I can't quite believe that we have reached the end of another school year already!

Thank you all P6 for your hard work, effort, enthusiasm and energy this year. It was been wonderful teaching you and it has been a lot of fun!

I have made you two word clouds. One is to remind you of all your P6 friends in years to come and the other is reminder of all your favourite memories from P6, which you shared yesterday in class.

Keep working hard, giving of your best and treating everyone with the positivity and kindness you would like to be treated with yourself. You will be great in P7 and I am sure that you will have a fabulous year! I will be feeling emotional seeing you on stage at the CCC this time next year!

To all the parents and carers, thank you so much for all your constant help and support. It really is appreciated.

Have a wonderful holiday wonderful people!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oYTWAY12kZpwgVSn6H-FL8Xkn30_uxPLwrOVQELKGOM/edit

29/06/2022

Congratulations to Mac, Iain, William and Fraser! Their political party won our School Election! I will be passing your fabulous  ideas on to Mrs Kellacher!

We had a great time at the school carnival!

29/06/2022

Well done to Fraser and Callan for earning third place prizes for the fabulous personal projects on golf and France!

Well done to Abigail and Clara for earning second place prizes for their fabulous projects on evacuees and Harry Potter!

Well done to Eilidh for earning first place for her fabulous project on horses!

I loved reading them all!

Celebration Assembly! Congratulations to Sophia! She is our Star Pupil for her fabulous hard work at reading and spelling. Her confidence has blossomed and the improvement is fantastic! Well done Sophia! 

We had fun learning how to play rugby! 

Congratulations to Ollie and Harvey! They are our Stars of the Week!

They are both our Stars of the Week for their fabulous effort and improvement in maths!

Their confidence has blossomed!

Well done to you both! 

We are having a political campaign! We have created our own political parties! We designed party manifestos, stating our priorities for our school and local community. We are campaigning for votes for Election Day! 

10/06/2022

Sports Day was fabulous! We had gorgeous weather for it and we had a lot of fun! Congratulations to all our winners! 

10.06.2022

Congratulations to Clara! She is our Star of the Week for her fabulous debating skills! Her arguments were very well thought out! Well done Clara! 

10.06.2022

Thank you everyone for your fabulous personal projects! We loved reading them! They show great research skills and are full of interesting facts! 

We had a fabulous time celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee! We had an afternoon tea party and guessed which important events had occurred before or during the Queen’s reign! We were surprised to learn how young the internet is! 

Thank you P6 for your lovely messages! You are such a wonderful bunch! My friends and family surprised me with your wonderful video and I just loved it! 

Congratulations to Iain and Connor! They are both Stars of the Week this week!

Connor is our Star of the Week for great concentration during his writing task! Well done for your great writing this week Connor!

Iain is our Star of the Week for his fabulous writing too! His discursive essay was written in depth and he had great real life examples to support his arguments

Well done to both of you! 

Thank you very much to everyone who helped us to support the Highland Hospice by wearing yellow today! We will let you know the amount raised as soon as possible. 

We are very proud of the Digital Dynamo team, who lead assemblies for the whole school to teach everyone about the Safer School App.

Well done Lily, Grace, Mia, Isla, Ava, Mia and Clara! 

We had a go a pointillism this week! It was great fun! 

As part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, we have been learning about Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, which is part of the Commonwealth. We all agree that it’s a beautiful place and we would love to holiday there! 

Congratulations to Callan! He is our Star of the Week for his fabulous consistent maths work! He always challenges himself! Well done Callan!

We are very proud of the detail on our pictures of our MSPs! 

20.05.2022

We had the chance to take part in a Guinness World Record for National Numeracy Day! It was the largest number of live YouTube streams for a numeracy number roll! The record was 1500 and the record was broken by over 5000 live streams! 

We made good luck messages for Caley! They will display them at the football match tonight, so look out for them. I hope you all enjoy the match if you are going! 

13.05.2022

We have been doing artwork based on our local MSPs and Scottish political party leaders. We looked really carefully at shape, symmetry and detail to complete the pictures. Everyone used lots of detail and should be very proud of the great job that they did! 

13.05.2022

Congratulations to Grace! She is Highland Elite Sports Academy’s Junior athlete of the month! Well done Grace! 

