Today P5E were continuing to explore 2D shapes. We took part in 3 stations. These 2 stations focused on tiling or tesselation using 2 D shapes: This station focused on the Ancient Chinese tangram puzzles where the same 7 2D … Continue reading →

Reminder that all of P5 will be visiting the Dick Institute for the Imprint book festival on Wednesday 21st November. Update on information- the workshop involves meeting an author, David MacPhail, who will discuss his work and how he develops … Continue reading →

All primary 5 classes will be visiting the Dick Institute on Wednesday 21st November.  It is part of the Imprint book festival and pupils will be attending a workshop in the library: Workshop 1 – P5I and P5E Workshop 2 – … Continue reading →

P5E were learning about the importance of Remembrance Day 2018 and designed medals in honour of those who fought in the war. They all made a super effort and created lovely designs. Miss Ellis was delighted with their hard work … Continue reading →

Mr McIlwraith and Steven Swan led a drama activity with our class today.  Pupils were acting out a scene from the film Snow White. They had to think about using their voices, facial expressions, body movement and props effectively.  The … Continue reading →

More excellent and creative work from some of our pupils:  

P5E made a super effort with their topic homework this term and brought in a variety of work that showed their knowledge of Knights and Castles. Thank you to anyone at home who helped and it would seem the children … Continue reading →

P5E visited Dundonald Castle today to further their knowledge of medieval times. We got to see and try different types of armour, experience the skill of falconry and tour the castle. Our day ended with a pretend battle involving foam … Continue reading →

As part of our Knights and Castles topic Primary 5 classes will be visiting Dundonald Castle.  Each class will be going on a different day: P5E Tuesday 2nd October P5I Thursday 4th October P5B Tuesday 9th October P5M Thursday 11th … Continue reading →

As part of Maths Week all Primary 5 pupils have been assigned some Active Maths games.  These games aim to reinforce pupils’ knowledge of whole numbers and rounding to 10 and 100.  Please use your Bug Club login details to … Continue reading →

Primary 5 are exploring the features of non-fiction texts this term. P5E were showing that they could identify these features during a fun scavenger hunt.  They were to choose a non-fiction book and stick a post it note next to the … Continue reading →

This term Primary 5E have been using their ICT skills to research information on countries participating in the World Cup. They had to find out lots of facts, locate their country on a world map and accurately copy down the country’s … Continue reading →