As part of their class topic ‘Night at the Movies’ primary 5 have been creating their own films and would love to share them with the primary 5 families.

This will be shared via a password protected Sway document, with the password provided to the main contact for primary parent/carers. If you do not wish your child’s film to be shared please contact the school or complete our query form by Monday 27th June.

Mrs Fergusson

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.

RE 

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 this year for our pupils and class.

Mrs McIntyre & Mrs MacKinnon

Primary 5, Mrs McIntyre and Mrs Crawford and  are excited to tell you all about the things they have been working on in class.

We hope you enjoy.  Passwords have been sent to the main contact for each child.

P5 ‘Sharing the Learning’ Video

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Welcome back!  We hope you and your families had a relaxed, enjoyable holiday.  2022 already!

Primary 5 are making excellent progress and establishing themselves as sensible, reliable upper school pupils.

During term 3 our focus will be:

Literacy

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. In addition, pupils will also use ‘Giglets’ as a central resource to aid our reading and writing skills.  This term we will be focussing on the genre ‘explanation’ as a writing focus, using our reading skills and topic work to inform our pieces. In reading, fluency, expression and comprehension will continue to be our priority; some groups will continue to look at inference and creation of questions. We will also explore and extend our knowledge of plurals, metaphors, alliteration and onomatopoeia as well as refine and develop our use of punctuation. 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.

Numeracy

Pupils will continue in their working groups focussing on 1^st and 2^nd level concepts. The circles and rectangles groups will complete subtraction before tackling multiplication and division with remainders. The squares and rectangles will also focus on these areas at their level focussing on quick recall of facts. All pupils will also look at money, with links to addition and subtraction and will later focus on 2D and 3D shape recognition and properties as part of their Beyond Number topic.

It is essential that times tables should continue to be practised at home regularly to ensure quick recall, as this will aid our learning in multiplication this term. Please also allow your children to experience ‘real’ money and chat with them about finance and budgeting appropriate to their age/stage.

Health and Well-being

The PATHS visiting specialist has been very impressed with our class and their knowledge of our strategies relating to emotional regulation. Pupils are aware of their place within the upper school and the responsibility that goes with it. We will also look at substances that can damage our physical and emotional health, appropriate to our age.

R.E

This term we will look at Judaism, daily life in Jesus’ time and First century Palestine. We will also be preparing for Lent as we approach Easter time. Pupils will also continue to learn prayers and focus on reflection this term in class.

IDL

Our topic this term is ‘Continents’; pupils will use their previous skills and knowledge from our ‘Living things/ Climate change’ topic to take a closer look at individual continents. We will examine population, weather, countries within continents, surrounding oceans and culture and traditions. Writing, ICT and expressive arts lessons will relate to this.

As always we are enjoying our time working with your children. Happy New Year!

Thanks for your on-going support.

Mrs Crawford & Mrs McIntyre.

We are delighted to share our Primary 5 class film.  Passwords have been texted to the main contact.

Primary 5

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Congratulations to our Primary 5 children who were confirmed last night.
May God always be by your side.

Please keep our Primary 5 children in your prayers as the prepare to be Confirmed this evening.

Please view the letter below regarding the Sacrament of Confirmation:

2021 Letter to Parents – Rescheduled Confirmation Sept 21 OLMC

                                    Monday 14th June

Just a little reminder that if your child requires a packed lunch from the dining hall for the visit on Monday 14th June, please let us know. If not, please send your child to school on the day with a snack and packed lunch, as the park visit is a full day outing.

Curriculum Update Primary 5 May – June 2021

The children have been wonderful settling back into school life. They have adapted well again to the new rules and handwashing/sanitising throughout the day.
Here is an update on our learning that will take place in term 4.

Literacy
The class will be focusing on explanation writing as part of our literacy tasks. Key features
of the genre are chronological order, note-taking and structure.
Children will continue to access Bug Club as our school reading resource using texts to enhance their comprehension. I will allocate independent readers onto each child’s Bug Club
account to help with further reading to improve their fluency and expression.

Spelling
Groups will continue to experience the active literacy spelling programme; this will introduce common words and focus on phonemes pertinent to their stage.

Numeracy
This term the children will experience time and shape as their beyond number topics.
Our number process topics will be division and fractions for the circles, rectangles will focus
on multiplication then progress to division and begin to look at fractions. The squares groups
will look at multiplication and begin to look at division. All groups will focus on recalling the 2,3,4,5,6, 7,8, 9- and 10-times tables. The triangle group will work on repeated addition progressing onto multiplication using SHM 2.
At home children will benefit from timetables revision and looking at analogue clocks at home.

Health & Wellbeing
The PATHS programme will continue to shape our HWB learning. P5 have been picking a ‘pupil of the day’ since we returned in August giving compliments to their classmates daily.
We have had excellent discussions about feelings and emotions and how we can manage them. P5 will look at friendship as well as mental and emotional wellbeing appropriate to
their age and stage.

PE
Our focus on PE this term will be Tennis the children will participate in this non-contact sport
outside.RE
This term the class will focus on Mary during the month of May. We will be learning new
prayers – Glory be to the Father, The Angelus, The Joyful Mysteries, The Sorrowful
Mysteries and Eternal Rest. We will look at the Rosary including how to use a Rosary bead.
Homework will continue to be issued online every Monday and returned every Thursday via
email. Please contact us if you require any support with this.
As always, thank you for your ongoing support.
Mrs McGowan

Literacy

Imaginary Writing -David Walliams Group – Friday 15th January

Imaginary Writing -Roald Dahl Group – Friday 15th January

Imaginary Writing -Michael Morpurgo Group – Friday 15th January

Spelling Test Task Friday 15th January

Numeracy

Circles and Rectangles mental maths Friday 15th February

Numeracy task instructions Circles and Rectangles Friday 15th January

Square group Mental maths Friday 15th January 2021

IDL

IDL Friday 15th January

Hello Primary 5,

Well done to all of you that have been able to access the activities for Monday and Tuesday.  It has been great to see your comments on Teams and to see the work that you have completed.  I can see that you have been trying so keep up the good work.

Your activities for Wednesday 13th January have been added to your Teams page but I have also added them below just incase you cannot acccess Teams.  If you are having difficulties please email me and I will see how I can help you.

Have a lovely day and remember to take some time to go outside and go for a walk or have a play.

Tasks for Wednesday

Literacy         Numeracy         IDL

Mrs McGowan

Literacy

For literacy today you have two tasks – one for spelling and one for reading.  Please try to complete both of these.

Literacy Tasks Wednesday 13th January

Numeracy Tasks

For Numeracy you have two activities to complete one is Mental Maths and one is a core maths task.  Please look for your group name and try to complete both activities.

Circles and Rectangles

Circles and Rectangles mental maths

Numeracy task instructions Circles and Rectangles

Squares

Square group Mental maths Wednesday 13th January 2021

Numeracy task instructions Square Group

IDL

Your final task for today is all about New Beginnings – This is an additional activity.  You can complete this is you have some extra time.

IDL Wednesday 13th January