Monday

On Monday morning we did literacy on a newspaper text. After lunch we watched the p4 dress rehearsal called “Chickalita”. It was fabulous! Then we had Mr Atkinson when we finished our how you are task for our metaskills work.

 

Tuesday

Happy April Fools Day! On Tuesday we did Mental maths then we did maths with Mrs Nasar and Mrs Allan. Then after break  we finished our metaskills work with Mrs Atkinson.  After lunch the reading buddies got to do a session with our buddies. When the reading buddies came back we did some IDL. In IDL we learnt about gaming at home and in arcades in the 1970s and 1980s .  first, we had to guess the sequence of the games. The first game we looked at was made in 1970.  We learned about the competition between Nintendo and SEGA. We made true or false questions about the information we had learned.

 

Wednesday

On Wednesday morning we did some maths with Mrs Nasar and Mrs Allan in our groups. After maths we went outside to do some PE. After break we did some writing on our personal talk to turn it into a persuasive text.  We included facts this time to make a “persuasion sandwich”. After lunch we answered other people’s true or false questions from Tuesday’s IDL. Then we did a Spring piece of art. We added some paint to a piece of paper and then we started a practise sheet for drawing flowers .

Thursday

In the morning we did some literacy on our books. After that we had lunch then we finished off our practise page then we drew flowers on our painting. We also put on some cinquain or acrostic poems about flowers or spring then we did strike four to end our day.

 

 

 

Monday.

In the morning we did literacy about a persuasive poster for a Loch Ness Monster movie. After break we did maths. After lunch  the JRSOs showed us a presentation on how to cross the road safely for the Big Walk Week competition. Then we did some personal talks about a topic that we chose at home. Then Mr. Atkinson came then we drew some pictures of inspirational people we chose last week. Then we watched a video about the rearview mirror/the review mirror.  This reminds you not to always look back at your mistakes and to keep looking forward.

Tuesday.

On Tuesday we did maths with Mrs. Allan and Mrs. Nasar . After break we had Mr. Atkinson and we were writing about our Upstream battle models. For meta-skills were writing about something that made us “flip our lids” and how we fixed it and then we said if it worked and also made an all about my personality in 30 seconds. Then after lunch we did personal talks about something we chose. Some people did Fortnite, Rubiks cubes and art.

Wednesday.

We went out for PE we did some tag then we did some relay races. We did 4 laps some of us ran at the start and jogged the rest and vice versa and talked about the differences between sprinting and longer distance running. After break we did persuasive writing.  We chose from summer is  the best season or there should be a 3 day weekend and the film version is better than the book all the time. Then we went out for lunch and we finished our personal talks.

 

Thursday.

In the morning we did some we did some grammar sheets and some Nessy Spelling. After lunch we did some RME about the Easter story and some French bingo. We learned that rolling an egg down the hill at Easter is like the stone rolling from Jesus’s tomb.

 

Friday

In the morning we did our usual Friday jobs and then we all did maths word problems. For PE and we did quick cricket which is cricket.

Monday

On Monday morning we were doing persuasive texts.  After lunch we went down to the Learning Lab with Mr Atkinson. We’re learning about communicating in meta skills with him and we talked about how communication would happen with big changes in school like getting a new teacher or at home like moving house. As part of Neurodiversity week we had a kitbag demonstration from the ambassadors.

Tuesday

After break we had Mr Atkinson we had to research a person and then present the information to show our communication skills. We had to research their achievements and what they had to do along the way. Our reading buddies had another session too.

 

Wednesday

We had maths in the morning then we had P.E.  We did relay races with hurdles in the playground.  After break we did writing.  Because of Neurodiversity Week it was about persuasive writing “kids should have more breaks in school”.  In the afternoon we did some research about technology from the 1950s and then we played two games from the 1950s called Pong and Space Wars.  The games were very simple, but we enjoyed them.

Thursday

In the morning we did some maths and literacy.  In the afternoon we talked about our new topic for after Spring Break. We might be exploring the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.

Friday

As part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, some of us are wearing odds socks for World Down Syndrome Day.

Monday

On Monday morning we had Mr. Atkinson and we were finishing our front covers for our IDL jotters and working on our friendship and collaboration Meta skills. We had a task where we had to pretend that we were late for a meeting and work out what your team members were talking about.  For example, it might be about toothpaste, but no-one could say toothpaste, but they could talk about flavours of the product and so on. This helped our meta skills of communication, creativity, curiosity and collaboration.

