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Reflecting On Week 7
Reflecting On Week 7
This has been a busy and exciting week!
We have been continuing to practise our persuasive writing skills with Mrs Johnstone. We read the story of How The Grinch Stole Christmas and put all our learning from our HQATS into action by writing persuasive letters to The Grinch, persuading him that Christmas isn’t as bad as he thinks. We tried to empathise with the character, thinking about why he may have the opinions he does and shared some of our own thoughts and feelings too. We thought about “things that make our heart grow” and make us feel happy, loved and safe. We wrote the letters in our jotter then practised our touch typing skills by re-drafting them on our Chromebooks.
On Monday we had an art teacher visit us and did some paper craft. We used different coloured paper to make snowmen pictures, thinking about size, shape, colour and texture. We have enjoyed pairing up with P2 the last 2 weeks to do some paired reading. This not only supports the young readers in P2 but helps us to develop responsibility and confidence too.
On Wednesday afternoon, we enjoyed welcoming you all to our classroom and we could see that the children showed pride in their work whilst showing you all around the classroom and corridors.
We continued to work on our outright campaign looking at how international aid being reduced is affecting children's rights around the world and how children are being youth advocates for international aid and their rights.
In writing we continued with our advert work which we enjoyed sharing and starting with you all on Wednesdays open afternoon. We also finished off our outright campaign writing.
In Maths we completed our post money assessment and worked on a Christmas co-ordinates activity.
In reading we are still looking at inference and have started to write our own pieces of inference. This is a tricky task!
In spelling we have started to do dictation as a whole class. This helps with writing speed and also we can work on our handwriting as well as our spelling and editing skills.
Star of the week this week is - Lucas for trying hard even when he found it tricky! Well done Lucas!
Reflecting On Week 6
Reflecting On Week 6
This week we have been really busy finishing of our work. In writing we have continued with our childrens stories and how international aid has helped them and their communities. We have been looking at how climate change affects childrens rights and are creating posters in IDL for our Outright Campaign. We watched a live lesson on Friday morning from Antarctica and how climate change is affecting it. The children really enjoyed this!
We have been collecting lots of pupil voice so the children have a voice in class and the school. In maths we continued with money, we wrote a christmas list with prices and then they got given a budget and had to work out what they could afford. We also looked at worded story money problems which are tricky!
In reading we have been looking at inference, first we had a class lesson on how to infer from a picture, then we tried to draw a picture and the other children had to guess what they thought we were infering. This was fun!
Next, we have started to look through our story books looking for how the author has used inference. Next week we will write our own piece of inference on a given picture. This is a tricky thing to do!
Next wednesday 10th of December in the afternoon from 1.45 - 2.30pm we have our open afternoon, which we invite you all to come and see our work. I know the children are looking forward to welcoming you into our classroom.
Letters went home this week with what the children should bring for our christmas party on the 17th of December. If you would like to bake the cakes you can however they need to list all the ingrediants used and there muct be no nuts. No nuts must be brought into school.
We have had a busy, but lovely week this week.
Star of the week this week is Roxy for all her hard work in class and being kind and respectful. Well done Roxy.
Reflecting On Week 5
Reflecting On Week 5
This week we have been learning about how international aid has helped children and communities in different countries in our OUTRIGHT topic. We have also been giving our pupil voice on how we have felt about this.
In reading we have been working on summaries and using the 5 W’S(what, where, why, when and who) within them to make them better. We have written our own for the book we are reading.
In maths we continued to work on profit and loss with an active blether station task. We looked at 3d Nets and how to work out a shape’s net. We also worked on addition and money.
In writing we finished out HQAT persuasive writing pieces and worked on our pupil cogs and next steps.
Star of the week this week is Aaron for his improved effort and concentration in class and being a caring friend. Well done Aaron!
Reflecting On Week 4
Reflecting On Week 4
We have had a busy week this week. The snow brought lots of excitement as did Scotlands Victory!
In Maths with Mrs Cameron, we have been looking at the parts of a circle and how the diameter relates to the radius. We also learnt how to find the full circumference from a giver quarter. In money we looked at the costs, benifits and risks of haveing cards. The children thought of lots of reasons.
In reading we have been working on identifying and finding Similies, Metaphors and Personification. We had a go at writing our own too!
We watched a live lesson on the Outright campaign from UNICEF for world childrens day on Thursday. This gae the children lots of figures and facts about international aid and where the UK spends it. We were all surprised that it is now 0.3% which goes to International Aid from the UKs budget. We learnt that International Aid has meant that over 1 billion children in different countries have had immunisations! Also that 90% of the worlds children now go to school. This lesson will help us with our Outreach topic we are currently doing.
