February 2012

Primary 6 year group demonstrating a 33 person balance as one of our gymnastics challenges. Very impressive!

February 2012

Primary 6 are well under way with their ‘secret topic’ and have been working hard on making models, painting with water colours and producing fabulous pieces of writing to be displayed.

The class have enjoyed a workshop recently from the Scottish SPCA informing us on ways to preserve our beautiful Scottish wildlife. Our co-ordinator for the morning, Marianne, was very impressed with the amount of facts we had remembered since last year. We particularly enjoyed the classifying activity and trump cards.

Primary 6 have also signed up to an Enterprise Challenge set up by Blythswood Care. Our challenge is to make £20.00 grow as much as possible by co-ordinating an event in school which will help raise money for Blythswood Care’s after school centre, Talita Kum, in Jimbolia, Romania. There will be prizes for the most money raised, most creative project and quality of the pupils’ written report. Fingers crossed our idea will raise funds to help this worthy cause.

We have also been recording how many times we walk to school and bring our water bottles to school. Mrs Gray will organise a special treat of a Dodge Ball tournament if our results show that we are improving on our health and wellbeing by walking more and drinking more water.

Primary 6 and Miss Paterson

A Fabulous New Kirklandneuk!

Enjoying our 'finger flexers' from Childline

Comfortable beanbags to relax on at Golden Time

Enjoying our well earned Golden Time

Miss Paterson's Teaching Wall

Our cloakroom

Quality work time

More quality work


What a fantastic start to 2012!

Primary 6 were speechless on January 5th as they became familiar with their new school.

We have a fantastic new cloakroom with handy bags to keep our shoes in. This leads onto our spacious ‘breakout area’ outside our classroom, where we can carry out all our art and craft activities.

Our classroom is bright and spacious. Such a pleasant environment to learn in. Miss Paterson has a teaching wall where our Smartboard is mounted along with a very fancy sliding whiteboard that reveals lots of super storage space!

We have just begun our new ‘secret topic’ and have already come up with many fantastic ideas of how to transform our classroom, however you will have to wait until our open evening to find out about it!

Primary 6 have recently had some workshops with Childline and we have learned how to keep ourselves safe in school and at home. Both sessions from Ritchie were very informative.

We are looking forward to a busy term with our topic. Enjoy our photographs of the new school… but it’s only a sneak preview until the open evening.

Primary 6 and Miss Paterson

Christmas is coming!

To start off Term 2 we decided to make some fabulous Solar System mobiles in our co-operative learning groups. The mobiles were fantastic and looked great hanging in our classroom. You will also notice that some of us are not wearing our school uniforms! Don't worry; this was all in aid of World Book Day to raise funds for our wonderful Parent Run Library. Even Miss Paterson got into the spirit of things and dressed up too!

We had the honour of being involved in the Christmas Shoebox Appeal organised by The New Hope Trust. Primary 6 worked hard to gather donations, shoeboxes and wrapping paper. We then split into teams to sort, wrap, pack, label and check all the boxes. All of the parents, pupils and staff's kind donations will be sent to Eastern European countries to children who are less fortunate than many of us. Primary 6 really hope that we can put a smile on some children's faces this Christmas. Once again Primary 6 and Miss Paterson send our thanks to all that donated.

Our Christmas Fayre was a success at the end of November and our Glam Tissue Boxes went down a treat. We helped raise some funds for the school which was great.

December has been a very busy month for Primary 6, as we had our St Andrew's Assembly and on that same day our St Andrew's Day Celebrations along with P6 pupils from Mrs Irving's class. Both events were a success and Primary 6 truly deserve credit for their hard work and preparations for the day. We had a slight technical hitch with music at our Ceilidh, however that did not stop us as we ploughed on through and entertained our parents and special guests. Miss Paterson is very proud of us and commented on how professional we all were about it. The Ceilidh raised money for the school funds and our Assembly raised money for our chosen charity: The Rainbow Trust.

We are very excited this week as we are really getting into the Christmas spirit with the Concerts, Panto and Christmas Parties coming up. Our Christmas Concert song is 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer' by The Cadillacs.

Merry Christmas

From
Primary 6 and Miss Paterson :)

End of Term 1

What a quick term it has been, and we’ve had lots to keep us very busy!

Primary 6 are the current leaders within our school for the Global Children’s Challenge. We love wearing our pedometers and all try to take part in more physical activity in order to up our steps and stay on top of Kirklandneuk’s leader board.

We have come to the end of our swimming block sadly. However we’ve had such great fun at the Victory Baths with our instructors. On the last day we got to wear our pyjamas and learned some survival techniques. We will soon be awarded our Swimming certificates and badges.

