P5 have had a busy few weeks. We’ve been continuing to work on and improve our spelling strategies. We have been learning about similes and alliteration and we were trying to add some into our writing this week.

In maths we have been working on our Number Talks strategies and also revising place value. We have also been learning to use the <, > and = signs correctly.

In science we have been learning about forces and we went on a walk last week to find items that were magnetic. We were also looking to see where we could find ‘forces’ in action. We had great discussions at the park about the forces required to use some of the equipment. We have also been learning about electricity and have been learning to build circuits.

In ICT we have been learning how to change the size, font and colour of our writing.

Our times tables homework focus was given out today in class.  This will run for the next four weeks. Pupils are free to choose a different times table each week that they feel they need to work on.  From here they should complete as many of the activities on the sheet as they can throughout the week.

By the end of P5 the expectation is that pupils will know all times tables and have good recall of each.  This will support them in all other aspects of maths, from completing multiplication and division calculations, to fractions, decimals and percentages.  Lots of practise committing these to memory will be our table focus this session.

We can’t wait to see the improvements everyone makes.

Good luck and have fun.

P5 have been working very hard in class this week. We have been trying to improve our letter formation and handwriting. We read some more of our book and focussed on metalinguistics. We looked at leaflets about different animals, and we were learning to use our skimming and scanning skills to pick out the key information about each animal’s needs.

We loved having lots of you visit our class on Thursday, as part of our Numeracy Open Morning, and getting to show off all of the amazing things we have been learning.

In science we’ve been continuing to learn about forces and this week we focussed on magnetic forces. We were trying to see if we could a make a paperclip dance.

We have had another busy week in P5. We have been continuing to work on our book study ‘Matilda’, and have been focussing on visualisation this week. We used descriptions of Mr and Mrs Wormwood to create our pictures of them. We were continuing to explore place value and rounding in maths. We were also learning to use partitioning as an addition strategy in Number Talks. In ICT we were learning to access WORD in Glow and we were able to type up some of our work. In science we were learning about Forces. We looked at push and pull forces and built our own ramps to test how far we could get the ball to roll. In music we were learning to play the Glockenspiels and were learning to perform ‘Mamma Mia’.