In Writing the children continued with their OREO writing for their HQAT in persausive writing.
It is road safety week this week so we learned about road safety and then completed some posters for the slogan "speed down, save lives".
We had a celebration assembly and our two stars of the month are: Stella and Eliza for always working hard, being respectful and great members of our team. Well done girls!
Reflecting On Week 3
Reflecting On Week 3
We had an amazing time at the cinema this week watching the new Snow White Film. We will be looking at bullying and how Snow White was bullied as it is Anti Bullying week this week. We had great fun on Friday for Children in Need. The P5 class held a bake sale at break and then had some stalls for the children to go to in the middle of the day. This included nail painting, mini skateboards, hula hoops, colouring, t shirt designing and pin the clothes.
We continued with our reading books and completed tasks for these. We continued money looking at budgeting and creating our own budget for a christmas meal. We also looked at Quadrilaterals.
In IDL we continued with Outright and looked at the vocabulary to do with International Aid and all made a poster of these.
Star of the week this week is: Alise for all her hard work and always helping to tidy the classroom. Well done Alise.
Reflecting on Week 2 - Term 2 in P6
Reflecting on Week 2 - Term 2 in P6
This week has been another fun week with Bonfire Night on Wednesday. Did you go to see the fireworks or did you stay cozy at home? The children enjoyed creating line drawings of popular Inverness landscapes, skylines and locations this week with Mrs Johnstone. We spoke about different types of line and perspective in art. We also learned about the history of Bonfire Night and the Gunpowder Plot. Some of us were surprised to learn about the related conflicts and links to royalty and parliament.
We have completed a pre assessment for Money, in maths, as we will be learning about Shape and Money alongside each other this term. We continued to look at the properties of 3D shapes and looked at the vocabulary involved - Vertices, Faces, Edges. With Mrs Johnstone we have been practising using a protractor to measure angles within shapes and identify which type of angle they are (acute, right, obtuse, reflex, straight). We enjoyed searching our classroom for different angles and measuring angles in the real world.
We completed a “cold task” for persuasive writing this week. A cold task is a piece of writing done before we learn about the writing style and techniques. This helps our teachers to see what skills we already have and where we need more support or practise. This term we will be focusing on developing skills in persuasive writing using the OREO structure (Opinion, Reason, Evidence, Opinion) to help us form our arguments. In Reading this week we have been working on our comprehension skills and learning to skim and scan the text to find the answers. This is a hard skill which the children have tried really hard with this week.
As part of our Global Citizenship learning, we have started to look at the UNICEF Outright 2025 campaign. OutRight is a campaign by children and young people, for children and young people. Children will follow an exciting campaign journey, learning about children’s rights and how to take action. This year, OutRight will follow a journey through which children and young people develop their understanding of their rights, international aid and why it is an important part of being a global citizen.
Children will develop their knowledge of:
Relevant children’s rights and the UNCRC
What international aid is and why it is important (using climate change and education as examples)
How to use their voices on international issues that matter to them and their community, by contacting decision makers.
More information about the campaign can be found here https://www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/resources/teaching-resources/outright/
This was the last week of swimming. Thank you so much to everyone who volunteered and came along to support us at swimming. Without you we would not be able to go!
Swimming has been great fun and all the children have represented the school very well! We have been very proud of each one of the children! Well done to you all!
Star of The Week
Star of The Week
Out Star of the week this week is: Bethan - for trying really hard with her work even when she found it hard! Well done Bethan!
Term 2 Week 1
Term 2 Week 1
Welcome back everyone!
We have had a great start to term 2!
On Monday we worked together to find out more about the digestive system before our visit to UHI STEM HUB on Tuesday. Mrs Johnstone introduced us to the angles family. Check them out.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EJTvKojEkRuzKe3VtKK45XgucoFZdi4UcdD7ZSX0Ru8/edit (embed link to slides on blog post - I can do this if you are unsure how to )
We enjoyed this and found it a great way to remember the different types of angles which we will be working more on this term.
We had such an interesting day at UHI stem hub on Tuesday learning all about the different systems in our bodies. We learned about the digestive system which is in charge of processing all our food and drink; the respiratory system which is in charge of our breathing and our lymphatic system which is part of our immune system. We learned about different job roles in Health Science including : a doctor, a surgeon, a lab technician and an oncologist. We got to dissect a real pig's lung which looks similar to a human one.
On Wednesday we talked about what we will be learning in shape this term. We got into our spelling groups and found words using the dictionary and then chose our spelling words for homework this week.We started to write a spooky halloween story and wrote predictions on what we thought our new reading book might be about.