Primary 6 have been receiving some football training from pupils visiting from Renfrew High, and have thoroughly enjoyed the challenges they have set. Some pupils were also selected to take part in a tournament at the high school last week. Let’s just say with all this weather we’ve been having; we got a little bit wet! Nevertheless, we had a great afternoon.

For our R.M.E. topic we have been learning about ‘Christianity in the Churches’. Mr Hawthorne very kindly came to our class with a fabulous presentation and activities to help us learn more about the topic. After the October holiday we will be visiting Trinity Parish Church to visit Rev. Steele and gain more knowledge about the topic.

Mrs Hutchison comes to our class on a Thursday afternoon to teach us some great music activities to help gain more knowledge of notes, beat, pitch and rhythm. We have such a great time joining in and moving around the class.

On Tuesday afternoons Miss Fulton teaches us French. At the moment we are learning how to discuss the weather in French. We really enjoy learning a new language as it’s a valuable skill to have.
We have also prepared and presented our solo talks to the class. Miss Paterson was very impressed with her confident pupils. We have done so much in term 1 so here are some photographs for you to browse. :)

We hope you all enjoy your well deserved October holiday.

Primary 6 :)

A BUSY NEW TERM

Primary 6 have settled in nicely to our new class and new routines over the past few weeks. We also have a new teacher; Miss Paterson who is very impressed with our high standards of work in the class so far.

During the first week of term, we each made a fact sheet about ourselves to be put in a Time Capsule, which will be opened at the end of Primary 6. We hope to be able to compare our likes and dislikes and also see if we have achieved the targets we set for the year. We also put a current photograph of ourselves on our fact sheets and cannot wait to see how much we change throughout the year.

Our class points system is ‘Around the World’. We try our best to work in teams to collect flags from all around the world. To fit in with this theme we named our co-operative learning teams after countries or famous landmarks. Our teams are: United Arab Emirates, Alaska, Hawaii, London Eye, Emirates Palace and Russia. We think this is a great way to earn group points and we learn about countries and their flags too! Miss Paterson also has some special badges we can wear if we have shown we are Successful Learners, Responsible Citizens, Effective Contributors or Confident Individuals in class or around the school. These are called VIP badges (Very Important Pupil).

We have started an exciting new Science topic, learning all about The Solar System. Some of us have brought in interesting books to share with the class. We enjoy working in our co-operative teams to learn about our topics. In our teams we have made fact sheets on each planet. Here are a few examples. Don’t they look fabulous?

We have also been very artistic and created some textured planet paintings. They still need some finishing touches before going on the wall but already look great!

In Term 1 we are visiting Renfrew Victory Baths each Wednesday morning. We love swimming and everyone is trying very hard to impress the swimming teachers to progress to the next group.

In Primary 6 our responsibilities are growing at Kirklandneuk. We now do Dinner Duty at lunch times, Playmakers and we have chosen our representatives for the Eco-Committee, Pupil Council and Forum and our Anti-Bullying representatives.

We all look forward to what the rest of term 1 holds for us. We will keep you posted!

Primary 6

April/May in P6

Primary 6 have had a very busy and eventful April and May. One of our highlights has been when Paisley Arts Theatre Company worked with us on an anti-bullying presentation called "Being Me." We spent the morning rehearsing with two ladies from P.A.C.E on songs and drama performances. We then performed for Primaries 3-7 in the gym hall. Miss Hyde said we were all fantastic and had made her very proud. We didn't have very long to rehearse our songs so we think we did an amazing job!

We are currently learning about our new topic which is Brazil. We have been learning about the Amazon Rainforest and all the species and people living in the rainforest. We have also learned about how to protect the rainforest and why is it important to do so. Miss Bremner has been leading our topic and the next area we are going to learn about is the carnival. Brazil is an extremely diverse country with the warmest and wettest areas in the world. It is so interesting.

We are looking forward to continuing with out topic and are excited about all the other exciting things we have coming up in June!!

Our fantastic Open Night

On Tuesday 22nd March Primary 6 presented their amazing "Journey Through the Human Body" integrated topic to all our parents. We had been working on it since the end of January and had a mix of 3D models, pictures, facts and activities. We worked so hard on our topic and hope you enjoyed our Open Evening! We loved our topic and thought it was amazing.

In March we also had the chance to visit the Burns' Heritage Centre in Alloway. We had a super day visiting all the sights around Robert Burns' hometown. We visited a museum where we learned about the life of Robert Burns and saw some amazing things like a lock of his hair!! We were then given a tour of the Burns' Monument, Alloway Kirk and Brig O Doon. In the afternoon we took part in a workshop at the Burns' Cottage. We got to dress up in traditional clothing from this era, it was so much fun! Even though it was a very snowy day in Alloway, it didn't dampen our spirits, we had an amazing time.

Primary 6 are looking forward to the Easter break and hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday.