We hope you enjoyed seeing the photos of us out in the community and look forward to sharing more of our activities in the next few weeks.
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P4 visit Crossgates (Pt1)
Primary 4 have enjoyed their weekly visit to our neighbours at Crossgates Care Home. Together, we have enjoyed making lots of new friendships with the residents and staff, sharing stories, playing games and making crafts with plenty of fun and laughter with our new friends.
Here are some pictures of some of our recent visits from designing and carving Halloween pumpkins, colouring together, solving crossword puzzles, wordsearches and games such as ‘Play your cards Right’…a favourite with residents as to whether it was ‘higher’ or ‘lower’ !
Here are some pictures of our time together…
P4 Curricular Update -Term 2
Welcome back! What a great first term Primary 4 have had; the children have settled well into their new class and routine and are making good progress. We are looking forward to another fun filled term with lots of fabulous learning taking place.
Here is an update on the upcoming term.
Literacy
For our reading focus, we will continue to build on the use of our reading comprehension skills, such as prediction, visualisation, metalinguistic and summarising. The children will engage with a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts which include their Bug Club readers and our class novel, ‘There’s a Viking in My Bed’ which is linked to our Viking Voyagers topic.
During writing, we will continue to build on the skills developed during our descriptive block and we will now focus on narrative writing. The children will explore the features of narrative writing and will create their own narrative pieces.
Spelling will take the form of active spelling activities, and the children will experience phonemes and blends at their working level and will continue to practise their spelling strategies.
We will continue to build on our knowledge of various elements of grammar, linking this to our reading and writing tasks.
Numeracy & Maths
The children will continue with a daily number talk, to develop a range of mental maths strategies. We have been looking at various strategies for solving addition problems and will move on to subtraction problems. With Mrs McIntyre, the children will be working on telling the time at different intervals, as well as looking at 24hr time and durations. We will also be focusing on word problems and times tables weekly
Health and Wellbeing
We will be continuing with our PATHs programme focussing on making good choices and working effectively with others. We have been following the Do Be Mindful programme focussing on mindful attention, we will continue with this as well as our various daily mindful tasks. This term, P4 are delighted to be taking part in a range of intergenerational activities with the residents at Crossgate’s Care Home. As a class we have discussed various ideas that we think they would like such as arts and crafts, reading, singing, board games and bingo.
PE
PE is on a Wednesday and Friday. This term we will be covering social dancing, hockey and gymnastics. Please make sure your child has a full PE kit with them (includes suitable indoor shoes), this can remain on their peg within school.
Thank you for making sure that no jewellery is worn on PE days.
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We will be continuing with our French conversational skills and greetings. We will be looking at numbers t0 100. The children will engage in a range of listening, talking and writing tasks. We are also learning our ‘Hail Mary’ in French. As the term progresses, we will also look at Christmas traditions in France.
IDL
The children have really enjoyed getting started on our new Novel ‘There’s a Viking in My Bed’ which is related to our Viking Voyagers topic this term. We will explore the life of Vikings, including their culture, voyages and influence on Scotland. We will develop our skills in reading and writing through our topic.
Expressive ArtsÂ
We will link our artwork this term to our topic, exploring and creating Viking artefacts using various materials and techniques. Last term we have been learning about rhythm and beat with our glockenspiels, we will continue to develop our skills this term and we will start to learn Christmas songs as the term progresses. We will also share some of our musical skills during our visits to Crossgate’s Care home.
Religious Education
This term we will be reflecting on the lives of various saints including St. Margaret, St. Andrew, St Ignatius, St. Francis and St. Columba. The children will be preparing for Advent and their forthcoming Sacrament of Reconciliation by taking part in class prayers and School Masses, and we will continue to build on our knowledge of common prayers and Mass responses. Approaching Advent, we will also look at the meaning of the Liturgical Calendar and become familiar with the meaning and importance of the various feasts and associated liturgical colours.
Homework will continue in the same format as last term, it will be distributed on a Monday to be completed and returned by Friday.
