What a week! Here is what we’ve been up to in P5:

In literacy, we explored the “ff” phoneme and used various active spelling strategies to help us learn our words. We also practised our proof reading skills and have improved identifying and fixing mistakes in punctuation. For writing, we were writing instructions on how to make a lava lamp which was brilliant fun! Next week we will also be writing a set of instructions but will focus on another context.

In maths, we have continued to develop our skills with measuring. We focused on capacity and volume this week and had to take care when working in teams! Our pupils are more confident measuring length and capacity and we will be moving on to addition and subtraction.

In other areas, we continued our topic of Africa and got to ask our Big Questions. We also identified the 7 continents and explored maps in an atlas. We were able to identify various features of the African landscape and discussed the climate zones. We found out that Africa had a mix of a tropical and warm climate.

We all learned what roles we would be playing in our Disney production and the excitement was enormous! Our pupils were all so supportive and enthusiastic of their roles and we got started on learning our special lines, dances and songs.

This week was Mr Allen’s last week in P5 and we will all miss him! Huge thank you to Mr Allen for all his help over the last few weeks.

Thanks again to all your support from home, have a lovely weekend!

-Miss Frew