With more warm weather predicted for this week, please remember to: ☀️apply sun screen before school 💧send a full water bottle with your child. 🧢send sun hats for your child to wear when outdoors. Your support is always appreciated.

P6R v P6B at Football rounders today. Team P6R triumphed 💪💫

Today we are using our research skills and researching Group C from the World Cup. Ask us who the most capped player is for Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Wishing Queen Casey Ann, her retinue and all of our children a wonderful Children’s Day. Hope the sun keeps shining for you all. ☀️

We had a great time at Grangemouth HS Art department today. We learned about printmaking and got to make our own prints and tote bags.

We have been enjoying solving Countdown number problems.

We up levelled some basic sentences today using our knowledge of VCOP.

We enjoyed the football today and were lucky to let the Children’s Day Queen hand out the medals!

We enjoyed the football today and were lucky to let the Children’s Day Queen hand out the medals!

We will be watching the Children’s Day Football tomorrow. Please ensure your child is dressed to be outdoors.

We had a great day at Five Sisters Zoo!

School Trip Reminder: Please bring a backpack to school. Have packed lunch inside backpack (any pre ordered school lunches will be issued in the morning.) Please have a jacket, either worn or inside backpacks. We will be outdoors without shelter all day. Thank you. 😃

What a terrific day we had at the Sky Up Academy. So many skills learned and lots of pupils trying new things. 🤩

Today we chose from a range of tasks which were World Cup related. Lots of pupils were keen to work within a budget to build their own football team, some designed new strips and some designed new flags.

Beancross World Cup Adventure is tomorrow!

We are looking at iconic sporting moments from either Scotland or the country we have been researching. What sporting moment did your child create as a mural?

We enjoyed our rugby taster session with Cammy from the Grangemouth Stags.

Today we are calculating the speed of a journey using a formula. We have access to calculators for this. Some pupils chose to split their screen and some chose to use a calculator on their desk.

⚽️🌎🏆 Beancross World Cup Adventure 🏆🌎⚽️ 📆Thursday 11 June 👇🏼information about the day is below.

We did a “World Cup Draw” and were allocated a random country that are partaking in the World Cup. We researched this country after researching Scotland yesterday. Next week we will compare them.

We used a formula today to see how long a journey would take.

Today we are learning how to calculate the distance travelled by knowing the speed and the time. We are using a formula to do this. Ask us what the formula is.

Miss McKell has taught us how to use different features in Garage Band. Ask your child to hear their creation!

Today we practiced our new spelling words and used our digital skills to summarise our reading books by using an app of our choice.

After converting different units of time, we enjoyed a scavenger hunt to find a hidden message. What was the message?

It’s Sports Day tomorrow!🥳 Please wear your P.E. kit and bring a water bottle 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ You can wear your house colours too if you want but no football strips please 🎽👟 Reminder of house colours: Bell - 🔴 Somerville - 🔵 Fleming - 🟡 Wallace - 🟢 @beancross.bsky.social

After learning about proof reading in grammar, we extended this today to editing and up levelling sentences. How can we improve sentences? Ask your child.

With more warm weather predicted for this week, please remember to: ☀️apply sun screen before school 💧send a full water bottle with your child. 🧢send sun hats for your child to wear when outdoors. Your support is always appreciated.

In maths we are learning to read timetables. We got a mock timetable for the High School and learned how to read this. We then answered a range of questions on this by finding the correct information. #LifeSkill

Massive thanks to John, Christine and Mrs Meikle for helping us through our Bikeability 2 course. Certificates will be issued at assembly next week. 🤩

Some videos of us putting our Bikeability skills in to action!

We practised our aiming and shooting techniques in Basketball then incorporated this in to our games today.

We are enjoying Bikeability and learning new skills outside of the school grounds.

We had our first Bikeability 2 session today. Tomorrow we will be on the streets around the school with the Cycle Scotland Instructors and Mrs Meikle.

Reminder that P6R have Bikeability 2 this week. Please have suitable clothing and footwear on every day for this. If you have your own helmet at home then please feel free to bring this.

We used Curipod to practise syllabification too. We liked the AI feedback and we discussed the parts of this we agreed with and disagreed with.

Today we practised the strategy of syllabification before we started our spelling strategy task. Did this help? Ask your child.

Today we are using our plans from Monday to write a recount of A Pencil’s Tale. Ask us what message was given in the video.

We played basketball in PE today. We learned it was a “non contact” sport. What does this mean? Ask P6R.

Today we practised our proof reading skills and our spelling task. Did we proof read our spelling?

Today we answered a range of questions on our novels. Ask your child what inferential questions are.

We collated our dribbling and passing skills in basketball today and played some games. Some very good teamwork displayed and we discussed our next steps for next week too to progress our learning.

Today we looked at one of our core targets: proof reading. We discussed why this was an important skill to have and then practised this skill with passages that had errors in them. We had to find 10 errors in total, did your child manage it?

During PE we played a few new playground games today.

The Elmo and Stitch groups and I read their novels today. Everyone seems to be enjoying their new books.

We continued our work on fractions today. We are realising the link between our times tables and fractions more and more.

We are learning about equivalent fractions today. We explored how to create these by busing our times tables knowledge.

We are using the reading strategy of metalinguistics today and we are exploring the words in our novels. Ask your child what words they explored today.

We used a translator to search for French words. We used these to then build a sentence in French.

We worked hard on Sumdog yesterday recapping Prime Numbers and practising our tables and division facts.