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Ice Cream Sundaes

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In class, we were given the choice of working independently or with a partner to produce a collage of an ice-cream sundae. Our first task was to plan what we wanted our sundae to look like, and produce an annotated plan. These are our plans:

Sophie Paige Joseph & Ewan Jeanie James & Ryan Harley & Jordan Emma & Jessica Elise & Aimee Chloe & Jamie Charlie Beth Amber

After we had completed our plans, we began to construct our 3D collages using materials such as pom-poms, straws, cotton wool, buttons, pipe cleaners, ribbon. The choices were endless!

We are very proud of our Ice Cream Sundaes and they make a lovely display in our corridor. You can see them below. We hope you like them.

Aimee & Elise Amber Beth Cameron & Fraser Charlie Chloe & Jamie Ewan & Jospeh James Jeanie Jessica & Emma Jordan & Harley Paige Sophie

Literacy and English

Creature Teacher

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We have just finished listening to another book read to us by Mrs McCulloch. This book was called ‘Creature Teacher’. The author’s name is Sam Watkins and the illustrator is David O’Connell.

The book tells the story of a boy called Jake Jones who joins a new school on the same day as his new teacher, who has a dreadful secret! There are lots of fun and games along the way!

We especially liked this book because Jake joined Primary 5b and that’s our class too!

Health and Wellbeing, Literacy across learning

World Book Day – 3 March

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World Book Day was on Thursday 3 March. We had a lovely time when boys and girls from Miss Macdonald’s Primary 7 class came to read to us.

We heard a variety of stories such as Thumbelina, Rapunzel, Under the Skin and Jack and The Beanstalk. We also listened to poems from the Ring of Words Anthology. Mark and Elliot also SANG a book to us – Miss McDonald had a class!

Thank you to Jamie and Chloe, Elliot and Mark, Charlie, Victoria and Heather, Archie and Lauren, Ethan, Callum, and Cameron. We really appreciated you doing this for us!

Later in the afternoon, we had to take part in a scavenger hunt where we had to look for certain characters, animals and items, such as a happy ending, a mystery, a moral lesson which can be learned etc.,  in books and say where we found them.

It was an enjoyable day!

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Collage Bottles

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In Art, we learned how to create a collage still life picture of a selection of bottles using tissue paper. Collage comes from the French word for glue.

First, we folded our tissue paper and drew half a bottle on it, then cut it out. When we opened up the shape, we had a whole symmetrical bottle. We made seven differently shaped bottles in either hot (red, orange, pink and yellow) colours or cold (blue, green purple and turquoise) colours.

Then we arranged our bottles on our background until we thought it looked attractive. Some of our bottles overlapped.  When we were happy with it, we stuck our bottles in place using diluted glue. When our picture were dry, we drew around the outline of each bottle in black pen.

We are very pleased with our work – they all look fabulous! Everyone’s picture is going on the classroom wall!Fraser bottlesElise bottlesEwan bottlesAimee bottles

 

Science

Our Senses

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As part of out topic about  Senses and Vibrations and Waves, we have learned that humans have five senses: hearing, touch, taste, smell and sight.

To understand these, we had to work in pairs to research our chosen sense. We made bulleted lists and annotated diagrams in our jotters. After that we had to design a poster to share the information that we had discovered.

Now, our next job is to investigate sound. Look out for further posts about this, as we find out more!

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Scottish Assembly

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On Friday 29 January, our school held a Scotland-themed assembly. On the 25 of January it was Robert Burns’ the anniversary of birthday, so each class decided to perform a Scottish song, or some Scottish poetry. We also had some girls who did some fabulous Highland dancing.

You can listen to our performance here. Both primary 5 classes sang together. We are very proud of our work.

Literacy and English, Social Subjects

The Abolition of The Slave Trade

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Last term we were learning about the abolition of the slave trade. We were surprised to learn that slavery has gone on throughout mankind’s history and has happened all over the world.

We learned more about the slave trade, in which Britain was heavily involved, by watching clips from the movie “Amazing Grace”. Britain did not have slaves, but many people in Britain became rich because of the trading of slaves.

We learned about William Wilberforce, who because of his Christian beliefs, campaigned against the slave trade. For over twenty years, he worked tirelessly to abolish it.

Wilberforce was one of the founders of the RSPCA. He also campaigned to improve prisoners’ rights, education for children and better health care. These were all because of the teachings of Jesus.

Although he was successful in abolishing the slave trade, we were very surprised to discover that slavery still exists today! The campaign to stop slavery continues.

Charity

Christmas Jumper Day

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Today, 11 December, our school held a Christmas Jumper Day in aid of Save the Children. Last week, we had a visit from a Save the Children volunteer (Mrs Strang) who told us all about the work that the charity does for children and their families all over the world.

She told us that a £1 donation is enough to buy two small sachets of Plumpy Nut, which is a high protein food that can save the life of a child.

Today, we all wore our Christmas jumpers and made a donation to the charity. We had fun while helping save other children around the world.