For our Summer Fayre this year P5 decided to run a ‘Decorate a Doughnut’ stall. We were very enterprising throughout the whole process. We came up with ideas for toppings and looked at supermarkets online to compare prices and to create a shopping list. We wrote to Asda and Tesco and we were lucky enough to receive some free doughnuts and toppings. You can see by the pictures below we were very excited by the arrival of the doughnuts from Asda and we loved trying them!

We then went on to make posters and banners to advertise our stall. Together we made menus, labels and boxes!

We are pleased to say we made a huge profit of £72! We were so pleased. Overall, the school made a massive £1784! Well done all at St Ninian’s. Thanks to Tesco and Asda for donating items to us and to all who came and decorated a doughnut with us!! It was great fun! 😊

In P.E we have been working on our basketball skills. We have been practising our dribbling, passing and shooting. We have played a number of drills to help us move, pivot, crossover and jumpstop. We have now played some mini games and are getting better at passing and getting into spaces so that our team mates can pass to us.

This term we have been learning about natural disasters and their impact. We started by doing research in groups before teaching each other about about one natural disaster and what causes it.

We looked more closely at volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes and tornadoes and what you can do to stay safe in the even of one. We really enjoyed playing ‘Disaster Master’ online where we had to decide what to do to protect ourselves in an emergency situation. It gave us lots of useful tips but was also fun!

We have been working really hard and some of us have been doing extra work at home. We were all really impressed by the homework projects of Sian, Rebecca and David! Well done girls on your underwater vents and David on your active volcano!

Term 4 is here and this week we moved into new co-operative learning groups. We spent some time chatting and  finding out some facts about each other. We then came up with new team names based on this information. We designed group banners and presented them to the rest of the class. Miss Douglas was super impressed to see how well we worked together. We shared resources, listened and encouraged each other. Great start to the term!

This term we are going to be observing and recording the weather in our weather journals. It is often cloudy in Scotland and today we looked at the most common types of clouds. Some are thin and wispy (cirrus), some are round and fluffy (cumulus) and some are like blankets that block out the sun (stratus).  We watched video clips of different clouds and used cotton wool to create cloud shapes. Although clouds look bouncy and fluffy, they are actually very heavy and made from water droplets. The form and appearance of a cloud depends on the conditions around it. We finished by using cloud viewers to look at the sky and we spotted some stratus and nimbus clouds.

In maths we are learning to use calendars and timetables for different purposes. We have discussed what they are used for and how they are organised. We have spent time looking at a variety of bus, train and boat timetables. We have also calculated the length of journeys and used timetables to solve problems. On Thursday and Monday we worked with our partner to find information about arrival and departure times from a number of places in the UK.

During Fit Thursday we took part in dance, botcha, table tennis and boxercise. We also did our daily 15 and a mile walk!  It was a very active day indeed! Here are some pictures of us taking part in the different activities.

The word ‘Scotland’ stirs up many thoughts and emotions, which is very helpful when it comes to writing poetry. During class literacy on Wednesday we learnt about cinquain poems. A cinquain poem has 5 lines, each with a certain number of syllables and it doesn’t have to rhyme. We brainstormed describing, action and feeling words before writing poems about Scotland. They turned out really well!

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We have been learning about Scotland’s natural features and this week we looked at Scottish landscape artist John Lowrie Morrison (Jolomo). To help us gain a better understanding of his art we started the lesson by discussing his work in groups. We then created paintings in his style using bold colours and short brushstrokes.

We agreed that his work is colourful and that we would quite like to visit the places in his paintings because they make us feel calm and free. We really enjoyed exploring his paintings and trying out his techniques.

Jolomo is an expressionist painter which means showing emotion in his work is more important than making it look realistic. His paintings include many features of Scotland’s landscape including hills, rivers and beaches.

This week we have been learning to tell the time to the minute and calculate time durations. We have also been learning about 24 hour time and how to convert time between 12 and 24 hour clocks. We made some clock displays to help us remember and enforce our new learning.