We have been continuing to participate in outdoor learning this week.
Children completed a series of challenges. The focus was on teamwork, communication, co-operation, creativity and problem solving. Not all children had a chance to complete all 5 tasks and will participate in each activity over the course of the next few weeks.
They worked together really well and every group met their targets and successfully completed their task!
Today we had a extra pe session with a high school teacher called mr beard. he teaches pe in st luke’s. We did front rolls and some games of tig. It was fun because he was very funny and it was also something that gets you fit i thought he wasn’t funny because he was in a high school but he was.It was very very fun!PE, HWB, Primary 5 P5
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.
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.
Using the Science theme of “exploration and Discovery”, Primary 5 researched and presented a topic of their choice to the class. Their enthusiasm and passion was evident as they presented their posters!
This successful activity had children working together in groups and resulted in children producing creative pieces that they shared with the rest of the class.
They created flags, schools, water wells, animals, houses and traditional weapons.
Hello this is Zak Reid and I am a pupil at St.Marks primary school. My favourite thing in this term has been able to work on my maths, literacy, grammar and most of all being able to work in peace and quite.We have read the BFG and Raiders. My favourite part of Riders was when edric had flung his lucky swallow at the evil viking that tried to hurt his father.
I am so exited until next term to see what surprises will happen !
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.
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