Author: Mrs Roy

The Gospel Show

Rehearsals have been going well as we approach our final week of practices. We are all looking forward to trying on our costumes to help us get into our characters. The pupils are also working on invitations for our special guests, the backdrop and a program.  Next week we will begin practising with the lights.

Ethan: We managed a full run through this week.

Daniel: We now have the stage and microphones set up for rehearsals.

Ambra: I’m really excited about the dress rehearsal.

Science

We continue to learn about Science using the theme of ‘Journeys’. This week we have carried out some experiments to help us with this, eg. creating lunar rover models, Matilda’s floating feat, etc. See Twitter for photos!!!

Transition

P6 continue to meet weekly with their nursery buddies.

Ryan: I really enjoyed being with my buddy and we played lots which was fun.

Joshua: I played with my buddy and read a story.

Aria: I met my buddy and played with magnets and dolls.

Brooke: I went to see my buddy on Thursday and we played games and read stories, it was so fun and fantastic!

Abi: This week I got to go and see my buddy, Anna, we read a book called ‘Superworm’.

HWB

On Monday morning we joined up with the P6 class for a fitness session, there were some legs on Tuesday! We also continued our ball games block of learning.

Jay; We played 5-a-side football and our team came second.

Mirren: We did PE outside and played football, it was fun.

Year of the Playground

Today we had a visitor from the Grounds for Learning team who met with pupils and staff to discuss our outdoor spaces and how these could be improved. He is going away now to write a report and we should hear back after the Easter holidays his ideas!

Matt: I met with the gentleman to discuss our playground and how it could be improved.

Positive Recognition

Well done to Ivana who got the praise postcard home this week, we were focusing on using our voices wisely in class.

Ethan also received a positive phonecall home from Mrs Purdie – congratulations!

Matt was the leading pupil in the West Lothian Sumdog Contest – there were 3063 pupils participating!!!! Great job Matt-we are all very proud of you!

Our class got into the top 50 schools – 144 classes entered across West Lothian – another achievement to be proud of!!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Mrs Roy & P6/7

 

 

Pupil Voice:

Transition

Cole: This week we went to high school and Mr Purvis helped us to draw a seashell.

Caiden: This week we went up to St Margaret’s we did science, art and swimming.

Thomas and Ivana: The p7’s went to St Margaret’s for transition and went for swimming, science and art.

Lorena: Group B had their transition on Monday at St Margret’s which was an amazing experience to have.

Matt: I and the P7’s went to transitions.

Ethan: On Monday I and 18 other p7’s went to St Mags for transition.

Buddies

Lauren: P6’s got to see their buddies on Monday.

Neve: P6’s got to meet our buddies and we played with them.

Daniel: The P6’s saw their new buddies on Monday.

Ambra: on Monday I met my buddy Mahnoor I played with her in the Nursery I had a lot of fun. The best part was we drew and danced.

Abi: p6 this week met our buddies Anna is super cute.

Mirren: I met my buddy on Monday and I got Kevin it was really fun because we got to know them.

Brooke: on Monday p6’s got to meet our buddies we got to play with them and become really good friends.

Joshua: we met our buddies and played with them.

Stay, Play and Be Well

Bea: This week we participated in Stay, Play and Be Well. We got to pick two different stations. They were called;  Resilience, Mindfulness, Online Safety and Sleep Scotland.

HWB

Harley: this week in PE we did 9 minutes of basketball handball and football it was good for people to try new sports.

The Gospel Show

Beth: we have continued the show and we are getting much better with the songs and words.

A reminder that costumes are due in on Monday 18th please in a labelled carrier bag.

Written by Daniel and Bea

Pupil Voice:

This week in primary 6/7 we had a very exciting week:

Pizza Express Visit

Everyone: We went to pizza express and made pizzas it was great fun . Check out Twitter @mrsroy16 for photographs!

Visit from Archbishop Cushley

Ambra: Archbishop Leo Cushley came into our class He told us stories about himself.

World Book Day

Harley: We done drop everything and read for world book day. Check out Twitter @mrsroy16 for a video link.

Daniel: Ryan and Beth went to Waterstones to buy new books and a game for our class.

PE

Abi: In PE we did heady handball. This was a new game and we all enjoyed playing it.

Ash Wednesday

Brooke: We had our Ash Wednesday mass I enjoyed it because I was part of choir.

Written by Abi and assisted by Mirren

 

Pupil Voice:

This week in P6/7 we started to rehearse The Gospel Show! We are all excited and can’t wait to show it to our parents. Costume letters have been given out to everyone and ticket letters will follow soon!

 

Toni: This week P7, P6/7 and P6 started our show rehearsals.

Lauren: We started to do The Gospel Show!

