Take a look at our erupting volcanoes:

We have been looking at ways to build resilience using the Resilience Alphabet.

This week we explored the letter G.
G stands for gratitude. After discussions about what gratitude means, things we are grateful for and how we can show gratitude, we created ‘positive postcards’. These can be given to people to thank them for the small or big things that they do for us.

Take a look at some of our positive postcards:

In class, we are learning about natural disasters. Over the last week, we have discovered how volcanoes are formed and considered what it would be like to live near an active volcano.

The most exciting part of this learning has been making a model volcano from paper mache. We are going to investigate chemical reactions in Science and use our learning to replicate an eruption with our model volcanoes.

In class, we have been trying different activities to help us learn our multiplication table facts. We have been playing multiplication board games, 52 card challenge game, ultimate times table challenge exercises and answering mental maths questions. However, one of our favourite activities is dancing and saying the multiplications along with the supermovers videos from the BBC. If you haven’t already heard them take a look here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/times-table-collection/z4vv6v4

You are in for a treat!

The Dividers maths group have been learning about using tables to record data and display results through a pictogram and bar graph. Due to the current restrictions, the group were not able to ask another class however, they had great fun using the phone on speaker to ask the other p5 class their survey question.

The next step will be for the pupils to use a spreadsheet to produce a graph.

We have been learning about similes and metaphors in class. Yesterday we worked in pairs to sort given similes and metaphors under the correct heading.

We were set a design challenge by Mrs Houston in the assembly last week. We had to design a poster illustrating what courage means to us. Have a look at our work:

Every Friday afternoon, we each get the opportunity to write something positive and kind about a classmate. We don’t know who we will be writing about until we get handed a piece of paper with a name. It felt great hearing something positive about ourselves. The perfect end to a week of hard work and the best start to the weekend.