We have been learning about advertising through our work on nutrition. We had to create an advert to persuade children to eat brussel sprouts! We have very creative ideas and enjoyed presenting them to the class.

We have been making pop up Eid cards this week to give to our friends and neighbours. We also watched a video of  the Cricketer Abtaha Maqsood reading a book called ‘Under the Hijab’ . We had great discussions about the book and hijabs.

The theme of British Science Week this year has been curiosity. We took part in investigations to explore questions such as ‘Does buttered toast always land the same way? Does changing the height make a difference? How can you tell different black inks apart?’. We had lots of fun trying to work these questions out. We always took part in the poster competition which was based on the idea of what a positive childhood would look like in the future. We also used Tinkercad to create a new Moon Rover. We took part in the SmartSTEM Quiz which we enjoyed.

We have had lots of fun during Book Week. Some pupils showed us their ‘stories in a box’, they were fantastic! We took part in the ‘Footy and Booky’ Quiz, we got into teams and had fun trying to answer questions about football and books. We created inspirational posters/quotes for our library area in our classroom.

We have been learning about Ramadan – what it is and how it is celebrated. We created some artwork,  researched the traditions of Ramadan and designed our own henna hands.

We have also been learning about food allergies and how to keep people safe if they have an allergic reaction.  Each team researched an allergy and created a poster to share with the class.

We have been learning about volume and capacity. We have been estimating and measuring water using different measuring jugs. We worked in pairs to compare our estimates and then measure with accuracy. We also worked on converting mls and l, ordering amounts from largest to smallest and applied our knowledge to solve word problems.

This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We created dragon bookmarks,  Chinese New Year cards, fortune tellers, learned how to write Happy New Year and Year of the Horse in Mandarin and created information booklets about how Chinese New Year is celebrated. We loved learning about Chinese New Year! Gong Hei Fat Choy!

This week we were learning about air resistance and how streamlining can have an impact on speed. We researched streamlining in nature e.g flying squirrels ,  dolphins as well as F1 cars and different Olympic sports. We displayed excellent teamwork in creating posters and presenting them to the class.

Hi P5b readers, I wanted to update you on what we have been doing in our most recent Learning Journeys since my last entry.

I am delighted to share that the pupils confidently applied many of the Meta Skills when constructing their wonderful models for stopping and collecting marine litter. Whilst working in their groups the pupils displayed brilliant adapting, initiative, collaborating, leading, communicating and critical thinking when proposing and designing a solution to address this global issue. Thank you for the donations of materials, it was greatly appreciated! The class has also utilised their curiosity when investigating different types of litter and then they researched how long it takes for them to degrade. Pupils were shocked to learn about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the state of Arrochar’s beach after discovering it was acting as a sink where litter gathered when it washed ashore. Inspired from the Keep Scotland Beautiful online lesson, the children took notes on the cleanliness of a variety of Scottish waterways and explored what was being done to prevent them being polluted. To help illustrate how marine litter can travel all around the world the children created a map and tracked the journey of 28,000 plastic bath toys that fell overboard and were surprised to learn that even after all these years some rubber ducks were being found in America and Scotland! To deepen their knowledge of the conditions of oceans, the class typed up ‘blogs’ about major environmental incidents and they shared their views on the damage these have had on marine life.  We also discussed how using different colours, shapes, artistic styles and materials can help evoke emotions when looking at artwork. With this in mind, everyone created their own marine themed artwork using tissue paper and litter to highlight the impact humans have on sea life.

This week we started our new Learning Journey called the cost of tourism. This will involve exploring the links between travelling and the impact tourism can have on the environment. P5B have begun to translate  different types of vehicles and common phrases that you might use at an airport into French. The class was then challenged to construct modes of transport using K’Nex and create labels for them in French.

This week we have been learning some ceilidh dances. It’s been great fun!

We have been researching Scotland and Robert Burns and creating presentations to share with the class.

This afternoon was our House Spirit Afternoon, where we had the chance to play games and get to know other people in our house.

This week we have been learning about air resistance and how items like helmets, cars and wheelchairs can be streamlined to help increased speed during races. We investigated air resistance by creating different sized parachutes and seeing how fast they fell. We had a great time!