We had a fantastic trip to Parliament last week. We enjoyed our tour and then had a walk up the Royal Mile and visited the Museum of Childhood.
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Category Archives: Expressive Arts
This morning P6 tasted some Chow Mein. It was very healthy as we had all sorts of vegetables mixed in like carrots, onions and bean sprouts. We also had some prawn crackers and soy sauce. The classroom has a lovely noodle smell now!
Rugby
P6 have been enjoying rugby sessions with Michael on Tuesday afternoons for the past couple of weeks.
Chinese Names and Maths
P6 Investigated the Chinese Yuan by looking at the notes and acting out going to a bureau de change. Most of the class were very good at converting Chinese Yuan to pounds.
Here are P6′s names in Chinese. The class have had fun practising writing these symbols.
Lewis made a fact file at home.
The Tangram is a dissection puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes. The objective of the puzzle is to form a specific shape using all seven pieces, which may not overlap. It was originally invented in China.
China
P6 have been learning about what life is like in three schools in China over the year of the golden Pig. Yesterday they decided to share some of the things they learned with the whole school…
The start of a new and exciting topic.
The Legend of King Loth
P5 and 6 are embarking on the Charades Theatre production of The Legend of King Loth. This is a musical and the children will be singing in groups. Over the next few weeks we will be practising for a final performance which will take place on the 9th November. We will make invitations for families to come and watch the show.
P6 are Group C: Lords & Ladies / The Witches. This is a challenging role but we are confident that we are up for it!
The Charades Theatre representatives have visited to speak to us about the show and have gone through the songs with us, showing us some good (and fun!) exercises to help with our singing.
If you would like further information on the Charades Theatre, please visit the website: www.charadestheatre.co.uk
Kes
Quality Audience
P6 and P7 went to see Kes at the Brunton Theatre last Thursday. To prepare for this exciting trip we took part in a drama workshop. It was great fun and we discovered that some class members are very talented indeed. Everyone took part and enjoyed it. Have a look at our photos!
Vokis
Primary 6 have been using Vokis, a fun and interesting way to present our learning.
We have been reading and studying Coraline by Neil Gaiman. We created characters based on the story using our Voki avatar. We typed a short piece of text based on what we felt a chosen character’s thoughts and feelings were in the story and our Voki could then speak “in character”.
Have a look at some of our Coraline “voki-videos”
Nop
We used our numeracy, problem solving and design skills to make and play a game called “Nop”. We divided A4 card into 12 equal pieces and then we were free to decorate our cards any way we liked. There are a lot of very artistic people in our class! Here are some photos of us making and playing the game in pairs. We might have a Nop tournament…