Category: Primary 6

Pupil voice:

This week has been a very busy week for P6/7, many exciting things have happened!

Cole: The P7’s made Santa’s Grotto and Santa came to our school last night at the Christmas Fair.

Brooke: I enjoyed doing Santa’s Grotto at the Christmas fair.

Bea: This week we started Christmas dancing and we had a great time, we even helped the nursery learn some Scottish Country Dancing.

Neve: We started Christmas dancing in PE.

Lorenzo: I enjoyed dancing

Joshua: We did Scottish dancing

Matt: We did Scottish dancing.

Ambra: We did Scottish dancing.

Lorena: This week P7 got to go to St. Margaret’s academy for a science lesson and did some experiments.

Ivana: I learnt how to use a Bunsen burner.

Haseeb: We learnt how to make paper bags.

Abi: I enjoyed my gymnastics competition because I came second place.

Beth: This week the gymnastic team went to compete, my team came 2^nd and I came 1^st individual I was so excited.

Aria: I went to a gymnastic competition and we came 2^nd and 3^rd

And this was our busy week.

Teacher voice:

As you heard from the pupils they have had a really busy week.

Our P7’s went to St Margaret’s Academy for their first transition visit. Dr McAllister led them in a Science lesson where they got their bunsen burner licence, learned how to draw scientific diagrams and worked with a partner to complete a science investigation.

Our P6’s went to the Lanthorn to participate in the P6 Cluster Assembly to celebrate St Andrew’s Day. They sang the hymn ‘Follow Me’ and some of the children read out the prayers they had written for Scotland.

As part of Catholic Education Week we learned about life in India and how families had to make paper bags to sell – 10 bags would earn you 1 rupee. The children worked in teams/families to try to make as many bags as they could in 1o mins (thanks to Mrs Reeves for the demonstration). On average each team/family made 17 bags. We all agreed that this must have been a tough job for the families as they would have to work very long days just to make a basic amount to live on.

There was also great excitement in the class this week as we prepared for the Christmas Fair. Santa’s Grotto looked amazing-well done everyone! A special mention to my ‘little elves’ who helped out last night, they did really well!! They raised £160 on the night!!!!!

We started Scottish Country Dancing this week. Mr McCurdy asked us to assist him in teaching the AM nursery some Scottish Dancing, it was lovely to see the older children helping the younger ones, smiles all around!!

Well done to Aria, Beth and Abi who competed in the gymnastics competition this week – they were fantastic ambassadors for our school and came back buzzing with excitement!

Next week we will begin learning more about our country, ‘Scotland’ as part of our interdisciplinary learning. We will also be changing our class altar to purple to celebrate the beginning of Advent.

I finished the week by attending a mass at St Margaret’s Academy this afternoon which was offered for teachers in West Lothian.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Roy and P6/7

Pupil voice:

Abi – I enjoyed writing this week, we wrote a prayer for Scotland.

Haseeb – On Thursday we wrote a prayer that was about Scotland.

Joshua – Yesterday I wrote a prayer asking for God to help those who work in the NHS.

Ryan – I enjoyed learning about budgeting this week and working on the moneysense website on the netbooks.

Jay – On Thursday we were preparing for the Christmas Fair and organising Santa’s Grotto  -some of us were making posters to advertise the Grotto.

Matt – This week me and 4 other people from P7 went to the Centenary mass.

Brooke – I enjoyed doing the budgeting task and the credit/debit card task.

Ethan – Me, Matt, Thomas, Beth, Lorena, Toni and Ivana made a video to advertise Santa’s Grotto.

Ivana – We did bar modelling with Mrs McDonald on Thursday.

Cole – I went to mass with the house captains and Mrs Smith.

Thomas – On Wednesday house captains went to Edinburgh for the centenary mass. It was very cold and wet when we came out.

Mirren – We have been doing preparation for Santa’s Grotto.

Toni – This week our class were in charge of organising Santa’s Grotto for the Christmas Fair.

Bea – This week we had visitors in our school and we were an amazing class!!

Teacher voice:

Another great week, the time is flying by!!!

This week we studied financial literacy connected to our Enterprise and numeracy work. Everyone had great fun learning about and creating budgets!! The pupils were not amused when they had to spend their hard earned cash on fixing washing machines and paying bills!!! I was really pleased to read about how they had got on with their budgeting task at home, almost everyone stayed within budget. We also looked at the differences between debit and credit cards.

In writing we explored issues affecting Scotland and then chose one to write a prayer about. Check out Twitter to see some examples.

We began thinking about Catholic Education Week and started by discussing what was good about our school, this then led to a discussion about what was good about a faith school. Again see Twitter for our main discussion points.

Preparation is underway for next week’s Christmas Fair – P6/7 are in charge of organising Santa’s Grotto. We have made advertisement posters and videos with the ipads, made template letters using Microsoft Word, made a Christmas postbox, sorted out  Santa’s gifts and wrote a blog post!! Phew…..

