Sports Day

Despite the rain, we had fun at sports day.

My favourite station was the obstacle course where we had to go over the hurdles and hula hoop. – Lewis

The space hoppers were great fun. – Alexander

I loved the space hoppers because they were great fun.  – Matthew

I liked the mum and dad races. – Oliver

Ukraine

Our Euros football team for Sports Week has been Ukraine.  We have researched the Ukrainian football team and well known landmarks.  We  learnt that the sunflower is the Ukrainian national flower, therefore some of us made large sunflowers out of card.  We tried hard to learn a short Ukrainian folk dance in addition to creating our own Ukrainian football chants with a beat and rhythm.

I liked learning the dance.  The dance was fun, but hard too.  – Matthew

I liked creating the chants. – Oliver & Archie

Basketball Taster Session

As part of sports week we had the opportunity to participate in a Basketball session with a Paisley based basketball team.  We practised lots of different types of dribbling skills in our session.

I liked learning new skills dribbling in and out of the cones.  The hardest drill was bounce passing under our legs as we dribbled. – Archie

Design Challenge

This week we were given the challenge of designing a landmark from a Euro 2024 or Olympic country that we could make using card, K’Nex or Kapla, with the plan to build our final structure next week and light it up with Micro-bits.  We experimented with ‘Make-Do’ kits’ as a method of securely connecting pieces of card together.

It was trial and error whether we could make the buildings with different materials.  It was fun.  Rose

We made an excellent leaning Tower of Pisa. Matthew

PE – Athletics

We have started a block of athletics this term.  We have been learning how to throw a javelin, disc and shot put.  We learnt the foot work to perform a long jump with great success.

I liked practising the shot put.  Eva

P5 Micro-Bit Challenge

During our ‘Walk to School’ week, P5 were asked to programme Micro-bits to become pedometers.  We worked together as a team to programme the Micro-bits, then we did laps of the school to record our steps during the Daily Mile.

It was fun, but sometimes the Micro-bit didn’t count all of our steps. Abby

Olympic/Euro Landmarks

This week we were learning about the Olympic and Euro 2024 venues.  We created a Google Slide with facts about our chosen venue,  then we used Kapla to build models of our venues.  Emily 

Micro-bits

This week we started learning how to programme Micro-bits to perform a range of tasks.

We were programming the Mirco-bits to show a beating heart and smiley faces.    Daanya

Prefect Duties

After much anticipation, we had our first opportunity to prefect today.  Some boys and girls in the class will have their turn next Friday, but everyone enjoyed the responsibility.

Today we were prefects in different playgrounds. It was really fun! Eva 

To begin with it was quite tricky, but over  lunchtime we got used to it.  Magnus 

Outdoor Learning

As part of our LEAF Challenge, we thought about how we could  enhance our school garden.  We made ‘Tree Men’ using clay and natural materials.  We had great fun being creative!

Colour Run

The highlight of this week was the colour run!   We all had a fabulous time getting wet and covered in paint.  Thankfully the weather stayed dry for us and we were able to cheer on the rest of the school once we were finished.

Have a great holiday weekend! 🙂

Science

This week in science we have been learning about different types of rocks and their names. We completed an activity to show which types were man made or natural rocks. – Zahra

PE

This week we began our block of Cricket lessons.  We started our lesson with some ball handling skills, then split into teams to play two small games.

In P.E we were learning about cricket, there was a game where we had to throw a ball to our partner when we heard the command from our teacher. Then we played a game where we had to score points depending the amount of the amount of times we ran from cone to cone. It was good fun! – Caleb

IDL

This term we have the choice of learning about the Olympics or the Euros 2024.  Caleb’s mum very kindly allowed us to see the Olympic torch she carried in 2012 as part of the Olympic relay.  Caleb was able to tell us lots of facts about the torch and what it represents.

In Social Studies we were making PowerPoints about the Olympics and the Euro’s. We go into partners and we had to decide which topic we were researching. Myself and my partner chose to do the Olympics! – Ethan

Cultural Week

We read a story called ‘Under the Hijab’ which taught us the importance of the Hijab for Muslim women and girls.

