Category: Primary 6

It’s been an emotional week in Primary 6! We had our last day working with Miss Smyth and we are all going to miss her very much! We wish her luck and hope to see her very soon! Keep smiling!!

Amera-today we had an assembly for Miss Smyth, it was very sad. Most people were crying including Miss Smyth and the staff.

Emma- This week Miss McCormack made a carousel about International week. My favourite station was tasting different foods. In my opinion the feta cheese and hummus were the best.

Reece-This week has been a very busy week with Miss Smyth leaving. We had to learn songs and do lessons for International week at the same time, it has been quite messy but it was fun! 🙂

Declan-This week in class we were looking on Google Earth and Miss McCormack let people look in on different countries.

Emily- This week we tried different foods because it was international week and we made guacamole.

Nicholas – This week we learned about Malawi in Africa and how St. Margret’s are going to help them.

Rugare-International week was fun; we learned about many places and food from different countries.

Have a look at our completed artwork we started last week.  We know all about hot and cold colours and used them to create vibrant pictures.

Welcome back to everyone.  For a short week it has been a busy one.

We got straight into a new Maths topic this week which focused on function machines.  This will then lead us into algebra and algebraic thinking in the coming two weeks.  Have a go at using the function machine links below to practise.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy-calculation.html

http://www2.smarttutor.com/player/swf/Algebra_Functions_L3_V1_T4a.swf

For our IDL work this week we have been re-engaging with the school Vision statement,

Our vision is to be a vibrant community of faith and learning where together we grow in the image and likeness of Christ.

We discussed how we can strive for this vision in our classroom and next week we will refresh our class charter and our vision will be reflected through it.  We also discussed our future vision that we have for ourselves and everyone created a poster which showcases what each person would like their future pathway to look like.  There were some amazing ideas, Kornelia and Rachel are both interested in becoming ‘youtubers’, Colin would like to become a Marine and Reece is interested in becoming a computer technician.

For PE this term the main focus will be gymnastics, through these lessons we will improve our agility as well as our cooperation skills.  We will also continue to develop our ability to give improvement feedback to one another.  Please make sure you have appropriate indoor footwear for this.  We have also started the long awaited swimming block.  The first lesson today went very well.  I was so impressed with the water confidence of everyone and the behaviour was of the highest standard, well done!

Homework will start again next week, so have a restful weekend and I look forward to our learning this coming term!

Mrs Currie

Happy New Year!

It has been a short but very busy week for Primary 6.  We have been setting new goals for the year and getting back in to our school routine.  This week was Vision and Values week.  We discussed our school values and vision statement.

Our vision is to be a vibrant community of faith and learning where together we learn to grow in the image and likeness of Christ.

We discussed what characteristics would make someone like Christ and why they are important.  We all came up with our own ideas, including: kind, helpful, hard working, respectful, friendly, understanding and fair.

Here are some comments from the pupils about their learning this week:

Kieran – This week is the first week of 2017. We did number talks, where we have to say how we got that answer. We discuss what  strategy we used and find out the most efficient way to complete a calculation. In literacy we wrote about our Christmas holiday.

Emma – This week we decided that we were going to change our school charter to Disney and we painted waves inspired by an American artist, Drew Bophy.

Mia – We learned about hot and cold colours using a colour wheel and we learned about visions and values because it was vision and values week.

Amera – On Wednesday we designed our new class charter. We changed it to Disney characters.

It has been a great first week back and all children were ready to learn.  We have lots of great things happening in Primary 6 this term and I am looking forward to another excellent term.

Miss McCormack

There have been many highlights this week,

Drama – we all really enjoyed the pantomime show “Beauty and The Beast” which visited the school on Wednesday morning.  The acting was great…oh no it wasn’t…oh yes it was!!

