Primary 6 have recently begun their Buddy Training in preparation for meeting their future Primary 1 buddies! They’ve been reflecting on what it means to be a positive role model and a supportive Buddy for the younger pupils. 

"I like playing games with my buddy especially hide and seek." LK

"I like how the little ones are very kind and fun to play with." JA

"I like how the little ones are super cute and funny." MC

"I like when I see my buddy, because they come and give you hugs and they are funny." RMcN

"I like how we have gotten to know all of the nursery children." MMcG

Primary 6 have started working towards their John Muir award at Discovery Level. The John Muir Award encourages people of all backgrounds to get out and enjoy nature! Through the award participants complete many different activities exploring the themes of Discover, Explore, Conserve and Share.

Before the spring holidays all of Primary 6 attended an Active Stirling Tennis Festival at Kings Park. Everyone loved taking part in the small tennis games and activities and even win some small prizes! Well done to LK in P6A who was spotted for his manners, resilient attitude and sportsman ship displayed during the tournament. I was so proud of how engaged and respectful everyone was and some even surprised themselves about how much they enjoyed it! 

P6 have been receiving Mandarin lessons since term 1 and have been very excited to begin some Mandarin cooking lessons! The children have been very responsible and respectful during the cooking sessions and have loved eating what they have made!

In March P6 and P3 got together to participate in paired reading, to celebrate our love for reading for enjoyment! Here is what we enjoyed about it:

"I enjoyed seeing my Buddy and I always looked forward to reading with her." MC

"I loved that I could read to my Buddy and they could read to me." MD

"I loved getting to know my Buddy, reading with them and giving them high fives." RMcN

P6A have been learning about their rights. We studied Article 7, the Right to an Identity. Your identity involves your characteristics, appearance, values and your name. We discussed how we are all unique, there will never be another you! Your name is a huge factor in your identity, so we created our own graffiti names to celebrate!

We have also studied Article 19, The Right to be Safe. We especially focused on being safe on the internet and social media. We became Privacy Detectives and discussed what we should and should not share online to keep us safe.

In reading, P6 read the story about the Kelpies. We learned that Kelpies are Scottish mythical creatures that are lot more sinister than what they seem... We then discussed what other Scottish Mythical Creatures or legends we know about already. We used our new knowledge of the Kelpies and created some fantastic art work of the Kelpies sculptures in Falkirk. Within the drawing process we learned about sketching, shading and the use of colour and tone. 

When P6 moved to their new learning environments, the first thing we did was discuss how can we make this the best environment possible for learning and our health and wellbeing. We decided to create a new class charter, looking at the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Through a class vote, the top rights for our class were:

• Article 2- All children have these rights

• Article 12- The right to an opinion 

• Article 15- The right to set up groups and choose your friends

• Article 24- The right to things that keep you safe and healthy

• Article 28- The right to a good quality education 

• Article 31- The right to play and rest

We then discussed how we can follow our charter, while respecting the rights of others, to have the best possible learning and health and wellbeing while at school.

Well done to everyone who learned and recited our Scots poem "Beasties" By Helen Cruickshank. You all did an amazing job, I am so proud of you all! Mr Kirk was amazed at your confidence and how well everyone articulated the poem in Scots. It was a very close call to choose our winners. Well done to CS and MMcG, you both did an amazing job and I can see how much the win meant to you both. Also a big shoutout to ML, who was incredibly brave and showed increasing confidence performing her poem independently. One of my favourite performances was by HMcB and IMcP who almost rapped their poems! Well done everyone! 

P6A held their own Burns Supper this term. We had a little tasting session of some Haggis, Neeps and Tatties, followed by some shortbread and some Tunnock's Caramel Wafers. We even had some Iron Bru! A special thank you to Mrs Fowler, who helped heat and serve all the food. Evereyone had such a lovely afternoon and some people even had seconds and thirds! 

Well done to all the boys and girls in P6A that took part in the Christmas show! Everyone worked so hard learning all the songs and the actions. A special mention to all our readers, you all did an amazing job,  CS who taught all of P6A the Makaton for our song "Santa Claus is Coming to Town'" and to our amazing Sugar Plum Fairies, who choregraphed their dance all by themselves, you were all amazing! 

In December we were very lucky to have a special visitor from the government who talked all about democracy in Scotland and the UK. P6A did very well, answering the questions and sharing what we have already learned. We also started looking at voting and elections. We know that in a democracy you elect people to represent you in government and this is done through the process of voting. In Scotland you can be 16 to vote at national elections (in Scotland) and 18 for general elections (all of the UK).  We know that you vote using a ballot, at a polling station, which is known as polling day. We then created our own manifesto posters.

P6A celebrated Book Week Scotland, 15th-21st Novemeber. We looked at our favourite books and characters in books. We were also very lucky to have a trip to St Ninian's Library, were we swapped our books. P6A love going down to the Library and exploring all the amazing books they have to offer, talking with the Librarians about books they enjoy and recommending books to their peers.

Anti Bullying Week took place from the 11th-15th November 2024. This years theme was 'respect'.  P6A discussed what respect means, looks like and sounds like to us. 

Some ideas were, respecting yourself, treating others the way you wish to be treated, respecting peoples belongings and opinions and respecting your right to be safe.

We also looked at the roles of bullying, the ways we can resolve conflict and celebrated Odd Socks Day. Odd Socks Day focuses on how we are all unique and our differences should be celebrated. 

In Literacy we have been learning about recount writing, through the form of a diary entry. We planned, drafted and redrafted our diaries about a day in the life on the Titanic. We applied our prior knowledge about the Titanic to our diary entries. We also focused on including some figurative language, such as, similes, metaphors and rhetorical questions, to make our diaries more interesting for the reader. 

We have begun learning about a new topic, Democracy. We have discussed what we already know about democracy and what we would like to find  out. We know that democracy means 'rule by the people' an it involves voting, elections, laws and parliament. Questions we have asked are:

"Why are the groups called parties and what are they?" M

"Who created democracy?" J

"What is the difference between a Prime Minister and a President?"

P6A loved their trip to St Ninians Library in September. Alex, the librarina, was super helful and welcoming. We had a chance to explore the libaray, take out some books for school, create some flower art (which is now proudly displayed at the library) and listen to some audio stoires. We are hoping to have another trip after the October Break! 

This term we have been learning all about the Titanic. We have absolutely loved this topic and have been using many different skills to enhance our learning. We have,

• Used drama to recreate the main events

• Reserached the structure of the ships and why it was know as "unsinkable"

• Interprated data about the link betwene survival rates and the socila classes

• Researched key firgures on the ships and their involvement on the construction/ sinking of the Titanic

• Held a class debate about who was responsible for the sinking of the ship

• Created some lovely Titanic art peices!

P6A began the new school year looking at what skills we have and what skills we would like to improve. We discussed what variety if skills different jobs would use and why these are important. We picked some skills, inside and outside of school, that we would like to develop over Primary 6. Popular ones where, efficient time management, organisation, team work and resilience. 

We discussed what a growth and a fixed mindset is and looked at times when we have had a growth or a fixed mindset. We looked at different words and what they meant to us and how these affected our mindsets. Overall, we know that we will be faced with new challenges in Primary 6 but as long as we try our best and approach these challenges with a positive attitude we can be proud of oursleves.