This week we had the egg competition where everyone came up with fantastic designs. Well done to Ayla for being the class winner!
In numeracy we created fractions from our names, turning them into decimals and percentages.
In literacy this week we created a final narrative writing piece based on Easter.
This week in Literacy we completed a review of our books, sharing our thoughts and opinions on what we have read.
In numeracy this week we completed a chilli challenge with different fractions questions.
Wednesday was our last week of swimming – we will definitely miss going swimming next week, but we all had a fantastic time enjoying the floaties as a last week treat.
P5 were practicing their balancing this week in PE.
This week in numeracy we utilised all of our learning from throughout our fractions topic. We had different stations to practice simplifying fractions, finding amounts of fractions, adding fractions and some groups have been learning to turn a fraction into a decimal. There has also been some fantastic multiplication masters work this week with lots of pupils getting times tables signed off.
We had our fifth swimming lesson on Wednesday and are all looking forward to the fun swim for our last time next week.
In literacy this week we developed our metalinguistic skills using dictionaries to find the meaning of words.
We began a STEM challenge on Thursday afternoon where small groups had to solve a problem while only having limited resources.
In numeracy this week we have been learning to simplify and order fractions.
On Wednesday we had our 4th swimming lesson at Visions.
In PE we were able to use all our netball skills to have games of netball.
In literacy we have been typing our narrative stories while also making edits to them. This helps us add more detail to our stories and extend our writing.
This week in literacy we were developing our summarising skills re-telling our reading books in our own words.
In art on Tuesday we discussed the style and features of pointillism and started to create our own pointillism picture.
On Wednesday we had our third swimming lesson at Visions. Everyone is making great progress and is looking forward to next week!
In numeracy this week we have been learning to simplify fractions.
On Tuesday we continued our narrative writing focusing on adding detail to our characters and expanding our writing.
On Wednesday we had our second swimming lesson at Visions.
This week in numeracy we have been finding fractions of different amounts using base ten materials to support us.
In netball this week we were learning about the different positions that are played. We were then able to put all our skills into practice playing our own games of netball.
On Wednesday Primary 5 had their first ever swimming lesson and had a great time at Visions. We can’t wait to go back again on Wednesday.
In literacy this week we were focusing on our prior knowledge and prediction skills to write about our new reading books.
In numeracy we have been finding fractions of amounts.
This week in netball we have been developing our passing and shooting skills.
We have been working on our Inferencing skills in literacy. This helps us find the meaning behind the words or pictures in our books.
In numeracy we have been learning to identify equivalent fractions. We have created our own fraction walls to support us.
This week we have continued to develop our netball skills. We have been learning ways to dodge others when they are defending.
We had our educational trip to the science centre this week where Primary 5 got to explore all the different floors within the science centre and visit the IMAX.
In numeracy this week we have been learning about fractions and being able to identify a fraction.
This week we have been learning about the rules of netball and have been working hard to improve our passing and aim. We were working in groups to practise our passing and catching the ball whilst moving.
This week in Literacy we were learning how to write a narrative poem. We read a few examples while discussing the features and layout of a poem. We then planned out the story for our poem to follow and created our own narrative poem.
In Numeracy we have been learning to divide money. We discussed the strategies that have supported us previously in division and have used these to help us divide money. We have been dividing money up to £100 by one digit with remainders.
In Art we were creating our own tartan. We discussed when people might wear tartan and its features. We then created three different designs we might use, and started to paint our finalised design.