13.05.2022

Congratulations to Ava and Matthew! They were both nominated by the pupils of P6 to be our Pupils of the Month!

Ava was nominated for her great maths work, concentration and fast work. She was also nominated for being a great friend, kind, caring and a great buddy! Well done Ava!

Matthew was nominated for his consistent hard work, great maths work and for being a fabulous friend. He was also nominated for being really kind and helpful to others.

Well done Matthew! 

13.05.2022

Congratulation to Ava and the rest of Team Cheer for their fabulous success competing in Aviemore! Well done everyone! 

06/05/2022

The UNIkids pupil group put in an assembly for us to teach us about our rights and how important every single one of us is. It was wonderful being back together in the hall. Well done Lewis for your contribution! 

06/05/2022

Congratulations Cullen! He is our Star of the Week for his fabulous maths work! His mental maths skills are great and he is always really eager to challenge himself and push himself to the next level! Well done! 

06/05/2022

We have been designing our own floor plans for houses and calculating the area of them! We are learning that area is the space inside a shape. 

Please find attached our Curriculum Overview for Term 4.

I can't believe we have reached Term 4 already!

Thank you so much for all your help and support.

Please just ask if you have any questions about our Learning Overview.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15GpDZHfRgh9R7IcBblno114r67GvjI_1VecvwIZp8Vc/edit?usp=sharing

Congratulations to Fraser! He is our Star of the Week for his fabulous caring and helpful attitude. He consistently steps in to help and support others. Well done Fraser! 

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What a fabulous day we had at the Science Skills Academy STEM group. We learned coding skills, measuring skills and developed our numeracy skills as we calculated the perimeter of shapes. 

We had a competition to see how close to our Legoman we could get by programming our robots! 

We drew our own shapes, calculated the perimeter and programmed our robots to travel around the outside of our shapes. 

22.04.2022

Congratulations Isla! Isla is our Star of the Week for her fabulous maths work this week! The effort and hard work she put in was brilliant! Well done Isla! 

For your information, please see the attached letter about a planned trip for 29.04.22.

If you are able to help accompany us, please let me know and thank you very much for your help!

Please just ask if you have any questions.

Thank you very much, as always, for your support. 

Happy holidays! Have a wonderful break everyone!

Looking forward to seeing you all back on the 18th!

01.04.22

We have been creating group presentations on what we have learnt about different aspects of Roman life!

Enjoy! Apologies for the sound quality. Without individual microphones is is tricky to pick up the sound clearly.

We really enjoyed creating our presentations though! All groups used information from a variety of sources and they all acknowledged their sources at the end too. 

Well done everyone!

01.04.22

We had a fabulous time at the Heartstone Project exhibition! Thank you so much to all the pupils involved for their fabulous hard work putting it all together!

A special thank you to Harvey, Eve, Erin, Sophia, Eilidh and Lily! We loved seeing your artwork!

The exhibition made us think about treating everyone fairly, no matter where they come from, what they look like or any other differences that we might have. We are all unique and that’s what makes us special! We are all human and should be treated kindly. 

It was our last week of Bible Alive! We would like to thank the team for all the sessions. They have taught us so much about the Bible! 

01.04.22

Congratulations Ala! She is our Star of the Week for her consistent hard work and effort. She always does more than what is asked of her in her school work! Well done! 

Good afternoon! Apologies for the delay for our premiere of Scottish Opera - The Last Aliens!

There has been a technical problem with the last song of the show, but we are working on fixing it and it should be with you by the end of tomorrow.

The children have brought home with them an information letter about our planned movie on Friday. It is 'Horrible Histories - The Rotten Romans.' As it is a PG we do need to obtain permission in order to show it. I have attached the information letter here, for your information. You can return the form, email me or send me a message on Class Dojos, whichever is easiest for you. If you have any questions about it, please just ask.

Thank you again for your support 

We are working very hard to edit our Scottish Opera performance. We were so proud of all the boys and girls! They listened so well and they put so much energy and enthusiasm into their performance. Thank you so much to Scottish Opera and to our fabulous children for making it such a wonderful day! We will share the video with you next week, once it is ready. Thank you for your patience!

In the meantime, here is a link to videos of us singing our main song: 'Build a Wall!'