Keep an eye on the School blog and Learning Journals for updates on some of our wonderful activities and learning.
Thank you as always for your continued support,
Mrs McIntyre & Mrs MacDonald.
Primary 4 – Term 1 Curricular Update
Welcome back! I hope you all had an enjoyable summer. It has been fantastic to see Primary 4 settle into their new classroom. We have had a wonderful start to P4, and we look forward to a fun-filled term with lots of learning taking place. Â
Below is an update on the upcoming term.  Â
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Literacy  Â
For our reading focus this term, we will be developing our comprehension strategies such as visualisation and metalinguistics through our class novel ‘Venus Peter Saves the Whale’. Â
Our writing will start by focus on developing our sentence structure and use of description bubbles to describe characters and scenes in our class novel. We will continue to work on our characterisation through descriptive skills in narrative writing. Â
Spelling will take the form of active spelling activities, and the children will experience phonemes and blends at their working level. We will focus on using spelling strategies and practise how to use these as a class. P4 will also be given revision lessons on alphabetical order, sentence structure and dictionary skills.  Â
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Numeracy Â
P4 have already looked at how Maths impacts the world around us and where we use Maths in our day to day lives. We have started learning how to round 2 and 3 digit numbers to the nearest 10 and the nearest 100. The class will review Place Value knowledge and use it to build on their sense of number. We will look at 4-digit numbers and read, write and order these numbers. Through our place value work, we will be able to identify the value of each digit. We will then progress to looking at our addition strategies. The class will continue to participate in a daily number talk, to develop mental maths strategies. In Beyond Number, we will start with shape, looking at the properties of a range of 2D and 3D shapes and create tiling patterns. Â
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Health and Wellbeing  Â
At the beginning of the term, we discussed their rights as a child and selected articles to include within their class charter. As a class we had a vote on our class charter theme, this is displayed within our classroom. This term we will focus on the ‘Do be Mindful’ programme which gives us time to participate in mindfulness activities each day. We will also continue to follow our PATHS programme, which includes setting up our class rules, looking at individual emotions, building friendships, self-control and anger management. Â
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As a class we looked at the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, we spoke about the fundamental rights for every child, regardless of their race, religion or abilities. We voted on what rights we wanted to display as a class. The rights primary 4 selected were the right to play, the right to be heard, the right to have friends and the right to learn. These rights and our class rules are displayed within our class charter. Â
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PE Â
PE is on a Wednesday and Friday. This term we will be covering team games, football and badminton. Please make sure your child has a full PE kit with them (includes suitable indoor shoes), this can remain on their peg within school. Â
Thank you for making sure that no jewellery is worn on PE days. Â
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Modern Languages Â
We will be revising the alphabet, basic French phrases and numbers this term through, songs, activities and games. Â
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Religious Education  Â
This term we will be reflecting on our uniqueness and thinking about our God-given talents. We will reflect on the importance of friendship and link this with various stories from the Bible. There will also be a focus on baptism, looking at the children’s baptism as well as the story of Jesus’ baptism. This will begin the children’s journey of their Sacraments of Confirmation and First Holy Communion that will take place this year. The children will take part in class prayers and school Masses, and we will continue to build on our knowledge of common prayers and Mass responses.  Â
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Expressive Arts  Â
P4 will have the opportunity to use our school glockenspiels to accompany a song, learning about rhythm, pace and beat. During Drama lessons, the pupils will take part in drama activities to support teamwork and improve confidence. We will also ‘act out’ parts of our class novel. Our artwork will be focused on our class novel, we will create sea and whale artwork looking at the idea of hot and cold colours. Â
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Technologies Â
As our independence develops in Primary 4, so does our ability to use IT equipment. Our focus this term will simply be on the use of the ICT equipment. Logging on and off the laptops will encourage independent learning. Typing skills and mouse control are also skills that will be focussed on throughout this term.Â
Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to a fabulous term with P4!Â
 Mrs MacDonald and Mrs McIntyreÂ
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Primary 6 Curriculum Update Term 2
Term 2 is upon us! Primary 6 are making progress in all areas and are showing leadership across the school.