We had a visitor on Monday who taught us how to create a sunset background using watercolours.  We then cut out a mosque shape in black paper and mounted it on our sunset.  We then had a go at writing in Arabic.  Those of us who felt confident writing in Arabic  wrote ‘Eid Mubarak’  on our sunset pictures.

Cultural Food

This morning we had the opportunity to make Mango Lassi and Vegetable Samosas with the help of our very kind parent helpers.

This morning we were making Mango Lassi and Vegetable Samosas,

They tasted great.  We also had a visit from some parent helpers and it was really fun! – Rose

I made Vegetable Samosas. They tasted yummy! – Harley

Henna Art

Today we finished off our Henna art pictures.  We took inspiration from our own Henna patterns on our hands and created our own designs using black fine line pens.  We then used water colour to make a colourful contrasting background.

It was really fun to make the Henna patterns on our own hand outline.  It was kind of tricky though! – Ethan 

As part of our Eid celebration, we were allowed to wear our own clothes to celebrate the occasion.  It was nice to see children in our class wearing traditional clothing to celebrate this special occasion.

This Friday we had an Eid party and we got to wear cultural clothes. We got to get Henna done and make Samosas and Mango Lassi, it was delicious! – Daanya 

Grow Your £5

This we finished our ‘Grow Your £5’ topic.  Between our 7 businesses we have made a profit of just over £200.

Indoor PE

As we have had so much wet weather this week, we have had to do indoor PE in the class.  We have enjoyed doing some PE with Joe Wicks and interactive games and exercises.

Solo Talks

This week we have been presenting our solo talks. They have been very good and interesting. Listening to our friends share their hobbies/interests is fun and entertaining.

Have a lovely Easter Holiday!!

Outdoor Learning

This week we were trying to create habitats for different animals and insects in the school garden.  We enjoyed finding lots of worms and slugs which found new homes in our habitats.

During outdoor learning it was really fun when we got to create the habitats for the bugs. We also managed to place some bugs into homes. – Abby

We were looking at animals native to Scotland. We were looking for some in the Woodlands and found some worms and different slugs. – Alexander

Art

Over the last few weeks we have been learning about tone and texture in art.  We have create a couple of self portraits and this week we used the knowledge we have learnt to create a mixed media picture of the Titanic.

We were making art of the Titanic. We painted it using watercolours. It was sort of tricky to get the colours correct. – Ben

I enjoyed making the Titanic art, it was really fun! I made a sunset in my background. I created the painting using watercolours and pencils. – Mariia

Neurodiversity Week

This week members of the class have delivered presentations about Neurodiversity.  We have worked in groups to research Neurodiversity and created posters to share our learning with the class.

This week we were learning about neurodiversity week and we were making posters about how all our brains work different. – Adam

This week we were making posters and entering a contest all about Neurodiversity. I learned how different brains work and different disabilities. – Eva

Roald Dahl

This week P5 have been undertaking an author study about Roald Dahl as part of our World Book Day events.  We worked in groups to research key areas of his life and presented our knowledge as a poster.  A few of us took our posters to assembly so that we could share our learning with the upper school.

WC – I enjoyed this study as it was fun and we learned about lots of new  books.

AM – Each table read different Roald Dahl books and we made posters about him and his life. It was great fun!

World Book Day

On Thursday we took part in a live author’s event with Ben Lyttleton and Kit Brown.  We enjoyed hearing from professional football players and participating in the interactive quiz.

Book Swap

RMcK – “It was cool walking in and there were so many books to choose from.”

MMS- “I really like the book I got at the book swap.”

II – ” I got a very good book and I can’t wait to use my book token to get ‘Greg the Sausage Roll.”

Crookfur Grand Designs

This week have taken part in the Crookfur Grand  Designs Challenges and came up with lots of creative ways to enhance our reading corner.

Year Group of the Week

This week P5 have been awarded Year Group of the Week, therefore we will have an extra play next week as a reward for lining up quickly and quietly.