{"id":8686,"date":"2018-01-27T11:11:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T11:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?p=8686"},"modified":"2018-01-27T11:11:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T11:11:44","slug":"happy-new-year-from-primary-5-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?p=8686","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year from Primary 5\/6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from Primary 5\/6!<\/p>\n<p>We are busy settling into a new term and looking forward to all the exciting things we will be learning.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Topic\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our current topic is Scotland. We are learning about the Scots language and we used some Scots words when we wrote our own Haiku poems. We also wrote acrostic poems about the Loch Ness monster. They are fab!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8686 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?attachment_id=8687'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_4937.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_4937.jpg 450w, https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_4937-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/?attachment_id=8688'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_4936.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_4936.jpg 450w, https:\/\/st-peters.aberdeen.sch.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_4936-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With Miss Ronald, we worked in groups to create our own &#8216;Oor Willie&#8217; comic book scene. We acted it out in drama and we are going to be writing our own &#8216;Oor Willie&#8217; playscripts!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51DEmfgUw1L._SX353_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for oor wullie\" width=\"148\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are also learning about the poet Robert Burns. We used laptops to research his life and then created factfiles using this information.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Maths<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are\u00a0\u00a0learning to tell the time on analogue clocks using o\u2019 clock, half past, quarter past, quarter to, five minute and one minute intervals.\u00a0We are also solving problems where we can complete time calculations using our knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Language<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We have started our new class novel &#8216;Holes&#8217; by Louis Sachar. We have already used our skills of &#8216;predicting&#8217; to discuss what we think will happen in the story, using information from the blurb and the front and back covers. This week we will be looking at &#8216;inference&#8217; and we will try to write character descriptions, justifying our ideas by using evidence from the text.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk\/year6-r\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2015\/09\/holes.jpg\" alt=\"Related image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for all your support,<\/p>\n<p>Miss Webb and Miss Ronald<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from Primary 5\/6! 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