Wow! I cannot believe how quickly the school year has passed. I am going to miss you all so much. Thank you for all the fabulous memories, the laughs, all of your hard work and effort and for all the fun. You have all been amazing. 

I hope that you all have a brilliant holiday and I wish you all the best for Primary 7. I know that you are going to make brilliant P7s and buddies next year. Enjoy every moment of your final year in Lochardil

Lots of love,

From Mrs McQuigg

Thank you Paige, Layla and Eliza for representing P6B at this years Lochardil's Got Talent! Your fabulous gymnastics display was amazing. 

Congratulation Kayleigh! Kayleigh won the Joanna Wilson award for Creativity! Well done Kayleigh! We are very proud of you.

Congratulations Leah! She is our Star Pupil  for her improvement in maths. Her attitude, hard work and effort is fantastic. Well done Leah. We are very proud of you!

Oliver Stewart visited us to tell us about what it is like being a professional racing driver and how he achieved it. Tom took his Go Kart in too and told us all about it.

Congratulations to our new House Captains and Vice Captains! We are very proud of you all and we know you will do an amazing job. 

What an amazing time we had in Edinburgh! The Scottish Parliament and Dynami Earth were fabulous! Our highlights were the Planitarium and the 4D show. 

Congratulations Nathan! He is our Star of the Week for the fabulous kindness and respect he shows to everyone, consistently listening really well and always being kind and considerate, Well done Nathan! We are very proud of you.

We had a fabulous day raising money for Soccer Aid, with the help of Caley Thistle and fabulous pupil helpers from Lochardil. We had a great day!

Congratulations Niamh! 

Niamh is our Star of the Week this week for her fabulous discursive writing. She added depth to her writing with fabulous research and facts! Great job Niamh! We are very proud of you and your fabulous writing!   09/06/23

Letters about our plans for P6 S.H.A.R.E have gone home today. Please read the information and get in touch if you have any questions about it. I can forward the resources we will be using too, should you wish to see them.

Sports Day 2023!

We had a fabulous day and the weather was just perfect! The sky was blue, but there was a lovely breeze to keep us cool too.

Well done to every single child who took part. We are super proud of you all! Thank you to all the adults who came along to help, support and encourage us all too. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

Huge congratulations to all of our winners!!

Wow! What a fabulous day we all had with Scottish Opera!

The children worked so hard to learn all the words and actions to perform with Scottish Opera yesterday and we are so, so proud of them all.

Not only did they have the confidence to perform in front of a large audience twice, which is not easy to do, they all performed with fabulous energy and enthusiasm too! The show was amazing! We have some future stars in our midst!

All of you wonderful lot are my Stars of the Week. I am so proud of every one of you!

Well done to you all! 06/02/23

A huge thank you to everyone who cam to join us for our Open Morning on Wednesday. The children  created School Political Parties and were fighting for your votes to see who would win our mock election!

All of our School Parties created fabulous manifestoes, with ideas that we would be delighted to implement ourselves in school. You impressed us all with your fabulous IT skills! You all considered carefully how you could protect the Rights of The Child and support the Global Goals too.  No matter what the results are, we think that you are all winners! Well done to all of you! 02/06/23

We were delighted to be visited by players of Caley Thistle Football Club, ahead of their Scottish Cup final against Celtic on Saturday.  02/06/23

Well done John Hector! He is our Star of the Week for his fabulous persuasive writing. I loved reading his arguments for why aliens are real. You are fabulously knowledgeable on the subject John Hector! Well done! We are very proud of you. 26.03.23

Congratulations to our netball team, netball volunteers and Mrs Prentice, who are taking part in a four hour netball game to fundraise for Mrs Prentice's African school's project. 26/05/23

Congratulations to Ioan! He is our Star of the Week this week for his fabulous work on perimeter and area.

We are very proud of you! Well done Ioan! 19/05/23

 P6A and P6B have been workign together to create School Political Parties. We have created our own Party Logos and manifestos. We have been making decisions as the changes we woudl make in school to make improvements, linking them to the Global Goals and Rights of the Child

Well done Nicholas! He is my star this weel for his fabulous long jump and high jump skills. Well done Nicholas! You are a great athlete! 05/05/23

Coronation School Picnic! 

Coronation tea party! We have been learning about the life of King Charles III 05/05/23

We have been practising the long jump for athletics in P6B. We were practising falling forward too, which was tricky!

Well done to Nicholas and Paige, our pupils who jumped the furthest!  05/05/23

All of P6B are my  Stars of the Week this week for completing their Bikeability training! Well done to all of you! 28/05/23

We have completed our Bikeability training! We had a great last session. We learned how to maintain and clean our bikes and some of us were confident enough to try a unicycle! Well done p6B!

