Mrs Reeves

Primary 6/7 Weekly News

As part of Technology week, Primary 6/7 have been having great fun, setting up as small teams of engineers. We have all taken part in a project to build and test ‘Robokid’ vehicles. The robots were designed by Scottish engineers at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh.

First we built our robots…..

Then we used our problem solving skills to ensure they were all wired correctly.

Then we learnt to use the robot and control it through a cable controller….

And finally it was time for our driving competition!

We also had a fabulous time yesterday with a visit from Jenny from Quality Meat Scotland. We learnt all about the importance of buying Scottish meat and we discussed healthy foods. After that we helped prepare, cook and eat some fajitas which were delicious!

Enjoy the long weekend!

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves

Primary 6/7 Weekly News

Due to the bad weather conditions at the start of the week, many of our Primary 6s were disappointed to discover that the skiing/snowboarding trip had to be postponed. However in true St. Ninian’s style they soon bounced back as we all took part in a mini-topic about having a Growth Mindset. We learnt many things including how to change a Fixed Mindset to a Growth Mindset. We took part in drama activities, played games, designed posters and created Power points. We also took part in a quiz at the start of the topic and then again at the end of the topic and discovered that nearly everyone had a Growth Mindset by the end of the week! What a fantastic result!

Aside from the topic work we have continued to thoroughly enjoy participating in gymnastics for P.E. and have all improved our skills using the apparatus. Today we attended our different committees and we are all looking forward to next week which will focus on Technologies and will involve some very different activities for us all to get involved with.

Have a great weekend!

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves

P6/7 Weekly News

Primary 6/7 have all been working hard as usual! We have been carrying out lots of research for our Victorians topic and we have even been learning facts about Queen Victoria in French! This week we have been finding out information about the terrible conditions of child labour during the Victorian times and we have used our facts to help us write a report as part of our writing. In drama we have started to create short scenes where we have been reporting on the issues of child labour and we peer and self-assessed our work by recording ourselves and watching the videos on the Smartboard. We are going to continue with this over the next few weeks, so that we can improve our performances.

We are all excited about the thought of next week. Some of the Primary 6s are going to be Skiing or Snowboarding at the start of the week and the rest of us are going to be involved with a mini-topic, where we will be working with some of the other pupils from Primary 5/6. On Thursday we will be able to all share our experiences, which will be really interesting.

Have a great weekend!

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves

Primary 6/7 Weekly News

Another busy week for Primary 6/7! As part of our topic, have been learning about all the different types of jobs that the poor Victorian children had to endure. In particular we were looking at the children that were sent to the workhouses, those who had to go down into the mines and the children who were forced to clean the chimneys. We continued to use this as our focus for our drama this week and here we are:

We have continued to learn about Fractions in Maths and we also were able to do some of our measurement learning outdoors with Mr Hunter which was good fun.

Today we all saw the dress rehearsal in preparation for the Primary 3/4 show on Monday. It was amazing! Very well done to everyone in Primary 3 and 4!

By Emily and Orla

Have a great weekend.

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves

P6/7 Weekly News

This week Primary 6/7 have been working very hard as usual! We started our new topic about the Victorians and the P7s in our class are now joining together to work with the P7 class to learn about Democracy. We linked drama with our topic this week, and we looked at several photos of Victorian children and created some short scenarios. We all think we are going to love our new topic!

In R.E. we have been learning about the seven sacraments: Baptism, Reconciliation, Confirmation, Communion, Marriage, Holy Orders and Sacrament of the Sick. For Maths we have started learning about decimals and fractions and we are now able to identify proper and improper fractions and convert them to mixed number. We have been learning about weather, days of the week, months, and seasons during Spanish and French.

During Writing we have been describing what we think of when we listen to happy and sad music and we have also been discussing how the differences in pitch can affect our feelings. We had some really varied ideas and thoughts!

We have been continuing with flight in gymnastics, making routines on our own and with partners. On Wednesday Dallas, Callum, Charlie, Alice and Aimee, along with a few more pupils from other classes stayed in after school to help Mr McCurdy with gymnastics with all the teachers. We really enjoyed helping out and demonstrating our fantastic gymnastic skills.

