Category: Primary 6

It has been such a quick first term and we have achieved so much.

Thank you to everyone for preparing and delivering their presentations on a chosen country this week.  Everyone has received feedback on their presentations.  Next term there will be another opportunity to build upon these skills and act on the feedback you were given.

In Maths we have rounded up our work on BODMAS and division by six.  The P7 children really enjoyed the BODMAS song.  Click the link below to hear it.

Our glass maths wall showcases our learning well.  Well done to those who completed the challenge question!

When we return to school after the break we will be have a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) focus for the first week.  I can’t wait, these are my most favourite subjects!

Have a great holiday everyone

Mrs Currie

This week as part of our topic we have been learning about weather systems, and in particular hurricane Matthew.  We have worked hard with Miss Ross and learned about how weather systems such as tornadoes and hurricanes form.  We produced our own tornado in a bottle which was great fun (and very wet!).

We have also had the opportunity to discuss and create our own survival kits and an evacuation plan, which we know people in Florida are having to do right now.

In Maths we have combined our knowledge of working out the area of a right angle triangle and a rectangle and applied this to find the area of a composite shape.  Some of us worked with Mrs Miller and produced metre squares.  Using these we made large shapes/patterns.  To complete this exercise we had to use team work and measuring skills as well as understand about area.  It was great to see the size of a metre square as it helps us visualise real life area.

In writing we began redrafting our letters to President Obama and we hope to post these away before the October holiday.  We have practised the skill of proof reading and editing to help us with the redrafting process.

We are always looking to make links in our learning and activities and even at Golden Time Sophia couldn’t help herself as she tried to recreate the Statue of Liberty!  

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Currie

This week in PE we have developed our tennis skills even further. We learned the rules to play matches and all took turns of being the Umpire, Line Judge and players. This has led to competitive games and has been very enjoyable.

We’ve been doing carousels in Numeracy to enhance our capabilities of adding and subtracting decimals.  We have been finding prices online and adding money to help us improve.

This week in our Teacher Carousel afternoon we worked with all the P6’s and Miss Ford.  We were focused on money. We found out about the differences between Debit and Credit cards and worked on strategies to calculate prices in a sale.  We even made our own Debit cards!

Our topic is AUSTRALIA!!! Which is so far really REALY FUUUUUN! This week we learned about the Aboriginals and their art and storytelling.  We listened to some traditional stories about ‘Dreamtime’ like the rainbow serpent “ hiss hiss.” We then wrote our own stories in a similar style, focusing on a story board of drawings.  We all started working on some Aboriginal artwork.  We chose an Australian animal and copied their style of ‘Dot Art’ by using cotton buds and paints.  The Paintings look great! Also don’t forget the CUDLY KOALAS AND BOXING KANGAROOS! For out Australian animal research we have been working in small groups to focus on one animal.  Each expert group will feedback to the rest of the class to share our learning.

By Ali and Reece.

All pupils have had another fantastic week of learning.  I was very impressed with the Aboriginal stories and art work.  The pupils have shown great improvement in their numeracy, especially with place value when including decimal places.  I am very impressed with the improvement in our speedtables challenge, this really shows how much practising at home really helps! Just a reminder for all children to returen their yellow Pupil Profile folders if not already done so.

Have a great weekend,

Miss McCormack

This week P7/6 had a taster course of golf.  As you can see from these photos it was everyone’s cup of tee.  

We wood have loved it to be series of lessons as everyone was really enjoying learning these new skills.  The children learned how to putt and chip the ball.  Jessica said, “we had to try and chip the ball into the basketball hoop”.  Even I had a go but I was well below par with my shot.  Harburn Golf Club gave out leaflets about further opportunities available to the children during the October Holiday to try and encourage and drive forward this traditional sport.

The P7 children this week attended a local Athletics Festival.  Jack said “we did javelin, running as well as other things.  We did a relay race and our team won!”  Well done P7!

The postman had a busy day at St Ninian’s as he delivered American pen pal letters for everyone in P7/6.  Aaron said “we got a letter from an American kid”, Aurora said “we have learned a lot about the USA and we wrote back to a pen friend”.  The children were given the task of writing a letter back.  The children are noticing the improvement in their letter writing skills due to the series of lessons on this, Oskar received a Dojo acknowledgement message home as a result of his amazing effort this week!  Well done, P7/6 letter writing is an important skill for life!

