Category: Primary 6

Learning overview

We have had a busy week in primary 6/7 and have completed lots of assessments.
We were able to show our knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We have to remember our mathematical vocabulary to help us to understand questions. We are continuing to work on calculating sale costs using our knowledge of fractions, decimals and percentages.
We are nearly finished our group novels and will be ready to start new books next term. We will continue to focus on using evidence from the text to support answers and start to analyse the texts further.

Everyone has been working hard in Scottish Dancing and we are prepared for our Christmas parties next week. We also had the opportunity to help the nursery with their dances which was lots of fun!

Primary 7 also had the opportunity to go swimming at St. Margaret’s on Monday. Everyone enjoyed playing games in the pool and especially using the floats!

We celebrated the 2nd week of Advent today with a Mass led by Fr Kenneth. Tho whole class took part in preparing for mass; our readers and IT team were excellent today – well done!

It was great to see so many families at our Cake and Carols event today. Everyone enjoyed singing along with the audience – thank you!

Next Steps

Continue to work on calculating sale prices at home and the next time you are out at the shops. We have also been discussing best value and why some special offers aren’t always that great! Try to find some examples when you are out and about.

It would be great if some families could take part in the family activities for our Rights Respecting School Award. Mrs Conway has been posted these each month and they have been shared on Twitter – have a look and share your responses with us here!!

A reminder that next week is party week!!!

Primary 6 will have their party on Wednesday afternoon and primary 7 will have theirs on Thursday afternoon.

Have a great weekend!!

This week in literacy primary 6/7 we completed our writing assessment. We had three different options for questions to write our exposition about. They were: Should children wear school uniform; Is climate change caused by humans and Should children get outdoor play during school ours? We also focused on Time and Sequence words and using conjunctions.

Message from Miss McCormack

A big thank you to all the pupils who came to help at the Christmas Fair! Everyone was very impressed with your hard work and your amazing attitude! Well done!

A reminder that primary 7 will be going swimming at St. Margaret’s on Monday morning, leaving at 9am. Please remember swimming kit! This is to replace the session we missed during out transition visit.

Class News

This week we have been celebrating Catholic Education week. We have focused on the Gospel Values and the importance of being kind. This tied in very well with our learning about small acts of kindness last week and also with what we have been working on during our Pope Francis Faith Award sessions. We have discussed how our School Values reflect the Gospel Values and what we can do to ensure we are always being as kind as possible.

We have also been reminded about the importance of Road Safety for Road Safety Week. Our newly appointed Junior Road Safety Officers delivered a very informative assembly to the whole school. Well done Ola and Orla! We are looking forward to finding out who has won the competitions!

In literacy we have started a new writing genre – exposition. Can you remember all the sections of the next? 
Four our first exposition we were writing about children having protected time to play during school hours. This has caused much debate in our class and also ties in with our new ‘play’ area in the upper area.
Family Discussion Point – Should children have additional time to play during school hours? Let us know your views as a family in the comments. 

Pupil Voice:

We enjoyed the last week of Rugby because we did a big tournament. We have really enjoyed our rugby block! (Mark, Evie and Adrin)

In bike ability this week we went on the road. We had to follow all the traffic rules and use our hand signals. It was very important to listen to the teacher at all times to keep ourselves safe. (Robbie and Levente)

We enjoyed creating our ideas for the mural competition in art this week. We also enjoyed creating our Beatitudes posters for our kindness display. (Louise and Ailie)

There has been a lot happening this week in primary 6/7.

We started Art with Mrs Conway and we all created a silhouette for remembrance day. We have also been continuing with drama box and everyone has been having lots of fun creating our class characters.

In numeracy we have been focusing on multiplication this week and have been trying different methods to see what one we like best. Continue working on this at home to increase your confidence! Challenge your parents – how many methods do they know?

We all became film critics this week. After watching The Grinch we wrote a review, including our personal opinion as well as facts about the film.

We have completed the Gift of Wisdom for the Pope Francis Faith Award – please check that this is all completed at home, ready for the next gift next week.

Pupil Voice:

Primary 6 pupils – Skills we have used this week.

Creativity – We used our creative skills in Art with Mrs Conway.