By Charlie, Orla and Dallas

Have a great weekend!

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves

Primary 6/7 News

This has been a short week to start the New Year but we have had a very positive start! We have all been thinking about our school values and how important they are to us at St. Ninian’s. We have been learning about the origins of New Year’s celebrations and we have also been thinking about having a Growth Mindset when writing our New Year’s resolutions for 2016! We hope we will be successful with them.

In P.E. we have now started gymnastics and our focus is currently flight and in Spanish we have been remembering the words for the days of the week and also learning the months of the year.

To finish off the week some of our Primary 7s are off on a rugby trip later this afternoon and we hope they have lots of fun and tell us all about it next week.

Happy New Year and have a great weekend.

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves

P6/7 Weekly News

What a fabulous festive time we’ve had this week!

We have been learning lots of Christmas vocabulary in both French and Spanish and we had lots of fun on Tuesday wearing our Christmas jumpers and enjoying our delicious Christmas lunch.

Then we were thrilled to enjoy the Jack and the Beanstalk pantomime on Thursday which made us all laugh so much! After that we had our Christmas party which was a huge success and we all joined in with our Scottish dancing.

Several members of our class took part in many activities involving the school choir and the brass band. We also performed ‘Walking in the Winter Wonderland’ for our Christmas sing-a-long and we were so excited to be able to sing at the Coffee and Carols too.

Now we are ready to enjoy our Christmas holidays and we wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves

Primary 6/7 News

This has been another busy week for Primary 6/7. For our Science topic, we have all been designing and making Science laboratory shoe boxes and this week we brought them into school and started to discuss them. We also attended the Achievement assembly on Thursday, where we enjoyed listening to the junior concert band. Sally was lucky enough to win the award for going the extra mile in our class. In Maths we have begun our new topic about time and we are going to be learning about converting 12 hour to 24 hour times next week.

We had the opportunity to watch the Primary 1 and Primary 2 boys and girls take part in their Infant Nativity which was fantastic and started to get us all in the mood for Christmas! After that we started to practise our class Christmas song in preparation for our sing-a-long next week. We also learned some Christmas Spanish vocabulary and listened to the Christmas story with Mrs Keegan.

Today was our ‘Dress as your future job’ day so most of us came to school dressed as our dream jobs. We had teachers, basketball players, vets, a swimmer, a paleontologist, a nurse, a lawyer, a footballer and even a secret spy to name but a few!

Have a great weekend!

From all of primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves

P6/7 News

This week in P6/7 we have had a jam-packed week and it has been brilliant! As this week is Scottish week, we researched information about St. Andrew and made posters. On Wednesday the P6s practised descriptive writing about Scottish landscapes and then we decorated our work with a tartan border. We also had a visit from a Scottish story teller who told us all a story called ‘Our Scotland’ which we really enjoyed. In P.E. we are still taking part in Scottish dancing and this week we were practising with the P7s.

We are currently completing division in maths and although it is a little bit hard, we are really enjoying being able to choose what group we go in and we are coping with it fine!

Today we had our Ninian’s Natter and this time we had 4 different carousel stations (learning conversation with Mrs Reeves or a partner, personal study and research for our science topic). We are also continuing with our daily learning conversations with Mrs Reeves.

By Charlie C P6/7

Primary 6/7 News

This week we have been really busy as usual! On Tuesday all the Primary 6’s went to the Lanthorn and took part in a St Andrews Cluster assembly with pupils from several other schools. We all discussed the life of St Andrew. Then on Wednesday we had a fantastic time when ‘The Travelling Tuba’ paid us a visit and we took part in a music workshop where we all worked together to produce a piece of Brazilian music which we later performed in front of the whole school.

We have been making great progress with practising our multiplication skills in Maths this week and now feel ready to move on to some division next week! In French we wrote some Chinese portrait poems which described ourselves in many different ways. We continued to perfect our Scottish dancing in P.E. although this week we danced to modern music for a change!

Have a great weekend from Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves