EWHCF Class of 2018

This afternoon Harris was delighted to help us learn about how boats float.  In our topic “The Titanic” lots of children were wondering how such things can stay afloat in the water for so long.

Harris used a jug, a plastic bottle, water and a nail to demonstrate that depending on how much air is within an object, it will wither float or sink.  As the water reached the top of the bottle, the bottle then sank however even with nails inside it stayed afloat.  We linked this to “The Titanic” and made connections.

We had a great time learning how boats can float – Thanks Harris !!!! It’s so cool hearing from our friends, we listen to them and pay attention.

We are now making posters to show our understanding.  It was a great day for everyone.

P5 recently visited Strathaven Airfield. They have created a vlog for you so they can share their experiences of the day with you.

This week has been a busy week for Primary 5.   We completed our topic which was lots of fun.   We explored the Roman invasion of Britain and in particular we looked at the impact the Romans had on Scotland.  Amiee shared how she visited Hadrians Wall and brought back some great information leaflets and pictures for us to have a look at.

Emily Lawns brought in her Mums school project on Rome which was very interesting to look at.  Thanks to Emily’s Gran we had more than enough kitchen and toilet roll holders to design and make Roman style cuffs and bracelets.  Some highlights of our topic have been planning our topic alongside Mrs Watson and giving her our ideas about our learning researching, designing and making our own Roman style weapons and tools, re-enacting some historical events involving the Romans and the Celts. Researching and creating a timeline of events from the times when Romans came to Britain until now, learning about Gladiators and Roman entertainment, creating our own information leaflet that tells the reader all about the Romans and the Celts, designing our own standards, our little Roman potato mascot, our Roman invasion storyboards, designing and creating tissue paper cities, and many more.

This week we explored how substances dissolve in water during science.  We predicted which household good would dissolve in water and which would not.  To make it fair we had to use the same amount and temperature of water, use the same jars, use the same amount of substance and also ensure we cleaned the spoon after we used it, we also gave each experiment the same amount of time and we mixed it in the same way.   After the experiment we discussed what had happened to each substance and reported this in our jotter.

This week the architects from the company who are refurbishing our school came to visit some groups. David and Erin, our pupil council reps, got to talk to and see the plans for the school before everyone else.  They reported back so well to the class and we then got the chance to see the plans for ourselves.   This is really useful for our next focus because we will be looking at Scotland and its characteristics, the impact of humans on local land and the proposed use of unused land in our local community.   We wrote the advantages and disadvantages of the proposals in our jotters.

We have planned a “Bake off” in the class as a reward for all our hard work last term – we will be making rocky road and a sweet cake- we know this is a very special treat. We are looking forward to letting the staff taste our bakes.

THIS WEEK IN P5 … For a Golden Time treat we explored the art of bakery and created delicious rocky road and a sweetie cake ( it was optional and we came up with the recipes too ) we got brilliant reports from our families as they munched the food we made. This was inspired by The Great British Bake Off.

In I.C.T  we presented our fabulous timelines all the way from the ancient Egyptians to just now, we also learned to create and program our own worlds from scratch, we also programed sick men on pivot.

This week in writing we have created our own haunted house stories –  very spooky. We were learning about interesting openers (sentence starters) and wow words (vocabulary).

In maths we were doing some tricky problem solving on our whiteboard’s, subtraction skeletrons were rounding and estimating. Times twins were doing there times tables and their fractions. Division destroyers were using function machines to change numbers in lots of different ways we also done function machines on the big whiteboard.

Health and wellbeing we were learning about drug awareness we were learning about legal and illegal drugs.

We had a very busy week, but it was lots of fun and we developed skills in lots of different areas.

This week we have all enjoyed being back at school after a lovely holiday. We  have learned how to analyse characters in a text. We did this by watching characters in a video and looking at their manner, appearance, actions, reactions and interactions with other characters. Towards the end of the week we had to use what we had learned to create our own character. They had to be a pirate but we could decide if they were good or bad!

In maths the Dragon Mages have been developing our knowledge of different shapes and patterns through tiling. we know shapes with straight edges are the best to tile with. The Potion Masters have been developing our skills in division with remainders and carrying. Some of us are still finding this a little tricky and we need some more practice. The Star Lords have been learning to tell the time to the nearest minute. We have also found this a wee bit tricky but we think we are getting the hang of it now.

We have started an exciting technology topic about bridges. We have learned there are 4 different types of bridges: a hanging bridge, a cantilever bridge, a beam bridge and an arch bridge. We have been set the challenge to build our own model of a bridge that has to eb strong enough for a toy car to go over. We are limited to £100 to spend at Miss Shaw’s Building Supplies. It’s rather difficult not to spend it all at once. We are finding it very interesting though.

In maths we have been learning how to mulitply and divide two and three digit numbers. We have used our times tables – we need to practice these so we are quick and accurate.

In Art and Design, we were experimenting with paint.  We made watery paint and thick paint and we also added PVA glue and sand to change the texture. We discovered that the thick paint made a darker colour than thin paint. When we added PVA to thin paint, we observed that it made it thicker but didn’t change the colour.

This week in RME we made a Census Poster.  This was to remind us of the Christmas story when Mary and Joseph had go back to their home town of Bethlehem to be registered for their taxes.

Maths:

The Star Lords have been learning about degrees between compass points. We had to follow directions using language like ” 135 degrees anti-clockwise” and then saying which direction you would then be facing on the compass.

The potion masters developed their skills in addition and subtraction with a lot of exchanges with 3 digit numbers. Some of us need a little more practice with this before moving on.

The Dragon MAges continued to develop their skills with matching analogue and digital clocks by playing a game of bingo! It was a lot of fun. We also revised how to add and subtract using Tens and Units.

In language we had to continue a story in the same style as the author. It was about two brothers playing the Tasting Game and eventually they had a fight. We had to write from the point of view of the big brother who had just played a trick on his little brother by feeding him mustard!

We continued our plants science topic by carrying out an investigation to find out the direction that water travels in a plant. We have also learned the differnt parts of the flower and their functions. We are finding this very interesting and fun!