Welcome to Primary Six

Our teachers are Mrs McCambridge and Mrs Gorman

Literacy: We love to read in Primary Six and our teachers make sure we have lots of books. We read a range of novels and interesting fact books. Two of the class novels we read together are ‘A Girl Called Blue’ and ‘Stormbreaker’. We are brilliant writers – we have written reports on the Rainforest and The Great Barrier Reef, made brochures for charities we have designed ourselves, written explanation pieces about ‘The Water Cycle’, written and performed ‘Water Raps’ and much, much more! We use drama throughout our literacy and enjoy hot seating, freeze frames, tableau and conscience alley activities linked to novels.

We enjoy talking and listening activities – we show our classmates our work and take on different roles within our groups.

Numeracy: Maths is fun in Primary Six! We carry out lots of investigations – we use geo boards to learn about shape, learn about tessellations through artists such as M.C. Escher, learn about the capacity of streams and oceans, create graphs using our RM Graph and Excel, use food to learn about fractions / decimals / percentages. We will even have a class shop where we will create our own percentage problems for our friends to work out! We measure, weigh and carry out lots of important problem-solving activities. We develop our financial capabilities further by taking part in the Young Enterprise programme where we learn about budgeting, costs and profit.

ICT: We learn about website design and coding. We create animations using Scratch, record water raps using ‘Audacity’ and explore digital music using Garage Band on the iPads. Our teachers love music so we will be using electronic instruments, cutting and mixing tracks like real DJ's!

The World Around Us: All our topic work is carried out through ‘The World Around Us’. We have taken part in a technology week and made cars to carry cream eggs over speed bumps. We made very tall towers out of one roll of newspaper and masking tape – some fell down! We carry out lots of experiments to investigate questions such as ‘How much water is in fruit?’ and ‘Which substances dissolve?’ - we are even making our own water filters. We learn about Fair Trade and the children who work for very long hours, we look at the rights of the child and realise how lucky we are! The Linen Museum is brilliant for us – we learn all about the history of Linen in Lisburn and about the River Lagan.

The Arts:

We are talented young artists! We enjoy creating using different media and materials. We study artist many famous artists, such as Henri Rosseau.  We can all play the recorder and read music. We use Garage Band and are learning how to mix tracks. Our teachers love drama! We have made tableaus of Irish Linen workers, carried out role plays connected to the Linen Industry. We play lots of drama games and when we carried out hot seating activities we got to be ‘Water’. Drama is a really fun way to bring reading alive in our classroom.

PE: We love PE and we are very lucky to have the Racquet’s Club, Lisburn Leisureplex and The Tennis Dome on our doorsteps. We have learned to play badminton, Gaelic, tennis and much more! We get to learn dance and have fun cheer leading.

Religion: We follow the Grow in Love Programme and explore our faith through drama, song, art, stories and poetry. We also learn about different religions through our Education for Diversity Programme.