On Thursday P4/5 went to Leslie Field, next to Leslie Wood near Eastwood High School. – Joshua

We planted trees there and we needed to make a hashtag symbol in the ground with a shovel and it was quite hard. – Subhan

We had to push the spade down and tilt it on the last cut to take out the middle block of the earth and grass so that we could plant the tree in there. – Eilidh

We could choose if we wanted to plant Birch Trees or Oak Trees. – Matthew

After we planted the tree, we would put a biodegradable mulch mat around it. – Ellis

We put the mulch mat around it so all the grass and flowers underneath don’t get enough light so that they would die and the tree would get all the nutrients from the soil. It also helps so that you don’t stand on the trees. – Lily-Anne

We hammered pegs into the mulch mat at the corners to stop the mat from blowing away. – Olivia-Rose

 

In maths, the Dedicated Decimals and the Flawless Fractions have been learning about time. We have been learning how to read different timetables and have been learning how to calculate time durations. It has been fun and challenging! ~ Arjun

The Marvellous Multipliers were playing a relay race during maths to help them with their division work. It was fun! ~ Olivia-Rose

In Literacy we have been learning about fact and opinion. We had to read a text and answer questions about facts and opinions. A fact is when something is true/you can prove it and an opinion is what you prefer/think. ~ Arjun

On Wednesday we were creating mandalas in Art. Throughout the next few weeks we are going to build them up because we are raising awareness about the war in Ukraine. ~ Ellis

On Thursday we were doing gymnastics with Mr McMillan. There were three stations. A springboard where you had to jump over a horse, balance benches where you had to balance in the middle of an upside down bench and the last station was mats were you had to do a shoulder stand, forward roll or a cartwheel. ~ Sam

Today, during assembly the Easter Craft competition winners were announced. Ellis, Amy and I all won a certificate. Ellis won the ‘funniest’ award, Amy won the overall Stevenson House award and I won the overall Fleming House award. ~ Finn

We are very proud of Finn, Amy and Ellis!

In Social Studies we are going to be looking at business enterprise. We are hoping that we will be able to create our own charity for Ukraine and raise some money to help.~ Eilidh

P4 watched a video which told us what to do if there is an emergency. The first thing you would do to help the person would be to check for danger, secondly you would see if the person could respond to you, if they don’t then you would maybe have to shout/call for help. You would then check to see if the person was breathing. We have started our Heart Start training! ~ Maddie

In PE we were doing a relay race around the muga and there were different obstacles that we had to pass. The first one was jumping over three hurdles, then the next person had to do a long jump and then the other person had to run back to the start point. ~ Arjun

We are very proud that we have achieved our Bronze Wild Challenge Award and we are hoping that our certificates will arrive next week.

Today is Mrs Ferguson’s birthday and we hope she has a lovely weekend celebrating!

Today is our last week before the Easter holidays so we have been doing some arty Easter activities! We made a bonnet out of biscuits, marshmallows and icing and made Easter cards with Easter poems inside. – Arjun

In P.E. we did relay races and Tic Tac Toe. To play the game we had to run up to the hula hoops and place a bean bag in the hoop and run back. – Matthew

For P.E. today (Friday), we did the Daily Mile. We started in the P7 playground and ran down the bottom of the hill. We went down and back 3.5 times. We used Trundle Wheels to measure how many metres long the playground is and it was 234 m one way. One mile is 1609 m so we then managed to work out how many times we had to run round the playground. – Amy

In Maths we created our own games linked to all the maths topics we focused on this term. I enjoyed it because I could colour them in and work with my friends. – Nicole

This week we finished our Science topic on Inheritance. We looked at creating our own monsters called Reebops. We had to draw a mum and dad monster and then take characteristics from both the mum and dad to create the baby.  – Ellis

 

To end our Inheritance topic we played a Kahoot quiz and it was really fun! – Arjun

Mrs Ferguson showed us her family tree. We looked back at 4 generations and noticed that quite a few people had the same first name. In the family tree we also noticed that the woman keeps her maiden name rather than shows the married name.

P4/5, you have worked so hard this term. I hope you have a well deserved break. Enjoy the holidays everyone! – Mrs Ferguson