We have continued to use our Maths Glass Wall in class to support our learning.

This week it focused on helping us with finding the perimeter and area of a rectangle.  If you would like further explanation of these concepts try this video presentation,

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/hs-geo-foundations/hs-geo-area/v/perimeter-and-area-basics

Next week we will be continuing with finding the area of composite shapes and triangles.  P7 will also look at the order of operations using the BODMAS rule (you can reply back if you know what this stands for…you will get an extra dojo point!) and P6 will be learning more strategies for written and mental multiplication.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie

It has been a short but very busy week for Primary 6.

We have been working hard on our Australia topic, looking at some very different places within Australia.  For writing this week we imagined we were on holiday in Australia and writing home about all the great things we were doing.  To help us write great descriptions we used photographs of places in Australia to inform our writing.

We watched two “Visit Australia” adverts and discussed the similarities and differences between them.  We talked about how they made us want to go there by using particular language or images.  We also started to research different Australian animals to create some fact files that we can then share to the rest of the class.

Wednesday was international Peace Day.  We learned how Peace Day first started.  It was the idea of one man who has worked very hard to have the day recognised all over the world.  His work was very inspiring and showed us how much difference one person can really make!  Using our school values for inspiration we came up with “World Values”.  If everyone agreed to World Values similar to St Ninian’s we all agree that the world would be a much more peaceful place.  We also worked on our mindfulness techniques this week, including some breathing exercises and time for meditation after PE.  After our daily mile we also created a human Peace sign with Primary 5. It was quite tricky, but great fun!

Father Kenneth came to visit this week.  It was lovely to see him around the school and for us to show him all our hard work.  We look forward to him coming in again.

We were all very excited to start our new committees this week.  The pupils all came back to class very excited to go to their next committee meeting.  I look forward to finding out what everyone is planning!

Just a reminder to return the yellow pupil profile folders if you have not already done so.

The children were asked to pick the main areas that we should blog about this week.  Here is what they have chosen.

Maths – we have been looking at rounding numbers to 10, 100, 1000 and decimal places.  We used a variety of resources to help us with this and some produced short PowerPoint presentations with voice recordings, of themselves explaining how to round, embedded in their presentation (very technical!) or video recordings showing rounding.  We also launched our Maths Learning Glass Wall , this allows us to record our learning over the course of the week which will then be photographed and stored in our talking book as evidence of our learning and progress.  Everyone loved having a turn to WRITE on the WALL.  Here is our photograph this week to share,

Topic – we have chosen the focus for our country study for the next four weeks…USA.  The children took a vote and the USA came out on top.  As part of our learning wall the children have their Pupil Voice which allows them to help shape what we are learning, this week the question they were asked was “What do you want to learn about the USA?”  There are some super responses and it looks like it is going to be a great topic!

Literacy – As part of our novel study we have been learning about Medieval Times and this has led us to learn about King Arthur, focusing on the story of the Sword In The Stone and how the young boy Arthur became King!  We wrote our newspaper reports about this and we are really pleased with our efforts.  Here are a few of the Headlines or Orientation sentences,

“The Sword Has Spoken!” (Moiz)

“The true King has arrived, pulling the sword from the stone.” (Mark)

“A new King has been throned after pulling out the sword Excalibur at St Paul’s Cathedral” (Darryn)

“The New King” (Aaron)

“Arthur Is Adopted” (Kornelia)

 “Yes, there is a new King, he has pulled the sword from the stone.” (Ross)

Next week the children are on holiday on Monday and Tuesday therefore homework will only consist of reading.  Our writing next week will be a letter to President Obama, telling information we have learned about the White house and asking him some questions about what he will miss about being President.  To prepare for this lesson try to find out one fact about the White House and post a reply.

Next week on Wednesday it is International Day of Peace.  We will be marking this in class with a minute silence at 12 noon.  This silence is marked around the world at 12 noon creating a wave of silence due to the different time zones.

I hope everyone enjoys their long weekend.

Mrs Currie