Many of the children have expressed an interest in helping me out next Thursday evening between 5.30-7pm. I will give them a time slot to allow them time to also enjoy the evening with their families. They can wear something Christmassy!!!!

A reminder for P7’s that they are going to St Margaret’s for their first Science lesson bewteen 10-12pm on Monday. They will need a small snack.

Have a great weekend – and remember to stay within budget when shopping on Black Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mrs Roy and P6/7

 

 

Pupil Voice:

This week we did writing about the end of the world war one and I really enjoyed it because we got to use netbooks : Brooke.

This week, we did EAL with primary 1,2,&3:Ivana.

I fell on my nose at the relay race: Cole.

We did maths and it was very fun: jay.

This week some P7 got chosen to be in a fitness competition I got chosen.  I am proud of my team and myself because I was the farthest girl in javelin :Toni.

I went to the festival and we did athletics.On Thursday  we did enterprise we had to go in groups of 3 and we had to write down stuff about product and device :Mirren.

This week some P7’s got to go to an athletics event .:Thomas.

This week we wrote a newspaper report as if it was Armistice day. :Beth.

Every class got 6 netbooks each :Joshua.

The P7’s went to a sports event at Craigswood on Thursday: tEthan.

On Thursday we got to get in a team of 3 and on the jigsaw we had to think of words that describe teamwork.

I went  to the festival and we did athletics  we won it and I am really proud of my team. I came 2^nd in 2 relay and 2^nd in 2 laps: Lorena.

In P.E we did fitness and it was hard :Abi.

This week 9 girls and 9 boys  got selected to go to a fitness event and I got chosen I really enjoyed it.

Teacher Voice

Another busy week here in P6/7 as you can see. The children continue to work hard in class and are challenging themselves to use their higher order thinking skills across learning.

Armistice Day has a been a recurring theme this week during reading, writing and art. Ask your child or have a look at the lovely display we have created, here’s a sneaky peek! Remember to have a 1 minute silence at 11am on 11/11/18.

All children have now started their OneNote Profiles using GLOW. They have typed up their goals and community profile for this term. Please encourage them to use this profile at home to add any wider achievements. Well done to some of our class for putting their homework on OneNote for me.

Well done to some of our P7 pupils for representing our school this week at the Sportshall festival – Miss Burns was very impressed with their attitude, effort and behaviour!

Well done to AIlie from P6 who represented our school at the JRSO meeting this morning, she will be sharing this with us next week in class.

Well done to our lead learner Ambra this week who received the praise postcard home!

We have had such a busy week that we ran out of time to type up our blog so Mrs Roy stepped in to help us out.

Monday

We started the week with spelling and wordboost before having our morning PE lesson. Fitness is the theme and we all worked in teams to play fitness bingo. The P7 girls were the winners! In numbertalks we were working on the doubling and near doubles strategy for addition. During shared reading Mrs Roy introduced us to ‘Inspector Heurisko’s lights’, the story told us about skills we need when reading. Mrs Purdie came into our class this afternoon and was helping us to order decimals using post it notes.

Tuesday

We were learning about abstract nouns in grammar today, we all did well with the task. In the afternoon we went to the lanthorn library to choose new reading for enjoyment books.

Wednesday

Mr McCurdy continued working with us on fitness using a Halloween theme. We nailed the monster mash as our warm up!! In enterprise we worked in pairs using our devices and netbooks to research 5 local businesses. We then created factfiles for out display, we could use Microsoft word or a poster. Mrs Scott is joining us now in class on Wednesday afternoons to help us with our reading.

Thursday

We learned about the feast of All Saints and led the liturgy at our whole school mass in the Lanthorn. Mrs Roy was very proud of us all as we led by example. In writing we used a picture as a stimulus. We then had to think of descriptive words or phrases to describe what we saw. Everyone wrote an extended piece of writing and some peoplr shared their story with us.

Friday

Everyone went to their committee, have a look on Twitter to see what we got up to. We also updated our GLOW Profiles using OneNote. Please ask us about these at home and we can show you what we have done so far.

Pupil voice:

Beth- I really enjoyed writing this week.

Bea- we did a scary piece of writing about a spooky picture.

Brooke- I enjoyed our PE lessons.

Have a good weekend!

Mrs Roy, Haseeb and Caiden (lead learners)

 

 

In primary 6 we have been making our pupil profiles for glow.  This will let us share our successes in and out of school.  We have also been doing Mexican art called Dia Los Muerdos  or Day of the Dead where we drew a picture of someone who has died in our family or our pets  We have been doing Halloween Report writing about what we do for Halloween.  This involved sharing some of our Halloween traditions such as Dressing up and Jack O Lanterns,  Did you know that Jack O lanterns were originally used to scare of bad spirits from peoples homes?

In Maths we are continuing to develop our Number Talks strategies and we are all keen to share our strategies with each other.  We have been working on Subtraction of 3 Digit Numbers.

A big group of us went to the school Halloween party on Tuesday night –  it was great fun.  Vanessa was even dressed up as an inflatable dinosaur!