Literacy
Listening and Talking
Listening and Talking will continue to be a focus across the curriculum. Pupils will participate in a range of activities to allow for this.
Reading
The class novel this term is ‘Titanic Detective Agency’ by Lindsay Littleson. The pupils will complete various reading and writing tasks related to this appropriate to their level. This novel study also has links to our Social Studies and Science topic ‘Titanic’.
We will also continue using the ‘Bug Club’ reading resource to aid our comprehension skills.
Spelling
Spelling will be individualised to groups and will form a focus for homework as well as class tasks.
 Numeracy
All groups made great progress last term and will continue with addition and subtraction this term, this will be followed by a topic of multiplication and division, so get practising those tables! Outcomes are determined in groups.
Money will be a focus during beyond number lessons again differentiated across the class. Please discuss financial aspects with children at home; topics could include budgeting, credit and debit and savings.
 Health and Wellbeing
Our focus this term is Health and Wellbeing Champions, pupils will participate in an authority wide topic via ‘Teams’, this will allow participation from P6 classes across the area where they will collaborate in challenges from the comfort of our classroom!
Primary 6 will continue to be PATHs playground leaders; an important responsibility, and one we are more than ready for!
Children will also continue to follow the PATHs resources, this helps pupils to identify their emotions, act accordingly and build resilience.
‘Do be mindful’ strategies and mindful learning blocks will reinforce all that we do.
Religious Education
Children will examine the initial stages of the ‘Pope Francis Faith Award’ this term, this focusses on the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the unique qualities we all possess. We will look at 3 gifts this term and will continue this journey into primary 7. There will be an occasional homework task related to this.
French
Our French skills are developing and pupils are becoming more confident in this area. We will focus our attention this term on discussing pets and familiarising ourselves with accessing French dictionaries.
  Homework
Homework will be issued weekly and at primary 6 level children should be able to complete these tasks individually with limited support. Please check that your child is accessing these tasks and is becoming responsible around this. Homework will always be issued to reinforce learning and children will have been taught the area in class. Homework creates routine and independence and will be an expectation at every stage of school life especially secondary school. In developing good habits in the upper primary this will ease that transition when the time comes.
 As always your continued support is appreciated across the school year.
Mrs Crawford and Mrs McIntyre.
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P6 Curricular Overview -Term 1
Welcome back! The summer seems like an already distant memory and primary 6 have settled into their new routine well.
Children are encouraged to have all items they require daily and a PE kit which remains in school please.
Our learning this term:
 Literacy
A focus on legible and cursive handwriting will be a priority this term with individuals being supported accordingly around this.
Reading
The class novel this term is ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl. The pupils will complete various reading and writing tasks related to this appropriate to their level. This novel study also has links to other curricular areas including Health and Well-being, art and drama.
We will also continue using the ‘Bug Club’ reading resource to aid our comprehension skills.
Spelling will be individualised to groups and will form a focus for homework as well as class tasks.
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Numeracy
Children have completed necessary revision of previous learning and are ready to tackle their new learning. This term the class will focus on place value; outcomes are determined in groups, this will lead to a period of addition and subtraction across the groups.
Time will be a focus during beyond number lessons again differentiated across the class. Children will be focussing on duration and digital as well as analogue. Circles and Rectangles will also explore 24hr conversion. Please provide opportunities for time telling at home. Â Children will also look at 2D and 3D shape this term, they will investigate properties and tiling.
Health and Wellbeing
Our focus this term is ‘Class Community’ we are together creating a charter for our class rights and expectations. Pupils are involved in discussions around areas that we define as ‘Quality’. Children will also choose a school community group to join. This will allow pupils to showcase their upper primary maturity and help drive the school priorities and community forward.
Children will also continue to follow the PATHs resources, this helps pupils to identify their emotions, act accordingly and build resilience.
‘Do be mindful’ strategies and mindful learning blocks will reinforce all that we do.
