Miss Convery – Class of 2014

P5a March Blog

STEM WEEK:

As part of STEM week we had a visit from BAM. We learned about the jobs of Civil Engineers and worked in two teams to build a bridge that we would be able to walk over.

Marcus said: “I liked screwing in the different parts of the bridge”.

Rachel said: “I loved walking across it. It was really strong”.

Louise said: “I liked connecting all of the cables together”.

Emma said: “I liked when Miss Convery had to test if it was strong enough and walk over it first”.

Thank you to everyone who came in to speak to us during STEM week – we loved hearing about the wide variety of jobs in engineering and the different workshops inspired many engineers of the future.

Numeracy:

This week we have been focusing on Area and Perimeter. We worked in teams to create robots with each part of the robot a different area and perimeter.

Special Achievements:

Well done to these talented girls who all did amazingly well in the Eco competition. Rachel came in 1st place with the winning poster! Alice, Dana, Poppy and Rebekah were Runners Up. Nice work 🙂

The House Certificate for March was awarded to Marcus for his excellent effort and attitude! Well Done Marcus.

Hope everybody enjoys the holiday! 5A are looking forward to a well deserved rest!

Have a look below at some of the fantastic range of activities which pupils produced and presented to the class as part of our World Religions Topic in RE. Some of us created posters or boards, others worked with a partner to present, some of us made powerpoints and others even made models! So impressive 5A – thanks for all your hard work 🙂

Stirling Castle:

What an amazing day we had at Stirling Castle today! We started off with a guided tour and then got a chance to explore the castle in the afternoon! Have a look at what we got up to below! A day that we won’t forget for a long time!

5A Numeracy/ Outdoor Learning

Time/Angles/Fractions:

This morning 5A took their learning outdoors! Some of us were using our knowledge of time to complete a treasure hunt!

Ruari said: “We had to find the different questions around the playground and we had to answer the time question correctly and then crack the code!”

Alice said “I enjoyed trying to crack the code! There were some tricky questions but I still managed to find the correct code!”

Some of us were using what we have been learning about Angles and Direction and creating numbers and pictures with different materials and marking the angles with cubes!

Timothy said: “I liked the task to create a picture and mark the angles. We created a house and then a monster and used cubes to show acute, obtuse, right, straight and reflex angles.”

Some of us were using chalk and natural materials to show different fractions! Conor said: “I liked doing active fraction work. I drew shapes with chalk and then put natural materials inside different parts to show the fraction.”

Well Done 5A! 👍

BBC 2 Live Writing Lesson!

This morning we took part in the BBC2 Live Lesson along with many pupils in schools around the UK! This was a 500 Word Story Writing Challenge to help inspire our Writing, giving us prompts and tips on how to write a fantastic story!

There was a surprise guest – David Walliams who read out a story to us based on children’s ideas!

Eilish said: “The story had everything that the children in the audience said and altogether made a masterpiece”.

Louise said: “I liked taking part in this because the author and illustrator gave us good ideas and then we got to write our own story”.

Gavin said: “They gave us some ideas and we made them even better”.

Dana said: “I like how even though it was only 500 words you can get so many ideas in”.

Check out what Primary 5A have been doing!

PE- Tennis:

We have just started a block of tennis skills during our PE time! On Friday we began with practising our technique with partners and then individually. Have a look below:

Numeracy: Kahoot

We love playing Kahoot in teams and have regularly being incorporating these into our Mental Maths!

STEM: Engineering

Today we took part in an Engineering workshop! We began by thinking about what we already knew about the job of an engineer before thinking about the skills that an engineer would need to have. We will be taking part in a competition to try and win an Engineering Award! In the coming weeks we will begin our entries for this exciting competition.

We then took part in this Diamond Nine activity in which we decided which skills we felt were the most important in being an engineer!

Burns Day:

Have a look at the lovely tartan we wore for our Burns assembly and Ceilidh a few weeks ago!

St Ninians: P5A and B

We took part in a range of activities across different stations when we went to St Ninians! Have a look below.

Have a lovely February weekend everyone!

Burns Celebrations in P5!

What a wonderful afternoon at Primary 5’s Burns Celebration. Primary 5 showed their Terrific Talents through their reading, dancing, poetry and music! Thank you to everyone who came along. We had a ball! Have a look at some of the pictures below:

P5a have been getting creative!

Knex Christmas Challenge

Today we worked in groups to create a Christmas themed model from Knex. We discussed in our teams what parts of each model we would make and then put them together! Have a look below:

Eilish created Santa’s sleigh!

Niamh, Andrew, Rachel and Joshua created Santa’s boot getting stuck down a chimney!

Emma and Cameron created a Christmas tree!

Well done Primary 5A!

Clay Ornaments

We created our own clay ornaments shaped into different Christmas shapes. We created Christmas trees, snowmen, stockings and candy canes. We then pained and decorated them.

A friendly reminder that tomorrow is Christmas party day so remember to wear your party clothes! Christmas Jumper day will be on Friday! Merry Christmas to everyone!!

Have a look what 5A have been learning!

Role Play: Drama

We have been considering the importance of being kind and respectful towards others. We worked in groups and acted out different scenarios and chose the correct thing to do when someone is being treated badly. Have a look below:

Special Achievement:

Ruari won two medals for her Christmas Gymnastics competition! Well done Ruari!

STEM:

We have been learning to classify different animals into the five main vertebrate groups. We played games to help us learn about different animals before researching how to classify them!

Engineering Workshop:

We were lucky enough to have a special visitor who explained to us the job of a civil engineer. We then got to try different experiments involving flooding and measure how much water there was.

Spelling Stations:

We have been trying some different strategies to help us learn our spelling words. Have a look below. We enjoyed playing spelling games on Education City, multi-sensory spelling and word-search spelling! We loved it.

Primary 5A

First News:

P5a loved reading First News this week which will now be part of our weekly reading!

Van Gogh: Art

We have been enjoying learning about Van Gogh this week in Art! Have a look at the fantastic Starry Night pictures that we created today. We practised our techniques and then used oil pastels to create our pictures!

Sports Leaders: Football Session

We had a fantastic sports session on Monday with St Ninian’s sports leaders who played football games and taught us a range of different skills. Have a look below:

Numeracy Fun!

We loved trying out a new Numeracy game ‘Times table Rock stars”. It is a fun interactive game which is helping us to practise our multiplication and division facts!

China presentations:

We have loved hearing everyone’s presentations on China! Thank you for all of the hard work that was put in to them. Everybody did a fabulous job!

Outdoor Learning:

We consolidated the Numeracy we had been learning in class by taking our fractions work outside! Have a look below. We created improper fractions, equivalent fractions and mixed numbers!

Primary 5A

We have had such a busy week back after the October holiday!

STEM

This week in Science, we were learning about chemical changes through a Halloween themed lesson using pumpkins. We started by writing a hypothesis and predicting what we thought would happen when we mixed different substances together and then poured them into our pumpkins.

Some of us thought that the pumpkin would explode and some of us thought it might even change colour!

We found that when the reactants were mixed together, it created a chemical reaction causing the mixture to bubble up and overflow from the pumpkin! We had so much fun!