P5a 2024/2025

Mrs Paterson and Mrs Sutherland

December 8, 2024
by Mrs Sutherland
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Week Ending 6th December

This week we have been working on measurement in maths.  We got to estimate the length, weight and size of objects before getting to accurately measure them.  We have also been converting measurements too.  Ask us at home how many millimetres are in a centimetre and how many centimetres are in a metre and ask us to convert between them too.  We have been learning to read accurately from a scale too.  This was trickier.

As it is the First week of Advent we had a whole school Advent Assembly.  We also got to see p4 perform there assembly about how important trees are to our enviroment.  Well done P4.

In writing, we created a short story for our favourite teddy from the fair.  We had great ideas!  We hope our teddies are enjoying their new homes.

On Friday we spent some time identifying what makes a good friend.  Lots of people had different ideas but the general consensus for our class is that a good friend is trustworthy, loyal and kind.

December 8, 2024
by Mrs Sutherland
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Christmas Fair 29th November

The P5 Pet Shop was a massive success!  Well done to the boys and girls who helped on the day to rehome the pets!

The experience was part of our P5 Make Your Mark experience to organise and run a school recycling event.  We created posters and adverts on Canva asking for donations of preloved soft toys to save the teddies going to landfill.

On the run up to the Christmas Fair, we were busy sorting out the donations into pet shop pets, raffle prize pets and lucky dip pets.  We had to advertise the stall by making more posters and presenting to classes and to the whole school at assembly to make sure people knew to visit our stall to Pick up a Pet!

Everyone worked hard on developing their creativity by naming and creating backstories for all of the pets. We had to be focused and work well as a team to ensure we were ready in time for the Christmas Fair.

Well done to everyone!

November 24, 2024
by Mrs Sutherland
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Rivers

As part of our learning about Rivers we created salt dough and moulded a mountain and a river.  We labelled each of the key features.  Once the dough dried we painted it to represent the wonderful landscaped we have in Scotland. Finally we tested the rivers by adding some water and watching the water flow through our river.

November 24, 2024
by Mrs Sutherland
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Week ending 22nd November

This week was the start of our new time table!  We started Forest School on Monday and art lessons Wednesday!!

We wrapped up warm and had fun playing in the forest.  We will be starting our ‘Make our Mark’ signature learning experiences next time.

On Tuesday, we got to test out our rivers!  We enjoyed watching the water dribble down the source creating waterfalls and rapid rivers then meandering through the course of the river some times flooding over to the flood plains and finishing down at the mouth of the river.  See separate post for more info.

This week was also Book Week Scotland, we brought in our favourite book and got to share them with our class.  We created super summaries and also created a super poster for the school competition!

We enjoyed art with Mrs McIntyre and spending time in the STEAM room.  We started our first piece of art by sketching our character.

Friday was St Cecilia’s Feast day, we learned that she is the Patron Saint of Music and Musicians and to celebrate we got to make our own song about being in p5!  Here are some of the songs!

Its been a very busy week!!

Next Friday (the 29th) is our Christmas Fair and P5 will hosting a stall.  If anyone wants to help man the stall for a short time please come and join us!!

 

November 14, 2024
by Mrs Sutherland
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Taekwondo Taster Session

We had a taster session of  Taekwondo on Wednesday. Everyone displayed excellent listening skills to our visitor and loved the opportunity to safely punch and kick the pads.

Thank you Mr Dillon for giving us such a wonderful workshop!

November 13, 2024
by Miss McKay
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Week ending 15.11.24

What a fun messy day P5 had making salt dough to construct models of a river journeys.

They worked in small groups measuring and binding the ingredients to create the dough. Then the shaped and moulded their dough to create river features such as the river source, the raging rapids, the twist and turns of meander and the river mouth.

As a team they added texture and detail to add to their overall designs.

Superb P5! Can’t wait to see the finished results.

To mark Anti-bullying week, the Equalities group also led a workshop where all of P5 worked together to talk about the physical, mental and emotional impacts of bullying.

November 8, 2024
by Mrs Sutherland
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Week Ending 8.11.24

Hi,

This week we took part in a live lesson with a scientist who studies Air Pollution for his job.  We submitted 3 questions to the Science Centre and 2 of our questions got used!

On Wednesday we saw Cookie swim around his tank!  It was amazing to see.

On Friday during Outdoor Learning we worked with our DLL groups to act out our story using the Loose Parts.  It was great to see and everyone was very creative.   Seth was very creative as the Tinman using leaves as rust!

We have been learning about rivers this week and plotted the journey from the Craigie to the River Clyde.

November 2, 2024
by Mrs Sutherland
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Week Ending 1st November

We welcomed a class pet to our class this week.
This is our class axolotl!
He is settling in well, he likes to stand in the corner of the tank and watch us when we are learning! we have achieved a name for our axolotl it is …COOKIE!!

October 25, 2024
by Mrs Sutherland
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Week 10 -Week Ending 25th October

This week we have been learning about Air Pollution and creating terrariums.  We also created a new cityscape imagining what our city would look like with cleaner air!!

We have moved onto a new genre in writing…Information Writing!  Which starts with a title, then you have a general statement to introduces the macro then finally you need 3 micros in separate paragraphs.  Ask us at home what this means!

In maths, we were learning about a Scottish mathematician called John Napier and also learning about different number systems.  We focussed on Roman Numerals!

Today we visited the Science Centre.  We had a great time exploring all 3 levels before going to watch a 3D film in the IMAX cinema called ‘Our Wonderful Planet’.

By Sahej and Clyde.

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