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Religious Education
 Pupils will be encouraged to join discussions around biblical stories, particularly ‘Creation’ with a focus on science and religion. We will explore when the two compliment each other. They will be encouraged to think ‘deeper’ and ask questions to help develop their faith.
 French
Primary 6 have looked at ‘Francophone’ countries and are developing an understanding of the French language in travel and economy. We will be revising colours and numbers to 100 this term. Dates and times will also be reinforced.
  Homework
Homework will be issued weekly and at primary 6 level children should be able to complete these tasks individually with limited support. Please check that your child is accessing these tasks and is becoming responsible around this. Homework will always be issued to reinforce learning and children will have been taught the area in class. Homework creates routine and independence and will be an expectation at every stage of school life especially secondary school. In developing good habits in the upper primary this will ease that transition when the time comes.
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As always your continued support is appreciated across the school year. We look forward to working with you and your child this academic session.
 Mrs Crawford and Mrs McIntyre.
P5 Curriculum Update – Term 4
Welcome back! We hope you had a lovely Easter break with your families and are ready for a fun packed and hopefully sunny last term. Fingers crossed!!
Primary 5 have now established themselves in our upper school and continue to strive to be good role models for their peers and build on their increasing independence.
During term 4 our focus will be:
Literacy
This term P5 will be focussing on Narrative writing, we will be developing literary devices and linking this to our topic. In reading, we will continue our progress within Bug Club further developing our AL comprehension strategies as described in our latest ‘Sharing the Learning’ video. We will focus on listening and talking throughout our topic lessons, expressing our opinions and justifying these with good reasoning in debate/ lesson presentations. Some groups will continue to work on literal comprehension and prediction skills, whilst others will continue their work on inferential and evaluative questions. Spelling and phoneme work will be consolidated this term and pupils will use ‘Active Spelling’ resources and activities to support this.
Numeracy
This term, P5 will be focussing on Division, as well as Fractions and Decimals. The circles and rectangles groups will complete division with remainders. The squares and triangles will also focus on these areas at their level. In Beyond Number, pupils will look at 2D and 3D shape recognition and properties, making links to angles and symmetry. Later in the term, we will also be exploring ‘Measurement’. (volume, mass, length, area)
Health and Well-being / PE
We will be focussing on completing our PATHS lessons and moving onto explore further areas such as healthy food, hygiene, bodies (God’s Loving Plan) as well as keeping ourselves safe. We will also look at substances that can damage our physical and emotional health, appropriate to our age.  Pupils will have the opportunity to visit many of these concepts during our whole school  ‘Health week’.
PE days will now be on Wednesday and Friday mornings. We will participate in independent and teamwork for Athletics during April/May moving onto Orienteering in June. Pupils will complete these lessons outdoors as much as possible so please make sure your child is prepared for the weather that day. It is essential that your child comes to school prepared for outdoor learning in appropriate clothing as we hopefully plan to be outside more as the summer nears and weather improves. Make sure they have plenty of water with them for very hot periods and sun cream.
Science
This term in Science we will be investigating water. We will be developing our knowledge and understanding of the water cycle and also exploring and investigating the methods for purifying water. We will look at the many uses of water and why it is important to conserve water.
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As Eastertide passes, we will be mainly focusing on Mary, Our Lady. Celebrating her example and significance through the Gospel of Mark as well as revisiting the feast of the Ascension and Pentecost. In June, we will look at God’s Loving Plan resources as part our This Is Our Faith programme. This will look closely at friendships, relationships as well as the role of being a parent /carer.
IDL
Our enterprise topic this term is ‘A Night at the Movies’. Pupils will look at the evolution of the film industry from the silent movies, introduction of sound, colour, animation, from Drive-Thru to 3D/4D currently. This will include developing our Talking and Listening and also writing skills (scripts/movie reviews, Gogglebox), also ICT skills ( Green screen/ ipad) to make our own movie trailers which will incorporate set design, production and directing and expressive arts lessons to create our sets. These will be ‘premiered’ at our own Oscars ceremony/Party where we will dress up in our best and have the opportunity to culminate all our learning, have fun and raise some funds for school.
