Sharing the learning
We had great fun today trying out some cycling obstacle courses. We showed great skill and determination to overcome the obstacles in front of us. Thanks again to Include Me 2 Club for organising and we’ll look out for their cycling club coming soon.
We loved learning about Hieroglyphics during our Egyptian Topic.
We enjoyed writing secret messages to each other!
P5 loved having ERIC time in the Laragh Library today.
We have been borrowing books fortnightly from the fabulously stocked library and sharing our love of Tom Gates, Alex Rider and Greg Hefley amongst other characters with each other!
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!
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!
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.
Last week, we had our learning assembly our parents came in to seen us. We have been learning numbers 1-10 in Spanish.
Our parents came in to do DLL and read with us for our ‘Come and See our Learning’ event. In writing we all are now doing narrative writing.
Last week was also our last PE session with Mr Farrell and starting from this week we will be getting art lessons with Mrs McIntyre.
By Arya
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!!
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.
We have had a very busy 2 weeks at school! Here are some of the things that have been happening inside our class.
Today we could wear our Christmas jumpers to school we loved seeing everyone looking so bright and colourful! Some jumpers had lights and music and some people had Christmas themed headbands!!
This morning we visited p6 for their ‘Grow £5’ event! What an amazing amount of products and events to take part in. Our favourites were the hot chocolate cones, the bracelets and the reindeer balloons. Mrs Sutherland loved the ‘Knock the Santa Cups down’ stall, she thought it was a great idea to have things to do and not only things to buy! Very creative!
We took part in a live event about the Ancient Egyptians. It was pretty interesting because it taught us about artefacts and we learned about a new artefact called a ‘Shabti’. A small Egyptian figure that was placed in the sarcophagus with the mummy to help remind the person to carry out specific tasks in the afterlife.
We got to ask the presenter questions which he answers LIVE!! We were excited to see Primary 5a also ask questions! We saw a sarcophagus, canopic jars and some other artefacts which are usually displayed in the museum.
Our writing focus this term has been information writing. Last week, we wrote about Brilliant Barrhead sharing lots of information about where we live, the Dams to Darnley and the Foundry. This week we independently wrote a piece about the Egyptians using all the knowledge we had learned about them since August.
In music, we learned to play ‘Jingle Bells’ and ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ on glockenspiel and bells. We had to listen to each other and work together to keep the rhythm.
In DLL, our readings book have been play scripts. We have been working on expression and pace when reading out loud the plays to each other. We then started acting them out developing our understanding of a character. On Monday we are going to be performing them to everyone in the class. During independent learning time, some people enjoyed having a chance to act out other people’s scripts too! We are really enjoying acting and doing drama with our literacy lessons.
During our independent learning time, we have been doing measurement with the Kapla blocks, creating intricate Christmas themed models with the Kapla such as making Santa’s house, a church and Santa’s elves with lego. With the circuit board we made the fan spin and it flew. We have been busy designing an app for the Make it Happen Festive App competition!! We have been using our creative skills, thinking skills and problem solving skills.
On Friday afternoon we were invited to watch the dress rehearsal of the primary 2 Nativity! We are so proud of our family and friends in p2 who performed confidently and were fabulous and entertaining!
Our Health and Well being lessons are on the theme of Relationships this term. So far we have focused on how to be a good friend and showing empathy. We enjoyed identifying the qualities that would make a perfect friend and then creating the perfect potion with these ingredients! We also enjoyed acting out scenarios showing empathy to others.
Enjoy your weekend,
Alfie, Arya and Mrs Sutherland.
See Google Classroom for videos of music and photos of our creations.
