Hello,

Please find homework listed below.

Spelling

Usual spelling homework, all words written three times plus two activity spelling strategies of your choice. Nessy spelling will be issued on Wednesday and Thursday as normal.

Reading

Rowlings – Disaster, full book for Friday please.

Walliams – Raiders, end of the book for Friday please.

Dahls – The Knife, end of the book for Friday please. If you have finished this already could you please put together a small book review and share this with me on Glow? Your review should include a summary of what the book is about, what your favourite bits were and why, and if you would recommend this to a friend.

Morpurgos – The Viking Adventure, end of the book for Friday please.

Robins – Hot Dog Harris, end of the book for Friday please.

Maths

All groups have been issued with their mental maths grid. Please complete this as normal.

I hope you all have an excellent week.

Hello,

Please find homework listed below.

Spelling

Usual spelling homework, all words written three times plus two activity spelling strategies of your choice. Nessy spelling will be issued on Wednesday and Thursday as normal.

Reading

Rowlings – Foul Play, full book for Friday please.

Walliams – Raiders, page 32 for Friday please.

Dahls – The Knife, page 16 for Friday please (it was agreed that if this didn’t feel like enough then continue to read on!)

Morpurgos – The Viking Adventure

Robins – Hot Dog Harris, page 26 for Friday please.

Maths

All groups have been issued with their mental maths grid with their own questions in the Thursday column. Please complete this as normal.

Art

Thank you so much for all the household packaging donations – we now have lots of materials to start planning and building our longships and longhouses!

Robert Burns Day

As Burns Night falls on a Saturday this year we will be celebrating in class with a small Burns Supper (haggis optional!) and some Scottish refreshments. If any children wish to learn (or write!) a small piece of Burns or Scottish Poetry to recite on Friday this would be warmly welcomed! Some Burns poems will be practised and issued tomorrow for those who may wish to learn even a small extract.

I hope you all have an excellent week.

Hello,

Please find homework listed below.

Spelling

Usual spelling homework, all words written three times plus two activity spelling strategies of your choice. Nessy spelling will be issued on Wednesday and Thursday as normal.

Reading

Can all groups please finish their books for Friday, please. We’ve been focusing on fact and opinion so see if you can find any hidden opinions in your reading books. The facts should be easier to identify!

Maths

All groups have been issued with their mental maths grid. Please complete this as normal.

Art

Thank you so much for all the household packaging donations so far! Please keep anything further coming our way.

Open Afternoon

Primary 5 invite you to join us in class for an Open Afternoon on Wednesday 15th January between 2-3pm! A selection of experiences linked to our new topic will be available to enjoy during this session. We look forward to seeing you all there.

Hello all!

I hope you all had a very relaxing and restful Christmas break. It has been a pleasure to see the class again and hear all  about their amazing time off. My apologies for the delay in this first blog post of the new year, I blame first week forgetfulness! Please find this week’s homework listed below.

Spelling

Usual spelling homework, all words written three times plus two activity spelling strategies of your choice. Nessy spelling will be issued on Wednesday and Thursday as normal.

Reading

Can all groups please finish their books for Friday, please.

Maths

All groups have been issued with their mental maths grid. Please complete this as normal.

Art

At the start of this week Primary 5 voted for their new topic to be The Vikings! Some of their fabulous ideas for learning experiences included creating our own Viking shields, longboats and longhouses. In order to do this we will need any old any unused cardboard, cardboard boxes, cereal boxes, plastic bottles or any old food packaging from home! Can you please send in any unwanted household packaging that we could use for our junk modelling experiences over the next couple of weeks. Thank you.

Open Afternoon

Primary 5 invite you to join us in class for an Open Afternoon on Wednesday 15th January between 2-3pm! A selection of experiences linked to our new topic will be available to enjoy during this session. We look forward to seeing you all there.

Hi everyone,

Spelling

Usual spelling homework please, all words written three times plus two activity spelling strategies of your choice. Nessy spelling was issued on Monday this week, and will be collected in and marked on Friday.

Reading

Rowlings – Please finish Kensukes Kingdom for Friday.

Walliams – Please finish Animal Heros for Friday.

Dahls – Please finish Jane Blond for Friday.

Robin – Please finish Buzz and Bingo and the Starrry Sky for Friday please.

Morpurgos – Please finish Roman Adventure for Friday please.

Profiling

Maths homework has been replaced with Profiling homework this week. In class we have been working on adding a literacy, maths and HWB section to talk about our learning in term 1. For homework can you please make sure that each of these three sections has been completed. We have spent a lot of time looking at exemplar entries and creating a Success Criteria  in class so all learners are very confident with what their profile entries should look like. The exemplars and Success Criteria have been shared with learners on OneDrive so that these can be referenced from home.