Thank you again for your continual support throughout this year for our P5 pupils , class and school.
Mrs McIntyre & Mrs Mackinnon
P5 Outdoor Afternoon Fun-draising for SCIAF!
As part of their ‘Charities’ topic and SCIAF Lenten fundraising, P4 put on a fabulous Outdoor activity- based afternoon for the whole school on Friday. Pupils had a ‘wheely’ good time bringing in their scooters/bikes and even Hoverboard Segways to whizz around the playground.
Here are some of our action-packed photos of our class enjoying their outdoor scooter/bike day afternoon…
Thank you Primary 4!
P5 World Book day
Yesterday, the whole school celebrated World Book Day 2022 and our P5 class took part in various activities during the day.
Here are some of the fabulous costumes:
Yesterday, we dressed up as characters from our favourite books. We all watched an ‘Authors’ Live’ session with  Simon Farnaby, the actor from ‘Horrible Histories’. He has released a new book ‘The Wizard and Me’ about a talking guinea pig called Bubbles who is very funny and cheeky. It had us all laughing in class. He challenged us to write about an animal and use your imagination.
By Victoria P5
In the afternoon, at an assembly we took part in a parade and got to look at all the different costumes. They were all great! We really enjoyed the live session and looking at the ‘Flanimals’ by Ricky Gervais, we decided to create our own ‘Flanimals’ and develop their characters giving them human characteristics and using descriptive writing techniques.
By Archie and Millie Mc P5
Here are some ‘Flanimals’ you may not have heard of….
Primary 5 -Curricular Update Term 2
Welcome back! We hope everyone in P5 is feeling rested after their October holidays and are now settled back into the school routine and ready to take on more responsibility in the upper school.
We are looking forward to new learning discoveries this term as well as building on our current skills and developing these further.
         Literacy
Primary 5 will focus on our reading skills and comprehension strategies through accessing both Bug Club and Giglet texts both within school and at home for homework. We will be developing our fluency and expression as well as looking at both fiction and non-fiction texts this term to link with our IDL topic.
In spelling, we will continue to focus on our phonemes, blends and common words. This will take the form of activities related to the ‘Active Spelling’ resource pertinent to the ability and stage.
Within listening and talking, we will continue to practise listening to and following instructions. The children will also be encouraged to share their opinions on different matters as well as providing an explanation as to why they think in that way. This will be predominantly linked to our IDL topic for the term, but will encompass many of our curricular areas.
This term our formal writing lessons will centre on persuasive writing. We will use structured planning ideas to allow children to generate pieces and build upon helpful writing techniques to support this. We will also continue to revisit narrative genres using our description bubbles to aid writing and note taking for non-fiction IDL writing.
Numeracy
Pupils are working on concepts within groups focussing on 1st and 2nd level concepts. The circles and rectangles groups will focus on addition and subtraction this term, we will be using various strategies to help our numeracy confidence grow. The squares and rectangles will also focus on addition and subtraction at their level we will use number lines and our place value knowledge to practise our formal notation. All pupils will engage in number talks and interactive maths activities as well as looking at new strategies to develop their mental maths agility and recall. Times tables should continue to be practised at home to ensure quick recall. In Beyond Number, we will be looking at ‘Time’ as a focus within our respective groups.
Health and Well-being/ICT
We will be continuing to look at emotions and feelings this term and strategies we can use in dealing with them. This will be supported through our whole school ‘Paths’ resource. In ICT, Primary 5 will continue to work on our basic computing skills and how these can help us in everyday life. Continued practise in class and at home of touch typing and login skills will improve access to various platforms currently used in school from Glow, Giglets, Bug club and Sumdog.
R.E
This month our focus has been on Our lady. We will be supported in our learning by Srs. Mabel and Juliet from Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish who will help us to learn prayers such as the ‘Angelus’. We will also focus on the lives of the Saints, the creation story and discuss themes such as ‘Remembrance’. In December, we will prepare as a class for advent and observe this through various school lessons, attending mass and associated activities.