Responsibility – We had to be very responsible when walking to the cinema this week. We also represented our school very well.

Primary 7 pupils – Out first transition visit

“The best part was lighting the Bunsen burner.” Jan, Joshua, Joseph

“I liked how you could change how hot the flame on the Bunsen burner was” Aidan

“In science we monitored the temperature of boiling water for 10 minutes to find out what was the best insulator; bubble wrap, felt or cotton wool” Mark, Sean, Evie

“Science was really, really cool. We liked lighting the flame. We are looking forward to going back for swimming” Ailie, Shannon, Louise.

Learning in Literacy
Jan, Joshua, Ola, Oliwier, Hudu and Emma
In writing this week we were working on procedure. We all wrote a procedure about How to Programme Marty the Robot. Some people included how to add different commands.
We focused on using imperative verbs to help with our writing.
Kensuke’s Kingdom group continued to read and had to look up all the places Michael visited and mark them on our maps.
Skellig group discussed some questions and worked on improving our written answers.

Learning in Numeracy
Evie, Aidan, Adrin, Zuzanna, Aaron
During Numeracy this week we worked on standard addition and subtraction. Primary 7 have also all completed their SNSA tests. We also had time to play some maths board and card games this week.

Learning Across the Curriculum 
Shannon, Kacper, Louise, Levente, Sean, Ethan
We celebrated 2 masses this week. At today’s mass for All Saints day we learned about what “canon” meant. On Tuesday’s Mass the primary 6 pupils were enrolled for the Pope Francis Faith Award.
Primary 6 also started Bike Ability, becoming more comfortable on their bikes.  In rugby we focused on kicking the ball after scoring a try. We got to use Marty again this week and made up shows. We made backgrounds and props and filmed these.

Skills for Learning, Life and Work
Kasia, Robbie, Ailie, Mark
This week we used technology skills, communication, teamwork and imagination.
We used all of these skills in our group project working on Marty. We were able to programme him to do things and we all discussed our ideas and listened to each other. Some people were asked to nominate a classmate who showed excellent teamwork and they received a wristband.

Please see below photos for Maths and Numeracy questions that can be tried at home. There is a 1st and 2nd level calendar.

Learning Across the Curriculum
Evie, Adrin, Aidan, Zuzanna and Aaron.

This week we have been working with Marty the robot, we had to use a computer to navigate/programme him to do what we want. Some of the options we had to choose from were Kick, Walk Forward, Wiggle, Circle Dance and Walk Backwards. There is a video of Marty on our class Twitter.

During P.E we split up into different groups of our choice, Indoor Fitness or Outdoor Rugby. In rugby we did passing work and contact games, and in fitness we did Agility, Endurance and Strength.

Learning in Literacy
Louise, Kacper, Shannon, Ethan, Levente

This week in reading primary 7 have been reading Skellig ,its about a boy who moved house but stayed at the same school but found a strange creature in the garage. We had to answer challenging questions using our higher order thinking skills. Primary 6 have been reading Kensuke’s Kingdom and learning about sailing around the world! It sounds like a big adventure and we can’t wait to read the next chapter of our book.

In writing this week we worked in groups to create Halloween poems. We had to think of our own rhyming scheme and use lots of figurative language that we have been working on. When we finished we typed up our poems and we also recorded them and added sound effects.

Learning in Numeracy
Ailie, Kasia, Mark, Joseph, Hasan, Robbie

Skills for Learning, Life and Work
Ola, Jan, Emma, Oliwier, Joshua, Huda

This week was Maths Week Scotland and we’ve tried lots of fun maths activities.
We made angles and shapes using our bodies in PE, we measured angles on the desk (and wrote our answers on the desk!) and primary 6 used compasses to plan routes in the playground!

Pupil Voice:

Aaron: I enjoyed writing although I had a bit of a temper tantrum

Ethan: I enjoyed doing writing assessment.

Joshua: I enjoyed the trip to the risk factory it was intriguing and fun at the same time it was probably my favorite trip.

Louise:I enjoyed going to the risk factory and being the driver of the bus.

Shannon: I enjoyed going to the Risk Factory and learn about different risks.

Hasan: I enjoyed the maths activity because I got to learn new things it was hard but eventually I got the answer.

Emma- I enjoyed the girls active sports day.