Please find attached a link to our Curriculum Overview for Term 4. Please let me know if you have any questions about our plans and aims for this term.

Many thanks,

Mrs McQuigg

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zyCVMOJymEIjhvoZ3kI2_zBiVQ0rn35scSpzL2iZI0c/edit?usp=sharing

Please remember and bring your swimming necessities on Monday morning.

We are still looking for help to accompany us on:

15th May

22nd May

29th May

26th June.

If you know anyone who would be able to help and accompany us on any of those dates, please let us know.

Have a lovely weekend everyone! 

We have chosen our new reading books and the weather was so nice it was brilliant to get the chance to read outside in the sunshine. In fact, it was so hot that some of us preferred to stay inside with the air-conditioning on! So far, we are impressed with our new books and excited by how they have all started. 20.04.23

Please remember and bring your swimming necessities on Monday morning.

We are still looking for help to accompany us on:

15th May

22nd May

29th May

26th June.

If you know anyone who would be able to help and accompany us on any of those dates, please let us know.

Have a lovely weekend everyone! 

Congratulations to Antek! He is our Star of the Week this week for his fabulous expression when reading aloud. Great work Antek! 21/04/23

We had beautiful weather for Bikeability this week! 20/04/23

Our first swimming session will take place next Monday 24th April.

Thank you so much to everyone who has offered to accompany us as a parent helper. Letters will be going home soon to parent helpers to confirm dates and times. It is really appreciated and we would be unable to go without your help.

We are still in need of parent helpers to accompany us swimming. In particular, we are in need of 2 parent helpers for Monday 15th May and a parent helper for Monday 19th June. Help on any of the swimming dates would be greatly appreciated though, as this would ease the pressure on those parents who are helping regularly.

If any family members are able to help, then please let us know.

Mrs Richardson and Mrs McQuigg 

What a wonderful day we had at the STEM hub at UHI.

We learned about different jobs related to the Heath Sciences and we had a go at trying some of them out for ourselves.

31/03/23

Well done to Paige and Eliza who represented us at the McRobert cup yesterday. We are every proud of you! It was lovely to see you come back with smiles, even though the weather was dreadful! Thank you to Mrs Cuthbert for oraganising it and all the adults who came along to help too.

Feis Rois

We are really enjoying learning some traditional Scottish Songs with Feis Rois 23/03/23

Bikeability

This week we were practising controlling our bike with one hand and signalling correctly. We were practising cycling with correct posture and turning too.  P6B did really well!

STEM

It is British Science Week! Tim from UHI came to do a robotics workshop on the theme of 'Making Connections.' We learned how to programme our robots and we had great fun exploring all of the different commands!

Congratulations to Ioan!

Ioan is our Star of the week for his fabulous maths work.. His listening and enthusiasm during discussion is fabulous too! Well done Ioan! We are very proud of you.

We made our own red noses for Comic Relief!

Red Nose day fun! Thank you to our House Captains for organising a great day and to everyone who very kindly donated!

Well done Noah! Noah is our Star of the Week for his fabulous maths work this week. Well done for your great concentration and hard work Noah! We are very proud of you! 

 We have been learning about the history of the Terracotta Warriors and we have had a go at building our own Terracotta Army out of clay!

It was our last week of Bible Alive.

We learned about the resurrection, the great commission and the experiences of the disciples after the resurrection.

Thank you to the Bible Alive team! We have learned a lot about Christians believe.

Congratulations Layla! Layla is our Star of the Week for her fabulous enthusiasm and positive attitude. She is very helpful, kind to others and a very good friend. Thank you Layla for always putting a smile on our faces! 17/02/23

We were learning about the disciples of Jesus , some of the miracles that Jesus performed and the parables that Jesus told in this week's Bible Alive.  17/02/23

We are delighted to start Bike ability! This week we learned about looking after our bikes properly and stopping safely.  17/02/23

Congratulations Ioan! He is our Star Pupil for his fabulous maths work, concentration and effort this week. Great work Ioan! Well done! We are very proud of you! 10/02/23

As part of Mental Health Week, P6a and P6b learned about the power of making connections. We had fun strengthening our own connections with each other through teamwork. We have been helping each other to take part in the Jerusalema dance challenge! 10/02/23

Skittles experiment!

