This week has been a busy week in class. The children have settled back in well. We had another visit from Breedon and they were talking to the children about Road Safety. They showed the children their lorry and showed them were the blind spots are. We started Bike Ability this week was brilliant. 

In maths we are working on Measurement. We did some outdoor maths measuring the trees and also worked on conversions. 

In reading we have started a class novel called "The last Bear" which we have been taking in turns to read aloud. We have also completed some learning sheets of this book.

Mr Garden is back and took the children for PE, they are working on their fitness.

We will be starting a Geology of Scotland project and personal projects have been set as homework for the next few weeks.

We completed our blackwell spelling tests this week too.

Star of the week this week is Jadhiel as she has settled into the class well, is polite and conscientious about her work. Well done Jadhiel.

This has been a busy, action packed last week of term 3. On Monday we were  learning about coding with Mrs Johnstone. We used code to programme microbits to make digital name labels and virtual “rock, paper, scissors” games. It was so much fun!

Last week we found out that the Royal Mail have released a new batch of stamps themed around Myths and Legends. We were inspired by this to design our own stamps with mythical creatures that we created. We then wrote character descriptions and used AI to generate a picture of the characters we created. It was really interesting to see just how detailed we needed our descriptions to be.  

We also wrote some Thank You letters to the visitors that came to our class for career week and shared with them what we learned. As an extension to careers week, On Wednesday, we had Lorna Steele come in,  talking about her job role and the Archive center.

In art, with Mrs Johnstone,  we were inspired by the spring to create some cherry blossom artwork using water colours on black paper to create a misty effect… it’s perfect for a windy springtime sky behind twisting cherry blossom branches! With shades of pink and white, the blossoms really pop! Painting with watercolour on black paper felt so magical as the paints and water started to dry, revealing that soft, dreamy look!  Focusing just on the branches was good for creative confidence! Instead of stressing over drawing a whole tree we could focus on the detail and movement of the blossoms. 

 We had a  lovely Easter Assembly at the CCC. With some children from our class performing a song with Glee. It is always so nice to see our whole school together. Thank you to both parents who volunteered to help. 

We have been finishing off all our work this week in time for the holidays, which included - Character descriptions, descriptive writing, Mythical creatures writing, Spellings, Coding work, Art work and our Anti Racism posters! The children went out and did PE with Mrs Faulkner on Wednesday in the beautiful sun!

Our star of the week this week is - Hamish, He has settled in so well and has been very kind and caring to everyone in the class. He has worked really hard and has a positive mindset! Well done Hamish!

After receiving the very sad news about one of our parents this week, the children decided to make a card to send the family our well wishes and love. They wrote such sincere and kind messages . We send our deepest condolences to the family. 

I hope everyone has a lovely Easter Holidays and gets a good rest ready to go into our last term on P6! 

Mrs Cameron & Mrs Johnstone

This week we have worked really hard on our Maths HQAT and also our reading diaries. The children have also been practicing their scottish opera which is sounding and looking fabulous!

We had Bible Alive in again to share the stories of the bible with the children.  Their IDL projects are coming on well and I know they are all looking forward to you all seeing them on the open morning!

In Assembly last week the class stood up and shared their learning on Anti Racism and on their positive mindset work.

Letters were sent home this week for Scottish Opera. 

Please ensure your child has a pair of indoor shoes as it's very muddy outside at the moment.

Star of the week this week is :  Georgina for her excellent effort in class! Well done Georgina

Stars of the month are - Oliver and Grace well done you two!

This week we have been continuing our reading diaries and finishing off our comics. We have also made a start on our new books and creating a fact file of them. 

In writing we have started our wicked writers competition where we will be writing a persuasive letter about a change in our local community that we would like to see happen and why. We looked at the different parties manifestos and who was the scottish lead for each party.  

In maths we carried on with money looking at how to Add and subtract amounts of money up to 2 decimal places using appropriate mental and written strategies. We have looked at alot of word problems for this. 

We started Bible Alive this week and the children enjoyed this. We also continued to practice our Scottish Opera all together in the hall!

Our stars of the month are Andrew for his continued effort, hard work, respect and kindness in and out of the classroom. And Rhu for trying hard with his reading tasks.

Star of the week is Janet for trying hard with her work this week.

Well done to you all!

Mrs Cameron and Mrs Johnstone

This week has been a busy week! We have continued to practice our Scottish Opera which is going well. If you can help your child at home to learn the three songs that would be great! The children looked at poems by Robert Burns and have created some lovely pieces of Art. They also looked at Rennie Mackintosh's Art too with Mrs Johnstone. We continued with our comics and reading diarys this week and completed our 5 part imaginative story in writing. In Maths we looked at credit and debit cards and budgets. In IDL we looked at what politics are and the powers Scotland and Wales have. We then played a monopoly style parliament game with questions and Debates within it.