After break we had Mrs. Allan and Mrs. Nasar to do maths in-between break and lunch. Then after lunch we did finished our RME calendars and then we went with Mr. Atkinson down to the learning lab and we finished our Meta skills by pretending our partners were lonely and we helped them.

Tuesday

On Tuesday we did Maths in the morning then we went out for break. After break  in literacy we did comprehension on persuasive writing and then we did our spelling workbooks. Then after lunch we did Through the Decades topic on the 2000s. We had a choice to learn about The 2014 Commonwealth games, The Scottish smoking ban, The Scottish parliament and Falkirk wheel/the kelpies. We made notes on them.

Did you know…

• gymnastics was the most popular sport at the Commonwealth games?
• tobacco kills 13,000 people per year, which is why the smoking ban was introduced
• the Kelpies were created by Andy Scott
• the Scottish Parliament meant Scotland could make some of its own laws

Some of our class represented Crookfur at an East Renfrewshire football festival.

 

Wednesday

In the morning on Wednesday we did math we had Mrs. Allan and Mrs. Nasar and then we had PE where we practised our rolls in gymnastics. Then after break we did our persuasive writing that reading is the best hobby a child could have and then after lunch we made posters or leaflets using the notes we took yesterday.

Thursday

In the morning on Thursday we did we did some persuasive texts and adverts and then we went for break. After break we had people who came in to talk about their job and what meta skills they use. We had a lawyer called Kay Potter,  and after a short break a BBC news presenter called Laura Maclver visited.  After lunch we had a influencer called Craig Ferguson  who walked from Hampden Park in Scotland to Germany for the 2024 Euros then we had a artist in called Alan Potter in who made a statue in a park. Craig Ferguson raised £78,000 for men’s mental health.

All of our visitors talked about how they use collaboration, communication, creativity and curiosity in their jobs.

 

Monday

In the morning we did literacy (comprehension)  After break we did mental maths and then maths. After lunch we did we learnt about  reading rivers then we did RME when we finished our calendars about days that are special to us. Then we went down to the learning lab with Mr Atkinson we did an activity sheet to show what we have learned in Science in P5 so far.

 

Tuesday

On Tuesday we did mental maths then we did maths. After break we had Mr Atkinson and we finished sticking in all our Science work so far. After lunch we did spelling and corrections and then most of us went to reading buddies.  We started our reading rivers for World book day.

 

A reading river is a river with books that are special to you. you draw a river and the very start has the books that you read when you were younger and then onto the books that you are reading now. It can be other things you read like road signs, street signs or subtitles too.

Wednesday

in the morning we did maths. Then we did gymnastics in PE. After break we did writing on our personal choice on discursive.  We talked about our topics with a partner or group to make sure we had lots to write about.

After lunch we learned more about music from the 1990s. We did a sheet where you chose what you think the style was and how it made you feel.  We listened to

Don’t look back in anger by Oasis

Parklife by Blur

Could it be magic? by Take That

Wannabe by The Spice Girls

S club party by S-club 7

The fresh prince of bel air

Achy breaky heart by billy Ray Cyrus

No limits by 2 unlimited.

We worked hard at justifying our opinions on the music and sharing them respectfully. Some of us wanted to dance to the music (especially 2Unlimited). Parklife was a big earworm but the class favourite was “Wannabe” by The Spice Girls.

 

Thursday

Today was World book Day! On Thursday the reading buddies did a shift for the book swap.  In the morning we finished of our reading rivers and then we did a live quiz about books and football.

After break we went to the book swap and got a book. There were lots of choices.  Then we did maths after lunch we made our own corner origami book marks and then decorated them like animals or monsters. Then we got a famous book quote and made a poster for it.

Oscar made very tiny bookmarks!

 

 

Monday

In the morning we did our comprehension booklets and we did some comp box texts. After break ,we did some maths. After lunch, we did our spelling booklets. When we were done our spelling booklets we talked about our homework for the week because we had our trip on Tuesday!

Then 5a came through to our classroom to talk about our trip and get feedback with Mr Atkinson on our Upstream Battle projects.

