November

Primary 5/6

The primary 6s have now finished their swimming lessons and we all had a great time. One week we had to pretend we were drowning and some other children had to use a stick or a rope to pull us out. The last week was a great success, as we had to wear our pyjamas to practise our life saving skills.

Our joint assembly with St James Primary School on 12th November went well. Our assembly was about Remembrance Day and we all wore poppies. Everybody was given a small speaking part and a poem and a prayer were said. We performed our assembly at both schools and parents were invited. Our class and St James sang a lovely song “ No Wars Will Stop Us Singing.” The charity we chose to send our collection money was The Royal British Legion.

On Friday the 19th November it was a “Come As You Please Day” and were all brought £1. We had a special visitor from Pudsey Bear that morning and Pudsey collected our money.

Our school Christmas Fair was on Saturday 20th November and we all made our Christmas Craft, a glitter candle holder and these were sold at the Fair.

Primary 5 have been doing experiments in Science and this has been great fun. We have been mixing solids and liquids and predicting the results.

We are going to be very busy learning our Christmas song for the Christmas Concert!

Primary 5/6 have settled in to our new classroom and our new school, we are beginning to get used to the stairs!
Topic
Our topic this term is New Lanark and we will be finding out about David Dale and Robert Owen and all the changes that Robert Owen made.
Science
In science the primary 5’s are studying solids, liquids and gases and we will be carrying out a few experiments over the coming weeks! This willl be fun! The primary 6’s are studying the solar system and we will be researching the different planets.
Swimming
On Wednesday the primary 6 children completed their swimming lessons. We loved this and at our final lesson we wore our pyjamas to assist us with our life saving skills.
Assembly
We have also been busy practising for our joint assembly with primary 6a from St James’s Primary School. Our theme this year is about remembrance. We will perform our assembly at Kirklandenuk Primary School on Friday 12th November at 9.45am and we will also perform our assembly again that day at St James Primary School at 1.30pm.

The school Christmas fayre is on the 20th November and we will need to get busy making our Christmas Craft so that we can sell this at the Christmas Fayre. At the beginning of December we will also be thinking about our Christmas song which we will performing at our Christmas Concert.