Category: Primary 6

What a fantastic week we have had for Health Week! All the children have tried their very best at all the activities – well done! A big thank you to Mr McCurdy for organising all our events, and a special thank you to all the parents who came in to help!

Here are our comments and photos from this week:

Neave – Health  Week  – This week we were  doing really fun activities. The activity that I liked the most was microfitness, which is an inflatable obstacle course witch we all loved! (:

Erin R-This week was health week and we all done different activities. The activity that I liked the most was cross country. All the p6 from the area went to James young high school for a cross country for a race and it was really fun.

Aliza- This week was a very busy health week because we done a lot of activities and fun things. On Monday we done cross country, then on Wednesday we done a cross country race against other schools at JYHS and on Friday we done a fun run!!! JJJJJ

Emma-This week has been amazing !! and we have had loads of activities like cricket, cross country and lots more!!!

Amera-This week in p6 we had cross country and it was so fun everybody done very well and everybody got a medal. Mia Sok got 1st place and I came 6^th out of the girls. Tomorrow we are having swimming but the people that are in un Ambassadors are going to St  Margaret’s  to do bag packing. I am not going swimming but I am going to st margrets and it will be REALLY fun.!

 

I hope everyone has a relaxing weekend! 🙂

We have now completed our work on studying flowers, we will continue to watch our long term investigation about the effect of fertilisers (plant food) over the coming weeks.  We have created a wall display to showcase our learning,

Our next focus is going to be linked with healthy minds and bodies.  This will kick start with Health Week next week.  Please remember to wear your sports gear all week and be prepared every day to be outside regardless of the weather! As part of exploring healthy bodies we will be using our Food Technology trolley and creating some delicious meals which will allow us to discuss food hygiene as well as the Eat Well Plate.

In our RE work we will be covering God’s Loving Plan lessons which focus on our developing bodies and relationships.  At the parental conversations this week there was an opportunity to go and view the work we will cover, also the P7 children have received a leaflet today with relevant information (P6 will receive theirs next week).

In Maths we have consolidated our learning about division.  Everyone now seems to be more confident within their own level to tackle these types of calculations.

Homework for the next week will focus on personal reading.  Everyone has been asked to choose a book and to prepare an oral book report to share with the class.

In preparation for next week’s healthy writing, we are going to be asked the question, if you could invite anyone in the world to dinner who would it be and why?  What would you cook for them?

I can’t wait to see who is coming to tea!?

Enjoy the sunshine.

Emma-This week we went to the nursery and we gave our buddies a tour of the primary1 and primary 2, 3 playground and we also went to the Lanthorn and went into the big hall and had a special mass for the Ascension! J

Amera-This week we seen our buddies and let them play in the playground. We also got to watch p1m show and Neave and I were doing the music and laptop. For golden time we are going outside to play that is going to be fun at school we are all TOO warm.

The sunshine has been out this week and all the children have been telling me lots of stories about outdoor activities after school – it’s great to hear how active the children are!

This week in class we have been working on our Spanish numbers and letters. We used a few songs to help us and played some guesing games. Here are two of the videos we used:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56OXP92SUBQ

 

 

Well done to everyone for giving it a try! We are all learning Spanish together and help each other with the pronunciation as best we can 🙂

Our topic this week has been focusing on life cycles. We learned all about the life cycles of flowers, frogs and butterflies. We also looked at how the life cycle of the fairy wasp is a bit different because it is a parasite.

Thank you to everyone for coming along to parent’s night, it was great to see you all! A reminder that we have Health Week next week so all children should come to school in sportswear every day.

Let’s hope the sunshine lasts! Have a great weekend.

The children were given the following brief this week and asked to respond via handwritten letter,

A new toy shop is due to open in your local area, called

“Magnificent Toys”

As part of the marketing campaign to encourage people to come to the shop when it opens next week the manager, Thomas Jones, has sent catalogues to every local Primary School; enough for each child.

The catalogue is split into two sections, in the first half all the pages are pink and are filled with dolls and dressing up clothes.  The other half the pages are blue and filled with toy cars and construction.  There is also a picture of the inside of the shop on the front.  

In this shop, on the right hand side, all the shelves and labels are pink and there is a big sign saying “Toys For Girls”.  On the left hand side all the shelves and labels are blue and there is a big sign that says “Toys For Boys”. 

The children applied their learning from last week’s gender stereotype lessons to create a letter to express their opinion and persuade the manager to rethink his shop’s layout.  Well done to everyone, there was a lot of higher order thinking skills being demonstrated.

In Numeracy we have been focusing on word problems and applying our learning and skills in different contexts.  we have been trying to link these into skills for life.  This will continue into next week.  Some of us were also exploring how to express a remainder, from a division calculation, as a fraction.  This will extend next week into converting the fraction to a decimal.  2D shape has also played a large role in our Maths learning this week, if you would like extra practise try this interactive game.

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me3us/flash/lessonLauncher.html?lesson=lessons/14/m3_14_00_x.swf

Our seeds are growing well and we have now started our investigation into seedlings that have been fertilised with liquid plant food versus those have not.  Stay tuned for further updates over the next few weeks.

We were all for THE HIGH JUMP in PE this week.  It was so exciting to watch as everyone took part in a class competition.  Colin was our amazing stand out (jump out!) athlete, jumping 1m 40cm!  Well done Colin!

Have a lovely long weekend.

We’ve had a busy week again and managed to squeeze it our writing and spelling assessments!

Another fantastic swimming lesson today – it’s great to see everyone making improvements to their technique!

All jotters and report cards were sent home today – please have a discussion about the work we do in class.

Here are our comments for this week:

Mia- this week has been a busy week, what I mostly enjoyed this week was…THE BLEP TEST. I ran with my friend Erin R, I got 11.1. I’m the fastest girl and P6 in the school.