The star of the week this week is Yvie for her hard work this week! Well done Yvie - Keep it up!

The Euro Quiz tryout is now on the google classroom for any P6 child who would like to try to make our team of 4 and 1 spare. All info is on the Google Classroom. Enter before end of Day Tuesday the 21st of January! 

https://classroom.google.com/c/Njk3MTIyOTI0NjE4        Good Luck!

This week we have been working on learning our songs for the Scottish Opera. The children have been doing amazingly with this! I am so proud of them! The opera is "The Tale O Tam O Shanter". We have been working on money and story questions in maths this week and looking at profit and loss and HP. In reading we have been continuing to fill in our reading journals and comic books. In IDL we have been looking at what parliament is and all the different words and meanings associated with it. 

The star of the week this week is Oscar for his effort in class this week. Well done Oscar!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and new year!

We have had a lovely, but busy first week back at school. All the excitement and play in the snow has been lovely to see! We started our new reading diaries this week and started to plan for an imaginative Christmas story. We completed a money pre assessment and started our Blackwell spelling assessments. Our IDL topic for this term is Parliament which we spoke about in class and watched a short introduction to what parliament is.

We have also started to practice our Scottish Opera songs too! This is going to be a very busy term!

Our star of the week this week is Struan for his hard work and producing a lot of work! Well done Struan! Keep it up!!

Mrs Cameron 10/01/2025

What a lovely last week of term we have had so far! We had a wonderful party yesterday morning with all of P6. We played many games and I was very impressed with their social dancing! We heard a rap from Struan which was very impressive and played pass the parcel too.

We went to the CCC on Thursday morning for our Christmas Assembly and in the afternoon the children went down to Nursery to do a Christmas Craft with them from their Christmas Around the World books.

Tommorrow we will be going first thing into other classes to share their Christmas Around the Woirld books. They have all worked so hard on these!

I would like to thank all the parent helpers we have had this term, without you we would not be able to go on trips! 

Stars of the week this week are Rebecca and Angus J for their hard work in class this week. Well done!

Stars of the month are Aila and Shona - they have both been working really hard with their work this month. Well done!

We had an amazing time today in Mrs Gardiners and Mrs Macquigs classes sharing our Christmas around the world books. All the children really enjoyed it and it was lovely for them to share all their hard work with the other classes. They were all great role models whilst there! Well done P6A i'm so proud of you! Mrs Cameron

I hope every one has a lovely Christmas and a Great New Year when it comes!

Mrs Cameron and Mrs Johnstone 20/12/24

This week has been a very fun week! We have been learning about coordinates (4 quadrants) in maths and the children have really enjoyed completing their christmas coordinates pictures. We had a lovely christmas lunch and pulled our crackers. The children have been doing really well with their IDL christmas around the world books and gave some brilliant speeches on their religious beleifs this week. 

Star of the week this week is Ava for her continued excellent effort in class as well as a positive mindset and respect for everyone in the class. Well done Ava.

A special award has been given to Max this week as he has been an AMAZING buddy to Alfie this week! Well done Max!

Next week we have our Christmas party on Wednesday in the morning and  on Thursday we have the CCC asembly and in the afternoon we are going to the nursery to do some christmas crafts.

On Friday we are going into the p4 and p3/4 classes to share our around the world books with them

We started this week by decorating our classroom for Christmas! The children were very excited and worked great as a team to make our classroom more festive. We started a new unit of work in writing. We are going to be learning about how to write persuasively. Mrs Johnstone read us the story of The Grinch and we thought about all the reasons why he hates Christmas. Over the next few weeks we are going to be working on writting an arguement to pesuade The Grinch that Christmas is a great time of year.  We started by looking at the structure of paragraphs in persuasive writing and it was all about OREOs (not the biscuits) :

O - opinion 

R - reason

E - evidence

O - opinion

We practised writing a persuasive paragraph thinking about some of the reasons why we like Christmas. 

In maths we started to apply our knowledge of fractions and percentages to real world contexts. We went into groups and were given a country to research. We found out some statistics including thee percentages with access to clean drinking water, poverty rates and literacy rates and created posters with graphs to present this information. 

We had lots of fun in PE with Mr Garden learning some dances for our Christmas party.  In art we used the water colours and black pens to create skyline scenes of Inverness. 

There are letters in our school bag mail this week to ask for Parent Helpers for our end of term assembly at CCC. There are also our key assessment tasks - our recount writing that we did with Mrs Cameron - for you to have a look at. 

