Primary 5 have started the new year with some fitness sessions in PE to help us to stay active and healthy in 2024. We have paired up with a partner and worked our way round a circuit challenging ourselves to build fitness and stamina.

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P5 are creating freeze frames of the story they have need listening to on the plague. Can you spot people putting things into a bonfire?

Well done Primary 5 for working so hard to learn your song words and lines for the Christmas Concert. Well done to our dancers too for learning their steps. It was great to see everyone enjoying the performance last night and singing loudly and confidently. I’m sure our audience enjoyed the evening as well.

Today we had our first Mandarin lesson of Primary 5. We met our new Mandarin teacher and learnt facts about China such as its population and the names of its main cities. We also learnt about the Great Wall of China and The Forbidden City.
Next we had the chance to write some Chinese characters.

Today we said goodbye and thank you to Miss Aisha for all she has taught us over the last five weeks. We will miss having her in our class.

Today in our RME lesson we were learning about festivals in Islam. We learnt that enjoying food together is a big part of the celebration. We had the opportunity to sample some foods and Miss Aisha painted henna patterns on our hands. We also made lanterns which are thought to be a symbol of hope in Islam.

It was great to see so many people in pyjamas and own clothes today  to fundraise for Children in Need. We all enjoyed taking part in the activities in the hall and having the opportunity to buy items from the toy and book sale. Let’s hope we’ve helped to raise lots of money for a great cause

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This week in Maths the Squares have been learning to measure objects in cm and mm.  We also had some fun using measuring tapes to measure the length of different body parts. Next we moved on to measuring bigger objects recording our answers in m and cm. We have also been practising converting m to cm and cm to m. These are skills we can use in life with many jobs requiring us to measure.

In RME Miss Aisha has been teaching us about religious artefacts and their significance. At the start of the lesson some people were asked to share some of their own treasured belongings. Georgia brought in two of her cuddly toys. We tried to guess why they are so precious to Georgia.
Later in the lesson we were making prayer beads. We selected letters, colours and shapes which have some significance to us.

Evie chose colours to represent her three best friends.

Lewis B chose the letters M and D to represent his Mum and Dad.

Tyler used the letters of his dog’s name as his dog is very precious to him.

Isla chose to include a star to represent her grandad.

Others related their beads to our school values. Kyrin said his beads will remind him to be respectful.

This term we have been learning skills for Basketball. We have been focusing on dribbling, passing and shooting. We have enjoyed putting our skills into practice during some team games.  Everyone has worked hard and improved their skills. One of our favourite challenges is 21 where we split into two teams and take turns at shooting. The winning team is first to reach 21 points.