Sports Day

On Monday afternoon we had a wonderful time during our Primary 5 sports day. We worked in our houses to earn points on different sports activities then cheered each other on during the races. The space hopper race was definitely a favourite!

Flight

We worked on different activities to learn more about birds and how they fly. We watched a video about wing types, read about wing structure and created our own labelled bird illustrations.

Health and Wellbeing

This week we continued to think about worries and how we could manage these. We learnt about the physical effects of worry and all thought of our own strategies that we could use to help ourselves in the future.

Literacy

In writing we have continued to develop our knowledge of persuasive techniques in different ways. We worked together to sort examples of persuasive techniques and identified examples in texts.

Health and Wellbeing

We discussed and researched food allergies as part of our food and nutrition topic. We also learnt about EpiPens and how these are used.

Numeracy

We have continued to learn about time and have worked on calculating durations. We played a game as a class, working with a partner to match different durations and reveal a picture.

Digital Learning

This week we used sensing in Scratch to create questions that required an input. Once the answer had been typed, we used an operator to check if the answer was correct, then included a conditional to create a different action depending on whether the answer was correct or incorrect.

In literacy we enjoyed using our senses to explore the sights, sounds and tastes of this time of year while creating a winter poem. We looked at poetic techniques such as alliteration, rhyme, similes and metaphors.

We had lots of Christmas fun at our Christmas party and enjoyed making melted snowmen ornaments, elves, cards and calendars.

In music we did some body percussion and explored rhythm and tempo. We also enjoyed playing the game pass the beat around the room.

We hope you all have a fantastic holiday and festive break and look forward to seeing you all again in January 2021.

We have been learning about characterisation in Literacy, and thinking about a character’s speech, thoughts, actions, effect on others and looks. This spells out STEAL to help us remember! This week, we chose characters from our reading books and found examples of STEAL, then used this to choose adjectives to describe our characters.   

 In Maths, we have now finished our work on fractions, so did a reflection sheet all about fractions to think about what we had learnt, what helped us to learn, and what challenged us. 

 We have continued our coding work on Scratch, and have started to use wait and say to make two sprites have a conversation.  

This week  we all took part in the House Quiz. Everyone tried their best and it was very close but in the end it was Stevenson that won and they will get an extra 10 minutes playtime next week!