P5a 2024/2025

We enjoyed acting out a scene from our class novel and then acting out our predictions!
Everyone displayed wonderful performances and comprehension skills showing a true understanding of the characters in the book. We were developing the skill of remaining focused.

Thank you for all the lovely gifts and cards.  I have loved being your teacher and I will miss you all so much.  I am proud of how hard you have worked in P5.

Lots of Love Mrs Sutherland.

xx

P5s final Make Your Mark signature learning experience.

Today P5 were accurately measuring and weighing food and drink to create fruit smoothies.

P5 were developing their many of their Meta-Skills especially focussing and teamwork as they had to agree on the smoothie they were making, then work together to collect ingredients, follow the recipe to prepare the food and drink before getting to enjoy their smoothie while having a chance to chill and chat!

I will share the recipe to all 3 recipes tomorrow.

Well done P5!

St Marks was awarded its 11th Eco-Schools Green flag!

Week Beginning 19th May

We’ve had a creative week in school this week. Starting on Monday in drama by creating new versions of Little Red Riding Hood. On Tuesday during our writing lesson, we hen took these ideas and created plans for our own narrative piece of writing.

On Wednesday, the timetable change has meant we get Art with Mrs McIntyre until the end of the year!

In music, we performed our compositions on the xylophone for Mrs Carey.
(Video will be shared as soon they can be!)

In maths, we have been learning about scale drawings, well done TJ for being the teacher today and explaining to your peers your reasons so coherently! ❤️
We used the trundle wheels to measure areas of the play ground and created scale drawing in our jotters. Then we learned how to use the protractors to create accurate squares and rectangles.

Lots of teamwork, imagination and creativity on display!

Week Beginning 12th May

As it’s Mental Health Week this week, in our Health and Wellbeing lessons we have been learning about what we can do when we are feeling worried about something and also who who can help us when we are finding things challenging.
We identified what has ‘shaken our branches’ and who helped us through those times and then we identified what strategies we could use to help ourselves or others us when our branches are shaken again.

On Tuesday and Thursday, we continued our Narrative writing lessons. We wrote the Series of Events for the story of Little Red Riding Hood from the point of view of the wolf! Who knew the wolf was actually lost in the woods and frightened of a little girl! Well done for such imaginative ideas everyone!

In maths, we learned how to calculate the size of an angle using a protactor! We can now measure acute angles and obtuse angles.

On Thursday, we used microbits with Mrs Guy in Digital Technologies.

Today was our last session of Judo. It has been a fabulous two weeks trying judo. Learning to have fun and stay safe.  There are lots of photos of both sessions on Google Classroom.

Loose Parts

During Outdoor Learning this week the class were using the loose parts to make a set for the drama scenario they created!!

Lots of creativity, problem solving, team work and resilience was on show as you thoughtfully made your sets!

A particular favourite was the hospital and the hospital bed! Very imaginative! 👌🏻

Good job to Miss Meechan for running her class with such a unique style of classroom management and organisation! 👏🏻👏🏻

Special shout out to Mikey and Arhum who had to remake their set three times due to it falling down! Well done for your can-do attitude! ❤️

Week Beginning 7th May

On Wednesday we were learning about symmetry and identifying lines of symmetry in shapes.  We carried on learning athletics in PE.  We learned about throwing the shot put and the javelin.
On Thursday we learned how to introduce ourselves in Spanish and how to ask how someone is.Today we as a class went to judo and learned some cool moves and then we created some Spanish decorations for our class called Papel Picado.

By Chloe and Leo.

Well done to some of our wonderful P5 children for becoming published authors!

We enjoyed listening to some of the short stories in class

Congratulations to our Mikey!!
Mikey is Barrheads Young Person of the Year 2025 after being crowned the winner on Friday night at the award ceremony!

He was nominated for all the fundraising he does for the charity Mary’s Meals. To date he has raised nearly £3,000! Not only has he raised money for the charity but he has raised awareness by sharing information to others by presenting at school assembly and in classrooms at school too.

Well done Mikey! ❤️🎃