P6 Week Beginning 27.9.21

Hello,

Next week is Maths Week Scotland and Bike to School Week! We will have lots of Maths activities which will explore the use of maths in real life. 

For Bike to School Week, the P5/6/7 will get a visit from the smoothie bike on Monday and on Wednesday we will be having a ‘Bling your Bike’ day! The children can decorate their bike however they like and then bring it into school. 

 P.E. is on Monday and Wednesday afternoon.. Please ensure your child comes to school dressed for P.E. (outside).

Homework will be handed out on Monday and should be handed in on Friday. This week, there will be spelling, reading and numeracy. For Maths Week, I have entered the class into the ‘Maths Week Scotland’ competition on Sumdog. The class glued their Sumdog passwords into their reading records today, so please do log onto Sumdog this week to take part in the competition as their numeracy homework. 

As always, we will have our ZOOM assembly on Friday at 11:30am.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. 

Miss Lauren Waller

Please note the change in my email address:

L.Waller@midlothian.education

P6 Brass Lessons

Hello,

Mr Walker spoke with the class today about signing up for brass lessons at school. He only has a limited number of spaces and quite a few children in the class shared their interest. However, you have to sign up so he is able to contact those who are interested. Please find below instructions on how to do so.

  • Open the Midlothian Council webpage
  • In the top search bar, type ‘apply for music lessons’
  • Click the first link at the top of the page
  • There is more information here about the lessons
  • Scroll down to find ‘How do I sign up?’ and click this, it will take you to the link to sign your child up.

If you have any difficulty with this, then please do contact me and I can speak to Mr Walker to try and resolve any issues there are.

Miss Lauren Waller

P6 Week Beginning 21.9

Hi all, 

I hope you all have a lovely Monday off this coming week. 

This week we will be using the Chromebooks in class for certain lessons, which is very exciting. If the children could please bring into school their Google Workspace logins, then that will make the login process easier. 

P.E. is only on Wednesday afternoon this week. Please ensure your child comes to school dressed for P.E. (outside).

Homework will be handed out on Tuesday and should be handed in on Friday. This week, there will be spelling, reading and numeracy. The numeracy homework is going to be a recap of last week’s learning of adding/subtracting 10, 100 and 1,000 to a number. 

We have no Mandarin with Miss Sun on Wednesday afternoon.

The class is very lucky to have a drumming session on Wednesday morning. They managed to attend an online session last year but it will be nice to be able to do it in person this time round. 

As always, we will have our ZOOM assembly on Friday at 11:30am.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. 

Miss Lauren Waller

L.Waller@midlothian.education

P6 Week Beginning 13.9.21

Hello,

The class really enjoyed their ‘life skills through golf’ day on Tuesday, and we all learned a lot about Old (and young!) Tommy Morris. 

This week, children received their new email addresses and passwords for Google Workspace. Midlothian Education is in the process of updating their IT systems and we will be shifting over to use Google Workspace. I briefly showed the children how to log on but please do have a little play around with it, to get more comfortable with navigating where everything is. 

👟 P.E. is on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Please ensure your child comes to school dressed for P.E. (outside) on those days.

📝 Homework is handed out on Monday and should be handed in on Friday. This week, there will be spelling, reading and numeracy. The numeracy homework is going to be a recap of last week’s learning of comparing numbers.

Mandarin with Miss Sun is on Wednesday afternoon.

Please note that there is a September holiday on Monday 20th September and children will return to school on Tuesday 21st September.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. 

Miss Lauren Waller

L.Waller@midlothian.education

P6 Week beginning 6.9.21

Hi all,

👟 P.E. is on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Please ensure your child comes to school dressed for P.E. (outside) on those days.

📝 Homework is handed out on Monday and should be handed in on Friday. This week, there will be spelling, reading and numeracy. The numeracy homework is revision of addition and subtraction chimney sums, including regrouping and exchanging.

