As part of our learning in Skills Academy about Body Systems we have been looking at the Digestive System.

First of all food enters the mouth and the process begins.  Our teeth and saliva break down our food into smaller chunks.

Our bowl was our mouth and the rolling pin/wooden spoon was our teeth.  We added water for saliva and a drink.

Next this travels down the oesophagus into the stomach.

We used a funnel for the oesophagus and a food bag as our stomach.

We then had to churn the food over in our stomach, this can happen for 6-12 hours in our body.

Then it went on to our intestines.  This is where all the vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates and protein is absorbed into our bloodstream to travel around the body to where they are needed.

We used tights for the intestine and had to squeeze as much of the liquid out as wee could.  This is all the goodness our body absorbs from our food.

Finally, it was time to go to the toilet!!!!  Any waste products is excreted as faeces.

Primary 5 were quite surprised about how much our body absorbs back in from the food we eat, but thought this activity was pretty disgusting!!

To help Miss Anderson get to know everyone in the class, we created self-portraits, which we split in half.  Half of our face was a true likeness and the other half contained things that we like.  This helped Miss Anderson learn more about us.

As part of our work in Literacy Evolve, we have been reading ‘Christophe’s Story.’  A book about a boy who had to flee war in Rwanda and came to England.  We discussed the United Nations Conventions of the Rights of the Child and linked these to parts of the story.  We chose an article to look at and we identified where Christophe’s rights were or were not being met in the story.  This was very though-provoking in understanding that not all children across the glob have access to their rights.

Primary 5 – Term One

As part of our Rights Respecting Schools and Outdoor Learning we went out into the playground with our chalk.  We had to draw around our partner’s outline and make sure we put our name to it.  Then we had to go around everybody’s and identify the positive qualities they have.  We wrote these inside the body outline.  It was nice to look at all the nice things people said about us.

Primary 5 have been really busy setting up our learning environment and creating our class charter.  Pupils chose a ‘Minions’ theme and we had a lot of discussion about what rights were most important to us and how pupils and staff will work together to make sure all of P5 are accessing these rights.

P5 Newsletter – Term 4

P5 Newsletter – Term 4

In class with Miss McMinn P5 have been working in groups to create a stop-motion animation.  We used an app on the i-pad to do this.  Have a look below and watch some of our wonderful work.

P5 have really enjoyed having Golf over the last few weeks.  We practised putting, chipping and pitching skills and made lots of progress.

Evan wont the title of ‘Top scorer’ for P5 in our last week.