Primary 6/7 Kirklandneuk

2011-05-16T18:49:00.004+01:00

Primary 6/7 have enjoyed their first few weeks back in Term 4 after a wll deserved Spring Break. Having worked very hard to produce a fabulous Open Evening, the pupils deserved to relax. They visited the People's Palace after their Open Evening and enjoyed putting their learning into practice.

This term, Primary 6 have been going to the swimming baths for more lessons, and are becoming superb swimmmers. While Primary 6 are swimming, Primary 7 have been participating in a Renfrew High School transition programme and learning a bit about what going to High School will be like.

Primary 6 are also participating in the Cycling Proficiency programme and learning about the safe ways in which to cycle. This has been a valuable experience.

We are looking forward to our reward at the end of the term, hopefully we get our choice. We are also looking forward to our Sports Day, lets hope the weather is nice on the day!

There is not long to go for this school year, but we will have lots of fun things to do before the summer holidays begin.

Secret Topic Unveiled

2011-04-05T15:50:00.003+01:00

Primary 6/7 have had a really busy term, especially in the final 2 weeks.

This term, our focus has been on our secret topic, which was finally revealed on Tuesday 29 April to our parents. We were so pleased to show off our work and learning about The Swinging Sixties to our family and friends. We had various activities to test the learning of our parents and we are pleased to say that they did very well!! The run up to the unveiling was very exciting with lots of productive learning and preparation taking place.

Miss Breslin is very proud of all of the pupils in her class. They all worked so hard to make the evening a huge success and the evidence of this was in the pride of family and friends.

Primary 7 went on their residential trip a few weeks before the Easter holidays and had so much fun (even in the Snow!) The primary 7s who stayed went on lots of fun activities during their activity week. Primary 6 and Miss Breslin missed them all and were glad to have everyone back.

Primary 6 took over the running of the Parent Run Library that week and their hard work and effort was commended by all the parents. Well done Primary 6.

The day after the Open Evening was just as exciting for Primary 6/7. We went on our school trip the People's Palace and were able to show off our learning about the Swinging Sixties as well as learn some more exciting facts of the decade. What fun!

The pupils of Kirklandneuk were very lucky to receive a performance by a new girl band - Sugar Bullet and Primary 6/7 loved listening to their songs.

We hope to have a fun term (yet hard working, hopefully) after the Easter holidays.

Term 3 Update

2011-02-25T21:16:00.003Z

Primary 6/7 are having a fun and busy term so far. We are busy learning about our Secret Topic, and working at converting our classroom into a room that displays our oh-so secret topic. We have been working co-operatively, deciding on activities and guiding our teacher, Miss Breslin, in our learning. We are enjoying working in groups, taking on roles and ensuring we create the best possible outcome.

As well as our Secret topic, we have participated in some extra-curricular activities. Primary 7 have been going to Renfrew High School for trampolining and are really enjoying that. A couple of mornings a week, we have been doing aerobics as a school in the mornings, which have really woken us up (and exhausted others - Miss Breslin!)

Primary 6 had curling with Ian Armour, and enjoyed participating in something they hadn't tried before.

We are having fun in ICT, creating a yearbook for primary 6 and a separate one for primary 7. It has been fun thinking about our previous years in school and remembering them fun events that have happened.

Secret Topic

2011-02-04T15:23:00.002Z

After a relaxing Christmas holiday, Primary 6/7 came back to school refreshed and looking forward to a new and exciting term. Primary 6 came straight back to rehearsals for their Burns's Assembly and Ceilidh, which took place on Friday 21st of January. They learned many songs and poems, along with many new and interesting facts about the life of Robert Burns. All this information came together on the day to provide an entertaining assembly for the rest of the school and their parents. The evening was a huge success with another presentation, the address to the haggis and toast to the lassies and ladies. Once the meal was over, they were able to let their hair down with some Ceilidh dancing.

Primary 6/7 has begun their research for their secret topic, which will culminate in an open evening for their parents to observe their hard work and learning. Already they have found out many interesting facts about their topic and have some superb ideas, which will make the evening a success.

We had WOW week on week beginning 31.1.11 which proved very successful and thought provoking. We had some excellent guest speakers, thank you to everyone.

Term 2 in Primary 6/7

2010-11-04T19:30:00.004Z

Primary 6/7 have had a very exciting start to Term 2, moving to a new building. We had a visitor waiting for us - Teeth the Robot who spent the morning with us. That was an interesting and fun start to our term.

We have settled into the new building and are enjoying exploring it.

We have a busy term ahead of us, looking at Natural and Man-Made Disasters for our topic and researching some of these disasters. We will be learning about some of them by completing some practical activities in our critical skills challenges.

In RME, we will be looking at how countries in Europe celebrate Christmas and if/how it differs from how we celebrate it in Britain.

Primary 6 will be looking at Energy Sources in Science, as will Primary 7, revising what we learned in Primary 6 and developing our knowledge of fossil fuels.

David from Reid Kerr is still coming in once a week to work with us on further developing our ICT skills. We will be doing a lot of research on Natural and Man-Made Disasters and on developing our word processing skills.

Primary 6 have just completed our swimming block and Miss Breslin is proud of how much we achieved during this time.

Primary 7 will be getting curling lessons at Braehead and we have had a trial run at it already. This has made us feel really excited about going and we can't wait to start.

As Christmas is coming up, we will soon be completing a craft activity which we will then sell at the Christmas Fayre to our parents and friends. We will be participating in the Christmas Concert and Miss Breslin has chosen a really fun song for us to sing at it. We can't wait to start rehearsing it and performing it to our audience.

We hope the fun continues!

Welcome to Primary 6/7

2010-09-18T19:06:00.005+01:00

Primary 6/7 have been very busy this term doing lots of exciting things. We have a new teacher called Miss Breslin and have made many new friends, some of whom have come from Moorpark Primary School.

We are taking on a lot of new responsibilities this year. Primary 6 have been doing this through the Playmakers Scheme, Dinner Duty and being litter pickers. Primary 7 have become buddies, monitors and DJs which we are really enjoying.

Primary 7 have worked together to prepare for our 'Back To School With God' assembly which was a fabulous success. Our teachers Miss Breslin and Miss McCurdy were so pleased with how hard we worked to make it so successful.

As well as being so busy carrying out our important responsibilities, we have been working hard in class. For RME we learned about Durga Puja, a Hindu Goddess and this week we started our new topic - Global Citizenship. We have been working in groups to complete many fun challenges with each of us having our own roles and responsibilities.

P6 have been learning all about the human body in Science and were shocked to discover that the human body has 206 bones and over 600 muscles. P7 are going to be learning about weight for Science.

We are looking forward to the new challenges ahead and working together to become Successful Learners.