Jerry park outdoor learning session

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Primary 5 teamed up with Primary 1 to experience a variety of outdoor learning activities at the Jerry park today. We were accompanied by some students from Clyde college who had planned four fantastic lessons for us to participate in.

We had to use our maths skills to answer questions to find a code to release a captured bear from his cage!

We listened to a story and discussed the language and vocabulary and put this into the context of the wooded area.

We created potions from natural materials.

We carried out a bug hunt using our science skills of investigation.

Outdoor learning

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We teamed up with Primary 1 to share the skills that we have learned with them. Primary 5 taught Primary 1 how to be safe in the school grounds and how to safely  collect resources without damaging the natural area.

We worked on math skills and helped Primary 1 children to identify numbers to ,to count to10, to identify length and colours and read the words for these. We then helped them sequence resources that we had collected.

Primary 5 loved having the responsibility of helping the Primary 1 children and they had to think carefully about their own knowledge and understanding of concepts in order to explain it to another child.

David & Anthony.

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Last term we learned:

Mauritius is a tropical island around Africa.

Africa is the second biggest continent.

Mauritius is on the edge Africas continent.

Mauritius is a tropical continent.

3 of the most common languages  are english africanas french

Years ago in Mauritius there was extinct creatures like the DOdo.

you used to be able to take shells from the beach in mauritius but now you cant as it is a protected area.

 

Mauritius update

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As you are aware, we wrote to a school in Mauritius to establish a penpal relationship with them.  The class teacher said that her pupils were excited and delighted with their letters! A  number of our pupils have now received replies as the other school have asked their parents to write and post letters as opposed to paying for postage by the school.We are hopeful that most pupils will have a response by the end of term.

Many parents will know Margaret Mary through her involvement with St Johns Church. She has family in Mauritius and has visited several times. She kindly spoke to the children about her first hand experiences of their culture and island and brought in several photographs, maps and shells for the children to see.

January 2018

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Welcome back to the new term! This term promises to be as exciting as last term for Primary 5.

Along with continuing to read the Literacy World books we will be studying Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J.K Rowling.

Our class Social Studies  topic will be Africa and Mauritius. The children have received the opportunity to write to a pupil in Mauritius and hopefully develop a penpal relationship.

We will continue to take learning outdoors whenever the opportunity arises and to build our STEM skills through active and practical tasks.

S. Nelson.