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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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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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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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WB 18th March

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!

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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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Lunar New Year

P5 had a great time learning about Lunar New Year from our classmate.  The children then created their own red lantern and decorated it to make it as bright and beautiful as possible!   We will decorate our class with the lanterns to bring luck and good wealth!!

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WB Wed 14th Feb


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.

 

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WB 5th Feb Week 23

Languages Week Scotland:

The children enjoyed creating a multi-lingual colouring in book to celebrate Languages Week Scotland.  Pupils decided which country they wanted to focus on.  They researched the country making notes of interesting facts before creating the colouring in page sharing some famous landmarks from the country, the flag and including  some basic greetings in bubble writing too.
We are looking forward to sharing the finished book with the children in p3 and hope that learn about different countries and cultures from our book!!

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We have used all the information we have learned about ourselves from our discussions with parents at home and from our shoulder partner interviews  to create an ‘All About Me’ fact file.  We can identify and celebrate that we are all unique and that’s it’s ok to be different.

We have really enjoyed learning about different cultures and religions from our fabulous visitors.  Thank you so much for giving up your time and sharing with us what it was like to like somewhere else and share your culture and beliefs with us.

 

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Parent Visitor

Thank you very much to Fatima who joined us in school today to talk about growing up in Pakistan and what it was like to move to Scotland.
The children asked lots of respectful questions and enjoyed listening to Fatima talk about the animals that you would find in Pakistan, the food you would eat and also enjoyed learning about the traditional jewellery you could wear on special occasions.

We were delighted to hear that there is a large community of people who speak Sindhi in Scotland and that there is a celebration that takes place on the first Sunday in November called the Sindhi Cultural Day.  Fatima explained that there is a special pattern worn as a symbol of pride and respect and to show honour called the ajrak.  This would be presented to important people and worn during award ceremonies.  The material is red or marron and has block pattern on it with dots and lines.  Fatima showed us a beautiful  sindhi cap  that the men would wear and explained that ladies would wear a scarf or shawl with the Ajrak pattern on it too.  On Sindhi Cultural day this year Mohammed Almeer and his family all dressed up in the traditional clothes with the ajrax pattern.

We really enjoyed learning about Fatima’s different life stories and experiences.

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