Erin R-we did our writing assessment and the single word spelling test. We were writing as if we were a refugee asking for help.

Jennifer-this week we did a writing assessment we were to write about poor children refugees. We wrote a letter to the home secretary, number 10, downing street. We had to write as if we were the refugees and asking for them to let us in the country. I enjoy writing assessments. This week has been really fun and we are now going swimming under the pool.

Emily- this week we did our writing assessment we wrote a letter pretending to be a refugee. I also saw my buddy and now we are going swimming.

Emma- This week we had the single word spelling test and on Wednesday  I went to see my buddy but she had the chicken pox so I never saw her – get well soon Abigail !! L We also had a writing assessment which we pretended to be a refugee it was tense and now we are going swimming at James young under the seaJ!

Rugare- Hello we all enjoyed the achievements assembly. I got a new badge in the girls brigade ,it is called the diamond award.

Aliza-  this week we done a spelling assessment and a writing assessment. It was pretty hard but most of us got a good spelling score!

 

I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend and I’ll catch up with everyone next week on parent’s evening.

This week we have been learning all about the human body. We have focused our learning on the respiratory and circulatory systems which links very well with our class novel. We also used our class novel for inspiration for our writing this week and worked on writing persuasive letters.

Here are some of our comments and photographs this week.

Erin O- this week we drew optical illusions some of us did spirals, circles and grids. They look great, we used all different colours and some of us did 2.

Erwin – this week for P.E we have been doing athletics with hurdles and relay races. It was great !

Emma-This week we learned more about what happens when you inhale and exhale we also drew optical illusions yesterday they look amazing! In P.E we have been doing athletics by doing hurdles, long jump/broad jump. It’s been awesome!

Neave – today is going to be a good day for  the girls football team. We are playing 2-4 schools from 1.30 pm -3.00 pm. It is going to be EXTREMELY EXITING! #girls football

Neave – today we found out in assembly when the talent show auditions are and when ST.NINIANS GOT TALENT starts.

Emily – today I got to see my buddy again it was really fun and we also found out that there is going to be a talent show which I am excited for.

Good luck to the girls playing in the football tournament this afternoon! I hope you all have a fantastic weekend.

This week we have explored different ways to challenge our learning.

1)We took our topic work, about plants, outside and played a game called Seeds and Chaffinches. It helped us to appreciate that not all seeds make it to the stage of germination and that many are eaten by the birds.  Please ask us about the rules to the game because it was great fun and energetic.

2)We had a debate about gender imbalance in careers and also discussed the impact of Toy Manufacturers packaging and labelling of toys and shops.  Watch the following two clips and discuss it at home

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24211824

 

3) In RE we have been learning about the life of St Paul and through this we created interactive posters (with flaps and opening sections), here are some examples

4) On our Maths Glass Learning Wall we have been consolidating our knowledge of how to convert from mililitres to litres.

 

It’s been another short week in Primary 6 but we still maned to pack in loads of learning!

We have been focusing on weight and measure in maths, as well as trying to tackle very tricky multi-step word problems. With great team work and problem solving strategies everyone tried their very best to complete their questions.

We had our second swimming lesson today which was great! Everyone is making fantastic progress in the pool and it is great to see all the children encouraging each other.

Here are some of our comments about our committees today:

Declan – Health & Wellbeing – we were completing a questionnaire about the wellbeing tool kit box, we asked pupils how often they use it and what they would like to add to it.

Kieran – UN Ambassadors – We were making posters for the 17 Global Goals to be displayed around the school.

Kalvin – STEM – We were drawing the outline of a human.

Emma – Eco – We were in the garden taking pictures and listing what lives and grows in the garden. We also cleaned up the garden.

Isabel – 1+2 –  We were finishing off our carnival masks and next week we are going to have a party with Spanish food

Jennifer – Life Skills – We learnt all about first aid and what to do if people were hurt and we also completed a cross word about first aid.

Krzysztof – Globe Trotters – We were learning about the rainbow being a sign of peace and made a rainbow using different coloured tissue paper.

Leon – Pupil leadership – We counted how many votes we had on the pupil questionnaires.

This week in primary 6/7 we have continued learning all about plants, we planted flowers (a green for growth plant pot and a tickled pink plant pot). We are going to use these to investigate the effect fertiliser (liquid plant food) has on the tickled pink versus the green for growth that we’re  only putting water in.

We have hypothesised that the tickled pink plant will grow bigger than the green for growth plant.  We also looked at seeds, we cut open a broad bean seed (it had to be soaked first) to see the embryo inside and the stored food bank that a seed has to make it grow.  Thinking time,

“Does a seed need light to germinate? Why?”

We have ‘planted’ a broad been seed in a glass using damp paper towels as the soil so that we can track the seed germinating, we were excited today to see the TAP ROOT appear and growing!

All of this got us discussing the Global Goal of the week “No Poverty”.  We talked about using charitable donations to help people grow their own food so that they can develop a sustainable way of providing food for themselves and their families.

In maths we have been completing our work on learning about money.  Primary 7 have done credit cards/debit cards. primary 6 were consolidating their understanding of how to apply the four maths processes using money values.  Some of us worked on a problem solving question,

“How many £1 coins in a stack would reach your own height?”

We have also continued using our Numbertalks mental strategies to share different methods of adding, subtracting and multiplying.

In RE we have learned about the Disciples meeting with Jesus on the road to Emmaus, we have taken the quote “Did our hearts not burn within us” to inspire us in our daily life to follow Jesus.

In PE we learned javelin techniques and we ran the track.  It has been lovely to be completing the school mile in the sunshine this week.

I hope you have a great weekend from  primary 7/6

by Danielle  (and Mrs Currie)