Pupil of the Week

Christopher has had a fantastic week and is therefore the Primary 6/7 'Pupil of the Week. Well done ! :0)

Story Writing

I enjoy creating texts of my choice and I regularly select subject, purpose, format and resources to suit the needs of my audience.

The class were asked to write a story called, 'If I won the National Lottery'. They had to think what they would buy or do with all that money. We faked a Lottery in the class and Lyle won £13 Million! We also listened to a song called 'If ! had a $1,000,000' for some inspiration. The stories were fantastic.

Please listen to Mete reading his story.

Christmas Treat

On Monday the 21st of December P6/7 will be going to the iMax Cinema in Glasgow to see Santa v the Snowman in 3D. I'm so excited!!

Secret Santa

Dear Parents,

This year in P6/7 we are going to run a ‘Secret Santa’ scheme. Each child has chosen the name of another child in the class at random from a hat to buy a present for. The presents will be put under our class tree and given out on Monday 21st December in class.

Presents should cost a maximum of £3 and should be wrapped with the name of the recipient and ‘from P6/7’
This should be a bit of fun before Christmas and the children are really looking forward to doing it.
Remember to keep the name of the person you are buying for secret!!

The pupils will get a letter home about this next week.

Merry Christmas (in advance)

Mr A ;0)

Mod Roc Athletes

Through observing and recording from my experiences across the curriculum, I can create images and objects which show my awareness and recognition of detail.





Primary 6/7 have been making athletic sculptures out of Mod Roc in art and design, They had to make the basic shape out of wire and then cover it with wire mess to make it 3D and more realistic. After this they used Mod Roc (which is like the plaster you get when you break a bone) to cover the shape. This was very messy, and needless to say, great fun. They completed the sculptures by spray painting them with gold or silver paint.

This project was inspired by the fantastic shapes and moves that the class have been doing in gymnastics.

Can you guess what the figures are doing?

Pupil of the Week

Well done to Marc who has won Pupil of the Week for primary 6/7.

Parents' Night

Parent's Night is on Wednesday the 25th November. I have sent home the appointment times with the pupils. I have emailed them the times also. I look forward to seeing you all next week.

Winning Group

The Land of the Giants group had a great lunch today at the Coffee Shop. Bacon rolls and soup - lovely!

Fractions

I can show the equivalent forms of simple fractions, decimal fractions and percentages and can choose my preferred form when solving a problem, explaining my choice of method.



Today Primary 6/7 continued their work on Fractions. The work was very hard but they are making super progress.

Gymnastics - Session 4

If you read the comments the pupils will tell you what they did today.

Pupil of the Week

Well done to Declan who is the Primary 6/7 Pupil of the Week.




For the second week in a row all the Pupil of the Week awards were won by boys

School Photographer

The School Photographer is coming to school on Monday so please wear your formal school uniform (and boys brush your hair!). The class will be going to gymnastics afterwards so please bring your trip uniform to change into.

Simplifying Fractions

I have investigated how a set of equivalent fractions can be created, understanding the meaning of simplest form...




Today Primary 6/7 continued working on simplifying fractions. We used the interactive whiteboard to help us and then continued with our textbook questions.

Maths - Fractions

Today Primary 6/7 were working on equivalent fractions. We were also looking at how to simplify fractions.

More Gymnastics

This week the class was working on bar work. In order to work the bars well it is important to do lots of stomach strengthening exercises. The class also played a game called 'Stick It' on the trampolines.

Writing Lesson

I enjoy creating texts of my choice and I regularly select subject, purpose, format and resources to suit the needs of my audience.




We had great fun in class today. The class was put into groups of three and they had to pick an object from the magic story box. Whatever object they pulled out had to be included in their story. Eventually every group had three objects. This made the stories very interesting and completely different from any other group.

Olivia

I had a little hat, a wig and a watering can.

Aimee

I had a racing helmet, a cowboy hat and a crown.

Declan

I had a walking stick, a policeman's helmet and a golden horse shoe.

Christopher

I had a purse, elf shoes and a golden lamp.

Pupil of the Week

The Primary 6/7 Pupil of the Week is Finlay.


Boys are the Best!


Every class in the Primary Department had a boy winner of 'Pupil of the Week'. Happy days! :0)

Circuits Tomorrow

Primary 6/7 remember that you are doing circuits tomorrow in PE. You may wish to wear shorts and bring a bottle of water.

Great Maths Websites

I have put some web addresses for some fantastic online maths activities below. Copy and paste these addresses into your search engine and try some of these at home.

Maths dictionary
http://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/index.html

Square numbers
http://www.activemaths.co.uk/whiteboard/2numbers/tri_nos1.html

Fraction wall
http://www.activemaths.co.uk/fractions/whiteboard/frac2_index.html

Estimating angles
http://www.activemaths.co.uk/whiteboard/2shape/angle51.html

Measuring angles
http://www.activemaths.co.uk/whiteboard/2shape/meas_angle1.html

Mod Roc Athletes

In art today Primary 6/7 were making Mod Roc athletes. We had to make a figure out of wire and then cover it with wire mesh to make it 3D. This was very difficult to do. After this we started to cover our figures with Mod Roc. We hope to finish these by the end of the week.

Winning Group

The winning group is __________? I have forgotten the name of the group! Aaaah, but I do know that it is Mete and Lyle's Group. If you are in this group then you are going to the bookshop tomorrow for lunch. Also if you know the name of the group please blog it!! It is either Land of the Giants or the Avengers. Sorry.

Gymnastics - Session 2

Today we concentrated on floor work in Gymnastics. We learned how to do super forward rolls, headstands and handstands.
After this we worked on the trampoline and concentrated on Seat Drops and Swivel Hips. We had a competition to see how many Swivel Hips we could do. Mete won with 7!!!

The pupils should work on improving their 'disc' and 'arch' shapes at home this week as this will help with the bars work that we will be doing next week.