Category: Make Your Mark

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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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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.

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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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Happy New Year!! Week 19 learning!


Happy New Year from everyone in P5b!!

We have had a very busy first week back!
We have been revising maths concepts this week and sharing the different strategies we each used to work out the answer to the questions given.

We enjoyed our independent learning time during maths this week some of us worked as a team try to beat the clock during ‘Hit the Button’ and some tried to create symmetrical patterns with blocks/Lego.  Some children challenged themselves with trying tricky levels on ‘The Daily 10’  and we enjoyed sorting out the fraction pieces and exploring what different sized fractions looked like and comparing them to each other!
Mrs Sutherland noticed lots of excellent mathematical thinking and conversations happening!!

In music, we were listening to a lovely Scottish song and were able to identify the instruments we heard in the piece -penny whistle, bagpipes and guitar.  We then sang along with the track and Mrs Carey played the guitar.

Our writing focus this term is recount writing.  We started off our block by identifying the key components of example recount texts and looking at the language used to sequence the main events!!
Ask us at home to tell you the purpose of recount writing and the four key features of a recount writing.
We are excited to retell events and experiences.

In PE, we are continuing our block of ceilidh dancing lessons in preparation for our Stage Ceilidh!  We worked with p5a and learned a new dance.
We  started a new topic of striking and fielding!  We had fun playing a game of Cone Collecting where we had to demonstrate our teamwork skills and had the chance to practise thinking about playing a game using tactics!

For our new class topic we will be learning about culture and diversity.

It has been busy first week!!

 

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Make Your Mark – Lego Challenge 18.12.23

This morning P5 have been busy taking part in a Lego Challenge!!

First, we identified the challenge and our resources.
Our challenge was to build a sturdy bridge with Lego to get 2 cars over the river.
The bridge had to be 10cm tall and be strong enough to hold 2 cars.

Then we worked in groups to plan how we would complete the challenge.

Next we got to work building a bridge using the Lego bricks.  We had one hour to complete the challenge.

We tested our bridges to see if they would hold 2 cars.

Finally, we reflected on our bridge made adjustments and looked for ways we could improve if we did this again.

The skills we used during the challenge were collaborating, adapting, focusing, using our initiative, communicating as well as being considerate of other peoples feelings and using our critical thinking skills to be creative and solve the problem.  Lots of skills were being developed!!

By Martin and Clayton.

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Week 12 Learning (WB 6th November)

During assembly on Wednesday, Primary 5 shared 2 of their Make your Mark experiences with the whole school.  Abiela and Logan from p5a spoke about when we made smoothies. Anas and Hawaa from our class presented about Pond Dipping.  Our presenters were fabulous!  P5 were fantastic audience members encouraging and supporting their classmates who were bravely leading the presentation.

We recapped the names of angles during our maths lesson on Tuesday with this fun song! It’s so catchy the song has been stuck in Mrs Sutherland’s head all week!!

In French this week we enjoyed playing a game of ‘Jacque A Dit’ (Simon Says).  It was a fun way of testing our knowledge of french body parts!  Ask us how to play at home and see how well we do!!

Our focus in PE is Scottish Ceilidh dancing in preparation for our next Make your Mark learning experience.  We had fun learning the Virginia Reel! It was tricky to keep in time with the music but we know we will be experts soon!

It is Book Week Scotland next week, children are welcome to bring in their favourite book to read and talk about in class! 📚❤️

Have a good weekend,

Mrs Sutherland.

 

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WB 11th September -Week 5 Forest School and Technologies

At forest school we have been learning how to tie knots and to make shelters water proof.

By Lilja.

 

We’ve been learning to code in technologies with Mrs Guy.  We used the programme called ‘Scratch’. We made a bus drive but Scratch the cat was late and didn’t get the bus on time however the flying hippo did get there in time!

We were using our digital skills and we were focusing to remember the codes.

By Steven.

 

 

 

 

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WB 4th September – Week 4 Forest School Week 2.

Primary 5b were able to tick off their first Make Your Mark experience on Monday at forest school.
Working collaboratively in small groups, they were tasked with building a waterproof shelter.
Each team was given a tarpauline sheet, four tent pegs and four bungie cords.
Children could also use sticks and other natural materials that they could collect in the forest.

The children identified that problem solving skills, team work and communication skills were vital to succeed in this challenge.

Mrs Sutherland also noticed the children were developing their adaptability, leadership and feeling skills too ensuring that everyone in the team felt valued and heard during this task.

Have a look at our photos and videos to see how each group created a unique waterproof shelter!

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