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GHEHTm_3abE3vwRn0SMat9RdShXx7sPn/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kJj78hAjvjTtSJCWk8bMLu8a53z32bqK/view?usp=sharing

This week we have been talking about springtime and Mothering Sunday. We drew daffodils, taking care to look carefully at the detail. We used shading for a 3D effect too! 

25.03.22

We took part in a mindfulness colouring session this week. It was very peaceful!

25.03.22

Well done Sophia!

She is our Star Pupil for her fabulous care, effort and detail in her daffodil artwork this week! Her creativity is fabulous too!

Well done Sophia! 

18.03.22

If you have not yet been on our Google Classroom to access our Virtual Open afternoon, I have attached a link to it below.

We would be very grateful if you would leave us a comment to let us know that you have seen it!

Thank you!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZEuuyyfdGSjco6dpYhCPkW8HYaKGztB-ZpaFld0F2Rc/edit?usp=sharing

18.03.22

We had great fun today designing our own Red Nose characters for our Red Nose Day school competition!

Congratulations to Erin, who was our overall class winner!

Well done to Caitlin, Jack, Ollie, Mia who were very close runners up! 

Thank you you all for your generous donations for Comic Relief!

So far we have raised £287.91! 

We have been practising origami by making Cranes for Peace! We heard about the story of Sadako, a little girl from Hiroshima in Japan. She was injured when Hiroshima was bombed at the end of the Work War II. In Japan, there is a legend that if you make 1000 origami cranes then you get a wish. Sadako made approximately 1600 origami cranes while she was in hospital in order to wish for World Peace.

We haven’t made a thousand, but we have done very well! They are tricky to make!

We have made ours in the colours of yellow and blue; the colours of the Ukrainian flag. 

18.03.22

Aimee is our Star of the Week!

Aimee is our Star of the Week because for her fabulous motivation in maths. She has put in lots of hard work and effort and she is challenging herself to practise the trickier options! Well done Aimee!

11.03.22

We had brilliant fun building our own Roman aqueducts this week! We had to create a slope so that gravity would help the water flow through them. 

11.03.22

This week, the whole of P6 are stars!

It has been a week of sudden change, but they have shown fabulous resilience through it all! Well done everyone! 

04.04.2022

Please click on the following link, using a school Google account, to find out what the pupils of Lochardil Primary love about reading and why we all think books are so special! 

Please click on the following link, using a school Google account, to access photographs of our whole school celebration of World Book Day! 

We had a fabulous time celebrating World Book Day! We took part in the Booky and Footy national quiz! The questions were about books and football and the questions were read out by professional footballers. It was great fun! We had a book scavanger hunt too. We took part in paired reading and shared recommendations about authors, genre and topics of book that we enjoy.

Thank you to everyone who dressed up! The outfits were fabulous! 

04.03.2022

Congratulations to Eilidh! She is our Star Pupil for her fabulous hard work and effort, particularly in maths and reading. Her consistent concentration and hard work is making a difference and the improvement is lovely to see! Well done Eilidh! 

25.02.22

We have been talking about what mental health means to us this week. We have been listening to music and getting creative with drawings. 

25.02.22

Congratulations Eve! She is our Star of the Week! She is our Star of the week for her fabulous perseverance! She always works hard and puts brilliant effort into her tasks. Well done Eve! 

We had great fun making working Roman chariots! We are using a wheel and axle to reduce friction and make our chariots move faster! 

11/02/2022

Wednesday was Safer Internet Day! We looked at the impact our words can have when communicating with others online. We learned about the power of positive words by sharing positive words about each other in class! 

We are really proud of the positive words that were shared about us! 

11/02/2022

We have been thinking about the people who support us and encourage us for Mental Health Week! 

11/02/2022

Having fun learning about the story of David with Bible Alive! 

11/02/2022

Congratulations to Lewis and Jack! They are both our Stars of the Week!

Lewis is our Star of the Week for his fabulous Health and Well bring artwork!

Jack is our Star of the Week for his fabulous enthusiasm for learning!

Well done to you both!

We were learning about the story of Moses this week in Bible Alive! 

We are very proud of our completed Roman army helmets made of paper mache! We have also been learning about different army formations and we had great fun practising them too! 

Abigail is our Star if the Week! She is our star for her consistent hard work, great effort and concentration! She is really conscientious and always tries her best! Well done Abigail! 

