PRIMARY 5B WEEK BEGINNING 08/11/21

Literacy and English 

Sophia – In Writing, we had to write the ending of a story. We watched the beginning of a video clip and we had to continue the story about Agent Fox.

Numeracy and Mathematics 

John – In Maths, The Number Ninjas were completing some subtraction and addition questions. I found it easy because I know the process. We did it with 3-digit numbers!

Omar – In Maths, The Mathletes were learning about BODMAS. You had to answer the BODMAS questions. The numbers represented letters and the letters were all jumbled so we had to solve the word.

Kate – In Maths, The Cool Calculators were charts to count up tally marks. We had to add up tally marks together.

Health and Wellbeing (PE) 

Gabby – In PE with Mr McMillan we were completing gymnastic/athletic obstacle courses.

Olly – This morning we were learning how to shoot in hockey. We first took shots at each other then after that we changed and played beat the goalie. After that we had to pass up our teams to the goals. The last person in line had to shoot and then move to the top of the queue. After that we split in to 3 teams and played a 1V1 hockey match.

Social Studies (Topic)

Hishaam – For Social Studies we were creating a fact file about a famous Scottish Inventor. We had to take notes about their early life and how they created their invention. We put all our gathered notes in to a fact file.

Expressive Arts (Drama)

Alfie B – In Drama, we were doing a drama term called ‘hot-seating’. It is where you would sit in the hot seat and we had to be an inventor and we had to answer questions as the inventor and people had to guess who we were.

Winter Competition

Zunairah – We are taking part in a competition for a member of Scottish Parliament. We had to make a Christmas picture. Whoever wins will have their picture at the end of her emails and a big prize.

Outdoor Learning 

Andrew – In Outdoor Learning we were finding different objects and insects using bug magnifiers. We could look through the tubs and it made the leaves and animals look really big and you could see the patterns on the leaves. We also used microscopes. We switched the tubs around to see what each other had found. We had to draw what we could see through the microscopes such as skin and patterns.

French 

Sophie – In French we were learning numbers. On the screen there would be a number in French and we had to write it down. If we got it correct we got a point. After that we played a game of French number bingo.

Ismail – We also added French words to the correct number.

Pupil News 

Eva L – My friends and I made a climate change club and also I went to a climate change march on Saturday.