Memories of Primary 5a

Kazeem- I enjoyed learning how to complete my comprehension because I can now score highly. I also enjoyed going outside to carry out activities.

Rayyan- I enjoyed visiting the Science Centre because we got to find out about how things work and also about electricity.

Sarah- I enjoyed making things for the Christmas Fayre and I loved the Science Centre.

Martin- I enjoyed all my P.E sessions and researching the Big Questions.

Rachel- I enjoyed using chrome books and visiting the Science Centre. Beauty and the Beast is the best!!

Luca B- I enjoyed scribble art, the science centre and making PowerPoints.

Elysia- I enjoyed ‘The Big Questions’ and choosing what I was interested in.

Isabelle- I enjoyed using chrome books to help me learn and taking part in Beauty and the Beast. The    Science Centre was so interesting.

Luca D- I enjoyed the expeditions and playing cricket and tennis.

Asher F- I enjoyed the expeditions and P.E.

Yusrah- I enjoyed the Science Centre because I learned new things and I had great fun. I made many PowerPoints using the chrome books. The transition times have been great. I enjoyed meeting new people.

Daniel- I enjoyed everything especially writing stories.

Vikasini- I enjoyed all the science activities and getting to work with all the Primary 5’s.

Aashir- I enjoyed the science centre and P.E especially tennis.

Venus- I enjoyed the spelling game and learning science facts.

Harry- I enjoyed visiting the Science Centre and the Dipper Celebration.

Shayan-I enjoyed making PowerPoint presentations and outdoor learning in the forest.

Shivansh- I enjoyed the Expeditions and taking part in the Talent Show.

Jack- I enjoyed all the expeditions because you could research your own questions.

Amber-I enjoyed the Science Centre, Life Beyond Land and the Spelling game. Beauty and the Beast is great fun!!

Adam- I enjoyed making PowerPoints and presenting them to my class. Glad I was chosen as a young leader of learning.

Anika- I enjoyed learning algebra and the new spelling game. It was fun because it helps you learn and socialise with others.

Aymun-I enjoyed making plays with my friends and completing art and craft activities.

Chisenga- I enjoyed all the new maths and sports day,

Varnika- I enjoyed art and crafts in class and spending time with my teacher and friends. I loved writing stories and poems.

Andrew- I enjoyed the two expeditions and making PowerPoints.

Abdullah- I enjoyed the Ninja challenges and visiting the Science Centre.

Zosia- I enjoyed all the art activities and research work. I love the spelling and maths game.

Aryaveer- I enjoyed using the chrome books to research big and small questions. I liked art activities and working with others. The trips were great fun!

Reuben- I like seeing my friends and using chrome books to complete a quiz.

Will miss you all,

Have a lovely Holiday

Mrs Bovaird x

Happy New Year!

Wow, we have been really busy this month! We all made our New Year Resolutions and we have been trying really hard to keep them.

In literacy, we started our class Novel, “Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe” and have linked all our comprehension activities. In writing, we wrote an imaginative story all about entering the wardrobe and discovering Narnia. We included lots of feelings and of course we used excellent openers to begin our sentences.

In Numeracy, we have been developing our mental skills by practising adding and subtracting larger numbers. We have continued to work on word problems by recognising key words and phrases. We have also added a new practical mathematics area to our class which helps us to reinforce previous learning.

This month, we launched ‘Life Beyond Land’. We thought about ‘Big Questions’ that would be appropriate on our expedition. This led us on to smaller questions that we have been trying to find the answers to. We have displayed all our information in the classroom and even have a ‘Wonder Wall’ which we can added to everyday. It’s really exciting!!

Primary 5a have also been involved in live lessons-Eco-Schools-“Paws on Plastics” and “Global Citizenship”. We learned lots of important ways to look after our planet and how we can make things better.

Finally, we have been very lucky to have a student teacher in our class. Miss Anderson has been helping us in all curricular areas.

 

Primary 5a & Mrs Bovaird

Primary 5a have again had a very busy month!! We have continued to work on imaginative writing and we wrote stories about being ‘Lost’ and ‘Hallowe’en Night’. We also chose our own titles for our last piece of writing. Our stories included all the different success criteria that we have been working on in class.

In numeracy and mathematics, we have been practising fractions and learning about area. We have completed lots of different problems using different strategies. In outdoor learning, we have been developing our skills in recognising angles and directions which has really helped with our work in class.

This month, we celebrated ‘Catholic Education’ Fortnight. Some of us attended masses and we spent a lot of time discussing the theme ‘Communion, Participation, Mission’.

