Some of primary 5 have been learning about the area and perimeter of shapes. We decided to take our learning outside. We had great fun working collaboratively using different measuring tool to calculate the areas and perimeter of different objects in our playground.  There was a huge range of objects being measured from tables to gates. Everyone worked really hard. Well Done!!

Since the beginning of term primary 5 have thoroughly enjoyed their step up of responsibility. The class have been taking buddying the new primary 1 children, this includes helping with their lunches, assisting with areas of their learning such as IT skills and paired reading work. The children have created great friendships with their buddy and look forward to continuing their involvement with them.

It has been a busy 2 weeks for primary 5. This is where we will be sharing our class work and achievements.  We have been having lots of fun in our class from maths to writing to creating our class charter.

There is a picture of our class charter below.

We hope you are enjoying the Blog.  There will be more to come next session as the Blog follows the class through their time at Cross Arthurlie.

P4 had a fantastic trip to Amazonia! We deepened our knowledge of the rainforest and had the opportunity to explore what it would be like to travel around the rainforest. We even had the opportunity  to hold some of the animals.

Welcome back!!

Before the Spring break we learned about engineering and structures. We investigated the properties of different materials and discussed why they are used when building.

As a class, we decided to create characters and a setting using LEGO to create a new world. Once we had created our setting and characters we wrote an imaginative story. We will use this story and storyboards to create a stop start animation using the Ipads.

Stay tuned for our stop start animation!

We had a great afternoon sharing our learning with our families. We enjoyed working together to create our very own painting ‘Starry Night’ in the style of Vincent Van Gogh.

Thanks to all our families who joined us on Friday for our Scottish morning. We enjoyed performing our Scottish dances (thanks to the adults for joining in too!), weaving and tasting our own potato and leek soup.

We enjoyed our first Mandarin lesson of the term and learned how to say hello…. nǐ hǎo and goodbye zài jiàn.

During Maths, we enjoyed exploring the Chinese number system. We used sand to write the numbers using the symbols. Some of us even decided to have a race to see who could draw the symbols on the board using the chalk.

Watch our video to see us in action!

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Merry Christmas from P4! Today we enjoyed learning about how to write a recipe and were  able to follow it to make our own gingerbread men!

We have had a great term learning lots of new things and are looking forward to the new year! Come back soon to see our latest updates!