William Pinkerton Memorial Primary School

PRIMARY 6 & 7

CLASS OF 2024-2025

Class Teacher: Miss H Neill

Class Assistant: Mrs A Patton

SEN Assistant: Miss Emma McCaw

                    Miss Neill                                                 Mrs A Patton                                                 Miss Emma McCaw

In Primary 6 and 7 we are taught by Miss Neill. Our classroom assistants are Emma and Mrs Patton. We have a busy year ahead!

A very warm welcome to the Primary 6 and 7 classroom! Pupils begin their busy day with logging their feelings on the 'Mood Tracker' app and having a look at their visual timetable, ensuring all the children are prepared for the great lessons ahead. 

Numeracy

This term we have been learning about Angles inside shapes and how to find missing Angle sizes, Calculating Area and Perimeter, Surface Area, Volume and Money. We have learnt these concepts and been developing our skills in a variety of fun and exciting ways, including:

• Missing Angles board games
• Bingo
• Building cubes and cuboids with centicubes to find the Volume
• Area and perimeter scavenger hunts
• TT Rockstars competitions
• Education City acitivites
• Plan a 'Fun Day' activity for our class - keeping within the budget
• iPad/computer online games to support our Mental Maths skills

Literacy

We are developing our skills in: 

• Writing - using a variety of genres 
• Reading- using Accelarated Reader, silent reading and guided reading. 
• Talking and Listening- including Philosophy for Children (p4c). 

We started this term by completing our report writing. We completed this byresearching the 5W's of the RMS Titanic sinking, then using this reserch and planning to write our own newspaper reports on Microsoft Publisher.  These were amazing and displayed in the corridor for the whole school to enjoy. 

We then started our diary writing. First, we looked at the features and layout of a diary entry then we took part in some modelled, shared and guided writing. As a class we agreed on the Success Criteria. Pupils then began their independent writing by planning on a 'Thinking Map' and using this to write their own diary piece as a child on the RMS Titanic. We recorded these diary enteries as a Vlog on the iPads and peer assessed them afterwards. This was lots of fun and enjoyed by all. 

Another piece of writing we are enjoying this term is persuasive writing. We watched some TV adverts together and answered the question "What persuades you as a result of the advert and how?" We then read some persuasive texts and asked them same questions. Taking all of these ideas a having decided on the Success Criteria based on the features and knowledge of persuasive writing the pupils then got to designing some posters on the laptops/iPads to persuade passengers to to travel on the Titanic. 

World Around Us

In Primary 6 and 7 we are excited to begin learning about a range of World Around Us topics. These are:

Term 1: Mighty Me and Ancient Egyptians

Term 2: Titanic

Term 3: World in Motion

 As part of our TitaincAncient topic we have been learning lots of interesting and exciting new facts. We have been using our ICT skills, to research facts, create PowerPoints and make our own video diary vlogs on the 'Green Screen' app to share with our peers. We have also enjoyed making the various rooms of the Titanic using junk art materials and drawing our own Titanic pictures based on Ken Marschall.