Primary 5 have settled well into the new term.  We have been learning about new year traditions around the world and have also been learning about Chinese New Year. During Art we have created some lovely posters to show our knowledge of Mandarin and Chinese New Year, and these have been entered into a national competition. A few of our posters can be seen below:

We started the year off with a couple of weeks of Fitness sessions in PE but have now moved onto Gymnastics. We are lucky to have some skilled gymnasts in our class who regularly attend classes outside of school. It has been fun to have the Kelvin Frame and other equipment out where we have been practising a range of skills including, balancing, climbing, rolls, and jumps.

 

In Mathematics the pupils in the Diamonds have been learning all about fractions. We can identify fractions, find fractions of amounts and find equivalences. We often complete tasks on the chromebooks to practise our skills or complete work in our jotters. The task below shows a group task where we were using our knowledge of fractions to complete jigsaws.

 

 

In Literacy we have started our class novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We have also been having a focus on poetry in writing and had good fun thinking of lots of Scots words when writing poems in the Scots language. In fact the bonnie wee lads and lassies in P5 did a braw job of their poems!