P5/6 have started a new PE block focusing on rugby skills.
We are very lucky to have some rugby players in our class so this week Mason demonstrated leadership skills by explaining then demonstrating the game ‘rabbits and rats’ which continued our practice on using different movements to evade our opponents. The game was enjoyed by all pupils and incorporated a bit of fun competition.
Well done Mason!
Primary 5/6 have been learning lots about about the link between fractions, decimals and percentages. They were able to use their prior knowledge of how to calculate fraction amounts to then make links between fractions and percentages and calculate percentages of a quantity. Super efforts today with all of their tasks!
Recently Primary 5/6 learned about different types of Scottish music and Scottish musicians. They were surprised at all the talent that has come from their own country. Each pupil researched and created a fact file on a different Scottish musician or band. They then worked in groups to create body percussion that went along with some Scottish children’s songs. After this they demonstrated it to the class and had great fun doing so.
Last week Primary 5/6 learned all about biographies and what type of information they included. They then participated in a class discussion to set themselves a success criteria for writing a biography. Following this they created questions for Mr Houston that would provide them with the information required to achieve each aspect of their success criteria.
We then invited Mr Houston along this week to be interviewed by the class. Throughout the interview process we regularly referred back to each aspect of the success criteria to ensure that we were gathering the appropriate information. The pupils took notes as and when their questions were being answered.
Finally, the pupils used these notes to write their own biography all about the life of Mr Houston. Not only did they find out lots of interesting information about Mr Houston but they also produced some excellent pieces of work.
Have a read at this week’s STAR WRITERS work!
This week the pupils participated in a variety of active tasks to reinforce their learning of place value, decimal numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, as well as time.
They enjoyed rotating around all of the activities and working independently, in pairs and in small groups to complete a range of the tasks.
Our achievements page has been updated with this week’s values awards. Please be sure to check this out by clicking the link below and share any achievements with your child.
During digital literacy this week, Primary 5/6 have learned how to delete unwanted e-mails (clearing their outlook inbox), forward an e-mail to another person so that they can share information, carry out an online search for an image then save it to a specific location on their laptop.
They also had some more practice at accessing MS Teams, where they were able to locate links which took them to some revision tasks for numeracy.
Last week the Primary 5/6 pupils updated their ‘All About Me’ pages in their e-portfolios. They were able to edit the colour, font and size of the text on their All About Me page. They then composed an e-mail by searching for Mrs Wilson in the address book, selecting her as their recipient, then composing and sending a short email. Finally, all pupils were able to access Microsoft Teams through their Glow account and access their homework tasks. Some pupils found this helpful so that they could do this at home.
Throughout the whole lesson, pupils were encouraged to think about and discuss what would be appropriate and not so appropriate to use Glow e-portfolios, Outlook and MS Teams for considering that these are educational platforms and they were very sensible with their suggestions.
Yesterday, Primary 5/6 were introduced to their class novel. The pupils will be reading Street Child by Berlie Doherty and will be learning and developing a range of reading skills through the use of the class novel. The novel is set in Victorian times and is about an orphan child. This will also link in with our IDL topic this term which the class are excited about.
The pupils kick started their work on the class novel by creating predictions about what they think might happen. They discussed their predictions in pairs before writing them in their jotters. The pupils used limited information (the blurb and some newspaper reviews of the novel) to make ‘sensible’ predictions and to justify their thoughts before unwrapping the novel to see what it was.
I was super impressed by their enthusiasm and effort on their first day back after a long break!
Our class information page has been updated with P.E. days for this term (Monday and Wednesday). This can be accessed by clicking the link below.
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