We really enjoyed meeting our ELC buddies this week and getting our pictures taken with them. We will get these from ELC next week. 

Well done to Harris who is our star of the week this week. He has been working very hard to stay focused in class and avoid distractions and he has been making a conscious effort to make responsible and respectful choices. Well done Harris! 

Have a great weekend. 

Mrs Johstone & Mrs Cameron 

This week we had our 60th anniversary celebrations . Our open day on Sunday was amazing! It was lovely seeing all the children there and so proud of their work.  They all worked so hard to create the museum and I think you'll agree it was amazing work they did. It was great to hear everyone sharing their memories of school days gone by. 

On Monday the children had a great time playing all the party games led by P7s to celebrate our official 60th birthday! They also enjoyed making and sampling some apple juice with the community apple press. 

On Tuesday afternoon we had an unannounced fire drill. Our class were all very mature and responsible and managed to follow procedures to get out of the building safely, setting a great example to the younger children. 

We had our Into Film visit to the cinema on Thursday which was excellent and the children represented the school really well. Thank you to all the parent helpers who came along to support. We all enjoyed Harold and the purple crayon and in the afternoon the children enjoyed some follow up activities including code crackers and comic strips around the themes of the film. We thought about “What would you draw if you had a magic purple crayon?”

Today, Friday, was dress down day for Children In Need. This was fun for all. The children really enjoyed the activities which had been organised  by the Ashie House Captains  to take part in and We had an assembly on Children in Need before Fun 31.

As part of Winter Festivals IDL work we are creating “Christmas around the world” books for primary aged children which include crafts from around the world. We are excited to start this in our Pairs! We also started to look at different religions and will work towards sharing our own beliefs,  morals and values in a respectful way. 

Next week, the children will be going swimming on Monday the 18th of November as we missed the last one due to the bus not turning up! Please ensure the children bring their swim stuff, a snack and a drink. This will be the final swimming lesson of P6. 

Again, a big thank you to all the parent helpers we have had this term we wouldn’t be able to do these trips without you!

Mrs Johnstone & Mrs Cameron 15/11/24

This week we learned about Factors and Multiples in Maths. We learned about inference in reading with our tasks - looking for what the meaning or hidden messages were in our reading books. 

In IDL we carried on with our projects about education in Scotland over the last 60 years. For writing we had a go at writing News Paper reports to see how much we had remembered about features of a newspaper report. 

The children enjoyed developing their football skills in PE with Mr Garden and are really growing in confidence in swimming. Rhu had said to the bus driver that he wanted to drive a bus so he was allowed to sit in the seat while we waited for the other class. 

As part of our Global Citizenship learning, we looked at Fair Trade and the amount of money the different groups of people involved in chocolate production get. We had some very interesting discussions. 

Our Star of the week is Brodie for his respect and amazing effort he has put into his work this week. Well done Brodie!

In class this week the children have been working hard with their Maths, Reading, Writing and Spelling with Mrs Cameron. We have looked at the different types of questions asked during interviews, so that we can write our own interviews for our project. We are in groups to start our projects for the schools 60th celebrations and will be researching from the 1960's to the present time, looking at life at school. In maths we have been looking at rounding and estimating and in spelling we are looking at all the ways you spell the s sound in words. In reading we have been looking at skimming and scanning. The children really enjoyed swimming today and fun 31!

We enjoyed exploring different genres of music with Mrs Johnstone this week. We looked at the history of music and listened to some iconic through the decades. We really enjoyed the jazz music. Some of us showed off our dance moves.

We were learning about Andy Warhol in art. Did you know his famous print of Marilyn Monroe was published the same year that our school opened? Mrs Johnstone took our photograph and we are transforming them into our own pop art prints. 

Hello Everyone! We have reached the end of week 2 in P6 already! We have had a great few weeks settling into our new class and developing our routines. We have been working on our class charter and thinking about what kind of class and learning environment we would like to have. 

It was great to learn more about each other from our all about me bags. We learned that there are a lot of us with things in common that we never realised and so many of us brought in our favourite teddy and family photographs.  Mrs Johnstone brought in some of her wedding photographs to show us and a picture of her dog, Lola. We also learned that her favourite animal is a penguin.  We each chose one of our favourite things to be in our pictures. Have a look: 

With Mrs Johnstone, we have been refreshing our knowledge and skills of place value up to a million! We really enjoyed playing place value pop it to test our skills. 

Please find below our class overview for term 1. You can also access it via this link : https://docs.google.com/document/d/12hqbkIzf0M3hi7VC9EM6VTHzUGQj-NTu3-CGMBQTbjI/edit?usp=sharing