Category: Expressive Arts

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Fabulous Fun Day!!

Thank you to our wonderful Parent Partnership who organised a fabulous Fun day for us today!!  We loved bouncing and playing on the inflatables before lunch and then our delicious treat from the  ice-cream van after lunch!!

We had a fun in class too as we took part in a variety of STEM activities all day!  We worked in small groups to create a model with a moving part using the make-do kit!   Then after lunch we made either sock puppets or  t-shirt bags!  (We will finish these tomorrow! -Boys and girls are welcome to bring in a sock or tshirt to make one)

 

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Cardboard Creations

Inspired by Darrel Wakelam, p5b have been getting creative with cardboard and masking tape.  They were developing their engineering skills as they independently followed a set of instructions to create their masterpieces.
Once complete, they let their creative minds take over by designing the sea creatures appearance and the background. There was a variety of tools used to create the patterns including finger painting, splattering with paint brushes, blending with oil pastels and watercolour pencils too.

They then created characters with their creations, researched facts about the sea creatures and have been working together to create stories us their creations.

They are looking forward to bringing these stories to life with our sea creatures!

The children are really leading their learning with this project!

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Rock Band

We went to an amazing gig at school today!  Boys and girls from St Luke’s High School entertained us with a fabulous performance of classic rock songs and some fun pop songs too!

The band were displaying confidence by performing to the WHOLE school, resilience when they had to stop to re-tune the guitar and collaboration as they worked together to stay in time and support each other to name a few of the Meta-Skills we spotted in action. 


It was brilliant!

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WB 3.6.24

During drama on Monday we acted out a story about the sea turtles we made last week.  All of the groups made up different stories! Then on Tuesday we made our plan for our writing lesson using these ideas. On Wednesday we watched the p6 learning  assembly  then we did a little Spanish to consolidate our knowledge of numeros 1-10.  We learned how to use protractors to measure angles in maths .

We continued our  one point perspective in art with Mrs Mclntyre on Thursday. After that we wrote the story about our sea turtles and we were helping each other  with ideas and suggesting ways to up level our sentences.  We started to make our own cardboard sea creatures  at the end of the day on Thursday. We looked at Darrell Wakelam’s website to choose which creature we wanted to make.  We are working with a partner to create them this time.  We continued them on Friday after our P5 game of Dodgeball P5a v P5b then we played p5 girls v p5 boys!

by Lorena and Alfie.

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Oil and water investigation

As part of our Make Your Mark experience to explore Global Goal 14 Life Below Water, P5 took part in an experiment to see what would happen when oil spills into the sea.  We reused single-use plastic bottles to explore what would happen when oil mixed with water.  We made predictions and observed if they would mix.  Once the oil settled we added food colouring and a effervescent tablet to create lava lamps.  We had great fun watching the bubbles rise and pop!

 

To further develop our knowledge about Global Goal 14, the children created their own BIG questions.  They worked with a partner to inquire and develop their critical thinking skills to research and find out their answer.  P5 confidently presented their findings to each other.  Some children chose to share the information by creating a model, some chose to create a PowerPoint Presentation , others made posters and some groups even included a quiz.

P5 have been working on lots of their Meta Skills during this topic!

Mrs Sutherland is very proud of you all!

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WB 28th May

This week we have been up to some very exciting work . On Thursday the class made some turtles out of carboard and paper plates , then on Friday we painted these turtles and all of them turned out very creative and unique . For our art on Thursday we finished our self portraits and started on a one point perspective artwork  and  we drew our buildings in this session and next week we were going to finish the other side of the artwork . On Friday we done dodgeball and we all had a great time . We had a very creative week !

by: Jessie and Martin

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WB 20th May

This week we have been doing loads of work like making an oil experiment on Monday where we got a bottle of water and poured oil inside to see what would happen when oil was poured into the sea.  We discovered that oil and water does not mix. Then we made a lava lamp by adding food colouring and a effervescent tablet.  On Wednesday, we presented our life below water global goals no. 14  research presentations. We enjoyed learning more about life below water and all of us made great presentations. Also on Wednesday Fishy music came to our school for a great concert and the whole class all enjoyed themselves, we sung plenty of songs .

by : Martin and Jessie

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WK 6th May (3 day week) and 13th May

On Monday we started with telling about our weekends and then we wrote our homework words into our jotter. “Remember to do your homework!”

Tuesday, we started to read the book ‘Voices in the Park’. We started writing character descriptions.

0n Wednesday, we took part in a Cricket tournament against other schools. We spent the whole day at it.

On Thursday, we done some narrative writing on the ‘Voices in the Park’ book.  We told the story as if we were Charles.  We finished an R.E task identifying the symbols for each of the 7 Sacraments.

On Friday, we started decorating the Alter to celebrate Mary, the mother of Jesus.  We created flowers out of paper and pipe cleaners and wrote prayers to Mary too.  For PE we started a mini block of dodgeball!
We also done our assessments.

By Ben and Anas.

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Week Beg 22nd April

In Literacy this week we have been studying poetry.  During our Daily Literacy Lessons, we were reading poems and looking for examples of similes, onomatopoeia and personification in them!  We each chose our favourite poem from our readers and on Friday we had a Poetry Recital in class!  Everyone read with such confidence and enthusiasm.  It was good to hear different poems and we noticed that even if someone read the same poem as someone else it sounded different depending on the rhythm and what words were emphasised.
In writing, we continued with the theme of poetry by creating our own poems on the theme of ‘Once Upon a Dream’.  We are aiming to use different poetry techniques and punctuation to help the reader imagine our dream and to make our poems interesting.  We will let you know how they end up next week!

In maths, we are have been comparing and ordering fractions visually!  We were using a Fraction Wall to identify equivalent fractions too.   It’s been a challenge but with perseverance we are now experts at using the Fraction Wall to help us with our learning!

It was St Mark’s Feast Day and we celebrated with a whole school mass.  Mrs Sutherland hadn’t heard of our St Marks school song so we enjoyed teaching her! 😀

In music, we have started a new block of learning and we are learning how to compose our own song!  We created two lines on Thursday and can’t wait to make some more! 🎵

It’s been a very creative week in P5b!!

Next week we have our ‘Come and Learn with Me’ afternoon on Monday and our Learning Assembly on Friday.
We can’t wait to show off how fantastic we are!!

 

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WB 19.2.34

This week in P5b we were continuing our class novel called “The Boy At The Back Of The Class”. We managed to finish Chapter 13 and we will be starting Chapter 14.

We also started French after a while, we decided to revise French colours as we were trying to describe our partner in French. We described our hair, eye colour and skin with knowledge of our body parts in French we could say eyes and hair in French.

We had art after a while as well and we learned about Sarah Kwan, she is a great artist. We learned that she was from China but grew up in Scotland and felt Scottish. This inspired us to make our own drawing combining two different cultures. We had to combine Scotland with our own culture or a culture that we are interested in.

We had a very busy week in P5b and it was very fun!

By Inayah and Mohammed Almeer!

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