Finally, we went to  the Learning Lab. In the learning lab we were sticking our work into our jotters.  Our work is in our school bag today (Friday).

 

Tuesday

On Tuesday we were on a trip to the sealife centre! We did a workshop about how to help the ocean. Some people touched sea animals like starfish!

We also saw an otter called Cub!

All of us enjoyed seeing all the animals. We went into a glass tunnel with water and animals all around us. Our favourite animals included the zebra shark, the turtle (april with the missing flipper), shovel-nosed string ray, the otters, the eel and the lionfish.

We learned lots of interesting facts.  Did you know that a zebra shark’s stripes fade as it gets older? Lionfish have deadly venom.

It was really fun!

 

Wednesday

In the morning we did some maths before we went to PE.

In PE we played a game to warm up. After the game we split into two groups to play some dodgeball. After dodgeball we played a 1987 game called crab football. It was very crazy!

After break we did a discursive piece of writing on social media for under 16s.

After lunch we listened to some 1990s music and even got to make some tunes on Google Classroom using Chrome Music Maker.  The link is on Google classroom if we’d like to make some more.

 

Thursday

In the morning we marked our writing that we did on Wednesday. Then we did some literacy. In literacy we did our 4321 tasks about our nonfiction books.

Next we did some maths after break. Then Mrs Allan had to go to a meeting so we had Miss Lamb for some mental maths and problem-solving (and a wee blether).

After lunch we handed out our work into our take home folders.

Then we did some IDL.We learned about some music and fashion in the 1990s and listened to some of our fabulous music we made on Google Classroom.

Friday

On Friday afternoon we enjoyed some sunny games of hockey on the MUGA…. jackets off!

Hello to all the P5B blog readers, it’s Mr Atkinson here! As you will know this year I am doing NCCT for primary P5B with a focus on developing Crookfurs Inquiry Based Learning approach so I wanted to give you an update of what we have been doing.

In our first Learning Journey – Energy Sources and Sustainability, we revisited the definitions of renewable and non-renewable energy sources and discussed examples in our lives of when we may use them. The class researched and plotted locations onto maps of Scotland of where a variety of energy sites are. We also participated in heated debates about the advantages and disadvantages of different energy sources which allowed the children to demonstrate their understanding and it led to them constructing compelling arguments. Amongst all of this we visited the Glasgow Science Centre to attend an energy workshop and Mrs Dowse, a parent of P5, spoke to the class about her experience of working in this sector which led to lots of questions! We also briefly explored the different types of energy stores and transfers by completing chains and diagrams of real-life examples. Finally, as part of our end of Learning Journey showcase, the pupils worked in groups to build sustainable cities and they drew and labelled a picture of Crookfur Primary being powered by renewable energy sources for the Renewables Challenge.

We then moved onto learning about some of the META Skills and explored how these can be used both in school and at home. The META Skills lessons helped the pupils to recognise what Creativity and Curiosity may look like!

Our second Learning Journey – Upstream Battle, was supported by the organisation Keep Scotland Beautiful. We watched a live lesson from Arrochar where the presenters shared with the class the journey of litter from land to sea and how it can affect the environment. To help illustrate the problem we visited Capelrig Burn where we found litter and a trolley in it. The children also created a map and tracked the journey of 28,000 plastic bath toys that fell overboard from a ship to show how items move across the sea. We have also been learning about which items are biodegradable and the class were shocked to read about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. After this the pupils categorised the different types of litter that can be typically found in oceans and researched the condition of a couple of Scottish waterways. Then the pupils typed up ‘blogs’ reporting on major incidents that have damaged marine life. The class also recreated the process of ocean acidification which they had been learning about. The results of putting shells into vinegar, water and a combination of both were recorded in a science report. We also had a visitor from Viridor which is a recycling, renewable energy and waste management company. They shared with the pupils what their role involved and how the organisation works with different local councils. Finally, the pupils worked in groups and constructed their sculptors/models for the Keep Scotland Beautiful marine litter art competition, some of which can be seen on the schools Twitter/X account. This week we submitted our entries and are now awaiting feedback. Again, thank you for the donations of materials!

We are now focusing on learning the new META Skills of Communicating and Collaborating and investigating how they can be used to solve situations. The pupils applied these skills when they acted out being late for a work meeting about designing a new product. By listening carefully to the conversation around them and asking further questions they eventually discovered what the purpose of the meeting was.

