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Primary 5 2017/18
Welcome to the new school year!
Primary 5 promises to be a fantastic year for the children.
The children have been revising their maths skills from Primary 4 and easing into the classroom routine after the long summer break. They have been learning their tables and will continue to do so over the course of the term.
In literacy this term we are studying “The BFG” by Roald Dahl and can look forward to lots of interdisciplinary activities based on this novel. In September we also begin studying the Literacy World series in class.
Our social studies topic is The Scottish Wars of Independence and we will be learning all about famous battles, historic figures and life during the 11-12th centuries.
The children will have added responsibilities around the school this year, now that they are part of the upper school. They began by checking the school garden and assessing the weeds that had grown over the summer holidays. We were pleasantly surprise to see that the rocket, blueberries and broccoli continued to grow unaided and our pear tree bore its first fruit! The children were all able to contribute ideas and opinions about they would like to grow this year.
We are looking forward to a fantastic Primary 5 and children will be blogging on a regular basis to keep you up to date on our learning and adventures!
Mrs Nelson.
P3a – Birdy Cakes
We have been looking at our environment and noticed that as winter is coming to end, our playground is being visited by more wildlife. We wanted to encourage more birds to visit and decided we would like to provide food for them to eat. We made our own birdy cakes for the birds, and added them to bird feeders around the playground. We were delighted to see that the birds had enjoyed all of the birdy cakes we made for them.
Primary 3b’s Roman Afternoon
The Primary 3b enjoyed their fun Roman afternoon this week. We wore our togas and made some super laurel wreaths, which made us all feel very important and powerful! We’ve learned so much during our unit of study, so it was great to get the chance to share this with our parents/carers who came to visit us.
We also had a yummy Roman feast with some traditional Roman foods. We even got to try some things we’d never had before! We liked some more than others!
Our final home challenge will be to design a Roman aqueduct! This will finish off our topic nicely and the deadline for this is 21st December. The children have received a hand-out detailing the materials they could use and some helpful pictures. Enjoy, boys and girls!
Primary 3a – Book Week
This week in class we have been looking at the work of the Scottish author Julia Donaldson. She has written many great poems and children’s books. Our class’ favourite is “The Snail and the Whale.” During our writing lesson, we wrote a review of this book. We discussed and wrote about how the author has used rhyming and alliteration to make the story interesting and funny. We also love how some of the illustrations in the book remind us that the author is Scottish, such as the Glasgow ship. For Art and Design, our class re-created illustrations of our favourite parts of the story. We focused on how lots of different colour is blended and added together to make the pictures come to life. Here is some of our work.
Miss McCann
