Category: Primary 6

A short but fun filled week in Primary 6.  The focus this week has been catholic education week. Ask what we have been learning about in class and what our Faith Community means to us.

Pupil Comments:

Rugare- This week was catholic education week we learned a lot about it in RE.

Erin O- this week in P.E we choreographed our own gymnastics routines to eye of the tiger and showed them to the rest of the class.

Neave – This week every class in the school got a gift!!  You are probably wondering what the gift was, well it is a kaleidoscope, a pompom  ball, an emoji pillow, a 40 page colouring book, a light up thing, a red stress ball ,a snake puzzle and a slinky. This has been added to our mindfulness area with our bean bag and growth mindset posters.

Erin r –all the toys were delivered by Erin r

Erwin – This week on Thursday we have been writing about our 40^th anniversary as a newspaper article and on Friday I have got chosen to be the prefect for the infants. AWESOME.

Amera- This week all the classes got a gift!! And our little change box is nearly filled, well done.

Emma-This week we got a basket of different things and we had priest come in to share his photographs from his trip to Israel.

We have turned the big 40 this week!  Our Mass on Wednesday was so special and every member of our class were an absolute credit to the school.  On Thursday we had a Fun Day which was also a huge success especially the afternoon when we split into our houses and had a chance to go to four different activities.  It really has been a special week with a lot of life long memories forged.

The fun doesn’t stop there, next week is our concert.  We have now had our dress rehearsal and it was a huge success.  All the classes have worked hard and Mrs Purdie has put some sneak peek photos on Dojo to give you a small taste as to what is in store!  It is such a hugely beneficial experience to put on a show, we are able to produce so many links to life long skills through this type of event.  In particular we have all been involved in arranging the choreography for the performances and been able to give our opinion on what we should wear.  Performing for an audience helps us to develop our confidence and allows us to challenge ourselves through song and dance to become an effective contributor to our school community.

As well as the school anniversary this week in class we have also been using the link to the theme of our Fun Day, which was Super Heros, to stimulate our learning.  We have used our creative skills and developed our own super hero logo and super power.  We have written about how we could use the super power and then turned this into a comic strip (Marvel eat your heart out!).  Some great results!  Here is photograph of our super hero tops, we have displayed them on a washing line in class, I hope we always remember to put them in a colours wash cycle as they are very bright!

To further develop our critical thinking skills about super heros we watched the video to the song “Titanium” by David Guetta.  We then had a class discussion about what was happening in the video (we paused it after 1minute, discussed what we thought was going on and then watched the remainder of it and discussed it again and realised that a lot of us had changed our minds as to what we thought was happening).  Have a watch and if any parents want to stop it after a minute they can reply what their initial thinking is and then again after having watched it all.

http://www.literacyshed.com/the-music-video-shed.html

Have a lovely weekend and I can’t wait for the performances next week, remember to rest your voices!

What another great week in Primary 6.  Here are some of our comments.

Jennifer-Because it was our 40^th anniversary we had celebrations. On Wednesday we had a special mass with the Arch Bishop and different people like old head teachers and people from the council. On Thursday we had a practise for the school show then we watched a movie called THE INCREDIBLES. After the movie we did a carousel with our houses: sumdog, quiet zones, art and puzzles.

Aliza- This week has been AMAZING! On Wednesday we had our schools 40^th birthday mass, I’m sure everyone already knows about that! On Thursday we had a fun carousel in the afternoon and we all had some really yummy, homemade birthday cake (made by the amazing Mrs McCabe).  We have also been working VER VERY VERY hard for our school show which hopefully you will all see on Monday or Tuesday!

Emily- this week we had our mass for the 40^th anniversary. We had a lot of guests also our past head teachers came along so did the Arch Bishop.

Neave- This week in P.E we played capture the flag sadly the opposite team  from my team won, we also still have been doing the daily mile and I think it has made me more fit and faster.

Do you see any changes in your child’s fitness and health?

 

Also the  hero  costumes for primary 1-2 were AMAZING !!

Rugare- Our 40^th anniversary has been fun so far, Mrs Purdie decided to celebrate for a whole month!

Emma-This Wednesday we had our school mass for the 40^th anniversary there was a lot of guests and Miss Smyth was there and the Arch Bishop so it was very exciting. Yesterday was a dress down day so we watched the INCREDIBLES!

Ciara-today we had a dress rehearsal for the show.

