Sharing the learning
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!!
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.
Well done to the St Mark super stars who took part in the Matthew Carney Football Tournament. Three teams entered from St Marks, they played football for 5 hours at the Muirend Pavilion pitches.
P5b are very proud of their classmates who made it to the Shield final. They showed excellent sportsmanship during every game.
Shay showed his electric pace as he zoomed up and down the pitch non stop! He never once gave up. He made several fabulous attempts at goal.
Ben showed excellent leadership skills, using his knowledge of the game to share tactics and tips to the team. He demonstrated some excellent football skills too!
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
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.
On Monday we did maths straight after break. In our maths lesson we were learning how to calculate the duration of thing using the chunking method. After lunch we did topic and it was really fun! We created out Refugee Welcome Packs.
When we got in on Tuesday we did PE with Mr Farrell we did running, jumping and throwing. The first line was 10 points, second line was 20 points and the last line was 50 points. Whoever got the beanbag outside of the MUGA got 100 points.
On Wednesday, we had Assembly first thing in the morning. P4B were talking about litter and how we should stop because the wind will blow it into the sewers and it will affect the sea fishes.
When it was Thursday we wrote letters to refugees and put them into the refugee bags. We were then supposed to walk around the MUGA 15 times for SCIAF but it was too rainy so we could not.
On Friday we planted sunflowers for our class novel because at the start of the book they planted flowers! We are going to watch them grow in class then take them home to continue watching them. Then we read “The Boy At The Back Of The Class” which was written by Onjali Q. Rauf. We are so close to finishing the book.
Laughlin and Charlie signing off!
This week our main focus is time with STEM because it is British Stem Week. We had a visitor who is a doctor. She told us about her job and how she has to manage her time to ensure that the patients get the care they need on time.
On Monday, we researched and drafted our Diversity Champion fact files after STEM filled morning.
On Tuesday, in the morning we did PE for PE we had a bike obstacle course. There were ramps , balance beams and seesaws .
We had a workshop with the STEM leaders. They taught us how to make cars out of lollipop sticks and plastic lids and we timed them rolling down a ramp. We then used a formula to work out the speed the car travelled.
On Thursday we used the Microbits during technologies.
On Friday we practiced for our Learning Assembly and took part in Live STEM workshop where we learned about an underground lab.
We have brought our jotters home today to show our families at home. We must bring them back to school on Monday
By Ivy and Anas.
We are still collecting donations for our welcome pack projects for Refuweegee. We have 1 more week to go before we can start to make packs.
We started a new block of PE lessons with Mr Farrel again. This time our focus is on Athletics. We had to time ourselves doing a 20m sprint. We then divided the time by 20 to calculate the speed we ran at.
On Wednesday we had assembly and Anas and Jessie had to do a speech.
Thursday was World Book Day and we took part in a live football and book themed quiz. After lunch we have a Book Blether with Primary 4b.
On Friday we walked to the Barrhead Foundry to collect our World Book Day free books!! When we got back to school we got to read them and then take part in a World Book Day Treasure Hunt organised by Mrs Farren.
By Shafwan and Ben.
James and Lacy announced our appeal to the whole school this week during assembly. We are collecting pre loved toys and games to create welcome packs for refugee children who arrive in Scotland. We are collecting for 2 weeks.
Our exposition writing was linked to our appeal as our writing was to persuade others to donate to our appeal. We created posters on Canva and these letters and posters are displayed around the school.
In maths we finished our unit of measurement by exploring capacity. We got to make an guess / estimates then accurately measure the volume of the water or liquid in the bottles. We then moved in to reading and writing decimal fractions!
During PE this week we worked with p2 to explore the loose parts outdoors making a variety of games, marble runs and obstacle courses. On Friday, we had a game of rounders with P5A!
Father Joe came into p5 and we made our confessions before going to our mass on Friday morning. After mass on Friday we stayed to pray the Stations of the Cross we were happy with ourselves we all joined in and all prayed we also got the Eucharist. 🙂
By James and Jessica.
Even though this week has been very short we have done a lot of things.
On Wednesday we had an Ash Wednesday service and most of us got our ashes.
On Thursday we learnt a new type of writing called exposition writing , for music on that day we learnt a new rhythm that was very fun to learn . In our Technologies lesson with Mrs Guy we got to explore the programme Canva. We used it to create a new front cover for our class novel ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’.
Today for PE we were continuing with our striking and fielding lessons and before lunch we made an orange heart to say that everyone is welcome .
written by Jessie and Ben.
