In between sports day and prize giving we have still been very busy in class this week. We entered another art competition, this time for the NHS. We had to have a go at recreating a beautiful Northern Lights scene. Take a look at the inspiration picture as well as some action shots below. They turned out lovely!

We also brought our fractions topic to an end by looking at placing fractions on a number line. We then also completed a fractions assessment to show what we have learned this term.

For literacy, we read the final chapter of our class novel Danny the Champion of the World and then completed a book review on it.

Can’t believe it is only one week until the summer holidays! Have a lovely weekend everyone.

What a busy week P4/5 have had! With it being Health & Wellbeing week in the school we have gotten to take part in a range of activities that help keep us active. For example a community walk, laser tag, a silent disco, various football activities and also practising for sports day. Take a look at some of the action shots below.

We also had a ‘design your own football kit’ competition to help kick the Euros 2024 celebrations off. Miss Paton found it very hard to pick only one winner, so take a look at our very talented 1st, 2nd and 3rd place holders below. Well done!

This week we have completed a few different art activities. On Thursday, we teamed up with Primary 3/4 and we had a go at drawing some sunflowers and we attempted to shade them using the colours of the rainbow. They turned out lovely!

Also this week, on Friday, we had lots of fun print making! We used a variety of materials to help us with our prints, some being more successful than others. We used various styles of wallpapers, string, polystyrene that we scored and rollers with different prints on them. Take a look at the action shots below!

We are still practising our persuasive writing skills and this week Primary 4/5 wanted to ask Mrs Govans for a ‘Yes Day’ before the end of term. Do you think we will manage to persuade Mrs Govans? Do you think we will be able to keep our promises? I think everyone done  a pretty good job!

For health and wellbeing we looked at peer pressure this week; we looked at positive peer pressure, negative peer pressure and gave lots of good examples of when we have been pressured into doing something we didn’t want to do. We then completed a short task on peer pressure to show our understanding of the topic.

For mental maths we were asked to complete subtraction questions using any strategy we wanted. As you can see below, some people chose to use the formal written method, some chose an empty number line and others chose adjusting for easier numbers/friendly numbers.

This week for literacy we completed a character profile on a character of our choice from our novel Danny the Champion of the World. We were able to choose any character from the novel except from Danny and his father. Take a look at some of our finished profiles below.

We are still working our way through our fraction topic and this week we focussed on comparing and ordering fractions. We completed a cut and stick activity, questions from the board and also a few worksheets. This was a good reminder on how to use the more than, less than and equal to symbols.

For social subjects this week we were learning about capital cities. We created a mind-map of all the capital cities we knew before completing a research activity on the capital cities of Europe.

We are nearing the end of our class novel, Danny the Champion of the World, however we are still unsure as to how the story is going to end. We are continuing to use our 6 reading strategies to complete tasks related to the novel and this week we focussed on metalinguistics. This strategy helps us to find out the meaning of unfamiliar or tricky words.

This week for mental maths we were revisiting the partitioning strategy which help us break down larger calculations into more manageable calculations. This strategy seems to be a favourite in P4/5.

We are still learning all about substance misuse and the effects different substances can have on your body. This week we looked at the different categories drugs can be broken into; socially acceptable drugs, prescribed drugs, over the counter medicines and controlled (illegal) drugs. We then completed an activity to help consolidate our learning.

This week we continued with our persuasive writing, although our focus changed to persuading someone at home to get us a new pet. Some pupils researched the cost of the animal they wanted to help boost their argument that pets are not too expensive, however others were shocked at the prices of their desired pets. We had a wide variety of wanted pets; dogs, cats, rabbits, bearded dragons and an axolotl.

We are still continuing with our fractions topic and this week we began to look at equivalent fractions. We started by making our own fraction walls which we then later used to help us figure out some equivalent fractions.

This week for R.E we read the story The Call of David. This led to some good discussion about the quote ‘never judge a book by its cover’. We then completed a sequencing activity in which we had to put the story in the correct order.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

We have started our new Health and Wellbeing topic which looks at substance misuse. So far, we have discussed smoking and the effects it has on your body as well as alcohol and the effects it can have on your body. We completed some activities linked to these to help consolidate our learning.

We have continued with our persuasive writing and this week we were trying to persuade someone at home to take us to the park. We had some very good reasons as to why we should be allowed to go to the park after school – some even promised to clean their rooms and do the dishes!

We have also been learning about Christianity within our Religious Education lessons. This week we were focussing on religious artefacts that are associated with Christianity.  Some artefacts were well known objects whereas others were new ones we learned.

Have a lovely long weekend everyone!

This week we started our new numeracy topic which is all about fractions, decimals and percentages. We started off by reminding ourselves how we find a fraction of a shape and then moved onto finding a fraction of a number. Take a look at some of our brilliant work below.

For writing this term we are focussing on persuasive writing. This week we discussed everything we need to be successful in writing a persuasive piece and we looked at some examples. We then created our own posters which focussed on the importance of being careful in the sun. We hope we have persuaded you to be extra cautious this summer!

We have also moved onto a new topic in gym – fitness. We took advantage of the good weather and completed our circuits outside in the playground. Everyone worked really hard at each station, well done!

This term we are continuing to read Danny the Champion of the World. This week we focussed on the visualisation strategy and we drew pictures of what we think the teachers from Danny’s school look like. We used the text to help us with our drawings.

This week we have been very lucky and we got a shot on the school’s gymnastics equipment. We got to climb ropes, have a go on the monkey bars and climb on the climbing frames! We also played some games of basketball now that there are two basketballs hoops. Take a look at some of the action shots below.

We also spent some time finishing off our topic from last term which looked at significant people from the past. We watched a short video all about Rosa Parks and how she refused to give up her seat on the bus. We took notes, made mind maps of the key events and then turned these into story boards.

Well done for working hard during your first week of your last term in P4/5. Enjoy your weekend.