P.6 Mrs. Duncan
 

Visit to Blairs

At the end of March we visited the beautiful Blairs College and Museum. We had been studying Mary Queen of Scots and the Catholic and Protestant religions. We really enjoyed this visit, being allowed to play the organ and then we were treated to a performance of Star Wars on it! We also got to dress up in period costumes and saw  a portrait of Mary which had been brought here from France.
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Podcast

The 'Action' Reading Group were reading a play called 'Chips Off The Old Block.'
We decided to try turning a Scene from this into the School's first ever 'Podcast'. We recorded ourselves reading the Scene, and a few sound effects (water, sneezes, running feet and heads being chopped off!) These were edited together and converted into an MP3 file . The entire recording lasts about 8mnutes.
Click on the picture, centre, below to hear the result, or download to your I-Pod of course!

Reading Buddies

We get together with P.6 to share our favourite books. We read to each other and talk about the books.

Talks on
Heat, Light and Power.

We have been studying The Tudors and each did a talk on Heat, Light and Power; Then and Now.
We could present this in any way we wanted.
Here are some photos of some of us in action.

Some of used PowerPoint Presentations. Click on the pictures below to view these presentations.
Click each slide to view effects and to move on.

 Matthew's

Flapjacks Enterprise

This year P.6 and Mrs. Duncan have been making and selling Flapjacks, for their Enterprise project. They started  by discussing what they would  do and taking the decision to make Flapjacks. They picked this because they had a Microwave, could use the Nursery's oven and they were easy to make and serve.
They split into five teams:
 Management
Sales
Accounting
Marketing
Baking.
They all took a hygiene mini course, run by Mrs. Duncan, and had to apply for the job they wanted.
The teams then made posters, advertisements and estimated how much money would be spent and how much raised.
All the planning took around four weeks and they then had two days when they sold flapjacks at lunch time.
They set up the stage for selling and for while the school went flapjack mad!
They sold 120 the first week and 225 the second week. Each flapjack was sold for 20p and they made £49 profit.
They all had lots of fun as well as learning a lot about a business and working as a team. The rest of the school enjoyed their flapjacks too, as you can see below.
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(by Rachel and Olivia.)

German Assembly

P.6 did a German assembly on Friday 21st November. They sang two songs in German, told us lots of interesting facts about Germany and did a Christmas play in German.
P.6 are taught German by Mrs. McHattie. They performed really well and 'ja' it was good!
(by John)
Click the pictures below to see video of the songs.

O Tannenbaum
 

Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht