This term in PE we are  practising our tennis skills. We have been setting ourselves challenges e.g. how many keep-ups we can do one minute and changing from backhand to forehand. Lewis R is our current keep-up champion but everyone has been improving their skills.  Watch the video below to see us in action and to see how hard we are concentrating.

This week we have been participating in HeartStart. We have been learning to recognise the signs of someone having a heart attack and  how to help them. We used our drama skills to act out the situation. We feel confident that we know how to react in an emergency.

This term in Art we have been discovering Spanish Artists. We have studied artwork created by Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and Joan Miró and have been learning about the  art movements Cubism and Surrealism. Below you can see a selection of our creations from the talented artists in P5.

We had fun on Friday fundraising for and celebrating Comic Relief. It was great to see lots of us wearing red to support a great charity. We watched a video in class to find out how the money raised for Comic Relief is spent and who it helps. We also had lots of fun in the hall taking part in different fun challenges such as knocking down the skittles and the balloon race.

We continue to have Music lessons with Mrs Carey our specialist teacher. Today we were learning new rhythms and used the claves in a circle game. We also played a passing ball game to help us learn our rhythms and joined in with some singing.

Today we were learning the Oompa Loompa song from our class novel. We watched a dance tutorial to learn the dance steps. Everyone picked up the steps easily and our finished dance looked great.

Thank you to the members of our class who remembered to bring in one of their favourite books today to celebrate World Book Day. Each person was able to tell us a little about our their book and why they like it so much.
We also took part in an emoji quiz to guess some of our favourite children’s books.  Due to the  marvel of technology we  used artificial intelligence to allow us to take part in a question and answer session with Road Dahl and Mr Wonka! We each thought of a really interesting question to ask and got some interesting responses.
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Willy Wonka  requested our help. We were required to create a twenty second tv commercial to advertise one of his new sweet inventions that would persuade people to buy it. Firstly we shared our ideas in groups. Next we created a storyboard for our adverts then we rehearsed and filmed them. Take a look at this final advertisement from the Brilliant Buckets.
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We have been learning about physical and chemical reactions.
We observed what happened when we mixed bicarbonate of soda with vinegar. We saw bubbles forming and then the balloon placed on top of the bottle inflated proving that a gas had been released. We all enjoyed seeing a real chemical reaction up close.

As part of Languages Week Scotland we have been learning greetings from countries around the world. We have also taken part in a Mandarin challenge to extend our knowledge of China. Lastly we have been learning some British Sign Language. Below you can see us performing the Rainbow song in BSL.