Last week we were working on the design process to make strong buildings from world war 2. The kids recreated buildings from London which came together brilliantly.

What a day at Dumfries House. The p6’s were split into two groups one group getting a tour of the garden identifying different types of seed and different types of plants and the other were cooking Potato, Leek and pea soup. The children had so much fun and were really engaged.

Hi all, another fab week in P5/6:

This week we have covered:

Maths:

• conversion of fractions to decimals and percentages
• Simplifying fractions

Literacy:

• Character descriptions- creating our own characters from the lost city of Atlantis
• Our weekly spelling covering the phoneme \ie\
• And continued to work on our reading skills through literacy world

Health and well being:

• PE: tennis
• We finished off the “Staying cool in school” program (Mrs Cunningham)

Topic (science based):

• we continues to build own own circuits this week and how we can be safe around them

RME- Islam

• We discussed the five pillars of Islam and their meanings
• we also discussed the similarities with specific Muslim groups to the main religions here in Scotland

Lost of new learning building on what we learned last week. I am Exited for the next week ahead – Mr Holland

Residential Visit to Lockerbie Manor PP for Parents and Carers March 2025

I hope everyone had a really good holiday and festive period. This week we have been learning our version of address to a haggis. I will put the words at the bottom for anyone unsure of what verses we are doing. We are also singing the song “life with you” by the proclaimers.  I am looking forward to our burns afternoon on the 24th.

P5 Address to a Haggis adaptation

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,

Great chieftain o’ the pudding-race!

Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,

Painch, tripe, or thairm:

Weel are ye wordy o’a grace As lang’s my arm.

The groaning trencher there ye fill,

Your hurdies like a distant hill,

Your pin wad help to mend a mill In time o’need,

While thro your pores the dews distil Like amber bead.

His knife see rustic Labour dight, An’ cut you up wi’ ready slight,

Trenching your gushing entrails bright,

Like ony ditch; And then,

O what a glorious sight, Warm-reekin’, rich!

Ye Pow’rs, wha mak mankind your care,

And dish them out their bill o’ fare,

Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware That jaups in luggies;

But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer,

Gie her a haggis!

Life with you:

Final week before Christmas. I hope everyone enjoyed the Nativity last week. This week we are continuing with the maths week Scotland Christmas challenge to solve the mystery of the missing presents.

we also have our Christmas Party this week to look forward to!

Well done to all who took part in the school choir performance at the Maid Safe Christmas market. The feedback was amazing, and all of the children sounded great.

This week, we have focused on continuing with fractions and assessing our learning from the previous maths topic.
Nativity rehearsals have been in full swing, and I am really excited to see it come together next week. We will be selling the Christmas decor that the children have made in class.

The children have been enjoying PE, learning how to correctly throw the Javline and refining our skills to increase accuracy.

Hi guys, homework for this week is:

spelling:

write out the words in the children’s jotters three time using our look, say, cover, write and check method.