Kieran- This week in literacy we watched the music video for the song  Titanium by David Guetta FT Sia. It was all about a boy with special powers.  We used this to help us write newspaper articles.

Have a great weekend!

These are some of the highlights the children have commented on this week,

Kornelia + Rachel – We are practising hard for our school show.  It is starting to really come together now.  Our class are focusing on two decades.  The P7s are working on the decade 1970 and the the P6s are focusing on the decade 1980.   There has already been a Dojo message sent out regarding costumes required and a paper copy for those not on Dojo.  Just as a reminder P7 require; for Rocky, shorts and t-shirt and a house coat, for ABBA, black t-shirt and black trousers/leggings and a thin/chiffon scarf.  P6 require; for Ghostbusters a black t-shirt and black trousers/leggings, for Fame, a brightly coloured top, shorts or leggings and leg warmers if possible.  Other parts of the costumes are already in school…

…if you have your own 1970 inspired headband please feel free to bring it in,

…if you have your own boxing gloves please feel free to bring them in.

Billie + Freya – On Wednesday we celebrated 25th January, Robert Burns Day, by learning about Robert Burns and some of his famous works.  We also had a recital of “The Lost Dinner Ticket” (written by Margaret Hamilton) from Mrs Currie and then we had a discussion about this piece and analysed the use of traditional Scots vocabulary.

Danielle – In PE Mr McCurdy was focusing on headstands, balances, vault and beam in gymnastics.  We also made use of the dry afternoons and spent sometime playing favourite playground games.

Tristan + Aurora – In Maths we have completed our round up of algebra.  We have now started work on time using Sumdog and the assessment feature.  This allows Mrs Currie to set us questions which we answer through the Sumdog app. and then it let’s us analyse what we understood well and what we need to work on.  This has been great at helping us to set goals for ourselves in our work.

Billie – We have also been practising hard for our Birthday Mass.  We have learned some new hymns and the singing standard is amazing.

Jessica – On Friday at assembly P4/5 we showcasing their learning about “Other World Religions”.  We really enjoyed the work they shared with us.

Oskar – P7 this week have made some memory snapshots of their time at St Ninian’s and these are being put into our time capsule.  Next week as a class we are going to fill in a class memory chart.

Have a lovely weekend.

 

 

Here is what we have to say about our learning in primary 6 this week.

Mia Sokoluk-This week we have been making comic strips in class, mine was about basketball and at the end of mine my team won, it was so much fun making it.

Kieran – This week we were finishing off our holiday advertisement and Scottish poems.  We all put Scots words on the wall they are oot, aye, tae, didne, ye, oan.

Ben- This week we made Scottish comic strips inspired by Oor Wullie and the Broons, we have also been practising for our class shows but if you want to know more about them you’ll have to wait and see.

Nicholas- this week we have been working on our writing creating different country advertisements about any holiday you choose and the price of the holiday. We included our own discounts for economy, business class and first class. We have also learned about the word superlatives.

Emma-This week we have been working on the show and it will be amazing. We worked on a type of poem called Standard Habbie for Burns night and we created are own, mine was about a fox.  Our writing was on a Scottish comic strip and we read some Oor Wullie and the Broons for ideas it was AMAZING!

Aliza- it has been a busy week because we have been rehearsing all week! It has also been quite fun though, we did some Scottish comic strips based on the book, Oor wullie and the Broons. I hope you are all coming to our fantastic show! Trust me it will blow your minds!!

Emily- this week we have done Scottish poems for Robbie Burns day and have also been rehearsing for our school show, I can’t wait for the show.

 

We have been using our classroom door to display our thoughts on the Rights of the Child. Each week we choose one article to focus on and discuss.  This week we were looking at Article 13, the right to find out things and share information.  Take a look at our door the next time you’re in to find out what the rights of the child mean to us.

 

A reminder that outfits for the 40th Anniversary concert should be in school by Wednesday 1st February.
Ghostbusters – black top, black bottoms.
Fame – bright top, black bottoms, leg warmers.

Thank you!

Primary 6 have had another very busy week.

We have started our new maths topic, money.  We discussed what we already know and focused on calculating sale prices. We used our knowledge of percentages and fractions to help us with this.

In literacy this week we have been looking at some Scots Vocabulary to help us write poems.  It was really fun finding out what all the words mean.

Here are some pupil comments about our learning this week:

Nicola – we are practising for our Ghostbuster and Fame song concert.

