Primary 5 found out about St. Valentine of Rome. He is the patron saint of Love, young couples, marriages and beekeepers.
Instead of making Valentine’s day cards everyone made a friendship card. We followed steps to draw beautiful bees.
As a treat Mrs Muscat made empire biscuits with the class during golden time.
Fireworks aff the Castle
Goin WHEECH, WHEECH, WHEECH
Bairns in the library
Gettin WHEESHT, WHEESHT, WHEESHT
Cans o Irn Bru
Goin SKOOSHITAY, SKOOSHITAY, SKOOSH
Fitbaw in the playgroond
Gettin DOOSHITAY, DOOSHITAY, DOOSH
The snaw blaws in fae Norroway
And nips your TAES, TAES, TAES
We go skitin on wir sledges
Doon the BRAES, BRAES, BRAES
The rain comes doon in buckets
And it’s WEET, WEET, WEET
Your teeth is sair fae sweeties
And it’s GREET, GREET, GREET
You’re oot wi pals and aw the time
It’s BLETHER, BLETHER, BLETHER
But when awthin’s wrang and no goin right
Jist go and tell your MITHER
When awthin’s wrang and no goin right
Jist you coorie in wi MITHER
Week two of Ceilidh dancing and Primary 5 learned how to pas de bas, do a figure of 8 and advance and retire.
We have started our listening topic in music.
This year our topic is Tam O’Shanter. The main focus is to recognise the different families and instruments in the orchestra.
Primary 5 started their block of Scottish Country Dancing today. The pupils had a great time. We worked on various techniques today including circling round and turning a partner with an elbow grip.
We also counted our steps.
We found out about the weapons that were used during the Scottish Wars of Independence.
We referred to the Battle of Bannockburn website.
Bannockburn Resources
We found out about pikes and the use of the defensive Shiltron, as demonstrated by some of the girls below.
Everyone then created their own shield using pattern, shape and a material of their choice – most chose paint. 
Primary 5 love the opportunity to get outdoors especially if they get the opportunity to build. As you can see from the pictures below Primary 5 are very creative and can build engaging structures. These spaces became areas in which they acted out ‘war’ like situations based on our topic, The Scottish Wars of Independence. It’s great to see the class working together to build, create and role play.
