Awesome Achievers
Over the past few months, Primary 5b have been enjoying the outdoors by climbing hills, playing football and flying gadgets like drones. Many of the class took part in the Cross Country try-outs and we had one class member successful in making the Giffnock team. We continue to strive to improve our swimming skills, with some of the focus being on the butterfly stroke recently. Lots of the children have been exploring their artistic side with their drawings and also creating 3D models out of paper and string. One of our class members is the star player in their online gaming team.
Class Blog
Our Health and Wellbeing focus this term is Substance Misuse. We have been sorting different drugs into categories such as “legal, illegal and legal with restrictions”. Restrictions on drugs could be your age, how much you are allowed or where you can buy it. We know that some medicines are helpful while others can be harmful, some are addictive and some need to be prescribed by a doctor.
In ICT, we have been applying our editing skills in a Word document to create a colour picture in the style of the artist Mondrian. We inserted a table and then changed the sizes of the boxes by using the merge cells tool. We have been working on improving our search skills by using quotation marks to search for a specific phrase, or limiting our search results by being more specific with what we search for. As part of Safer Internet Day, we created posters with important messages about preventing cyber bullying and being safe online.
During PE, we have been developing our gymnastics skills. In partners and small groups we have created balances and short sequences of movement. More specifically, we have been learning to do a frog stand, shoulder stand, head stand and cart wheel. This culminated in working as a group to create a short sequence incorporating balances, rolls and simple movements. We have been fortunate to have a coach in for a few weeks to develop our cricket skills. One of the first things we had to master was catching the ball safely, then how to hold the bat as if we were chopping wood. Our next step is to start playing proper cricket matches.
Our new topic this term is the Scottish Wars of Independence. So far, we have learned about the reign of King Alexander III and how he met his untimely death. We have now been introduced to John Balliol and look forward to exploring his role in Scottish history. We have developed some of our art skills by creating split-pin puppets to represent John Balliol, the Puppet King, and we had to create King Alexander’s horse through a mixture of drawing, painting and collage.
