P6a have created some fun maths games to work on their multiplication tables and place value this week!
Teamwork!
P6a have settled well into the new year!
We worked on our teamwork skills yesterday in preparation for beginning STEAM activities this year. The cup stack challenge required perseverance and good communication!
Scotland Game !
P5 were supporting Scotland for their first game of the Euros this week.
They designed their own banners and flags for the occassion!
Climate change superhero’s
We have been looking at climate change and ways of reducing our carbon footprint. We have made climate change superhero’s with recycled products.
Symmetry
Primary 5 have now reached the end of their symmetry topic in Maths. Today they designed their own symmetrical patterns with 2D shapes and challenged themselves by trying to have more than 1 line of symmetry. 
John Lewis Comprehension
Yesterday Primary 5 analysed the new 2020 John Lewis Christmas advert. We summarised the main ideas, discussed the theme and meaning behind the advert and explored the modern changes that have been made in the media to reflect Black Lives Matter. This festive season we will all try to ‘Give a little love.’
Saint Andrew’s day!
On Monday we celebrated Saint Andrew’s day. We spoke about the life of our Patron Saint of Scotland and why Scotland celebrate this day. Primary 5 showed their creativity with their posters for Saint Andrew’s day and some pupils volunteered to show us their Scottish Highland dancing!
Scottish wars of Independence
P5a have designed some fantastic shields for battle as part of their topic. A lot of hard work has went into these and they are very proud of them! We used lots of recycled materials such as shoe boxes, cereal boxes, jar lids, plastic lids, lollipop sticks, beads, pieces from board games and used paint, pencils and tinfoil to decorate.
We then split into groups and did team quizzes and brainstorms of facts we
Our wants and needs
This week P5a have continued their health and well-being connected and compassionate classroom lessons. We had lots of discussion and group work on what are wants and needs in our lives and the difference between these. We then learned about what rights are and the rights a child has.
Wow words
Primary 5a have been focusing this term on up levelling their sentences for their writing. We practiced writing sentences with chalk using a variety of wow words from our wow word bank.