Zuzanna-I enjoyed PE with Miss Ford.

Levente: I enjoyed doing Fibonacci in maths this week because it was very fun to do.

Mark: i enjoyed P.E with miss ford

Joseph: I enjoyed doing maths with Mrs Mcdonald

Kasia- I enjoyed writing.

Ailie: I enjoyed the risk factory

Jan:This week i really enjoyed going to the risk factory it was very FUN.

Huda: this week p6 girls went to James young high school to teach girls to get active and I enjoyed dodge ball.

Adrin: This week we went to the risk factory (my house burned down)

Sean: I enjoyed the writing assessment

Oliwier: I really enjoyed the Risk Factory because we had to escape a room for a test and I also liked the part when you phone 999. It was so FUN!!!  XD

Robbie: I enjoyed doing maths outside with all the primary 6s, we even exercised!

Kacper: i really enjoyed starting the posters about science and also for the reading and talking assessment.

Primary 6/7 have had a busy week of learning.

We have all started new class novels and have made predictions about them. We focused on using Higher Order Thinking Skills when writing answers to show our understanding of a text. We also started our spelling groups and all have our lists in our homework jotters.

In Maths we have continued working with shape, looking and regular and irregular 2D shapes. We then completed a challenge to make shapes using equilateral triangles.
In Numeracy we have been using concrete material to represent decimal fractions.

House captains have been involved in learning walks and focus groups this week – they all did an excellent job! A big thank you to the 6 pupils who represented our class .

Pupil Voice:

Jan: I really enjoyed doing the huge rugby match in P.E against the P7

Ethan : I enjoyed the rugby match

Aidan : I really enjoyed rugby  and maths.

Joshua : I enjoyed making shapes out of triangles, it really got my brain working.

Kacper:I really enjoyed making shapes out of triangles(it was a mayhem in the class)

Hasan: I really enjoyed science because I got to learn new things.

Emma- we finished Wonder and we all really enjoyed it and we  did a worksheet about the most important character

Ola: I enjoyed getting and doing questions about are new book and I really like the book.

Zuzanna: I enjoyed PE because we done one big game with the p7 class.

Oliwier: I enjoyed playing rugby because it was P7 vs P6/7 and also we gave them extra time for PE so that was very kind of us  XD.

Sean: I enjoyed playing against the p7

Mark: I enjoyed playing rugby against primary seven

Kasia-I really enjoyed writing narrative story

Aaron-I enjoyed everything

Joseph – I enjoyed maths and making shapes with triangles

Adrin-I enjoyed making shapes out of triangles.

Evie- This week I enjoyed learning about decimal fractions.

Huda in p6\7 we got new books

Louise~I enjoed painting for fun 31

Shannon~ I enjoyed maths when we made shapes out of triangles.

This Week in Primary 6/7…

P.E:  In P.E we have been doing rugby
This week we did little matches and drills.

Writing: in writing this week we were writing “I am from” poems. Inspired by the poem Where I’m from by George Ella Lyon.
We focused on emotive language and thought about our favourite memories to include in our poems.

In literacy we have been improving our figurative language and have continue reading Wonder.

Music: In music we were doing our own original piece of music In our groups using different instruments to do this task.

Today we are celebrating Saint Ninian by having a Mass with the whole school.

Pupil Voice:

Kacper: I enjoyed doing The figuritive language posters.

Oliwier : I enjoyed The mini rugby games.

Adrin: music was very fun and i really like The new teacher.

Sean: I enjoyed The poem writing it was very exhilarating

Ethan I enjoyed  music  this week

Aaron: I enjoyed writng and never expected I’d do so good.

Kasia-I enjoyed wonder the august part six.

Huda-I enjoyed improving my  language.

Emma- I enjoyed when we did a poems writing.

Hasan-I enjoyed rugby and learned new things.

Joshua- I enjoyed listening to film music and guessing the instruments and what film it was from. J

Joseph: I enjoyed hymn practice J

Robbie: I enjoyed meet the family.

Mark: I enjoyed music

Aidan : I enjoyed doing rugby and music :/

Miss McCormack:
Thank you to the families who came along to our meet the family evening, it was great to see you all.
Enjoy the long weekend!!