28.01.22

We have had great fun making Roman soldier helmets using paper mache! It was very messy but brilliant! We can’t wait to see how they turn out once they are dry! 

28.01.22

Well done Matthew! He is our Star Pupil for fabulous work on time this week! He completed time durations and calculations involving speed, distance and time brilliantly! He always works really hard and concentrates really well! 

We had fun reciting some poems by Robert Burns! We had fun reciting some poems by Robert Burns! 

Please find below our Curricular Overview for Term 3

14.01.22

Welcome back everyone!

We have had a fantastic start to the New Year! It has been so lovely to see everyone back and share all of our holiday news!

Bikeability

Bikeability started on Thursday! It will be running for 6 weeks and we really enjoyed taking part in our first session! 

New Year Colosseum artwork!

We are learning about the Romans this term! We created artwork of the famous Roman Colosseum in Rome celebrating the New Year using pencils and pastels!

Congratulations Ollie!

He is our Star of the Week!

He is our Star of the Week for his fabulous concentration and focus! The detail contained in his Roman dinner party menu was fabulous too!

22.12.21

Here is the link to our school Christmas jumper fashion show!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ix-Qp6vr_lTCcP67zYPa0_I3OYU-Moeoe5bLZ8Eo60o/edit?usp=sharing

22/12/21

Merry Christmas from all of us P6! We had great fun decorating our Christmas jumper for our school fashion show today!

We also made snowmen tessellation pictures! 

20.12.21

Just a reminder:

If you have not already returned them, please can we have all Elf and Bike ability permission forms returned to school tomorrow.

Please can we also have our KAT Writing Learning pathways returned to school too, if they have not already been returned. 

Thank you!

17/12/21

We had a great Christmas party!

We played lots of games, danced Scottish country dances and ate lots of yummy treats!

17/12/21

Ava attended the 'Winter Weekender' in Blackpool and earned first place for her dances three times!

Well done Ava! We are every proud of you!

17/12/21

We have been looking at the power of wind and water as sources of renewable energy. We experimented with paint effects to create the movement of the wind and the water!

Here are examples of our artwork inspired by the power of  wind and water!

Well done Erin!

Erin is out Star of the Week for her fabulous artwork!

Her artwork was very carefully done. It was full of detail ad she managed to capture the movement of the waves brilliantly! Well done Erin!

Our Virtual Open Morning!

P6 are very proud and excited to present to you:

Merry Christmas Everyone!

We had great fun making it! Signing to music really helped us to remember the BSL signs too!

We would be very grateful for any comments too! We would love to know that you have seen it at home!

Thank you very much!

From Primary 6 and Miss MacArthur 

Our Christmas party will be on Tuesday morning! The children are very welcome to come to school in their festive/party clothes! The children are very welcome to bring in any snacks/treats that they would like for the party. Please be mindful of those with nut allergies. We respectfully ask that all snacks brought into school are nut free. There will also be juice, crisps and packets of sweets for all the children too. Thank you very much! 

10.12.21

We have been learning how to test water samples! We tested the water samples from our classroom tap and from the river to test for differences in the following areas:

Hardness of the water

Chlorine levels

Cyanuric acid

Total alkalinity

PH levels.

We also did a bacteria test for E Coli and Coliform!

0.12.21

We really enjoyed our Christmas lunch!

10.12.21

Well done Mia!

She is our Star of the Week for the fabulous care and effort she has put into her written work! Well done Mia!

We have been learning about renewable energy! We have learning about more environmentally friendly ways of powering vehicles. We have been imagining what transport of the future will be like and we have been designing our vehicles, powered in a more environmentally friendly way! 

03.12.21

Well done Grace! Grace is our Star of the Week for her fabulous work on fractions this week! Well done Grace!

26.11.21

We have been exploring insoluble and soluble materials! We learned that sugar and salt are soluble. We tried a variety of herbs, spices and oil and we discovered that they are insoluble!

Icing sugar and flour would turn the water cloudy. They did not dissolve as you added more flour and icing sugar to the water. They turned into a paste. 

26.11.21

We were practising balances for our gymnastic routines this week! 

26.11.21

Congratulations Mia!! She is our Star of the Week for her fabulous gymnastics routine with brilliant smooth transitions! Well done Mia! 

Blythswood Shoebox Appeal

There is still time to donate gifts or filled shoeboxes for this years Blythswood Shoebox Appeal.

