Due to staff changes before and subsequently after the October holidays, the RCCT timetable has been revised and updated.
As before, all classes have been allocated the correct amount of specialist cover time up until Christmas, however different classes have different specialist teacher input. Also a reminder that there is no RCCT requirement for P1 & 2 classes.
Full-RCCT-timetable-Oct-DecP6 looked at some artwork by Claude Monet – who was an impressionist painter
The class then got clean ( for once!) -using their hands and soap to felt wool into their own impressions of the artists work.
Can you work out which paintings they were looking at?
P6 looked at the landscape paintings of the impressionist. The way the artists such as Claude Monet would paint ‘ en plein air’ outdoors .
The class created their own felted artworks based on elements from our local environment. The Figgate parks lily pond and wild flower meadow and the sea and waves of portobello and Joppa .
P6 enjoyed the water and bubbles and physicality of the felting technique. There’s not many art classes that you leave cleaner than before!
Please find attached the home learning activities for your child’s stage.
At second level, our grid is separated into three areas; literacy, numeracy and outdoor learning/health and wellbeing. The grid covers term one from September to December.
We ask that learners choose 2/3 activities per week from each area to complete and upload a photograph of their work onto Teams or Learning Journals. However, we want this to fit in around your life and we do not want families to feel pressured; please complete the home learning as and when you can.
Teachers will check in with homework fortnightly to provide feedback on tasks completed.
P6 will soon be completing active spelling tasks daily in class therefore there is no requirement to extend this further at home.
We are in the process of rolling out a new reading programme in school (Accelerated Reader). Information on group reading homework, and how this will be managed in light of current restrictions, will follow soon. In the meantime, we encourage lots of personal reading at home whether this is fiction, non-fiction, online articles etc.
We appreciate your ongoing support!
Ms Mitchell and Miss Maguire
Welcome to P6A’s latest blog! We had a shorter week this week because we had Monday off. Some of us spent our Monday playing football, some people went to the skate park and others played Roblox. One of us even managed to catch a Pikuchu on Pokemon Go!
In PE, we have been playing football rounders. It is like normal rounders but you kick a football instead of hitting a small ball. There are two teams, the batting team and the fielding team. This week we enjoyed playing it on the astro, and the team who won were better because they used good strategy and tactics and worked as a team.
Primary 6 have been learning about decimals in numeracy. We learned about converting mixed number fractions into decimals, and we learnt how to write tenths as decimals. We did some textbook pages about it and added and subtracted within whole numbers to show how a half becomes 0.5. It was a lot of fun!
On Wednesday, we had Miss McWilliams for art in the morning. We used charcoal and ink to copy and draw three different types of flowers, and we had to copy them exactly as we saw them. Then we coloured them in with chalk pastels and rubbed our pictures with paper towel to bring out the ‘ghost effect’.
In the afternoon on Wednesday, we had outdoor learning with Mrs Gries. We measured trees by walking away from the tree then looking at them upside down through our legs until we saw the top of the tree! We then measured the distance back to the tree to find the height. We also calculated the ages of the trees by measuring the circumference and dividing it by 2.5, because every year trees grow around 2.5cm thicker.
On Thursday, we were learning about characters and how to describe them. We learnt that it is better to ‘show, not tell’, which means that you describe how someone moves, speaks and acts, as well as how other people react to them, in order to show what they are like. This week, we wrote about a bully, and had to write about them walking into a room and show their personality without just saying ‘bully’. We all worked really hard to write ambitious descriptions!