🇨🇳 Mandarin with Miss Sun is on Wednesday afternoon.

⛳️ On Tuesday the class have a workshop to learn about a former Scottish golfing champion, Tommy Morris.

📨 Some of the children received a letter yesterday about a race on Saturday 18th September, the children were asked if they would like to take part and only those who did, received a letter. Please can this be returned on Monday.

🎷 Mr Walker, the brass teacher, spoke with the class on Thursday about the opportunity to learn a brass instrument. Parents/Carers should have received an email about this already and this is just a reminder that registration for it opens on Monday. Please note that P7 do have priority over P6, as they were unable to take part last year, so this may mean there could be limited spaces for P6 pupils. 

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you need anything.

Miss Lauren Waller

L.Waller@mgfl.net

P6 Week beginning 30.8.21

Hi all,

A few reminders for the week:

👟 P.E. is on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Please ensure your child comes to school dressed for P.E. (outside) on those days.

📝 Homework is handed out on Monday and should be handed in on Friday. This week, there will be spelling, reading and numeracy. The numeracy homework is based on what we have been learning this week, place value.

🇨🇳 Mandarin with Miss Sun is on Wednesday afternoon.

👩🏻‍🏫 Meet the Teacher is on Tuesday (31st August) and will be taking place outside of the P6 classroom. If you wish to come along to see me and have a chat about the upcoming year, then please ensure you wear a mask and we will be observing social distancing. Please note this is also weather dependent. 

Please ensure that your child only comes with water in their water bottle.

Thank you,

Miss Lauren Waller

L.Waller@mgfl.net

P6 Week beginning 23.8.21

Hi all,

What a wonderful first few days back the class have had. It has been so lovely to see all the children again and hearing all about their summer.

A few reminders for the week:

👟 P.E. is on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. The class will have an early lunch on Wednesday at 12pm as their P.E. slot begins at 12:45pm, but the rest of the week their lunch is 12:30pm. Please ensure your child comes to school dressed for P.E. on those days.

📝 Homework will begin on Monday and should be handed in on Friday. At the moment, the children will have spelling and reading homework to complete. Reading homework should be completed every night and signed to evidence this. Once we get into the swing of our work, maths/numeracy homework will be assigned too.

🇨🇳 Mandarin with Miss Sun will begin on Wednesday afternoon for the class.

🥛 Milk letters were given out earlier this week, please ensure if you wish for your child to receive milk this term it has to be handed in by Friday 27th August.

👩🏻‍🏫 Meet the Teacher is on Tuesday 31st August and will be taking place outside of the classroom. If you wish to come along to see me and have a chat about the upcoming year, then please ensure you wear a mask and we will be observing social distancing. Please note this is also weather dependent. 

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and if you have any questions, then please do get in touch.

Miss Lauren Waller

L.Waller@mgfl.net

Primary 6 – Welcome Back!

Hi all,

I hope you all had a wonderful summer. I just wanted to make you all aware of a few changes this year.

The children have their morning break at 10:30am and then lunch is at 12:30pm. Please ensure your child comes to school with a snack, packed lunch and water bottle everyday.

P.E. for Primary 6 will be on a Monday and Wednesday afternoon. On Monday and Wednesday, can the children please come dressed in their P.E. kit as we are not using changing facilities. 

The class will be issued homework on a Monday (spelling and reading). This will follow the same format as last year, spelling homework will be due in on Friday and reading homework should be completed every night with a signature beside it to evidence it has been completed. The class will copy their group’s spelling list into their jotter on Monday morning, and there will be a task for them to complete, as well as the usual look, cover, write check. Please encourage cursive handwriting when your child is completing their spelling homework.

We still have our class windows open for ventilation, so you may wish to give your child an extra jumper/hoody to bring in if they get cold. Please ensure all items are labelled.

I am so excited to be teaching the class again, as well as working with you all.

As always, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Miss Lauren Waller

L.Waller@mgfl.net