Bikeability

Bikeability is an exciting opportunity for the P6 pupils to gain an understanding of the practical skills involved in cycling and how to cycle safely on today’ roads. There’s a Bikeability level to suit all the pupils, whether they are just starting out or want to learn to use their bike more safely and more often. The P6’s will be helped to develop better, safer cycling habits. Bikeability will begin in the new term and more information will be provided closer to the time.

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

Playground Buddies

Over the past term, the P6 pupils participated in playground buddy training. They learned about games to play with children, thought about how to engage other children in playground activities and put all of this into practice with trial runs of buddying with our P2 children!

After the pupils completed their training, the P6 pupils had a graduation ceremony, where parents were invited to school to take part in a buddy session and to watch the pupils receive their official certificates and badges.

P6 will begin their playground buddy rota in the New Year. Well done P6!

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Maths and Numeracy – throughout the rest of the term, there will be a large focus on developing competency skills for multiplication and division and on using. 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 functional writing skills, note taking, organizing and using notes effectively to create posters, leaflets, adverts and persuasive pieces of writing.

Health and Wellbeing – we will focus on taking a moment and using our growth mindset skills to persevere and overcoming challenging situations.

IDL – our topic of Plastic Pollution is one which the class are very enthusiastic about. They have decided they would like to research the impact of plastic on the environment and our planet, as well as learning more about what can be done within school to try to help.

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Maths and Numeracy – During term 1 we focused on developing competency skills for addition and subtraction. Specifically, the pupils developed different and effective strategies for solving different addition and subtraction calculations.

Literacy – Within literacy, we focused on creative writing. The pupils learned about aspects including figurative language, character description and creating interesting plot ideas. Moreover, we focused on comprehension skills, using our class novel and our core reading groups, which helped the pupils with their higher order thinking skills.

Health and Wellbeing - the big focus within Health and Wellbeing was to continue to develop our resilience skills and on skills for regulating emotions in a positive manner. We looked at our resilience toolkit and thought about how we could add to it by identifying our personal strengths, thinking about coping strategies and by making achievable goals.

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Our Learning Journey so far…

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Bikeability

Bikeability is an exciting opportunity for the P6 pupils to gain an understanding of the practical skills involved in cycling and how to cycle safely on today’ roads. There’s a Bikeability level to suit all the pupils, whether they are just starting out or want to learn to use their bike more safely and more often. The P6’s will be helped to develop better, safer cycling habits. Bikeability will begin in the new term and more information will be provided closer to the time.

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

Playground Buddies

Over the past term, the P6 pupils participated in playground buddy training. They learned about games to play with children, thought about how to engage other children in playground activities and put all of this into practice with trial runs of buddying with our P2 children!

After the pupils completed their training, the P6 pupils had a graduation ceremony, where parents were invited to school to take part in a buddy session and to watch the pupils receive their official certificates and badges.

P6 will begin their playground buddy rota in the New Year. Well done P6!

Maths and Numeracy – throughout the rest of the term, there will be a large focus on developing competency skills for multiplication and division and on using. 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 functional writing skills, note taking, organizing and using notes effectively to create posters, leaflets, adverts and persuasive pieces of writing.

Health and Wellbeing – we will focus on taking a moment and using our growth mindset skills to persevere and overcoming challenging situations.

IDL – our topic of Plastic Pollution is one which the class are very enthusiastic about. They have decided they would like to research the impact of plastic on the environment and our planet, as well as learning more about what can be done within school to try to help.

Maths and Numeracy – During term 1 we focused on developing competency skills for addition and subtraction. Specifically, the pupils developed different and effective strategies for solving different addition and subtraction calculations.

Literacy – Within literacy, we focused on creative writing. The pupils learned about aspects including figurative language, character description and creating interesting plot ideas. Moreover, we focused on comprehension skills, using our class novel and our core reading groups, which helped the pupils with their higher order thinking skills.

Health and Wellbeing - the big focus within Health and Wellbeing was to continue to develop our resilience skills and on skills for regulating emotions in a positive manner. We looked at our resilience toolkit and thought about how we could add to it by identifying our personal strengths, thinking about coping strategies and by making achievable goals.

Class Information for

Parents