Author: Mrs Ali

Primary 5 dressed in red to celebrate Red Nose Day and raise money for charity. What a great effort!

Primary 5 took delivery of a beautiful, new interactive board earlier this week. We are enjoying using it!

Today, we used the Chrome Books to create Sways about the Vikings. Using our research notes, we created a Sway ( similar to a PowerPoint). We used our previous knowledge about PowerPoints and transferred some of these skills to creating Sways.

This was our first experience of using Sway and we hope to use it more often in class. You can also access this at home.

Suha – I enjoyed using a Sway because you can add media.

Hassan – You can see everything on the same screen. You don’t need to open up different slides.

Harris – I like dragging the pictures into the background. I like it better than PowerPoint.

Charlie – I like how easy it is to put it all together.

Euan took part in his first junior squash tournament last weekend, and came joint 1st place! What a fabulous achievement! Well done, Euan!

 

Kaif has been awarded his Orange belt at Kung Fu. This is the second move up for him this session. What a brilliant achievement!

Please bring in any certificates, badges or talk to us about your achievements. We would love to hear about them!

Reading – read relevant pages of group reader and prepare a question using higher order skills.

Spelling – Choose two written active spelling tasks to complete for Friday.

East Renfrewshire Sumdog Competition – Please spend 10-15 minutes on this daily. Below are the results from the UK wide Sumdog competition. Please make sure everyone plays this week.

Class	Students played	Score	Position
Primary 5 Mrs Ali	28	269	135th

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Red Nose Day is on Friday 15^th March

The Braidbar Pupil Council members have organised some fundraising activities on this day. We would encourage children to come to school on Friday 15^th March wearing an item of red, and/or a Red Nose Day accessory and to bring a chocolate donation. In the afternoon a chocolate tombola will take place and each class will be invited along for their chance to win! Tickets are priced at 20p each.

 As well as this, the lovely dinner ladies are making some Red Nose Day jammy biscuits! These will be 40p (cash) and can be pre-ordered from Monday 11^th March.

We can’t wait to raise some money for this worthwhile charity who help vulnerable people in the UK and internationally!

Braidbar Pupil Council

Code.org increases diversity in computer science by reaching students of all backgrounds where they are — at their skill-level, in their schools, and in ways that inspire them to keep learning.

Primary 5 have been enjoying working through a series of tasks on Code.org. This was an engaging way to learn coding skills with a partner.

 

Primary 5 brought in their favourite books today to celebrate World Book Day!

Primary 5 teamed up with Primary 6 and Mrs Moran this afternoon to create a design for the new planters in the playground. They looked at fruit, vegetables, peas and beans. Pupils worked co-operatively in groups of 5 to plan and design the plants to go into one of the three planters.

Stella’s mum, P5, came in to share her expertise with us as she is a keen gardener with her very own allotment. The next stage will be to order the seeds, allow them to germinate and plant them. Primary 5 are looking forward to getting their hands dirty!

Reading – read relevant pages of group reader and prepare a question using higher order skills.

Spelling – Choose two written active spelling tasks to complete for Friday.

Sumdog Competition – Please spend 10-15 minutes on this daily.

Other Information

World Book Day Thursday 7th March

Please bring in your favourite book to share with the rest of the class. Think about what makes the book special and why you like it. Is it the characters, the setting, the plot or the genre?

P5 wrote some amazing Kennings poems. The Vikings used kennings in poetry to describe ordinary things in an extraordinary way. A kenning is a way of describing something without ever saying what it is. It is like a ‘mini riddle’.

The word kenning comes from a Viking phrase which means: “to express a thing in terms of another.”

e.g. foot-warmer to describe a sock or sky-scraper to describe a tall building