Health and Wellbeing – Primary 5b 23/24

June 25, 2024

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)

June 18, 2024

P2 Science fair

We were lucky enough to visit the P2 Science Fair! There was so much creativity on display with the fabulous models the p2 children had made. The children demonstrated that were confident learners as they were able to answers the questions the p5s asked them and they could also state some awesome science facts too!

Great job P2! We are so proud of you!!

June 17, 2024

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!

June 17, 2024June 17, 2024

WB 10th June

THIS WEEK we took part in ‘St Marks does the Euros’ at our school. We played against the other P5 class in the MUGA to celebrate the start of the Euro’s.

On Thursday we had a visitor called Gary he works for GRAHAM. We made lollypop stick bridges .And we tested them by placing plastic bottles on them to see if they will be strong or not.

By Arya and Hawaa.

June 14, 2024June 14, 2024

St Marks does the Euro’s!

To celebrate the start of the Euro’s, the children took part in a football tournament! They were assigned a team and a country!

straight after break, they enjoyed supporting p4 by cheering them on from the side. Some of us enjoyed dancing on the grass too!! We were really getting into the spirit of the tournament then it was our turn to take part!

We played several games against the children in p5a and had lots of fun! We were respectful, resilient and brave!!

June 3, 2024

P5 Litter Pick

As part of our learning about Global Goals 14 Life Below Water and how plastic pollution affects the creatures in the sea, P5 were doing a litter pick around our school grounds.
We enjoyed putting our school values into action by respecting our environment.

June 3, 2024

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!

June 3, 2024June 3, 2024

Congratulations to Jessica!

Jessica was awarded the Brownie Brown award for sharing her knowledge on germination and caring for her sunflower seed we planted in class in March.

We are so proud of you for developing your leadership skills by sharing your learning with your Brownies.

The Brownies Bronze award badge is awarded by a unit leader when a Brownie has completed two section theme awards from the Girl guiding programme.

May 31, 2024

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

May 17, 2024

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.