Mr Atkinson

Monday

In the morning we copied our homework words in our homework jotter. And also we corrected our maths homework and our reading homework.Then we did comprehension texts. After break we did maths and then after lunch we we had Mr Atkinson. We started to build our models for the Upstream Battle competition.

 

Tuesday

In the morning we did maths. Then after break we had Mr Atkinson for our last day to do Upstream Battle.  Our models were brilliant! Then after lunch we did some homework and then we since it was safer internet day we learned about scams and how to avoid scams online.

You might be able to tell a scam if:

Seems too good to be true

Contact you didn’t expect

Asks for personal information

Money or trading

 

Wednesday

In the morning we did maths. Then we got ready to go PE in PE we did gymnastics.

Then after break we did writing about why families should have pets and why they should not have pets. After lunch we did IDL Through the Decades for the 1980s and it was open afternoon so our parents came in and looked at our work.

The stations were:

Kapla to make stadiums for the Live Aid concerts.  1.9 billion people watched the two concerts.

toilet paper wedding dresses for the two royal weddings and measured how long the wedding dress trains were using metre sticks. Princess Diana’s dress was 7.62 metres long!

Match the logos for different brands through the decades and the year the company started.  Our adults were shocked by how old Marks and Spencers and Nintendo are.

Thursday

In the morning we marked our writing and then we did some comprehension and all groups started a new book! Then after break we did maths and some groups did weight then after lunch we had open afternoon, So our parents came in so we did some IDL with different stations.

We had a station of 1980s childhood games like Twister, Frustiation, Guess Who, Kerplunk and Connect 4.

We did Guess the Teacher from photographs of the 1980s and 1990s.  It was hard because they didn’t look the same!

The other station was about the 1984 Olympics and we had to answer some questions. The mascot was a little scary.

 

 

 

Monday

In the morning we did literacy .In literacy we did comprehension to look at similarities and differences. The texts were about Eastern dragons and western dragons or recipes.

After break we did maths.  In the afternoon we had Mr Atkinson and we had a visitor. She talked to us about her company Viridor.  It turns litter into more useful things.

 

 

Tuesday

In the morning we did some maths. After break we had Mr Atkinson and we did a report on our experiment from last week .Then after lunch we looked at the 1970s clothes and big events from that decade. We learned that the 1970s is when flares became popular and it was the first woman prime minister.

 

Wednesday

In the morning we did a short block of maths then we P.E.. In P.E. we did gymnastics . For gymnastics we split into groups one group did the vault and the other group did balancing. We will swap next week. After break we did writing  about school uniform. After lunch  we learned a 1970s dance. We had to make up dances in groups. We also talked about when money changed in the UK (called decimalisation) and Sophia brought in an old one pound note.

Thursday

In the morning we did literacy for literacy we answered some questions about our reading books. After break we did maths .Then after lunch we showed our 1970s dances to the class.  We recorded them and Mrs Allan is going to try and put them on display using QR codes.  Her dance was impressive.  We also made fashion models for the 1970s.

 

 

 

 

Monday

In the morning we did some literacy. After break we did maths..With Mr Atkinson we did a worksheet about a blog in our groups.

Tuesday

In the morning we did some maths. we all had Mrs Nasar because Mrs Allan was at a meeting.  With Mrs Naser we did 3D shapes  and we learned about the nets of different shapes. We did a song for our brain break called “banana, banana, meatball!”  It was really fun.  Then we had break. In Science with Mr Atkinson we finished our blog. In the afternoon we looked at the 1950s in Through the Decades.  We had to choose which we wanted to become an expert in: the Queens coronation, the space race, climbing Mount Everest, cars, or the Windrush ship. We watched videos, looked at maps and made notes then reported back to our groups.

 

Wednesday

On Wednesday we watched the p6 show dress rehearsal.It was funny, fabulous and amazing. After break we did imaginative writing about a picture. After lunch we did pop art which is a type of art that was popular in the 1960s.

Thursday

On Thursday morning we did Literacy. Then we had break .Then after break we did maths then we had lunch.  After lunch, we found out that we didn’t have school on Friday because of the storm! Then we got worksheets for Friday at home.