P6 have welcomed their new teacher this term, Miss Nimmo! Miss Nimmo will be working with P6 on Monday to Wednesday, and Miss Todd will teach them on Thursdays and Fridays. Miss Nimmo and Miss Todd are both so excited to be working with such a hardworking and enthusiastic class!

Whilst P.E. lessons have to take place outside, the P6 P.E. day is a Tuesday. On this day, the pupils can come to school wearing appropriate clothing for taking part in physical activity outside. For many of the pupils, their normal school uniform is fine for this. However, joggers/leggings, T-shirts/hoodies and trainers can also be worn. For the rest of the term, P6 will continue to focus on Invasion Games!

Children at Sighthill will also be taking part in Outdoor Learning on a daily basis, so try to remember to wear your warmest outerwear, especially in this colder term!

During the first few weeks of term, the P6 pupils created a Class Charter. The pupils

discussed the importance of children having rights and responsibilities, and

then thought about how they link with the school values. P6 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

ourselves and to try the best we can. We should inspire our peers to do the

same!

We want to be kind and helpful to those around us by encouraging them and building them up using our words.

We want everyone to feel welcome in our class by making sure we are kind

and treat others fairly, without judging them.

We should listen to others when they are talking and show respect for them,

their opinions and their ideas. We

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Literacy: P6 will continue to develop their comprehension skills, analysis skills and discussion skills through our new Class Novel, ‘Our City’ (a compilation of short stories based in and around Edinburgh), which the children are engaging well with to date.

Numeracy: Our Beyond Number topic for this term is Shape and Symmetry. Within this, we will be exploring the properties of 2D and 3D Shape; the nets of shapes; creating representations of our own 2D/3D shapes through a variety of methods and resources and learning to illustrate the lines of symmetry for a range of 2D shapes (applying this understanding for creating and completing symmetrical pictures and patterns).

Health and Wellbeing: The big focus within Health & Wellbeing is to continue to develop resilience skills, growth mindset strategies and skills for regulating emotions in a positive manner. We will focus on kindness (through positive friendships), equality, our mental health and relationships, including the role of the parent/carer.

Other: During our Fortnightly assembly, we are learning

about kindness and how we can be “Bucket-Fillers” to develop our empathy for and communication skills with

others. We are currently creating a class display for this with our art specialist, Mr. Pearce.

Class: Primary 6Term 2

Important Notes Our Class Charter!

Exciting News!Our Successes &

Achievements Literacy: In term 1, we enjoyed focusing on our

tools for writing, particularly on extending and enriching vocabulary. We enjoyed finishing our Class Novel, Sky Hawk , and completing a range of comprehension skills around each chapter to further our understanding of the

text and the author’s writing style. Numeracy : During Term 1, our P6’s enjoyed

learning about angle in their Beyond Number math topic. They acquired the skill of utilising protractors to measure unknow angles well and were challenged with calculating a missing angle in a right-angled triangle by applying a known formula.

Health and Wellbeing : The children enjoyed engaging in discussions and activities about alcohol and substance misuse and are now able to describe the dangers involved for given scenarios.

Other: (IDL, Outdoor Learning, Digital Learning, discrete)The children enjoyed role-playing a variety of peer pressure scenarios in Drama to reinforce their knowledge and understanding of our Health & Wellbeing topic, alcohol and substance misuse. Each week, the children have also enjoyed exploring the great outdoors to enhance the classroom learning experience. We have been practicing our spelling words each week with chalk in our playground by employing a range of active spelling strategies. We have also enjoyed our time with an Active Schools coordinator to practice our team games and skills. Next term, we look forward to learning a variety of Digital Learning Skills each Friday with Miss. Addis!

Class Information for

Parents

Our Learning Journey so far…

Where will our learning go next?

Sighthill Primary School

1 Calder Park

TEL: 0131 453 2464

Email: admin@sighthill.edin.sch.uk

P6’s Successes and Achievement mentions this term go to…

*Charlie G for his excellent acting skills during a drama lesson about dealing with peer pressure. He was confident and great at improvising during the sketch. Watch out Hollywood!

And…

*Martyna K for showing that she was a ‘ready’ and engaged learner during Literacy for our new Class Novel, Our City.  Martyna demonstrated excellent understanding of the text and completed her compression activity to a high standard, well done!  

And our first Fabulous Friday ‘Above and Beyond’ nomination went to Amelia M for being such a good, positive and consistent worker who is always polite and respectful.  

A huge well done to all of the above for not only being fabulous, but for epitomising our School Values: Ready, Respected & Safe! 😊 Reach for the stars P6!!!