Primary 5 Dalrymple Primary

01/04/2022
by Mr Carruthers
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Managing Orchards

 

Managing Orchards – Dalrymple Primary

Effective management prevents the grassland converting to scrub, helps support the floral diversity and enables you use and enjoy your orchard to its potential. An overly mown orchard floor is not great for the wildlife, but harvesting windfalls from long, wet, and nettle filled grass is not to be recommended either so to an extent, orchard floor management will be a compromise.

The following advice will generally help maintain the biodiversity you are likely to have in your orchard.

  • The grass needs to be cut at least once annually, April being the most suitable month, to prevent large woody plants establishing and converting your orchard into scrub. Grass should be cut using scissors to a maximum height of 5cm and out from the tree trunk by 30cm. Whilst a low level of scrub can be good for biodiversity, if you let it encroach on your orchard too much your species rich grassland will become overgrown and dominated by tall grasses and scrub as the herbs and fine-leaved grasses are outcompeted. Scrub also makes it more difficult to manage your trees and harvest your fruit.
  • Dry the grass cuttings on site and turn them to help the seeds disperse, then either remove the cuttings from the site, use them to mulch directly below your trees or compost them in a corner of your orchard out of the way.
  • It is important to remove the grass cuttings from your orchard grassland, if they are allowed to rot down they will enrich your soil which can lead to a loss in plant diversity. Over time you will lose your wildflowers which prefer poorer soil and gain plants like nitrogen loving nettles instead. Low soil fertility, despite sounding like a bad thing, is actually a crucial feature of semi-natural grassland, which is of great conservation value.

 

Today both Primary 5 and Primary 7 were in the orchard cutting the grass to ensure we maintain the biodiversity and allow our trees to flourish this year. It was really important to be finished by 12:00pm. We were lucky to have a lovely dry day today to carry out this task. April is known for rain showers so we took the opportunity on the first day of the month to get this task done.

20/10/2021
by Mr Carruthers
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Primary 5 planned learning

Literacy &

English

Daily Writing Tasks

Handwriting

Spelling

Imaginative writing

The Butterfly Lion

Numeracy & Mathematics Number & Number Processes:

-Multiplication

-Division

Multiples, Factors and Primes

Fractions Decimals and Percentages

Social Studies Journeys and Transport
Technologies Research

Blogs

PowerPoint

Word
Glow

Science Properties and Uses of Substances
R.M.E Remembrance Sunday

Advent and symbols of Christmas

Health &

Wellbeing

Substance Misuse

PATHS

P.E. Gymnastics

Rugby

Social Dance

Ex. Arts.

Art

Christmas crafts

Sea glass art

Ex. Arts

Music

Strings

Share experience of music

Ex. Arts

Drama

Play – Scrooge
Ex. Arts

Dance

Social Dancing
Modern Languages Calendar

In the Classroom

Colours

 

11/06/2020
by eaisabel.hunter@glow
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Measure Dictionary

We have been doing a lot of learning within the topic of Measure.  Previously we had focussed on Length, however this term we have had a particular focus on Weight and Volume/Capacity.  The children were challenged to create their own Maths Dictionary for Measure that they could use to help them whenever they do any work related to concepts within measure.

Not only did they have to think about the concepts within measure, they also had to consider the purpose of a dictionary and what this looks like.

 

     

by Ryan

 

by Leonie

 

28/05/2020
by eaisabel.hunter@glow
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Through the Keyhole

As we’ve been in lockdown, and not permitted to go anywhere unless it’s been for essential travel, the children were challenged to imagine what they saw if they were looking through the keyhole of the door to their house.  They could be as creative as they wanted to!

They had to do an illustration of this and this would then be used as the focus for a piece of writing.  The children were then given an opener, which they had to continue, remembering to use the core targets which are encouraged in class and to make it as interesting as possible for the reader.

 

 

 

 

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