Primary 5 have had a fun day today starting with our first Judo session at the Foundry. We enjoyed learning about the origins of Judo and trying out some basic moves. We are already excited for our next visit.
On our return to school we participated in some fun activities as part of our fundraising for Comic Relief. We enjoyed balloon races, knocking down skittles, some colouring and more.
Happy Friday! 😃

Today we celebrated World Book Day in class. We joined in a live lesson with the BBC hearing lots of book recommendations. We also had a sixty second read and took part in an emoji quiz to guess the famous book titles. Our Maths also had a reading theme where we had a relay race to answer word problems based on stories we know. In the afternoon we visited our P1 Buddies and played some outdoor games with them . Next we went indoors and turned off the lights and read to our Buddies before making bookmarks with them. 📕

We have many girls in our class who attend Miss Watson’s lunchtime dance club. The girls love going to the club and are looking forward to their next performance. Here they are below sharing what they have been working on with the class.

This week in PE we were practising skills for badminton. Since the shuttlecock can be tricky to control we practised, first of all, with balloons. It was lovely to see all the balloons in the air as we practised using our rackets.

Today we took part in a live lesson to learn about cyber security to find ways to keep ourselves and our devices safe online. We learned about new technologies such as biometrics that work to keep us safe. Biometrics use unique features about us to keep our devices safe  e.g. by taking a recording of our voice or a copy of our fingerprint to keep our information secure.  We also learned about careers in technology that we might choose to do in the future.

It’s XA Factor time again! We certainly have lots of talent in P5/1 with an impressive six acts from our class performing in this afternoon’s talent contest. Good luck to all our performers!  👏🏻

As part of our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory novel study Primary 5 was tasked with working in groups to create a 20 second commercial to advertise a new chocolate bar! 🍫  The children worked together to decide on their chosen product and then used sticky notes to create a storyboard of ideas for their advert. They then rehearsed their script before filming their final advert.
You can see them below.  🍿

Congratulations to Innis Adams who has recently achieved green belt at his martial arts club, Junior I-Kickers.  Well done Innis and thank you for sharing with the class. You spoke very clearly and were very knowledgeable. 👏

We have been learning about air resistance and making predictions about what will fall faster and why.  We made paper cones and dropped them at the same height but each cone had a different area size.  We went outside to create air resistance using our jackets too.

Our final challenge was to design a parachute that would create air resistance.

Today we were learning to use our sensory descriptors to describe food tastes and textures.  Some left a very sour taste in our mouth!