Mrs Johnstone really enjoyed seeing everyone at the fancy dress disco on Wednesday night. There were some brilliant costumes.
On Thursday in maths we did an outdoor shape hunt, looking for the different 3D and 2D shapes in our outside environment.
On Friday for our class assembly this week we had discussions on the book 'Windrush Child by Benjamin Zephaniah', for Black History Month.
The key points from this were -
it was written by Benjamin Zephaniah and tells the story of a 10-year-old boy called Leonard.
In 1958, Leonard travelled with his mother from Jamaica to England to join his father. The novel follows Leonard as he struggles to adapt to life in Britain.
Although it is a fictional story, Benjamin Zephaniah was inspired by historical events when he wrote . He also drew on his own experience of growing up in Britain in the 1960s
For homework this week the children will be drawing their own family tree which shows who they are. Thinking about - What is your ethnicity, heritage -who are you?
We have had a busy week this week and the children have settled back in really well.
Star of the week this week are -
Koen for working really hard this week, a great first week back, well done Koen!
Reflections on The Final Week of Term 1 in P6
Reflections on The Final Week of Term 1 in P6
Wow! We have made it to the end of term 1 in P6 already! We have enjoyed another action packed week of learning and fun in P6 this week. On Monday we had a change in our routine and had PE with Ms Barclay. This was due to the open morning being during our usual PE slot on Tuesday. We enjoyed a little bit of friendly competition in dodge ball and bench ball.
In maths - we have been learning about square and cube numbers with Mrs Johnstone. We learned that a square number is the product of a number multiplied by itself and a cube number is the product of a number multiplied by itself 3 times. Did you know you can make squares out of square numbers? Ask us how! With Mrs Cameron we completed our pre assessment for shape and then we did some maths journaling on what we already know about shape and what we’d like to learn about shape.
In Literacy - The children enjoyed the opportunity to do some creative writing with Mrs Johnstone, on Monday. They got the choice of two story starters and were given the challenge of continuing the story. It was very interesting to see the different perspectives, themes and characters that emerged. Some children have even been asking to work on their stories at home. This was the first piece of writing that the children got to use their chromebook to type so it was extra exciting. We learned a little about Google Docs and what the red and blue lines under words mean and how it can help us. We worked on finishing our creative stories, our Palindromic poems and reading posters at the end of the week.
In IDL this week - We tried some foods that are traditionally grown or eaten in Syria. This learning opportunity was inspired by the main character in our class novel “The Boy at The Back of The Class.” who is a Syrian refugee. We tried:
Pomegranate
Figs
Dates
Apricots
Hummus & Pita Bread
Falafel
Some children were really surprised that they liked some of the foods which they didn’t expect to like. The pomegranate and the hummus were the most popular choices.
We also finished off our Brothers across Borders comics and finished the simulation. We finished the refugees welcome letters and artwork too.
We really enjoyed having so many parents and carers coming in to visit on Tuesday morning. Thank you! The children loved showing off some of their work and sharing their learning with you. There were some great discussions around different types of bullying, regulation strategies and support networks.
Stars of the Month
Well done - Coralie for her hard work in class and always being kind and respectful!
Well done - Fraser for always working hard, contributing to the class and being kind and respectful.
Well done to our cross country team! The boys team won 2nd place overall. The team included: Liam and Calum in our class. Calum came 2nd in his race! Well done boys!
We had a lovely last day in school, we made our own superheroes relating to a chosen global goal and we had to decide what their super power would be. We then went swimming. After lunch we had a disco with an online session with a gladiator and then we had a football session with the Caley Thistle coaches. It has been a wonderful term and I'm looking forward to next term.
We hope you have a fantastic October holiday and we look forward to seeing everyone back on Monday 27th October.
Mrs Johnstone & Mrs Cameron
Open Morning Reminder
Open Morning Reminder
We look forward to welcoming all of you who can make it to join us for our health and wellbeing themed open morning on Tuesday this week between 0930 and 10:15. Following on from our learning around online safety and cyber bullying we will be talking part in a range of activities discussing different types of bullying and mental health.
A Look at Week 7 in P6
A Look at Week 7 in P6
This week we enjoyed Math Talk Time. This activity encouraged us to use our maths language that we know, extend on our current maths vocabulary, find mathematical links in the world around us and open up mathematical discussions in the class. Check out some of our recent Maths Talk Time responses. We completed our post topic assessment and also started our Maths Journaling. The children wrote about how they feel about maths and what they feel they are good at and what is tricky for them.
