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 our football super stars!
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!
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!
Congratulations to Jessica!
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.
WB 28th May
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
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
WK 6th May (3 day week) and 13th May
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.
WB 29th April
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
Week Beg 22nd April
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!!
WB Monday 15th April
This week has been a really busy week and really fun!
So first, we had been learning about Ramadan and we made boxes to add a date and our Ramadan biscuits with a apple to represent the crescent moon. We also watched Mohamed Almeer’s Ramadan presentation and it was amazing!
In maths we were learning about making a profit and loss. A profit is for an example if you buy a pack of Apples for £3 and you sell it for £4 that is a profit,
Written by Lorena and Inayah