Science/IDL
Our IDL focus this term will be science based looking at animal and their habitats and the diversity of living things. We will tie this in with a study of David Attenborough and the work he does. This will link to Art and literacy as well as STEM. This will be introduced as the term progresses once we have completed our ‘Knights and Castles’ learning.
Looking forward to another great term in P5.
Thanks again for your on-going support.
Mrs Crawford & Mrs McIntyre.
P5 Curricular Update
Welcome back! The children of Primary 5 have settled beautifully back into school after the holidays and are ready to become super role models as part of the upper school.
This term we have established our class community, routines and expectations and we are making excellent progress already.
Literacy
Primary 5 will focus on a novel study to begin the academic session. We are reading ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and it is proving very popular! We have reading, writing and comprehension links to the novel as well as art and health and well-being tasks.
We will continue to use Bug Club as our differentiated reading resource and will be developing our fluency and comprehension skills through the use of this resource both in class and as homework.
Spelling will take the form of active activities related to the ‘Active Spelling’ resource, the children will continue to experience phonemes and blends pertinent to the ability and stage.
This term our formal writing lessons will centre on descriptive writing. We will use structured planning ideas to allow children to generate pieces, which are rich in language and grammatically sound. The stimuli for this will be IDL topic work on ‘Knights and Castles’ and our ‘Charlie’ novel.
Numeracy
Pupils are back in their working groups focussing on 1st and 2nd level concepts. The circles and rectangles groups will continue to reinforce multiplication, division and remainders before moving on to place value. The squares and rectangles will also focus on place value and the importance of column and quantity value. All pupils will also look at Data Handling as part of their Beyond Number topic. This will involve collecting and interpreting data, as well as creating tables, charts and graphs.
Times tables should continue to be practised at home to ensure quick recall.
Health and Well-being
The class have worked brilliantly as a team to ensure that our class and primary 5 family understand the responsibilities and expectations that will be placed upon them this year. Our class charter is complete and children are enjoying earning house tokens for their respective houses.
We are continuing to use our whole school ‘Paths’ resource this year, which allows children to grow emotionally and channel their thoughts and behaviours in a calm and proactive way. Children are familiar with this programme and can name and identify their feelings. We will continue to provide them with scenarios and situations that will require their knowledge of ‘self’ to grow.
R.E
The pupils have been looking at the sacrament of Confirmation as we begin this term. This is in preparation for receiving this sacrament later this month and what to expect. Our study focus will be on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, looking at the lives of the Saints and being ready to become a full member of the Church. This term we will also focus on ‘Friendship’ as we relate this to bible stories from the Gospel of Mark.
IDL
Our topic this term is ‘Knights and Castles’. Pupils will use their developing research and note-taking skills to look at historical events in the Middle Ages. This will include the history of castles, various castle designs, Knights, Codes of chivalry and looking at society at this time. We will be using various curricular areas within this topic to help such as ICT, Art, Literacy, STEM and problem solving skills.
We are thrilled to be working with your children and look forward to building relationships with their families. If you would like to speak to either Mrs Crawford or Mrs McIntyre please call the school office to arrange this.
Thanks for your on-going support.
Mrs Crawford & Mrs McIntyre.
Hey new P4s!
Welcome to Primary 4! I am Mrs McIntyre. Most of you will probably remember me as your Primary 1 teacher, I certainly remember you all and all the fun we had together from greedy number hunt monsters, tadpoles, Katie Morag’s Post Office and who could forget about the wild woo in the woods! I am so lucky to have the chance to teach some of you again. If you don’t know me, please don’t worry as I am super excited to get to know you as your teacher along with Mrs Travers on a Thursday and Friday. We’re going to have an awesome time learning this year. I know you can’t wait to see your friends but it won’t be long now and I definitley can’t wait to see all of your faces in August – I’ve been missing you all! I have been busy setting up a new classroom just along from the other P4 classroom and I have taken some pictures to let you see what it may look like after the summer. I can’t wait for you all to help me decorate my room with your fabulous work!