Emma-So this week we have been practising our songs for the 40th anniversary of St. Ninian’s, as Nicola said (Ghoustbusters and Fame) and I am really excited because I got a solo !!

Kieran – this week in literacy we looked at Scottish poems and put our holiday advertisement on A4 paper.

Amera – This week we did pie charts and how they work with Mrs Kerr.

Erwin – we’ve been singing Ghostbusters and Fame this week, working on our performance for the show.

Our focus in PE this term is gymnastics. Have a look at some of our balance photos!

 

All pupils have been given information about the 40th Anniversary concert. This will also be shared on Dojo.  Pupils will take part in both songs, however will only be required to have a costume for one.  If your child is on stage for Fame they should wear a bright t-shirt and black bottoms (with leg warmers if possible) and Ghostbusters should wear all black. We will make Ghostbuster signs in class to use.

Miss McCormack

Another busy and productive week in P7/6.

We celebrated World Religion Day on Wednesday and through this we researched facts about four different religions.  We worked in small groups and used facts sheets to read for information.  We then produced power points with the information we had gathered.  Every group had a chance to deliver their presentation to the class.  There were some fabulous presentations and everyone in the class showed how well they can use and manipulated power point presentations.

We have had a wide range of experiences in PE this week.  We used our time on Tuesday to focus on our gamesmanship skills.  We participated in traditional playground games (Toilet Tig and Dodge Ball are always favourites) and demonstrated a good level of fairness when applying the rules and we could also develop the rules to suit our environment and skill levels.  On Thursday we had a tennis lesson delivered to us by Mrs Burchill (a parent who is trained as a PE teacher).  This was a great lesson and Mrs Burchill’s love and enthusiasm for the sport was very infectious.

   

On Friday we also had our swimming lesson.  The children continue to impress myself and Mr McCurdy with their ability in the water and already we can see some improvements in stroke technique.  Next week we will move back onto our Gymnastics work and as promised in last week’s blog here are the photos of our brilliant balances.

 

In Maths we have been looking at how to simplify algebraic expressions.  This week’s homework task proved to be a real challenge and asked us to draw on our learning from adding and subtracting negative numbers.  Don’t panic if you found it tricky, Algebra will continue to be our focus next week too.

As part of our show rehearsals this week we have been learning two songs from the era The 70’s.  These are Eye of The Tiger by Survivor, this featured in the film Rocky, and Waterloo performed by ABBA.  Everyone has been given a copy of the lyrics and have been asked to practising these songs at home too.  Please feel free to join in with us at home!

To link with this era we have been learning about main events from the 70’s.  We loved learning about the most successful failed mission to Space by learning about the Apollo 13 mission.  Also in 1971 Walt Disney World opened in Florida.  There’s lots more to learn about this era in the coming weeks.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie

It has been a packed week.

PE – Freya said “this has been a highlight of the week”.  Mr McCurdy worked with our class on cartwheels on Tuesday and we were head over heels pleased with the progress we made.  On Thursday when it was our class teacher PE time we worked on different balances. Photos will be added next week (the i-pad has decided to go on weekend mode early – sorry!)

Maths – Sophia said “we learned about algebra this week”.  Some of the children have continued their work on function machines and others have started to work with equations where a letter represents a missing number.  We have also been working on our skills at telling the time using 12 hour and 24 hour clocks.  Here is a website for some extra practise with this skill.

http://www.skoool.com.eg/english/skoool_bundle/content/primary/maths/24_hour_time/index.html

Literacy – We have focused on our grammar skills this week and linked this to our reading work as we have started using Task Maps again.  In our writing this week we had to finish a story which had already been started.  Jessica said “we had to think of an unpredictable way to end the story!”  The story was called Tom’s Terror and in the starter it explains that Tom sees a shadow in an old deserted school building and decides to investigate!  We discussed the obvious answers such as Zombies or ghost etc but decided to create a much more unique take on the story. There were some great ideas…Jack – It was his surprise birthday party, Oskar and Kornelia – It was a former pupil looking for something he had hidden many years before and Reece – it was the former janitor who wanted to reopen the school.  Great work P7/6

IDL – We learned about Malawi this week and Mrs Currie even tweeted (her first ever tweet!).  This was a link with the International Week theme in the whole school.  check out our tweet to see a photo of our class display we made!

Can’t wait until you see our new INCREDIBLE maths wall next week, something worth logging on for!

Mrs Currie