Neve: We did our first rehearsal for the Gospel Show.

Bea: This week we started to rehearse the Gospel Show! I can’t wait to see the finished product.

Ethan: Today we practised the Gospel Show!

Jay and Daniel: We were doing show rehearsal today.

Ivana: We did our first show rehearsal this week.

Thomas: We started for the Gospel Show.

Brooke: We have been practising for our Gospel Show!

Ailie: We started practising for the Gospel Show.

 

P.E

Mr. McCurdy was such a nice teacher this week he let us go to the park and play football! We all had a great time and it really worthwhile being there.

 

Joshua: In P.E we done football outside.

Mirren: We did football outside with Mr McCurdy!

Lorena: For P.E we got to go to the park for football- Which I really enjoyed.

Matt: We went to an assembly on Friday with Mrs Purdie.

 

A HUGE THANKS TO BEA FOR TYPING THIS IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES FOR US AT THE END OF THE DAY AFTER ASSEMBLY!!!

 

Teacher voice:

 

PM Writing

We started to use a new literacy resource this week which will help us with our reading, grammar and writing. We learned all about nouns and verbs using a Recount genre. We discussed the important features of a recount in preparation for writing a recount next week with Mrs Roy and Mrs Scott.

At one point all the upper area classes and teachers were having a debate about nouns – it was hilarious!!!

Health and Wellbeing

Sleep has been the topic of the week and we have had 2 lessons and an assembly now about this. We did a questionnaire about our own sleep patterns and then looked at some of the science connected to sleep. We made notes using sub-headings and then turned our notes into a report as a piece of extended writing. Mrs Roy is going to try and follow some of the advice, ie. No screen time for the hour leading up to bedtime!!!!

Sorry I forgot to give out the praise postcard it was a bit manic!! Remind me on Monday!!!!

 

THANKS FOR TUNING IN WITH P6/7, HAVE A NICE FRIDAY EVENING!!

Pupil Voice:

Beth – today we watched the p3-5 show called Blast from the past it was great and all the children were very enthusiastic.

Daniel – we went to mindfulness with Ali on Thursday

Lauren – we had mindfulness with Ali this week.

Neve – we watched the P3-P5 show.

Jay – we watched blast from the past P3-P5 done the show.

Brooke – today we watched the p3-5 show I loved it and it was really funny.

Joshua – we did writing about Mary Queen of Scots being executed

Lorena – today the full school got to watch the p3-p5 ‘’Blast from the past’’. It was amazing. They done a great job!

Abi – today we watched a show with p3-p5 it was really funny

Harley- one thing that I really liked is when we were writing a newspaper report I liked it because I learned more about Mary Queen of Scots.

Matt – On Monday in PE we started to practise our routines I was in a group with Jay and Ethan.

Ailie – In PE this week we got to make up floor routines to our choice of music

Lorenzo – I liked when we done the time games

Caiden – My favourite thing to do is Maths, PE and Art

 

By Lead Learner

Jay (P6)

A Lively Week in P6/7

 

AUTHOR’S LIVE

This week in P6/7 we watched Author’s Live, starring, Frank Cottrell-Boyce we had a fun time watching and listening to all the things he did when he was little and what inspired him to make his latest book, Sputnik’s guide to life on Earth!  We enjoyed it and hope to come to one Author’s Live soon.

Joshua: “Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Author’s Live, I enjoy his famous Broccoli Boy!”

Abi: “Yesterday we watched Author’s Live!”

Jay: “We done Author’s Live with Frank Cottrell-Boyce.”

 

P.E

We also had our amazing P.E teacher, Mr McCurdy teaching us how to use the bars, volt and balance well. Beth, Abi and Aria were our stars! They taught us exercises they do at their gymnastics club, it was great!

Caiden: “In P.E we are doing gymnastics.”

Cole: “Gymnastics is fun, I like to climb on the bars.”

 

GOOGLE EARTH

When the P7s we busy, the P6s went onto Google Earth and explored the world! They learned about where Mary Queen of Scots was held in for at least a few years, so the P6s researched to learn more about her!

Brooke: “P6 went on Google Earth to search for Lochleven.”

 

READING

The P7s finally finished their reading book “Running Wild” by Michael Morpurgo! So, they are now on a new reading book,  one full of emotions and an amazing kid full of personality.

On the other side the Killer Cat reading book, also finished their reading book and are now onto another story, but this one is a mystery because they haven’t found out their reading book…

Lorena: “The P7s got there new reading book ‘Wonder’ which I’m really excited for!

Lauren: “My group finished our reading book.”

Toni: “This week the P7s got our new book Wonder. I was really tempted to watch the movie, but I didn’t want to spoil the book.”

Ivana: P7s started their new reading book, it is named wonder.

