P-6 Blog

Mary and Amy’s KNEX Challenge

Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Mr Dagger.
Categories: Numeracy and Mathematics, Technologies.

On Thursday 15th of May Mary and Amy represented Gullane at the North Berwick Cluster Final of the KNEX Challenge. The girls had to read a design brief, plan, build and test a model before submitting to a final test. This time round a motor was added to the kit and they had to incorporate this into their design. The girls worked really well together and designed a very good model which was successful in crossing the bridge from the challenge.

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KNEX Challenge

Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Mr Dagger.
Categories: Numeracy and Mathematics, Technologies.

On Friday 9th of May Primary 6 took part in a KNEX challenge. They had to plan, design and build a vehicle that could carry a shoe, without dropping it when it was driven down a hill. The class worked well together in pairs and the winning team were Mary and Amy who will be going to NBHS next week to take part in another challenge against children from other schools. Well done Mary and Amy!

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Europe Map Challenge

Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Mr Dagger.
Categories: Expressive Arts, Literacy and English, Numeracy and Mathematics, Social Studies.

In their new home-teams the Primary 6 children at Gullane Primary were given the following challenge.

Produce a large map of Europe, showing the different countries and their flags. Your map should indicate which countries are members of the European Union and which have adopted the Euro. Your map must include a key. As well as your map, you should include a written piece of work which explains simply, what the E.U. is and how/why the flag was designed.

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3D Shape Challenge

Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Mr Dagger.
Categories: Numeracy and Mathematics.

Primary 6 were asked to show their understanding of the relationship between 3D objects and their nets. Here is the challenge they were given.

Create a mobile for an infant’s cot/crib. The mobile should be made up entirely of 3D objects, which you have made using nets. The mobile should include at least 3 different 3D objects. You can make as many 3D objects to hang from the mobile as you feel appropriate. The mobile should take on a theme of your choosing and be stimulating and bright to look at.

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2D Shape

Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Mr Dagger.
Categories: Numeracy and Mathematics.

We were given a challange to create a poster giving descriptions on diffrent shapes (Trapezium, rhombus, square, circle, pentagon, kite, equalateral triangle, isoscles triangle, hexagon, octogan, rectangle.) and some people did a few others (like chevron, eclipse and parallelogram). We were in pairs and used stencils ect. to draw the shapes. Here are some examples: Square: A square is like a rectangle but with all equal sides (making it an equilateral) and all angles are right angles. Circle: A circle is a closed curve/line.
Then we presented our posters to the rest of a class.

by Bethany

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Division

Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Mr Dagger.
Categories: Numeracy and Mathematics.

After some revision and new learning in division P6 got to take their new skills out for a spin, first in some active learning where they played games and recorded their findings and secondly in a challenge. The groups were challenged to find the cost of different games consoles and work out how much each member of their group would have to pay to buy them if they were sharing the cost.

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