We have been learning how to structure a science report correctly. We have also been learning about the process of diffusion.  We did an experiment with skittles to explore what effect heat has on the rate of diffussion and wrote a science report to record our findings. 10/02/23

As part of Safer Internet Day, we took part in a BBC lead live lesson all about keeping ourselves safe online. We were given the 60 second challenge of designing our own Internet Superheroes to protect us! I think they did a great job in just 60 seconds! 10/02/23

We have been exploring the difference between fact and opinion. We have been supporting our answers using evidence from the text and checking that our quotes have been punctuated correctly. 10/02/23

We were joined by Caley Thistle Football Club for Mental Health Week. 

We learned that exercise, making healthy life choices, making connections and speaking up are really important for helping our mental health. 03/02/23

This week in Bible Alive we learned about the story of Daniel in the Lion's Den. We had a go at building the walls of Jericho too!03/02/23

We have been learning to paraphrase information from our reading books and support our answers using evidence from the text. We have been learning how to use quotation marks too. 03/02/23

Congratulations to all P6B!

We competed in Sumdog's Highland  Maths Challenge and P6B achieved 1st place on Thursday and 3rd place overall! Out of the 59 schools in the Highlands that took part, it is a huge achievement and you should all be very proud of yourselves!

You are all my Stars of the Week!

Well done to all of you!!

Congratulations Nathan! Nathan is our Star of the Week this week for his great concentration, hard work and effort. Great work Nathan! Well done! We are very proud of you! 27/01/23

We had great fun at Feis Rois again this week! We learned some songs in Scot's language to celebrate Robbie Burns! 27/12/23

 Today we were very sad to say 'Goodbye,' to Miss Maley.  Miss Maley is a 4th year student from Aberdeen University who spent 6 weeks with us before Christmas and returned to join us for another 3 weeks of this term. She was a pupil at Lochardil herself when she was younger!

We loved having her and we wish her all the best for her final placement and for her future career as a teacher. We know she is going to be a great teacher and we would be delighted to have her back in Lochardil again one day!

Well done Miss Maley! We will miss you!

Please find below the termly overview for P6B.

Please get in touch if you have any questions. My door is always open.

Thank you very much to all of you for your support.

Congratulations Ethan! Ethan is our Star of the Week this week for his fabulous concentration! Particularly in reading, he has impressed us this week with his hard work and effort. Well done Ethan! We are very proud of you! 20/01/23

Happy New Year!

We have been learning about Chinese New Year. 

This year is the year of the rabbit

The energy: Yin

The element: Wood

The season: Spring

We heard a Chinese story about the rabbit and discussed, according to the Chinese Zodiac, what being born in the year of the rabbit might say about you.  We investigated the Chinese Zodiac animals in the year we were born, which were the dragon and the snake. 

We  learned about how the creatures of the Chinese Zodiac found their place, by reading the story of the great race, which was organised by the Jade Emperor. 

We have been developing our mapping skills, mental maps, memory skills, team work and communication skills while learning all about China. In teams, we worked together to recreate a map of China. How do you think we did? 20/01/23

We have been learning stories from the Bible through Bible Alive on Wednesdays 20/01/23

Feis Ross - Liza from Feis Rois will be visiting us on Mondays to teach us some traditional Scottish music and some Gaelic too.  20/01/23

Congratulations Ashton!

Ashton is our Star of the Week this week for his fabulous attitude to learning. He has been working really hard, listening well and giving of his best. Well done Ashton! We are very proud of you!  13/01/23

Steven Brown art

We are massive animal fans in P6B. We learned about the artist Steven Brown, from Kilmarnock and studied his style of art. He loves to use animals as the subjects of his art! We looked at his bold use of colour and his use of blending. We chose our own animals as the subjects of our own Steven Brown inspired artwork. 13/01/23

Congratulations to Paige, Layla and Nathan M, who were the winners of our Charity project competition. It was so hard to choose a winner, as everyone had worked so hard. I loved reading every single one of them. In the end, they won because of the impressive amount of detail, research and information in their projects. They were all fabulously presented too. Well done!

The rainbow is often used as a symbol of hope, peace and of new beginnings. We have included a rainbow along with an animal of our choosing in our calendars for 2023. We learned about ordering the colours of a rainbow and concentrated really hard on the detail of our drawings. We had to use use our eyes a lot to check that our detail was correct. We also used shading to highlight areas of light and dark to make our animals more realistic. We love the contrast created by grey and colour. Everyone did a brilliant job! Well done! 

We have been sharing the rest of our charity projects with the class. Well done everyone. Your charities were well thought out, with a name a fabulous logo. You all thought about the resources you would need, including staffing and accommodation. You all created vision statements along with reasons why the work of your charity is important. Great work everyone!

We are so proud of our P6a and P6b pupils!

