Recent signs of a change in the weather, can at least now justify having the heating off folks. Just a quick update this month as, quite frankly, the holidays are calling and we’re exhausted from being so busy and working so hard. Hope you have some good times planned for us over the holidays???

Our Life Beyond Land Expedition has been a major focus for us since our last blog, resulting in it being a huge success. Our classroom has never looked so good, even our wall display outside. Mr Burns has said that he can’t remember any of his classrooms over the years looking so good and so full of varied pupil work. We’ve had lots of nice comments from other people too in the last few days. Well done us! We’ll not labour what we’ve been up to on here as we’ve got a bit of homework to do with you on the subject – but enjoy the photos. Oh that’s right we even got a play put on for us in the gym hall which was certainly different! Maya the Whale it was called – guest starring Umair D as Maya!

Being Lent, we’ve continued well with our Do Without Wednesdays for SCIAF. We don’t have a total yet as some people will hopefully continue during Holy Week (next week) and bring the money in after the Easter holidays, but we’ll let you know – been bringing in our home Wee Boxes too. We’ve also being doing a bit of Mission Mile, running / walking a mile a day in recognition of those that have to travel quite a distance each day just to get an education. We’ve been talking about forgiveness, the need to be nice to each other, the need to love each other, the Passion of Christ, Easter itself and we’re all set up to do Stations of the Cross outside (like last year) with Canon Eddie today. We’re set up for the Easter celebration in just over a week’s time! Eid too, with some fasting going on in here during Ramadan. Good for you.

We also recognised a couple of other charities in March – it was Down Syndrome Day on the 21st March and Sarah delivered a wee presentation so that we could learn a wee bit more about it. Some us wore odd socks to mark the occasion. We also had an input from Eczema Outreach Support which raised our awareness of the challenges young people with eczema face.

Venturing outside, we got involved in more litter collecting having watched a Keep Scotland Beautiful series of online lessons – hate litter. We also did a bit of Road Safety, going out and about investigating Pelican Crossings, Zebra Crossings and even Puffin Crossings! Quite a few representatives in the school cross country team too (Michael, Ryan, Lola and Maria), well done to them.

Ok, must dash, Mr Burns has got his coat on. Happy Easter to all is what he’s saying

P5B boys and girls

 

 

 

Hello again. Start off with a quick update on the Eurovision contest that we mentioned last time – we didn’t win! However, we did have a lot of fun and we were proud that we did it on our own (and in our own way), just our class together, and that we sang the whole song in Spanish. Mr Burns has put the video on Google Classroom for us to show you. Another highlight was the Science Centre trip, and not just because we got to lose Burnsy for the first couple of hours (and got Mrs Burns instead!), but we’ve not had too many trips (Covid etc) so that was good and the Science Centre itself was great fun, dare we say educational and interesting too. We never lost anyone either which was good, if not surprising.

Lent has started and you know that some of us are trying to do ‘Do Without Wednesdays’ – basically do without a snack at first break on the Wednesdays (fasting) and also where possible to give the money the snack would have cost to our class SCIAF Wee Box (almsgiving). We’re trying to say even more prayers during Lent, praying being the third focus, and of course we have our own Lenten promises which we are trying just to keep to ourselves. We had Ashes in school on Ash Wednesday whilst watching P4 and P6 at church with Canon Eddie and the congregation.

We’ve been Outdoors three times since last speaking, there are pictures from 2 of them as the weather wasn’t fantastic one week – Mr Burns was too busy hiding under a tree. We had a go at estimating then measuring and seeing how our estimates matched up, both length and weight. Then the next week we had a go at bigger distances with the trundle wheel, we even talked about speed as a result of our discussions. Just the other day we got Gabriel & Co’s bath toys out (rubber ducks) and made some bird nests. They worked out very well as you can see – didn’t quite realise that there are so many different types of bird nest styles. Rugby during P.E. currently, can’t wait (neither can Mr Burns by the sounds of things) for the full contact week that he keeps talking about……………

We mentioned our Learning Expedition last time as well and that is going well, we’ve changed a few things as we’ve gone along which is good – adapting to the situation. We don‘t want to give too much away as we’ll be filling you in more on it all at the end of March just before the Easter holidays. Other notable things in class is that during Maths we have been focusing on all aspects of Time whilst also being involved in a set of lesson on Financial Skills provided by Barclays – we’re halfway through that and it’s good talking about real life and the sort of decisions that will be coming our way. We’ve also been practising our diary writing skills over the last few weeks, focusing on a more informal style, whilst still being technically correct and entertaining. One of the diary entries was ‘Our First Day at School’ which invited all these excellent photographic contributions which Mr Burns has put together and put up in our classroom.

That’s about it in terms of being newsworthy other than having some major league thinkers on World Thinking Day and also wearing yellow in support of Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week.

Feel free to leave a wee comment as usual.

P5B