Here are a few photos …
I would love to hear from you, even if you are in on a Monday or Tuesday as we may see each other in the future. Please send me a message on glow to say ‘hello’ . I have sent you one below.  I’ve recorded a short message to remind you what i look like incase you’ve forgotten me in the link below!
Any ideas you have for our class charter then you can send me your thoughts and suggestions and it would be great if we could use one of them.
Keep posted for more news from myself and Mrs Travers shortly! Have a fantastic summer holiday!
Can’t wait to see you all very soon…
“Air Hug”
Mrs McIntyre
P5 Home Learning Grids – Health Week – WB 8th June
Hi everyone,
I hope you’ve had a great weekend in the sunshine. This week is health week and you can find out all about whole school extra activities by following our school blog for more information too. Below are your health week activities on your grids but remember to only do what you can and have fun!
Numeracy
Literacy
Alphabet Alliteration Worksheet
IDL
Here is a suggested timetable to help plan your week’s work.
| Suggested Timetable | |
| 8:00am | Get up and get dressed. Have a healthy breakfast |
| 9:00am | Some exercise Joe Wicks or Cosmic Yoga |
| 10:00am | Maths activity |
| 11.00am | Break/snack |
| 11.30am | Literacy activity |
| 12.30pm | Help make some lunch and try to get outside |
| 1.30pm | IDL task |
Be sure to get outside in this great weather although make sure you have plenty of water to drink and suncream applied. Enjoy your weekend!
Have a great week!
Mr Bertoncini & Mrs McIntyre
P5 Home Learning Grids w/beg 18th May
Hello P5,
It’s been great to see all the work and pictures from those who have sent some this week. Please continue to share your work with us and check in with us weekly on glow email. Keep working hard!
Here are next weeks grids and accompanying worksheets:
Literacy
Maths & Numeracy
Circles & Rectangles w/sheet AP
Rectangles Simplifying fractions
Squares w/sheet 1 Area/Perimeter
Squares w/sheet 2 Area/Perimeter
‘Family’ Learning Grid
Remember to complete core tasks and if you can try some of the optional ones too – There is no need to complete all tasks. Only do what you can and whenever you can manage as there are plenty things to work on.
Take care and stay safe!
Mr Bertoncini and Mrs McIntyre
P5 Home Learning Grids – Week beg 27th April
Good afternoon everyone!
Please find below the Home Learning tasks for next week.
Try your best to complete the core tasks and even some of the optional ones. We are loving the pictures and work your are sending us so keep it coming!
Remember : Only do what is right for you and your family each day!
Here is a possible routine for you to follow:
8:00 -9:00Â Get washed, dressed and eat breakfast.
9:00 -9:45 P.E. with Joe Wicks (Youtube), Cosmic Kidz Yoga (Youtube),Play in Garden, Family walk*, Walk the dog * or Just Dance Kids. *Only if not Self-Isolating or showing symptoms of COVID-19.
9:45 -10:00Â Snack
10:00 – 11:30Â Quick Daily Rigour starter followed by a numeracy task and Sumdog.
11:30 -12:00Â Optional task
12:00 -13:00 Lunch and free time /outside play
13:00 – 14:00Â Literacy task
14:00 -14:15Â Quick break
14:15-15:00Â Â Optional task
Thank you to our heroes!
Here are some rainbows for all of our inspiring NHS and Key Workers… You are our heroes! We want to let you know how much we appreciate all you are doing for us everyday! Keep safe and stay home everyone!
Thank you from all at MC!
Well done girls!
P5 Homework W/beg 18/3 – 25/3
Literacy – Spelling activities 6, 7, 11, 21
Blue Independent Readers added – Beowulf and the Beast, Heading for Glory and Future Transport by Air.
Green Group Independent Readers added. Dr Who :Victory of the Daleks and An Awfully Beastly Business : Saving a sea Monster
Red Independent Readers –Â Choose either –Â Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Weird Weather or Fang Family: Blood Buns and Scarecrows.