We learned about Palindromes in literacy with Mrs Johnstone. A ‘Palindrome’ is a word, sentence or phrase that reads the same forwards and backwards. We read the poem "Refugee" by Brian Bliston. This is an example of a mirror poem or Palindrome Poem as you can read it both forwards and backwards but the meaning or interpretation of the poem changes. The purpose of this is to get people thinking. We are working on creating our own poems about something we have a strong belief about. We are creating a plan using a template on our chromebook then writing it out on paper with our best handwriting. In reading we were looking at inference and answering questions about different photos.
We had an amazing time at Lochardil woods on Thursday afternoon, even though it rained the entire time! The children made some amazing dens and showed real leadership, team working and determination skills throughout. We spoke about how it would feel to have to be in this overnight or during a storm! The children then collected water from their tarps as this would be another problem to solve if you did need to find shelter and you had nothing with you. This has all linked into our Refugee topic. A big thank you to our volunteers and Ellie Carlisle. Also a big thank you to anyone else who did offer to come along, without you we cannot do these things with the children.
We are very proud of each and every one of the children throughout this topic with their maturity and respectful attitudes shown when discussing some very mature topics.
We have had a really busy week this week, We hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Star of the week this week is : Emilia for her brilliant leadership skills when we were doing den building! Well done Emilia!
You are invited to join us for our Heath and Wellbeing themed open morning next Tuesday 6th October any time between 0930 and 10:15.
Looking Back at Week 6
Looking Back at Week 6
This week has been a busy one! We have been working hard on staying safe, strong and smart online. The children have all been doing really well with this and will be sharing some of their learning with you next week as their first HQAT coming home.
We have also been enjoying maths week and the theme of “wild maths”. We entered the national Sumdog competition and are enjoying keeping an eye on the leaderboard to see how we are progressing. We took part in an online lesson from Ellie Carlisle from Nature Scot. Ellie has been working with the P7 children to collect data and map features of our outside areas. This is looking at how eco friendly our school is and how we can improve. This session showed the children how important maths is in the world of work. We learned about a mathematician called Fibonacci and a special number sequence that he discovered: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8… Can you spot the pattern? We found out that this pattern can be seen in nature and we created our own “golden rectangles” with Fibonacci spirals.
We have been focusing on a new skill in our reading, working on clarifying what we have read in our books and in writing we have started to use our notes and research to write biographies on our chosen famous refugee. We have continued with creating our Brothers across borders comics in IDL, which the children are really enjoying.
Star of the week this week is Nicholas for all his hard work and effort in class. Well done Nicholas!
Star of the week this week is Nicholas for all his hard work and effort in class. Well done Nicholas!
Looking Back on Week 5 in P6
Looking Back on Week 5 in P6
This week we have been really busy in class!
On Wednesday afternoon we have Nichola in from Jacobs to complete a STEM lesson with the children about what equality, equity and removing barriers are. Nichola is a Transport Engineer for Jacobs and she looked at the butterfly effect with the children, (https://steam.jacobs.com/butterfly-effect/human-rights/ ). They got into groups of 3 and acted out the different scenarios and then they had to try to draw themselves when they were equal to others, when they were equitable to others and when all barriers were removed for them. This led to some good conversations in class.
On Thursday morning we had our online stay safe and strong webinar. This was looking at how to stay safe online! This webinar spoke about - How their phone grabs and holds their attention
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The pressure they may feel to be online•
What cyberbullying might look like•
Banter vs bullying•
The impacts of social media and bullying•
How to stay safe•
How they can build a positive online space
This is going to be part of our High Quality Assessment Task this term. The children then looked at our own Lochardil school ‘Acceptable Use Policy’ and the children identified areas which they think are important and thought of new items they would like to add.
In Maths we continued with Multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000 and the children completed a dominoes matching activity. We also completed our Maths SOFA this week.
In Reading we continued with our books and had different tasks to complete.
In Writing we continued with our plans for our Biographies on a famous refugee, ready to start writing these next week.
Star of the week this week is - Ellis for all her hard work and determination to get her work finished! Well done Ellis!
Looking Back on Week 4
Looking Back on Week 4
We have had a very busy week this week! Wow! We are at the end of week 4 already! The children have all worked really hard over the last four weeks and are looking forward to the long weekend coming up.
This week, in reading, we continued to work on creating a well structured summary of what we have read. We read more of our class novel and we completed a comprehension task on this to demonstrate our understanding and find information within the text. In Maths with Mrs Cameron we have been learning about multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 and with Mrs Johnstone we took our maths outdoors this week to review our learning on place value. Children enjoyed creating giant place value charts in the front playground and took part in some friendly competition to identify number values using natural resources and round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.
In IDL this week, we started a new interactive activity called “Brothers Across Borders”, an interactive movie set in Syria and Turkey. In an engaging and capturing fashion it shows the living conditions of people who are affected by the conflict in Syria and the choices they have to make. It combines visual story telling with game play which is based on multiple choices. This enables the children to “experience” the life of a Syrian refugee as the journey takes them to real locations in Syria and Turkey and lets them choose how to proceed. This Red Cross resource aims to challenge the children and encourage them to be curious, ask questions and reflect. The aim is to increase the understanding of the situation for people who are asylum seekers and refugees as well as inspire action by the students to help and support fellow human beings. Children will be making a comic book that shows the choices they made and the impact their choices had on the character’s life. All the children have been having in-depth discussions about the choices they make and are enjoying the activity.
In digital skills this week, the children are continuing to enjoy practising touch typing with Mrs Johnstone. This week, we were learning the letters that are above the “home row” and how to “jump” our fingers from our home keys. It is getting a little tricky but we are enjoying the challenge.
The children have created some beautiful pieces of “hand in hand” artwork that demonstrates the themes of humanity, no discrimination and love. The children chose quotes to add to their artwork that resonated with them. Here are some of our finished pieces.
Swimming is going really well. Thank you to all the volunteers again as without you we wouldn’t be able to go.
Super Stars
Super Stars
Our stars of the month this month are:
Ava - for her resilience, hard work and love for everybody.
Megan -- for always being respectful, kind and hard working.
Well done to you both! It is always a hard decision as all the children are doing really well.
Online Mental Health and Wellbeing Education - Staying safe, strong and smart online
Online Mental Health and Wellbeing Education - Staying safe, strong and smart online
Kooth Online Safety and Mental Health Parent Info.pdfThis term in P6, the children are very excited to have got their own personal Chromebook devices. In class we are supporting the children to explore resources and information online, and develop an understanding of responsible digital behaviour, learning how to keep themselves safe and secure . As part of this learning, on Thursday 18th September, our class will be watching an online webinar delivered by Kooth Digital Health, a company who provides an anonymous, online counselling and emotional wellbeing service for young people aged 10+.
During the Webinar: “Staying safe, strong and smart online”, our young people will explore:
•How their phone grabs and holds their attention
•The pressure they may feel to be online
•What cyberbullying might look like
•Banter vs bullying
•The impacts of social media and bullying
•How to stay safe
•How they can build a positive online space
Term 1 -Weeks 2 & 3
Term 1 -Weeks 2 & 3
We have had a great first few weeks back. We have done a lot of getting to know each other and getting settled into our classroom routines. Everyone has loved getting their new chromebooks. Swimming has been great so far and everyone is enjoying it!
With Mrs Johnstone, We started practising touch typing. The children were amazed that Mrs Johstone could type without looking. We have been learning about the home keys. Some people managed to type with their hands covered. It was lots of fun.
As part of our IDL topic, we are working on creating a piece of art inspired by our class novel “The Boy at the Back of The Class”. We are drawing hands holding each other, showing the theme of welcoming and no discrimination. We had lots of great discussions about ways we can make people feel welcome and included and had some great discussion around some very grown up themes including racism, prejudice and discrimination.
We have started our new reading books in our groups and have written a summary of what we have read so far. We have also been continuing to work on place value in class.
For IDL we designed a small shelter on paper in groups or individually and then we went outside on Thursday afternoon and built them. They were AMAZING! We are so proud of all the children. They worked on their team working skills, problem solving and thinking outside the box! We have been talking about Refugees and how children come to our country to be safe, and how they are still children and still want to play and have friends and be included just like we do.
We have started to research famous refugees and will be writing an information report on them in writing. We found lots of people who we never knew were refugees.
The children have settled in really well and we are having lots of fun. Swimming is going great!
Stars of the week so far are -
Stars of the week so far are -
Week 1 Louis for his brilliant effort and behaviour in class.
Week 2 Maeve for trying really hard and persevering when things get hard.
Week 3 - Zainab for being a great member of the class, working hard and being very respectful.
Well done to you all!
Term 1 Overview
Term 1 Overview
Welcome to our P6 blog page. We have just got our blog up and running for this session but we will have a more detailed weekly post, starting from next week. We have settled well into our new class and are getting on really well. We have really enjoyed the first few swimming sessions and are super excited to have our very own Chromebooks. Please find below our Term 1 overview.
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