Page 4 – St Marks Primary School

Numeracy and Mathematics

Times Tables

This term one of our targets is to learn all of our times tables from 2-9. It’s so important we learn these and are confident recalling our tables facts. You can help at home, on the walk to school and when travelling in the car. Just ask us any times tables fact and see if we can get it right. We’ve all been given a times table poster to put up on our bedroom wall- please encourage us to say aloud whenever there is a spare moment. You can also go online and learn some fun times table songs and games-even better, you could make up your own! Here’s a song from NUMBEROCK to get you started and a creative way to change Jenga into a fun maths game.

Pupil Council Election

Last week we held our pupil council elections. We had many children presenting, showing great confidence and skills in talking and listening. The presentations included powerpoint, SWAY and note cards. After some excellent speeches we held a secret ballot- it was close but our newly elected pupil council rep is Daniel. Congratulations!
In other news, many of us brought in our own devices to connect to the council wifi. The BYOD will allow us to connect to the internet to help with our topic research and learning.

Meet Alexa and Siri

Meet Siri and Alexa, our little classroom pets. After some fantastic name suggestions we had a class vote and Owen’s idea won the vote.

We’ll be learning how to look after another living creature, feeding, cleaning and even singing them a song or two.

P5b Teaching & Learning Overview Term 1

P5b Learning and Teaching Overview term1

Welcome to our class blog

Welcome to our first, ever blog!

Trip to Finlaystone Country Estate

On Thursday 30th Aug the whole school enjoyed a big day out at Finlaystone Park. Our class took part in an art in nature workshop with Lucy the ranger. She took us on a scavenger hunt to find interesting leaves and twigs. It was quite a walk of discovery, we found acorns, leaves, branches, moss and even a little teeny tiny frog! You should be able to find him in somewhere in the pictures below. The fun didn’t stop there, we also discovered some wild garlic- ask me to show the photo of it below, and some edible plants. One of the most interesting facts of the day was the discover of a plant called woodsorrel. You can eat it, it tastes a bit like sour grapes or apple. If you want to know more follow this link Wood sorrel

We were also able to spend some time at the adventure trail, the zip-line, the pirate ship before we relaxed with a stroll in the allotment and walled garden. They grow quite a crop at Finlaystone, apples, beetroot, berries and pumpkins.