Outdoor Learning Challenge

We are excited about the upcoming trip to Holyrood Park on Wednesday 18th September! There are a number of activities available, including mountain-biking, orienteering and fire-making, which are being run by different organisations from across Edinburgh and wider Scotland. Remember to remind your child to bring appropriate clothing!

Buddying Programme

This year we are setting up a Playground Buddy scheme for the P6's to do focused play with the P1's and P2's during break times. The class will attend training within class

During the first week of term, the P6 pupils created a Class Charter. We

discussed the importance of children having rights and thought about how we are each responsible for ensuring those

rights. In groups, we then worked together to create rules and expectations which we think are important for a happy and productive classroom. Here they are!

We will make sure that we use positive language and make positive choices when we feel angry or upset. We will

think about our resilience strategies to help us!

We need to use our growth mindset strategies to help us to challenge

P6 Rugby

Over the past two weeks, we were lucky enough to be given the opportunity to participate in sessions run by the Murrayfield Wanderers!

The sessions focused on developing skills in both contact and non-contact rugby and were thoroughly enjoyed by all involved.

The players from Murrayfield Wanderers are enthusiastic about continuing to develop the rugby skills within the upper school at Sighthill. They will be running morning club every Friday starting at 8.00am and are hoping this will lead to participation in games and tournaments out-with the school.

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Maths and Numeracy – throughout the rest of the term, there will be a large focus on developing competency skills for addition and subtraction. Specifically, being able to use different and effective strategies for solving different addition and subtraction calculations.

Literacy – within literacy, we will be continuing to develop our writing skills, paying close attention to our ability to reflect upon and explain our learning to our peers. Moreover, we will focus on comprehension skills, using our class novel and our core reading groups.

Health and Wellbeing - the big focus within Health and Wellbeing is to continue to develop our resilience skills and on skills for regulating emotions in a positive manner.

IDL – our topic of The Titanic will promote development in many skills, including: skills in researching and analysing information from different sources; identifying important information and ordering it appropriately; using problem-solving skills to design and create models.

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The children have been settling in well to Primary 6. We have invested a lot of time in establishing our expectations for the year and reflecting upon our growth mindset strategies. We are looking forward to having a positive P6 experience!

So far this term, we have been busy learning to describe, plot and record the location of different coordinates. We managed to create fun emoji pictures using our skills! We have also used our problem-solving skills to identify and classify different angles using the first letter of our name.

We have focused a lot on our tools for writing, particularly on extending and enriching our vocabulary. We have analysed different pieces of writing and discussed the ambitious words that we found. As well as this, we worked collaboratively to create a bank of our ambitious vocabulary for our wall display, so we can up-level our imaginative writing.

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Parents

Our Learning Journey so far…

Where will our learning go next?

Outdoor Learning Challenge

We are excited about the upcoming trip to Holyrood Park on Wednesday 18th September! There are a number of activities available, including mountain-biking, orienteering and fire-making, which are being run by different organisations from across Edinburgh and wider Scotland. Remember to remind your child to bring appropriate clothing!

Buddying Programme

This year we are setting up a Playground Buddy scheme for the P6's to do focused play with the P1's and P2's during break times. The class will attend training within class

During the first week of term, the P6 pupils created a Class Charter. We

discussed the importance of children having rights and thought about how we are each responsible for ensuring those

rights. In groups, we then worked together to create rules and expectations which we think are important for a happy and productive classroom. Here they are!

We will make sure that we use positive language and make positive choices when we feel angry or upset. We will

think about our resilience strategies to help us!

We need to use our growth mindset strategies to help us to challenge

P6 Rugby

Over the past two weeks, we were lucky enough to be given the opportunity to participate in sessions run by the Murrayfield Wanderers!

The sessions focused on developing skills in both contact and non-contact rugby and were thoroughly enjoyed by all involved.

The players from Murrayfield Wanderers are enthusiastic about continuing to develop the rugby skills within the upper school at Sighthill. They will be running morning club every Friday starting at 8.00am and are hoping this will lead to participation in games and tournaments out-with the school.

Maths and Numeracy – throughout the rest of the term, there will be a large focus on developing competency skills for addition and subtraction. Specifically, being able to use different and effective strategies for solving different addition and subtraction calculations.

Literacy – within literacy, we will be continuing to develop our writing skills, paying close attention to our ability to reflect upon and explain our learning to our peers. Moreover, we will focus on comprehension skills, using our class novel and our core reading groups.

Health and Wellbeing - the big focus within Health and Wellbeing is to continue to develop our resilience skills and on skills for regulating emotions in a positive manner.

IDL – our topic of The Titanic will promote development in many skills, including: skills in researching and analysing information from different sources; identifying important information and ordering it appropriately; using problem-solving skills to design and create models.

The children have been settling in well to Primary 6. We have invested a lot of time in establishing our expectations for the year and reflecting upon our growth mindset strategies. We are looking forward to having a positive P6 experience!

So far this term, we have been busy learning to describe, plot and record the location of different coordinates. We managed to create fun emoji pictures using our skills! We have also used our problem-solving skills to identify and classify different angles using the first letter of our name.

We have focused a lot on our tools for writing, particularly on extending and enriching our vocabulary. We have analysed different pieces of writing and discussed the ambitious words that we found. As well as this, we worked collaboratively to create a bank of our ambitious vocabulary for our wall display, so we can up-level our imaginative writing.

Class Information for

Parents