Thomas: “The P7s started the book, ‘Wonder’”

 

FOOTBALL

The school’s football team went up to West Calder on Thursday.

Thomas: “The football team had a tournament and did well.”

Ethan: “I went to the football tournament on Thursday.”

Matt: “We went to a football tournament.”

 

WRITING OUR LAST LETTERS!

This week in writing we discovered Mary Queen of Scots last letter. It was pretty interesting since it was 8 hours away before her execution, we wrote on how we thought if we were in Mary’s shoes. How would you feel? If you knew you were going to die in the next 8 hours!

Ambra: “We wrote a letter about Mary’s last letter!”

Daniel: “We done writing about Mary’s last letter.”

 

MUSIC

We kindly had Mrs. Smith over and she taught us about different types of music and instruments including; the strings, woodwind, percussion, brass. We also learned about Tempo, Timbre and Dynamics.

Beth: “I really enjoyed doing music with Mrs. Smith, it was great fun and it was nice because we have not done music in ages.”

From Mrs. Roy and P6/7, signing out!

A HUGE thank you to our lead learner Bea for writing this week’s blog post!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pupil voice:

This week we had lots going on but these are the main events that people enjoyed:

One of the things  that  happened this week is we went to Dedridge primary school to watch a one man show. It was called ‘Pondlife’ and was a a story about friendships and bullying. It was a very powerful performance and gave everyone things to think about and discuss.

Aria :We went to Dedridge PS to watch pond life (one man show)

Lorenzo:I liked the show at Dedridge primary because it was so much fun.

Brooke :We went to Dedridge primary to watch a one man show and it was really funny.

Ivana :This week we went to a one man show called pond life in Dedridge Primary by Catherine Wheels Production.

Jay : We went to Dedridge Primary School and watched a show.

Daniel: We went to Dedridge P.S  a one man show

Also this week we watched a documentary about Mary Queen of Scots. It told the story of Mary and her life. We also wrote thought bubbles as if we were Mary at different times in her life.

Lauren :We have been doing some things on Mary Queen of Scots.

Harley: We watched a Mary Queen of Scots video  and it was good because I learned more about her and her family.

Neve: We watched a video on Mary queen of scots.

 

We started a new block in PE last week and this week we got to pick a skill to work on.

Abi : This week in PE we did gymnastics and I worked on my handspring on vault.

Toni: This week we used the proper gymnastics equipment

Some other thoughts:

Ambra :The P6’s worked on some revision on fractions, decimals and percentages

Mirren : We have been Auditioning for parts of the Gospel show

 

Another busy week had by all!!

Ailie, Brooke, Mirren, Abi

This week’s events:

 The NSPCC came to our school to talk to P6/7 and P7 about different types of child abuse and how to deal with it and who to talk to.

Lauren: We done a NSPCC workshop with 2 ladies, called “Sarah and Karen.”

Thomas: The NSPCC came in for a workshop and gave us these kits to do.

Ivana: We done a NSPCC worksheet, it was fun.

Brooke: We done our NSPCC workshop it was really fun.

Matt: This week we had the NSPCC.

 

Exciting things happening in the Upper Area:

We are starting a show called, “The Gospel Show.” And this Friday we are holding auditions to have different parts in it. The people judging will be, Mrs Roy, Miss McCormack and Mrs McMullen.

Toni: This week we found out that P6, P7 and P6/7 are doing a show and we got a part of the script as well.

Ethan: On Friday we’re auditioning for the Gospel Show.

Our new Block in P.E.:

We started a new block in P.E which is gymnastics and so far we have been taught to do different balances, rolls and rotations skills.

Beth: This week we have been working more on gymnastics in P.E.

Abi: This week in P.E we did gymnastics for our next block.

 

Spanish

This week in Spanish we learned more about our familia (family) and how to say their names in Spanish. We also did our familia tree in Spanish.

Jay: We done Spanish with Mrs McMullen about a family tree.

Ryan: We were learning about the different family member’s with Mrs McMullen in Spanish.

Writing

This week in writing we got a little creative and did imaginative piece of writing about the Stuarts and the Tudors (Mary Queen of Scots family tree.), we wrote facts sheets on more information about them.

Abi: For writing we wrote about May Queen of Scots family tree.

Haseeb: In writing we wrote an Imaginary story.

 

Committees

This week was our first week back at committees, and the Mini Vinnes are holding a Toys and Book donation, the deadline is Thursday the 21^st of January, it is a donation! Not something we must buy, let your child hand it in to the P4 classroom (Miss Ford) also it can be unused or old toys.

Lorena: On Friday we went to our committees, I really enjoy mines as we fulfil our roles as house and vice captains.

 

From P6/7 and Mrs Roy, have a good weekend!!!