This week, we have started our lessons on Kindness and Friendship.

We did some “silent graffiti” where we answered the questions Mrs Fry had asked us silently, but using pictures, and words with different colours and writing styles.  Then we talked about how to show kindness and what friendship means to us.

After that, we started work on some friendship and kindness slogans which will be put around the school.

This week we have been focussing on Science.  We have explored forces, and looked at buoyancy.  We completed experiments on floating and sinking, making predictions and then comparing materials to work out what affects if something floats or sinks.   Then we applied that knowledge to make boats to be as buoyant as possible while exerting a force (Marvel characters!)

This week we have been learning about floating and sinking. sometimes it’s because of how big it is. (Y)

We had to choose one things we thought would float and sink and check if we were right (A)

We tested cans to see if they would float and sink.  The ones with the highest density sunk.  That was about the sugar levels. (S)

We made tin foil boats and we had to try and make it so that 24 Marvel figures would fit on it. the ones that were more successful had a wider surface area (S)

 

At the Science Centre we got our first taste of the science of castles at the Castles Rock! show.  It will be part of our learning for the next few weeks. Lots of the activities we did included forces!

On Thursday we went to the Science Centre and we explored lots of different stuff.  My favourite part was the upside down house (I).

I tried some stuff and I really liked when we built the Lego around the water (M)

I liked pumping the water with the lego and seeing how much water the dam would support (F)

I liked the spinning cars that you powered by spinning the wheel to move it. My friend got the top score! (F).

We played an air hockey game with four sides. It was harder because it kept hitting off the table.  (H)

My favourite part was between how fast you can run or the hanging bars (A)

My favourite part was the game where you had to hit the germs before the get inside your nose. I got the top score of 35 (L)

We played a game with arrow buttons and make the snake eat the apple. We got 4th place! It was about teamwork. (J)

We watched a show on Castles Rock! we learned if there was a hole in the brick then water gets in and it would break the castle apart.  If you put moss on it then it stops the water and it doesn’t break it (A).

This year’s theme for Maths Week Scotland is Wild Maths to encourage us to look for the maths in the outdoors.

To combine this with our work towards the Junior Forester Award, we measured trees outdoors.  To do this, you walk away from the tree and look upside down between your legs – when you can see the top of it, that should be the height of the tree if it was lying on the ground! We also created a forest with chalk in the playground by measuring the height of different British trees as saplings and at one year and two years.

 

 

And then… the Colour Run!

 

This week we have started our work on RME.  We have been learning about Sikhism.  We researched some important information about the faith using the Chromebooks.  We had told Mrs Allan this was one of the ways we liked to learn and she was impressed with our skills.

Later, we learned about the life of Guru Nanak, who is the founder of Sikhism and sequenced key events in his life.

One day we was protected from the sun by a snake (H H)

We learned that when Nanak went to the river to bathe and meditate, he disappeared for three days and then when he came back he told everyone that he had a vision from God. (SS)

We went outside for maths instead of the classroom and we made graphs about the lunch orders that we made that day. After exploring examples of bar charts, we made our success criteria by ourselves before we went out with our whiteboards to create our bar graphs. then we peer assessed to look for the key parts of a graph: labelling axis is tricky!

Last week, we were learning about graphs and we drew graphs outside with chalk (AM).

The salmon was the most popular option (HA)

 

 

 

Health  and wellbeing focus

Our Happy Place

We created triaramas (3d paper diagrams) to celebrate our happy places.  We created the scenery across the back and then wrote a description using our senses on the bottom. We have displayed them in our classroom and we hope that if we are having a tough day they will act as a reminder of a happy place and help us to begin to feel better.

PE

on the MUGA, we have started working on football skills, beginning with passing and dribbling. In the gym hall we did fitness stations and talked about how these stations made our hearts beat faster.   We counted how many of each exercise we did and set a goal for next time.

We did a game where you had to make it to the other side without someone tackling you – L)

Outdoor learning

We did some outdoor learning in the fresh air too.  Working with your friends outdoors is a great way to help your feel happy. We worked in teams to create artwork using what we could find in the woodland.

We were working in groups to make a art picture out of nature – K

My group made a rabbit called Willis – A

 

 

Hello to all the P5A blog readers, it’s Mr Atkinson here! As you will know this year I am doing NCCT for P5A with a focus on developing Crookfurs Enquiry Based Learning approach so I wanted to give you an update of what we have been doing.

Before beginning our new Learning Journeys the class has revisited some of the Meta-Skills that were introduced to them last year such as communicating, collaborating and creativity. Recently we have explored two new Meta-Skills, leading and feeling. The children have been encouraged to consider the feelings of others by discussing how we can support each other when we are upset. They have also reflected on the importance of learning from mistakes rather than holding onto the feeling of disappointment when getting a question wrong. The pupils had a fantastic time applying their leadership qualities during a boardroom scenario. In this situation one pupil was late to the meeting and under guidance from the ‘boss’ the latecomer had to use the clues to guess what was being discussed – which led to some great hilarity!

Welcome to our first blog of P5a!

This week on Tuesday we were drawing comic style portraits of ourselves and learning about a famous comic artist called Roy  Licehenstein who was born in 1913.  In 1913 coloured ink came out but it was really expensive so we made his comic art work out of colourful dots.

 

We wrote things about yourself on a flap and then your name on the bottom and we guessed who was who – IR

On Monday we did PE and we had warm uppers and they get to choose a game to start us off. The warm uppers chose “Neymar tig” were everyone has a yellow card and if you got tug you had to sit down and to set someone free you have to say yellow card to them.

In Literacy we were watching a short film called Taking Flight and it was about a little boy called Tony who had to go to his grandad’s house because his dad was working but he didn’t want to go and he found an old wagon so his grandad took him for a ride down his street.At the end it turned out that Tony actually  had an amazing time with his grandad.

“Near the end his dad came to pick up Little Tony and they were dirty and he saw his old wagon and his reflection was his kid self” LR

In science we had four different stations which were  olden day things, a closer look, Odd One Out and Match the picture, name and description of engineers and scientists.

It’s been a busy first week!

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