Christmas Jumper Day 

Friday is Christmas Jumper day so for just £1 you can come into school wearing your Christmas Jumper. All money raised will go to Save the Children!

Hi everyone,

Apologies for the very belated homework blog post this week! Lovely primary 5 inform me that they’ve been pressing on with their usual homework, so thank you to them for their maturity!

Spelling

Usual spelling homework please, all words written three times plus two activity spelling strategies of your choice.

Reading

Rowlings – Poems by Rosen, finished for Friday please (Kensuke’s Kingdom to be picked up after poetry book.)

Walliams – Poems by McGough/Douthwaite, finished for next Friday please.

Dahls – Poems by Grace Nicholas, finished for Friday please (Jane Blond Superspy to be picked back up after poetry book.)

Maths

Please complete 10 minutes per night of hit the button. Please do a mixture of tables practising both multiplication and division.

P.E. 

Now that our swimming block has come to an end our P.E. slot has changed. P.E. will now take place on Monday (usual time) and on Friday after lunch (change from Thursday morning). If all children could please come to school with P.E. kits on these days please.

Hi everyone,

Please find homework for this week and information about Learning Assembly costumes listed below.

Spelling

Usual spelling homework please, all words written three times plus two activity spelling strategies of your choice.

Reading

Reading will be issued on Wednesday to allow learner to squeeze in some last minute practise of their assembly lines! Books will be as follows:

Rowlings – Poems by Carter Nicholas, finished for next Wednesday please (Kensuke’s Kingdom to be picked up after poetry book.)

Walliams – Poems by McGough/Douthwaite, finished for next Wednesday please.

Dahls – Poems by McGough/Douthwaite, finished for next Wednesday please (Jane Blond Superspy to be picked back up after poetry book.)

Maths

Please complete homework activities on Education City under the ‘homework’ tab.

Learning Assembly 

Please find a table of costumes below. Discussion has been had in class about each costume but please contact me with any questions.

Learning Assembly Costumes

Other News

In preparation for the School Fare on Saturday, Friday will be a dress as you please in exchange for a tombola prize!

Please see letter issued home today for more information on this event.

You are invited to Primary 5’s Learning Assembly to take place on Wednesday 27th November at 9.15 am in Braidbar Primary School’s gym hall! We look forward to seeing you all there!

Hi everyone,

Please find this weeks homework listed below.

Reading 

Rowlings – Kensuke’s Kingdom, to page 99 for Friday.

Walliams – Take a Run and Jump, end of the book for Friday.

Dahls – Jane Blond Schoolgirl Superspy, to page 29 for Friday.

Kinneys – The Camel Fair, to page 29 for Friday.

Morpurgos – The bully, end of the book for Friday.

Spelling 

Usual spelling homework in jotters, please.

Maths

No maths homework this week to allow extra time to practise learning assembly words!

Learning Assembly

All lines for the Learning Assembly were issued last week. Please make sure that these are learned for as soon as possible. Last week primary 5 agreed that learning lines for Wednesday 20th was a good aim as this gives us just under a week to practise without our scripts. If anyone needs spare lines please see me. Also please refer to next blog post about details of this exciting event!

Beep Beep! Day

The JRSOs have arranged Beep Beep! Day to learn about and promote road safety. Please come to school wearing some form of stripes (trousers or top, remaining clothing should still be school uniform.) Traffic light biscuits will be available to buy at tuck.

I hope you all have a lovely week!

Mrs Macintyre

Hi everyone,

Please find this weeks homework listed below.

Reading 

Rowlings – Kensuke’s Kingdom, to page 45 for Friday.

Walliams – Take a Run and Jump, to page 57 for Friday.

Dahls – Quackers, to the end of the book for Friday.

Kinneys – The Camel Fair, to page 16 for Friday.

Morpurgos – The motorway, end of the book for Friday.

Spelling 

Usual spelling homework in jotters, please.

Maths

Maths homework will be issued tomorrow (as I forgot today, sorry!)

Cubes – Division Revision sheet, mixture of remainders and no remainders. Remember you can use a multiplication grid to help you!

Pyramids – Symmetry Investigation sheet. Please use a ruler to draw any  lines of symmetry.

Spheres and Cubes – Grid Reference mapping sheet.

Talent Show!

Our House Voting session is to take place on Wednesday morning. Each House will get together to vote for their favourite five talents. These acts will then perform at the Talent Competition next Tuesday. Can all acts please bring in what they need for Wednesday.

Other

Flu immunisation is also scheduled to take place this Thursday. Please see letter issued last week for more information.

I hope you all have a lovely week!

Mrs Macintyre