Maths –Â Â Topmarks Online Money Games
Circles &Â Rectangles –
Game 1 – Choose Level 10  £&p
Game 2 –Â Choose One player, long game (10) and Year 4 options
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/44/solve-2-step-money-problems-
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/504/Super-Maths-Bowling-Multiplication
Squares – Select Mixed Coins & £1 (Up to £10) options
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
Triangles – Select Counting option then Any 6 coins
 https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game
Maths Worksheets will also be given out in class.
Topic –Â Â Asia Landmark Hunt
P5 Homework
Literacy –
Bug club reader -All groups
Spelling words from class today – Task Activities –Â Â 8, 9, 15,21.
Maths – Activity pack games and money worksheet.
French РAu caf̩ РPractise your vocabulary each morning at breakfast saying any phrases you have learned this week to your family.
Topic – Mapping – Locate as many Asian countries as you can manage. Don’t worry we can fill in any missing ones next week!
P5 – World Book Day
Well Done to all for taking part! What a fantastic Day with literacy activities such as decoding the ‘Mystery of Sticky Pines’ and also  a fun interactive session with Michael Rosen the author of ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ for the 10th Birthday of ‘Authors Live’ . (Ask about their sticket!) We finished with an amazing costume parade. Keep reading books at home! From P5.
Primary 5 -Term 2 Update
Literacy
This term in literacy we will be learning to improve our note-taking skills to aid with our comprehension strategy of summarising and paraphrasing. As well as continuing with our Bug Club readers this term, we will also be looking at non-fiction texts to support note taking and apply this skill within in our writing lessons where we will focus on producing a fact file and report. In addition, we will continue work on our phonemes through our Active spelling programme.
Numeracy & Maths
In numeracy, groups will focus on the following :
- Fractions, Percentages & Decimals
- Division
- Subtraction
All groups will work on mental maths revision and problem solving across all areas every day through number talks, interactive challenges or ‘fast five’ activities. Beyond number, P5 will be looking at ‘Time’ and ‘Money’ .
Health & Wellbeing /P.E
This term we are continue to work through our PATHS programme with a focus on different types of feelings, as well as ‘Pupil of the Day’.
In P.E, we will be working on ‘Gymnastics‘ and ‘Basketball‘, building necessary physical skills within these sports such as co-ordination, control, precision and balance, as well as teamwork strategies. A kind reminder : P.E days are Wed/Fri and we would ask that your child comes prepared with a kit, a change of shoes (indoor) and without wearing jewellery if possible as not coming prepared can often result in reduced lesson time.
Topic
We have started our exciting new topic this term where we are travelling around the globe as we look at ‘Continents’. We will be exploring and finding out lots of interesting facts about Asia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica,Europe, North America and South America. This will include using our new note-taking skills as we learn facts about landmarks, physical features (Rivers, mountains), Countries & Capitals including mapping skills.
R.E
Jan/Feb – We will be looking at ‘Judaism’ and ‘Life in the time of Jesus’ in first century Palestine.
Feb/Mar – Preparations for Lent.
P5 Homework 5/2 – 19/2
As we are on holiday this Friday and next week, homework can be accessed online until Wednesday 19th February when it will be reissued.
Literacy – All groups can access their Bug Club group readers/independent readers. Read a non-fiction text and identify common features. (caption, pictures, diagram, heading, sub-heading, glossary etc…)
Anagrams –
I T O N N A M UÂ Â –Â Â Can you unscramble the letters to find the word.
A E H N O R TÂ Â –Â Â Can you unscramble the letters to find the word.
Extra challenge : If you have unscrambled the second anagram successfully, How many words can you find hidden within this word ?
Maths – Wednesday
Circles/Rectangles – Time differences – Click on the links below then scroll down to the game with the panda at the bottom right of the page . Click arrow to play, then choose option 5 and begin.
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/118/adding_time_word_problems#
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/119/find_the_start_time#
Squares -Click on the links below then scroll down to the game with the panda at the bottom right of the page . Click arrow to play, then choose option 4 and begin
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling_the_time#
Triangles–http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L9643/index.html
Topic –Â Worksheet on South America handed out in class (Wed pm).
