Welcome to Primary 6

This term in Primary 6 we have been very busy doing lots of exciting things. We have a new teacher called Miss Hyde and have made new friends with children who have joined our class from Moorpark Primary School.
We have been taking more of a responsibility for our learning and around the school as a whole. Some of the ways we have been doing this are through Dinner Duty, Playmakers scheme and becoming Litter Pickers. We love taking an active role in the school.
In class we have been taking part in lots of group challenges called Cooperative Learning. We are in groups of 4 and each have a role and responsibility in our groups. We have been working in our groups during R.M.E and Science which has been lots of fun. We enjoy working as part of a team and helping each other during group challenges.
We have just finished learning about the Solar System in Science. We worked in groups to create and present posters on different planets and learned about gravity during different experiments. We now know the order of the planets from the Sun. They are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (dwarf planet).
We have been very lucky that every Wednesday afternoon we go swimming at Renfrew Victory Baths. We have been put into 3 different groups and have been learning to do front crawl and back stroke with and without a float. The coaches are great and we can't wait to see what else we are going to learn. During P.E we have been learning skills for basketball. We have learned skills such as chest pass, shoulder pass, bounce pass and how to defend and shoot. We are excited about playing team games and using all of these skills.
One of our favourite activities in class so far has been creating our dog/wolf and fox pictures during Art. We used chalk and charcoal to create the effect of texture by highlighting light and dark areas. Our pictures look fantastic!