Primary 5.16 spent yesterday learning about World Ocean day, completing tasks across curricular areas and using the WWF website to learn about oceans and some of our current difficulties that exist in the high sea.
As an additional and optional task, many pupils put their drawing skills to the test and created their own illustrations of some magnificent sea creatures.
Excellent artwork!
For the last few weeks before the end of term, P5.16 have come up with lots of exciting ideas they would like to learn about. One of which was to find out more about what toys and games Victorian children played with. Pupils research for photographs of Victorian toys and described how to play with them before presenting their information in their own Google Slides document.
P5.16 put their research and digital skills to the test again and created wonderful Scottish animal fact files! Here are a few examples of their work, there were so many interesting fact files to choose from it was very hard to pick which ones to share.
They worked very hard to research and include interesting fun facts about different animals making these fact files and interesting and informative read!
Inspired by The Little Train of the Caipira, a piece of music written by Heitor Villa Lobos and under the direction of Simon Mole, P5.16 created their own poems describing a train journey of their own. Watch the videos to see two wonderful examples of their work!
Impressive work again P5.16!
Nearing the end of our learning focus, all about Scotland, P5.16 have been putting their cooking and baking skills to the test. Look at some of their lovely creations!
Some pupils even made their baking challenge into a Zoom bake-off with another family member!
Others opted for a savory cooking challenge and made some tasty potato scones!
We may have some future chefs amongst us!
Last week the pupils learned how to record audio over a PowerPoint. This was very tricky however many pupils managed this and created some exceptional pieces of work adapting and enthusiastically retelling the Christian parable, The Lost Sheep. The following videos illustrate how three pupils retold the story in different ways.
One pupil even managed to record her story in time to a short animation of the story, this was especially tricky to get the timing right but as I’m sure you’ll agree they did an excellent job!
In the short week before the May Day weekend, P5.16 were hard at work learning about the respiratory system. Before the week ended we saw some excellent work displaying their newly acquired knowledge, here are a few wonderful examples!
Primary 5.16 have been busy adapting to home learning over the past few weeks and they have taken this change in their stride.
Pupils are continuing to complete work at their own pace and all have managed to log in to Glow and complete some of the work set which in itself is a fantastic achievement! Pupils and their families have worked hard to find a routine that they are comfortable with and many have quickly overcome technical challenges to be able to do this. A huge thank you to everyone out there who has helped P5.16 in the past few weeks!!!
Now to share some (certainly not all) of the wonderful work that has been created over the weeks!
Follow the link to see some of their wonderful work completed before the Easter holidays.
After the holiday, pupils have been busy creating their own personal project which will be completed in the week to follow.
Alongside this, they have demonstrated their wonderful writing abilities and tested their skills with technology to create impressive recounts and imaginative stories. The below pictures encaptures some of their excellent work!
To demonstrate their film making skills, they have also created their own short movies. Most of which are unfortunately too large to upload. These videos included some imaginative storytelling with family engagement and others carefully illustrated many of their wonderful talents!
This week, the pupils asked to complete another filming task and they have been creating their own PE films to challenge each other to stay active! We’ve had running, hula hoop, ball throwing and headstand challenges so far…
Hope you all enjoy your well deserved weekends!
Stay happy and healthy!
We have had a week full of visitors in P5.16 this week to kick off STEM fortnight. Dr Peter Hughes launched the week followed by visits from Glasgow Science Centre, SSPCA, Dr Mathur and Mr Buchan from Scottish Water.
Pupils also participated in a K’nex bridge building challenge where they had to design and create their own bridges. Pupil engineers practised their communication, perseverance and powers of negotiation to construct their final designs.
Finally to end the week pupils combined their knowledge about bearings and coding to guide there Sphero through different challenges. Possibly some future coders amongst them!
Unfortunately the videos were too big to upload!
As a reward for the pupils’ dedication to lining up nicely and entering the school quietly P5.16 we given a trip to the Glasgow Resource Centre to learn all about Egyptians!
Pupils were able to take on different roles of the Egyptian gods and even hold different artefacts from the time. Have a look at some of out favourite moments captured!
A fun day had by all!
