This week Primary 4/5 were learning how to use the ‘Adjusting for Easier Numbers’ mental maths strategy. This strategy was a little harder to understand but everyone worked really hard and tried their best. Take a look at some of our work below. Well done everyone.

We are continuing to learn about shape in numeracy and we are still focusing on 2D shapes. We have had people identifying and counting 2D shapes whilst others have been learning about parallel, perpendicular and intersecting lines.

We have also moved onto a new topic in P.E and are beginning to learn about the skills and concepts we use in gymnastics. This week we focused on travelling and had some time to practise different methods of travelling on the mats. Take a look at some of the action shots!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Although this week has been shorter than normal it has still been very busy. P4/5 were very excited to paint their Ben Nevis paper-mache mountains. Please take a look at their amazing work below. The Primary 5 children were also very excited as this was their first week of swimming lessons which they went all the way to Cumnock for. Please enjoy this summary of the Primary 5’s visit to the swimming pool which was written by Alfie.

My Trip to The Swimming Pool With Primary 5

First we walked to the bus stop then we waited for our bus we got on put our seatbelts on and then stop in Auchinleck about 4 times and then stopped across the road to the Visions Cumnock. Then we got our swimming stuff on got a quick shower and then did a swimming test for group 1 and group 2. For the swim test we went to go the first one we did front crawl first and then back crawl going back and then the groups were chosen then we did a bit in group 2. We did a bit of front crawl with a board and then did back crawl and then we did front crawl without the board. Leighton told me that group 1 did practising breathing and then they did a couple of jumps. Then we got changed and went to the bus stop and waited for our bus Mrs Robertson went to the first bus but that was for Ayr. We were going to get the 50 bus to Kilmarnock that stopped in Catrine and then we got off the bus and walked back to the school. My honest review I would give it a 10/10 rating it was so good.

Well done Alfie and everyone else for their hard work this week. Have a lovely weekend!

We have continued our Scottish Landmarks topic by looking at Ben Nevis this week. On Wednesday we started making our paper-mache Ben Nevis mountains after finding out some interesting facts and having a really good class discussion about all things Ben Nevis. We are waiting for our mountains to dry before painting them next week. They are looking good so far!

This week we have been learning about the ‘make 10’ mental maths strategy. This strategy requires knowledge about number bonds to multiples of 10. Have a look at some of our work below.

We have also continued with our class novel and are making good progress with it. We focussed on chapters 4 and 5 this week and completed an inference activity on Danny’s dads feelings towards poaching.

We are still looking at 2D shapes and have focussed on tiling/tessellation. We made some predictions about which shapes would tile/tessellate and then we looked at some examples of tiling/tessellation in the real world. We also had a go ourselves.

I hope everyone enjoys their long weekend!

This week P4/5 have been learning how to subtract using partitioning.  This strategy really helps break up larger numbers into more manageable chunks and so can make tricky subtracting calculations much easier. Have a look at some of the examples below.

We have moved onto a new topic in numeracy and we are now looking at 2D and 3D shapes. Everyone made posters to show the 2D and 3D shapes they knew at the beginning of the week, and since then we have also looked at the properties/features of 2D shapes.

We have been continuing with our class novel, Danny the Champion of the World, and have completed a range of different activities related to the story. However, the children’s favourite activity was making their own kites just like Danny and his dad did in the novel. Take a look at some of our designs!

We have also continued with our Scottish Landmarks topic. This week we looked at The Kelpies. We completed a research activity all about The Kelpies and also created our own pieces of art.

Another busy week for P4/5!