Sharing the learning
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.
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.
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!!
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!
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.
We have been learning about poems as part of our Daily Literacy Learning lessons. We noticed that poems have a rhythm and can include rhyming words. We learned that poems can tell a story and also share some thoughts and feelings.
We chose our favourite poem from our reading book to practise and then we recited our poem to the class.
The children were fantastic poets demonstrating bravery and confidence and were also wonderful supportive audience members being polite and respectful to the performers! 😍
To celebrate Catholic Education Week, we have been learning about a variety of Saints including St. Damien, St Andrew and St Cecelia.
As St Cecelia is the patron saint of music, poets and instrument makers we created our own poems. We used the tune of ‘Three Blind Mice’ as our inspiration and created our own fabulous poems about being in Primary 5b. The children were very creative and produced excellent poems about his great p5b is!
See Google Classroom for these videos.
By Jessica, Dani and Mrs Sutherland
Primary 5b have been working on developing their team working skills this week by collaborating in groups during many tasks this week.
On Tuesday they explored estimating measurements of a variety of objects. They had to estimate the mass, length, capacity and area or objects found in the class using known objects to compare it to. They worked well to listening to each others thoughts and justifications.
The children had the opportunity to lead their learning by deciding what skills to work on during their independent learning time. Some children worked as a group challenging themselves to build complicated structures using the Kapla blocks, demonstrating resilience and patience. Other children worked on the multiplication skills with a game of BAM! This activity develops their fast recall of multiplication facts in a supportive environment encouraged and helped by their friends. Some other children decided to create more stained glass windows of saints they have learned about for our RE display. The children have shown lots of creativity, kindness and excellent team working skills this week.
As it was Book Week Scotland, the children enjoyed learning about other peoples books during our Book Bingo Activity. We spoke about our favourite book and got to answer questions about it. Many children enjoyed swapping books to have a little read of other peoples books and were excited to have discovered a new author / a new books to read. Liz Pichon and Jacqueline Wilson maybe have got a lot of new fans!!
The boys and girls in Primary 4b have had a successful second week. They have all been working extremely hard and enjoyed opportunities to work together in groups. On Thursday we took our RE lesson outdoors and created short role plays about making good or bad choices. We rounded off our week with a fun Friday afternoon, playing board games with friends. Well done to those children who received awards this week too! 
Over the last few weeks Primary two have been working hard to prepare and p
roduce a nativity. We had a preview with popcorn during the week.
We hope everyone enjoys our Nativity.
This term has been full of virtual firsts, therefore it was only appropriate as we come towards Christmas that we had a virtual Mass with Father Joe. Primary 2 sat reverently and showed an awareness of the importance of Mass. Well done Primary 2.
