was the priest in the good Samaritan.  

Ivana- The Gospel show went live! It was very fun, especially as I was Jo. 

Beth- A highlight for term 3 for me would be ‘The Gospel show.’ I loved practicing for the show. The two shows were amazing! 

Mirren- We have been really busy this week doing the Gospel show because we went LIVE! 

Neve- This week we had the show!!! 

Matt- We performed our show (the Gospel show) 

Bea- Last day of term, final day of our Gospel show! Many fun things have happened. Looking forward to term 4! 

We also did P.E on Wednesday: 

Thomas- Me, Ethan, Joshua and Ryan played football for P.E. 

Toni- This week in P.E Miss Ford said we were playing Superman rounders, which was really fun. 

This week we went with the Deputy head, Mrs Smith and we done the stations of the cross: 

Ambra- We done the stations of the cross with Mrs Smith. it was tiring but fun at the same time 

On Thursday morning everyone paired up with the person next to them and they animated a game or name on the coding site ‘Scratch’: 

Caiden- We used scratch to code our own games. 

The whole class also did Easter art on either A3 or A4 paper: 

Lorenzo- I liked it when we did art 

The P6’s went to meet their P1 buddies and enjoyed it a lot: 

Jay- This week my buddy was sick but eventually I got to see him. 

This was a very exciting week and term for P6/7. All of us cannot wait for term 4!!!!!!!!!!! 

 

• Ivana & Mirren!!!  

 

P6/7 has had a week full of chaotic, crazy memories! To start of the week we had a special surprise organised by our wonderful depute –head teacher Mrs Smith.

Pupil Voice

Thomas: The league cup came in and everyone got a picture with it.

Ethan: The SFFL cup came to our school on Monday.

Joshua: The league cup came to our fantastic school and we got a picture with it.

That was just the beginning of our crazy week, next up was the birth of Baby Angus James McCurdy! Welcome to our St.Ninians family.

Pupils Voice

Jay: Our P.E teacher Mr McCurdy has had a baby called Angus.

Aria: Mr McCurdy son was born a few day ago which we are very happy for him.Congagulations

Lorenzo: I liked when we saw Mr McCurdy’s baby.

To fill in for Mr McCurdy we had our fabulous Miss Ford.

Pupil Voice

Beth: On Wednesday Miss Ford took our P.E lesson which was great fun! We done heady handball.

Later on our Netball team gave an amazing performance at Wednesday netball league and came back with the result of winning the league. Well done guys you deserve it!

Pupil Voice

Matt: The netball team and I won the netball league.

Mirren: I went to a netball tournament and WE WON!

 

Art with the authentic Mrs Young!

Pupil Voice

Lauren: We have been doing art with Mrs Young for Easter art cards.

 

P6’s exciting buddy meeting!

Pupil Voice

Abi: This week I seen my buddy and we ate lunch together!

 

Finally The Gospel Show is in action!

Pupil Voice

Bea: This week we had a Gospel Show practise, with our costumes. Next week we go live, can’t wait! Everyone looked amazing!

Toni: This week P7, P6/7, P6 had our first dress rehearsal for The Gospel Show!

Daniel: Today we had our first dress rehearsal.

Neve: We had our first dress rehearsal.

Ambra: P6/7, P6, P7 done our first dress rehearsal for the Gospel Show and all the costumes were awesome.

Caiden: We had our dress rehearsal today.

 

That’s the end of our chaotic, crazy class weekly news by our wonderful lead learners Lorena & Brooke for this week, have a great weekend guys!