Maths – we continued to look at symmetry this week focusing on using diagonal symmetry.  We were able to create patterns using a mirror and dotted paper.  In numeracy we discussed and worked through examples of equivalent fractions.  We formed equivalent fractions by using our multiplication knowledge and the rule of whatever you do to the top you do to the bottom of the fraction.  If you would like further practise try this following link.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/fractions/memory_equivalent1.htm

Literacy – we listened to and read the poem “Twas The Night Before Christmas”.  We worked in our pairs/trios and completed both literal and inferential question in a quiz style.  This was great fun and it was brilliant to see the collaborative thinking going on especially for the question “what does luster mean?”  Here is a link to Literacy Shed where you can listen to this Classic piece of literature.

http://www.literacyshed.com/nightbeforechristmas.html

RE – we worked collaboratively to engage with the bible passage Luke 2 – 1:14.  We then created posters to demonstrate our understanding of the Nativity story.

Have a lovely weekend and holiday,

Mrs Currie

Another fun packed week in Primary 6! On Tuesday we visited Sky Skills Studio.  It was all very exciting.  The pupils worked in small groups to put together a news report.  They all took on different roles: Director, Producer, Reporter, Eye Witness, Experts, Editor. All pupils worked brilliantly in their groups and produced an excellent report highlighting all the learning from our science and technology topic this term. It was excellent to see great team work skills and all pupils getting into role.  I think we have some future TV stars in the class!

Here are some pupil comments about our fun-filled week.

Ben – Today was Christmas jumper day and lots of fun making snowflakes from cut paper.

Rayn – This week we have been doing a lot of Christmas activates we have been doing Christmas cards and other stuff.

Ali – Today we were making snowflakes from paper.

Emma-Today we were making snowflakes out of paper and on wednesday we had a pantomime and had our school dinners the pantomime was Beauty and the Beast and the school dinners were amazing! We also played tig with the PRIMARY 5 we also got golden time because the p7 were still eating their school Christmas dinner it was awesome!

Mia – On Tuesday we went to Sky Academy Skills studios and we made an Awesome news report about Fossil Fuels.

Rugare – We had a house competition and Whithorn won!!

Erwin – We had our amazing Christmas dinner on Wednesday and it was yummy!

Amera – Today we had an assembly and Whithorn won but Miss Smyth and Mrs Purdie had chocolate coins and they handed them out to all off the Whithorn house pupils and at the end Miss Smyth and Mrs Purdie ate them all.

It has been a fantastic term and the children have been working very hard to earn pop-poms in our popcorn challenge! They were counted for the last time today and the pupils smashed their target, reaching a total of 995 pom-poms! As a special treat they will be watching a movie next week with some nice treats!

Have a great weekend!

This week we have completed our writing and spelling assessments. Our writing assessment focused on imaginative writing with a Christmas or winter setting. Miss McCormack is looking forward to reading them all!

Emma – This week has been amazing! We have learned some Christmas French with Mrs Howley. We also have been converting fractions, decimals and percentages in numeracy.

Jennifer – We are opening our class advent calendar. We have to nominate people who are kind to open it. We nearly have enough pom-poms to have a full day of fun in class, I’m so excited.

Kieran – In numeracy we did sumdog, worksheets, textbooks, CLIC with Miss McCormack and jigsaws and dominos. What a busy week for P6.

Declan – In French we have also been working on a Monster Show!

Have a look at some of our photos from French this week.

It was lovely to see parents at Ninian’s Natter this afternoon.  All jotters went home today for parents who couldn’t make it so please have a look at the work we have been doing and discuss this with your child. Thank you to all those who made lovely cakes, they all looked delicious.

Just a reminder that we have our class visit to Sky Skills Studio on Tuesday. The pupils have been working hard preparing for their visit. Please return any permission forms on Monday.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Christmas has arrived in P7/6 and we have based a lot of learning this week around the Christmas theme.

We started off the week by decorating our classroom door,

Jessica said – “we all decorated a bauble with our names and this was added to the display”.