 Today, they performed Christmas carols and Christmas songs at Eastgate Shopping Centre to raise money for charity. In total, they raised over £145 for the Highland Hospice and MFR Cash for Kids. 

Well done to you all. You were all fabulous.

Thank you so much to everyone who came to support us and for all the kind donations. It is really appreciated.

P6B have been creating their own charities and presenting them to the class. Here, they are describing their vision and aims for their charities, what resources their charities will need and where they hope to get their money from. Great work everyone!

Fun in the snow!

Congratulations Leah and Alex! They are our Stars of the Week for their fabulous attitude to learning, their determination to never give up and their brilliant listening skills. Well done to you both. We are every proud of you!

We have had a great time learning some Scottish country dances for our Christmas party on Monday. We have learned Strip the Willow, Dashing White Sargent, Canadian Barn Dance and Military Two Step. We laughed a lot and we are really looking forward to our party on Monday!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our Open Morning. It was wonderful to see you all and we were delighted to share with you some of the literacy learning tasks we engage with at school. We hope that you enjoyed it too!

Congratulations Cameron! He is our Star of the Week! We are super impressed by his consistent concentration, hard work and effort. You always give of your best Cameron and we are very proud of you. Well done Cameron!

Christmas fun! We welcomed the start of advent by opening our advent calendar and decorating our Christmas tree. We used Santa Hats for those sharing their fabulous writing and some of us even managed to turn our hair into santa hats!

02.12.22

Congratulations Ava!

Ava is our Start of the Week this week for her consistent and fabulous hard work and effort. She has been listening and concentrating really well in class too. Well done Ava! we are very proud of you! 25.11.22

We had a visit from Kirsty from the SSPCA this week. She taught us all about the work of the SSPCA. We learned about the different animals helped by the SSPCA, where their funding comes from and how their money is spent. Kirsty gave us examples of animals helped by the SSPCA. We looked at different scenarios and worked out which animals needed our help and which ones did not, learning about the needs of animals at the same time. Kirsty also told us about how she got her job and the training and skills she needed to get it. Some of us were very excited to learn that 12 year olds  can volunteer to help look after the animals at the SSPCA Rescue Centre. 25.11.22

What a fabulous day we had raising money for Children in Need!

P6B did a fabulous job of organising and running our fundraising stalls. They also supported the nursery children to complete their  Welly Waddle too. They had great fun and developed their leadership and citizenship skills at the same time, Well done! We are very proud of you all!

We raised over £750 and we would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who donated their money, time, effort and fabulous baked treats to make it happen,  17.11.22 

Congratulations Paige!

Paige is our Star this week for her fabulous enthusiasm and attitude to learning. She always puts 100% effort into everything she does and strives to do her best. Well done Paige! We are every proud of you! 25/11/22

Blythswood Shoebox Appeal

Our shoeboxes are ready to go! This week we were visited by Elma MacKay, who works for Blythswood. She told us all about her job and the ways in which Blythswood help others all year round, not just at Christmas. We made 4 boxes in class to send to those in need in Eastern Europe. 11.11.22

Nathan M spoke at assembly this week, along with all the other UNIKID representatives. He told the school that his dream for the future is one in which all children have access to school. Well done Nathan! You spoke very well and we are very proud of you! 11.11.22

Star of the Week!

Congratulations Nicholas! he is our Star of the Week for his fabulous maths work this week and his fabulous work on inferencing during reading lessons too. Nicholas always works hard and gives 100% effort. Well done Nicholas! We are very proud of you! 11.11.2022

We have learning to calculate fractions of amounts this week! Well done for all your hard work everyone! 11.11.22

The Water Cycle

We have been loving learning about the Water Cycle this week! our Water Cycle song has got stuck in our heads and we have been singing it during break and lunchtime too!

11/11/2022

Please find attached the following information letter about our Children in Need fundraiser. 

Just a reminder that Blythswood shoeboxes should all be handed in by Friday 11th November

Thank you very much!

Please find below our Curriculum Overview for Term 2. Please just ask if you have any questions and thank you very much for your help and support.

Star of the Week

Congratulations Nathan! He is our Star of the Week for demonstrating our school values of love and kindness to others. He is always kind and helpful. Well done Nathan! We are very proud of the way you treat others! 04.11.22

Climate Change Artwork

In the run up to COP27, we created artwork using scrap paper to communicate the issues of climate change that are close to our heart. Less pollution and more trees to protect our environment and animals were the recurring themes. On our yellow hand prints we wrote our promises to help the environment. On our white handprints we wrote one thing that we feel guilty about doing, that is not so good for the environment. This was to show that we all leave handprints, good and bad, on the environment.