In Science, we have been learning about vertebrates and invertebrates. Invertebrates are animals without a backbone such as a worm. – Amy

Other examples of invertebrates are snails, jellyfish and spiders. – Lily-Anne

A vertebrate is an animal with a backbone such as a fox. – Subhan

Other examples of vertebrates include a dog, monkey and a bear. – Ellis

Next week, we are going to explore different groups of animals and research different living conditions of vertebrates and invertebrates and their similarities and differences.

  Fish – vertebrate

  Giraffes – vertebrates

Puffer fish – vertebrates

Jellyfish – invertebrate

Jellyfish – invertebrate

Most of us have now finished our artwork from last week and we really enjoyed doing it. – Lily and Eilidh

This week we started 2 big art projects. There are 2 projects we could choose from.  Most of us chose the Thandiwe Muiri artist and she is a photographer. In her artwork she has an abstract background and her models wore clothes with the same pattern and colour as the background. – Lily-Anne

5 people chose to recreate the Enfant Precoce artwork and his artwork is cartoon-y and unrealistic. Enfant uses weird shapes in his art. – Arjun

We had to draw characters and cut them out. These were weird and out of proportion.

We have been recreating our own patterns similar to those in photos. We are making background and capes/ vests. – Sam

Have a look at what P4/5 have created so far below. We are looking forward to showing you our final masterpieces next week!

In P.E., we played basketball with Mr McMillan and we were learning how to pass the ball with chest passes and bounce passes. – Finn

We played basketball matches where we all had a partner to block. This helped us develop our defence skills. – Carla

In Maths, I have enjoyed making factor rainbows and factor trees. Factors are numbers which multiply together to make a number. – Alexander

In Numeracy and Maths the Flawless Fractions group have focused on revising the 6 and 7 times table. We can now multiply single and 2-digits. – Eilidh

This week we have focused on the 3 times table, using the numicons to help us. – Lily

We also practised the 2 times table. I now feel confident doubling and halving numbers. – Joey

I really enjoyed playing the roll and write game in maths this week. We used a dice to practice multiplying numbers. – Maddison

In Art and Social Studies we were focusing on different African artists. This week we looked at artwork by Enfant Precoce. We learned that he draws weird shapes and characters. The colours he uses are bright and bold. – Subhan

The pupils asked to study different African art and artists as part of our Africa topic this term. We will study 4 different artists including their background, style and techniques and describe the visual elements of tone, pattern, colour and line. We will self-assess against our success criteria once we have studied all 4 and try to replicate the style of some of their artwork with our own masterpieces.

In Literacy today, we were learning how to do joined up handwriting. It was tricky to begin with as this was the first time I did it but it got easier.  – Matthew

P4/5 were busy this afternoon (Friday) working in teams to complete a STEM challenge. They were challenged to communicate with their peers and show off their artistic flare to build a successful marble run. We all thought they were fantastic!