We also started a wintry landscape picture.  We used Thomas Kinkade’s work to inspire us.  We discussed how to achieved depth in a picture by using darker/deeper/brighter colours in the forefront of the picture and paler/lighter/muted colours for our background.  These will be completed next week.

Our writing this week was based on a Christmas story. We used a “Story Mountain” to help us plan our work.

We watched the advert Mog’s Christmas Calamity” film clip to help inspire us to add good description and action to our work.  When we watched the clip we used the story mountain planning idea to track the action of the film, we discovered that this clip had two mountain peaks.  Have a go and watch the clip to find the two peaks.

http://www.literacyshed.com/mog.html

Maths did not escape the Christmas theme either.  We were working on symmetry and using two lines of symmetry.  One of our tasks was to complete a Christmas cracker design where we were only given one quarter of the picture and using two lines of symmetry we had to complete the cracker.  Great fun and super learning!

Well done P7/6.  Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Currie

Here are our class comments this week:

Aliza – In maths we have been learning about simplifying fractions and how you get it to its simplest form. It was a bit tricky but we got the hang of it!!

Erin R – On Wednesday, as part of our Christmas Crafts teacher carousel, we made Christmas decorations for our Christmas tree and it was fun.

Erin O – On Tuesday Aliza and I went to talk to two maths teachers from St. Margaret’s to tell them all about our learning in maths.

Erwin – On Thursday for writing we were describing winter settings to prepare for the writing assessment next week.

Jennifer – On Monday we learnt about spy quest and it was so exciting and tomorrow there is a signing day at the centre.

Kieran – Adding on to Aliza’s we did a numeracy carousel.  Stations were Sumdog, Number Talks with Miss McCormack, worksheets, 100 square pictures and HAM games. We also did some of work on our topic plus we learned all about our class trip to Sky studios and an overnight stay at Lowport in Linlithgow in April!

Emma – On Monday a famous writer called David Goucher came in and we learnt about his book Spy Quest and today after school we are having a festive fun afternoon it will be really exiting!!!

Rugare – Miss McCormack got a new novel called The Nowhere Emporium, it’s a cool story!

The week all pupils were given letters about our class visit to Sky Skills Studio.  This will take place on Tuesday 13th December. Sky sent over consent forms and photo consent forms so please make sure these are returned to school.
The children were also given some very exciting news about a P6 trip to Lowport centre, Linlithgow! This will be an overnight stay in April.  Some children had a lot of questions about this, if you would like to know anything else just ask.

Miss McCormack

P.S – Our popcorn challenge total is now 680!! – Well Done!

This week we have focused on Science report writing.  We used our investigation about conductors and insulators to write our report.  We learned terms such as hypothesis, apparatus and results.  Hopefully the next time we complete a science investigation we can write the report as we work.

In maths, we have been working with percentages.  We used our number talks strategies to help us work out how much more is needed on a download percentage bar to reach 100%.  This was great fun.  The P6 children also played a game where they had to convert from a decimal number to a percentage to reach the other end of the board.  To help us with all of this learning we used the following site.  Have a go yourself with this site and blog a reply as to how you got on.

http://www.visnos.com/demos/percentage-fraction-decimals-grid

P7 children extended their learning by finding a way of converting a fraction (which did not have 100 as the denominator) into a percentage…great team work was on display.  I would say everyone gave 100% effort to their maths learning this week!

We had two special events this week, St Andrew’s Day and the start of Advent.  Miss Smyth helped us with our learning about St Andrew and we have been listening to traditional Scots vocabulary through the story “The Eejits” which is a retelling of the story “The Twits” by Roald Dahl, Miss Smyth had everyone laughing with her amazing scottish pronunciations!

Everyone is very excited about the countdown now, but we took sometime to think about the true meaning of Christmas and we have started to engage with our Gospel passages about the birth of Christ.  We completed some wordls in our journals to represent all the important words and messages that we can use in our prayers during advent.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie