P6B

It has been fabulous to see all the children in 6B settle back into the school routine and make such an enthusiastic start to the year.

Stick Insects

We have a few adult stick insects and 9 babies to look after together. We have been learning about them and drawing them.

Class Charter

We have been thinking about the articles from the United Nations Rights of a Child and related them to the values and expectations we have in 6B. We have made and signed a charter of our own.

Growth Mindset

We have been really thinking about how to grow our brains and change our mindset to facilitate our learning.

Drawing figures

We have been learning how to draw human figures in the correct proportions. We applied what we learned to draw amazing astronauts.

STEM Visit to Museum of Flight.

Primary 6B had the fantastic opportunity to take part in a STEM day at the Museum of Flight. We had to build, customise and test lego robots. We then had to write code to programme them to move down a course. Our designs were then adapted to carry a load and still complete the course. It was great fun and we learned and used coding skills.

Building a robot

We customised the robots.

How can it carry a load?

Do we have to adapt the design?

6B visit concorde.

It was great fun to get aboard concorde and see the flight deck.

Plan and design carefully

Later we designed gliders

Team work

We cracked the code!

Giraffe Bot

Coding is great fun!

We have been reading The Boy at the Back of the Class. This story is about a Syrian refugee who starts school in England.

We have been hearing about the boy's favourite fruit. We were inspired by this description of a pomegranate.

"On the outside they look like extra-shiny balls that have been dipped into a bucket of sunset colours, like peach and pink and gold. But inside is even cooler, because when you pull one open, it's like finding a million red rubies all squashed together inside a round suitcase and bursting to get out."

We drew some pomegranates.

We thought hard about the detail and use of colour.

Incredible information reports

We have been thinking about the skills required and the tools we can use to improve our information reports. We have followed a structure and tried to use a noun, pronoun, pronoun, noun sentence order. We are opening sentences with adverbs to make them more interesting for the reader.

French

We are able to write about our physical features in French.

Space

6B has been learning about the Jovian and Terrestrial planets that make up our Solar System. We enjoyed drawing astronauts exploring a galaxy.

Blackout Space Poetry.

We had great fun picking out words from a piece of text and blacking out the rest to leave poems. We then decorated the blacked out parts to make our pieces more interesting and creative,

HAVE A FABULOUS OCTOBER HOLIDAY EVERYBODY!

Accurate measurement.

We learned how important measuring correctly is when you are trying to draw a scale diagram.📏

Outdoor Maths

Even in the rain ☔. We measured the size of the pitches.

3 o'clock readers

We are taking turns to read the class novel at the end of the day.

It helps with reading confidence and respectful listening.

P6 Hockey Tournament

Great effort from all in the hockey tournament!

The class played in games across the whole year group. We won some and we lost some but we learned about the skills involved in organising and participating in a tournament.

The children have been enjoying learning to play the guitar with Miss Askew.

The Great Flying Bat Stem Challenge 🦇

The challenge was to design and make bats with wings that could be flapped without being touched. The bats also had to have a species identifying characteristic. There were Ghost Bats, Vampire Bats and Wrinkled Faced Bats.

We worked together

There is a Pringle box in there.

Fabulous design solutions using string, straws and cocktail sticks.

Sharp claws.

Amazing job today writing a recount. We retold the events of the Gruffalo from the mouse's perspective.

Natural Disasters

We have been learning about hurricanes, volcanoes and earthquakes.

We painted volcanoes thinking about perspective and composition.

Fun in the Snow!

We have been looking at the features of a written script.

We read scripts together

It was good to try out different characters

It is fun to do together.

I enjoyed doing voices

Welcome Back! Happy 2024!

I hope that everybody had a wonderful holiday and welcome back to school for a successful 2024!

Scooter skills

We learned how to scoot safely and use our senses to stay observant and spot hazards.

Control and observation

We played games together and worked on doing emergency stops as quickly as possible.

Sunny sky for first Bikeability session.

The children were learning how to check their bike was safe to ride.

The focus was on control and observation. Started in the playground but hope to go out around the streets too.

Safer Internet Day 2024

We have been discussing the influence that the internet can have on us.

Circulatory System

We have been learning about the different human body systems and how to keep them and ourselves healthy and free from disease.

Writing Explanation texts

We have been developing our typing skills and applied them to write explanation texts about the digestive system.

Curiosity Cube

The children have been trying to guess what the object in the curiosity cube is. Every week scientific reasoning and questioning skills are being applied to work out what the mystery item is.

Microbit lesson

We were lucky enough to have Shimra and Tony

visit from Edinburgh Univerity today. They showed us how to use Microbits.

Display an animal

We learned how to create variables and programme the microbit.

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