Advent has finally arrived so our class has changed our ‘Remembrance’ display to the signs and symbols of Advent. We have also spent time to reflect on how we can get ready for Christmas. Well done everyone who spotted lots of changes in Mass on Sunday. Remember the liturgical colour has changed to purple and we now listen to readings from St Matthew.

November has been really exciting!! Ninja challenges, Danceathons and St Andrew’s Day Celebrations. Our class raised lots of money for school resources. Well done!

Finally, we can’t wait to go to the Christmas Fayre. Our class designed ‘Rainbow Christmas Tags’ to sell at the ‘Enterprise’ stall. We recently moved to functional writing- instructions so we linked how we made the ‘Tags’ to complete a set of instructions. Lots of fantastic openers and imperative/ bossy verbs!!

We have now to choose a country of our choice and create a PowerPoint, leaflet or a poster to show Christmas traditions. Everyone is really looking forward to finding out about Christmas Around the World.

Enjoy the Christmas Fayre

Primary 5a & Mrs Bovaird

Luca D –I really enjoyed writing my story about being ‘Lost in Inverness’ because I included lots of feelings.

Asher I- Imaginative writing was fun!

 

Yusrah- I loved designing my Christmas tags. I hope we make lots of money.

 

Daniel- I wrote an imaginative story called ‘Nightmare’. Food chains in Science taught me a lot about animals.

 

Vikasini- I learned lots of new strategies to help me with fractions and percentages.

 

Aashir- I enjoyed shading fractions and working out percentages.

 

Venus- I can write in paragraphs. I love writing scary stories!

 

Merry Christmas Everyone

Best Wishes

Primary 5a xx

Primary 5a have been very busy this month presenting PowerPoints and posters on different Scottish cities. Everyone enjoyed listening to others and making notes on interesting places to visit and important facts. We included Stirling, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and a few others. We practised projecting our voices and answered other children’s questions. Well done everyone!

In Science, we have been learning about vertebrates and invertebrates. We have classified plants and animals and it was really exciting to find out about cnidarians, flatworms, true worms, molluscs, echinoderms and arthropods.

In outdoor learning, we have been using our mathematical skills to look for signs of symmetry in nature. In class, we have continued with handling data to read and create graphs. Everyone got the chance to practise using co-ordinates to create different pictures.

In literacy, we have moved on to writing personal recounts and stories. We wrote a personal piece on ‘If I Could Change the World’. We came up with lots of different ideas and how we could possibly make these changes happen. To further develop our writing skills, we shared our ‘October Week’ holiday stories.

Last night, we all had a great time at the ‘Hallowe’en Disco’. The outfits were fantastic. We are all looking forward to dressing up again on Monday night.

Thanks to everyone who shared their work on Diwali.

Mrs Bovaird & Primary 5a

 

Rachel- I really loved dressing up as a butterfly. The science videos really helped me to understand vertebrates and invertebrates.

Martin- I was a dark phantom. I love keeping healthy by playing football and running to keep fit.

Rayyan- I love Health and Wellbeing especially P.E. My favourite warm up game is dodge ball.

Sarah- I really enjoyed learning about other world religions. I have really worked hard on money calculations.

Kazeem- My favourite game was dodge ball because it was really active.  I made a poster on Edinburgh and shared it with my class.

Elysia- Loved the Hallowe’en party. I really enjoyed drama in the hall. I worked in small groups.

Isabelle- I loved the Hallowe’en party as I dressed up as a cat. Drama was great fun. I got to work with my friends. I made a Dunfermline PowerPoint. I chose this city because my grandparents live there.

Primary 5a have settled well into their new class. It has been a very quick few weeks and we have been involved in many activities to get to know the other members of our class. We now really feel like Primary 5a!!

In Numeracy, we have been extending our knowledge on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We have been continually practising our tables and learning lots of mathematical terminology to help with more challenging word problems.

In writing, we have concentrated on ‘Poetry’. We have written ‘Name’ and ‘Friendship’ poems. We are now more able to list the success criteria which should be included when writing an acrostic poem.

In Social studies, we have been learning about our country by labelling cities. We are now going to focus on Scottish landscapes.

We have really enjoyed linking our drama lessons with Health and Wellbeing. We worked together on ‘Trust’ and ‘Respect’. We mirrored our partners and discussed qualities that make us good friends.

Primary 5a are really looking forward to taking part in the ‘Talent’ Competition on St Cadoc’s  Day.  We can’t wait to show off our talents to the rest of the school.  Good luck everyone!!!