Primary 6 would be very grateful for any donations by Monday 8th November.

Please find attached the checklist and a presentation made by P6!

If you are unable to print out the checklist, please just let us know. We will give you a printed copy.

https://blythswood.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Shoebox-Checklist-2021.pdf

Thank you for helping to make this Christmas special for those in need.

Congratulations to William!

He is our 'Star of the Week' this week for his personal writing! His concentration, careful handwriting and great use of descriptive language was brilliant!
Well done William!

Cauliflower Christmas Cards

Just a reminder that, if you wish to order a Cauliflower Christmas card, the completed design needs to be returned to school by Friday 29th October. Please complete any online orders before handing the design in.

Thank you!

Blythswood Shoebox Appeal 2021!

The Blythswood Shoebox Appeal is back! 

We would be very grateful for any gift donations or filled shoeboxes to help make this Christmas extra special for those in need. The checklist for items to include can be found by clicking on the following link:

https://blythswood.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Shoebox-Checklist-2021.pdf

Please can we have all donations and filled shoeboxes handed into school by Monday November 8th

• Please ensure that your shoebox and lid are wrapped separately and secured with a rubber band. 

• Please print out the checklist and attach it to the box lid securely  with sellotape. If you have any problems printing out the checklist, please just let us know and we can give you one.

For more information, please visit 

https://blythswood.org/shoeboxappeal/

Thank you for making this Christmas a very extra special one!

8th October

Congratulations Mac! He is our Star Pupil for his concentration and focus in maths this week! Well done Mac! 

If you have not yet accessed our virtual open morning, please do! Please let us know that you have seen it and leave us feedback!

You can access it using your child’s Google account. Thank you!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kADVpdFBoVRO-gRYOhv8DKYWTOh_MaoFZ744bxMvnbY/edit 

6th October

Congratulations Erin! She was our ‘Bike to School Week’ poster competition winner! Well done Erin! Your artwork is fabulous! 

1st October

Aimee brought in some fabulous activities from home to help us learn about the flow of electricity! We did experiments to see which materials were conductors and which materials are isolators! 

1st October

We had great fun building our own electrical circuits! We tried some virtual electrical circuit games too! They were great fun! We learned that, for electricity to flow, the electrical circuit cannot be broken. We had to be very careful that our circuit was connected to the metal wire and not connected to the protective plastic cover next to it! We learned that plastic is an isolator. We learned that the switch works like a drawbridge! When the switch is on, it will connect the circuit to let the electricity flow through. 

1st October

Congratulations to Lily! She was out Star of the Week! She was our Star of the Week because of her fabulous focus, concentration and hard work in maths! Great work Lily! 

24th September

We have been undertaking scientific experiments! We wanted to see what the effect of adding more vinegar to our experiment had on the effect on the amount of carbon dioxide being produced. We learned about improving the reliability of our experiments too! Before we record our results we are going to repeat our experiment, to improve the reliability of our experiment. 

24th September

We have been creating Climate Change artwork! We are really proud of the result! Everyone took a lot of time, care and effort into them! Well done everyone! 

24th September

Congratulations Cameron! He is our Star of the Week this week! I was so impressed by the effort he put into making sure that his work was the best it could be. His perseverance was great and he didn’t give up until he was happy that it really was the best that he could do! Well done Cameron! 

27 September

We have being doing climate change experiments in class. We added bicarbonate of soda to vinegar in a jar to produce carbon dioxide. We recorded the temperature to see what happened. We tried it three times and each time the temperature inside of the jar rose by two or three degrees in five minutes. 

27th September

Well done Isla! Isla is our Star of the Week this week for her fabulous effort and concentration during maths lessons! Great work Isla! 

10th September

We have been learning all about the Greenhouse effect and the impact that it is having on our climate and our environment.

10th September 

We have been learning all about the water cycle! We were particularly interested in learning more about waste water and the water treatment process!

10th September

Congratulations to Caitlin! She is our ‘Pupil of the Month!’

Caitlin has worked really hard on both her times tables and her spelling too! Her hard work has really paid off. The improvement has been really impressive and her confidence has blossomed! 

3rd September

We have been learning about emotion words! We have produced Word Art using emotion words related to our classroom. This is what we believe every classroom should make you feel!