Expressive Arts – 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!

P5d Class Trip to Stirling Castle

Yesterday we went on our class trip to Stirling Castle. What a magnificent day we had! When we arrived we were met by a very helpful tour guide who told us what our day was going to be like.

We then had some free time to roam around and explore the beautiful, historical castle. We visited the Grand hall, the kitchens, the fabulous gardens, the stunning views and walls. We also explored the King’s old building and the Palace. We got to watch a short video of Stirling Castle’s history.

By this time, we were pretty hungry! We had our packed lunch picnic outside in the gardens and thankfully it didn’t rain.

In the afternoon, we had a very special guided tour with a costumed character. He brought us back to the 1300’s and we travelled through history with him. He was very exciting and we really enjoyed this part.

“I liked when we went on the guided tour. It was really cool to see how the weapons were built and he also told us how many times Stirling Castle was knocked down.” Lucas

“I liked the classroom because of all the drama that happened there. He showed us some weapons and some volunteers got to recreate what happened for us.” Emaan

“I liked hearing about all of the defenses of the castle. I liked to know how they used to protect the castle with the drawbridge, towers, fences and all of the other ways of keeping people out.” Vincent

“My favourite part was the movie because it showed us about Stirling Castle and all of the old sculptures and statues. After the video, we went out to look at the statues.” Khayrah

“I loved feeling how heavy the chain mail armor was because it showed us how strong and fit and soldiers in the wars of independence must have been.” Matthew

“I liked when he told us about the dungeons. People that tried to get into the castle were thrown in the dungeons and forgotten about.” Mirin

“He told us that they used to eat their food off of plates made out of bread. I thought that was an interesting, funny fact.” Daniel E

“My favourite part was meeting the solider. He told us what happened people if they tried to attack Stirling Castle and he showed us lots of weapons.” Maya

“I liked the bit when he told us some of the old jobs people used to do around the castle. I liked the carpenter job because we saw the roof and floors that they used to work on.” Brodie

“I liked hearing about the kinds of foods they used to eat. They used to eat fish, chicken, lamb, vegetables and baked a lot of bread.” Shay

“I liked when we got to wander about and read all of the different bits of information and facts that were around the castle. I read some facts about coins they used to use.” Cara

“I liked looking in the Palace play area with all the different little rooms. There were musical instruments, costumes and games rooms.” Ethan

“I liked going into the great kitchens because it showed you what actually happened in the old days. There were statues of people baking bread in the big old fires. There were lots of food on big tables too.” Daouia

“The gift shop had lots of different toys, sweets and souvenirs of Stirling Castle.” George

What an amazing day we had! We were all very tired coming home. Well done P5d! You learned a lot and had a really great day 🙂

What a busy week in P5d!

Primary 5d have been very busy this week. They were out to impress with lots of active learning. See what fun they got up to.

Maths & Problem Solving:

We had lots of fun using concrete materials to revisit our learning about equivalent fractions. We used pro bots to follow and create directions to enhance our learning about compass points and angles.

“I enjoyed using the pro bots because it was challenging to get the hang of them but that was fun. It helped us make shapes, straight lines and follow directions.” Lyle

We got very creative and came up with three different strategies to solve a problem. We chose to draw it out, use concrete materials and to use the interactive whiteboard. After we had tested these strategies out we reflected on which strategy we thought worked the best and why.

“I thought that drawing it out was the best strategy because you could rub it out and try again if you had done something wrong.” Lucy A

“I thought the concrete materials was the best way because you could stick them together and also I could see and touch them to know if I had the right combination or not.” Ethan

STEM:

We have been learning about types of forces. This week we explored and investigated what air resistance is. We did three different activities to help us investigate the factors that affect air resistance

Movie Makers:

We have been working in groups to write, plan and film a drama scenario. We chose a HWB topic that we have learned about and used that to help us create some super drama performances. Watch this space for the videos 🙂

Well done P5d, you have been working very hard. Keep up the great work. 🙂

World Day of Play – P5d

After a very busy morning, P5d had a fun afternoon playing with their board games.

Have a very well earned long weekend everybody! 🙂

P5d Get Creative!

Design Technologies:

This afternoon, we have been very busy constructing models using a variety of recyclable materials. Yesterday, we spent some time researching and planning out what we wanted to construct. We considered the materials we could use, their properties, the time it would take and how we wanted it to turn out.

Today, we brought cardboard, paper and some boxes to school from home. All of these materials are recyclable and we enjoyed putting them together.

We had great fun! We created shields, swords, daggers and more. Have a look at what we made!

Well done P5d, you worked really hard on these. Fantastic results 🙂

Breaking News!

We have been really enjoying getting our hands on newspapers and reading about current events. First News and Newsround have been keeping us up to date with local and national news.

Christmas prep:

We designed and painted small Christmas tree pots. These look really fantastic displayed in the corridor in school.

Very creative P5 🙂 They look really cool, Well done.

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.

P5 explore China

As our China topic draws to a close, P5 shared their learning with each other. We set them all out so that we could share these fantastic projects.

P5 have put a lot of hard work and effort into all of these projects and presentations so a huge well done to everyone! 🙂

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!

A week to remember in P5d

Primary 5d have had another action packed week.

Engineering:

On Monday we were very lucky to have a visit from some Civil Engineers. After learning about some projects that civil engineers carry out, we took part in an activity investigating and demonstrating ‘Flood Risk’. We had great fun!

Remembrance:

This week, especially, we remembered all those special to us who have died. We have learned about Remembrance Day and we did some activities to show our respect for those people.

Science:

In our next topic in science, we are going to be learning about Biodiversity. This week we discussed what a diverse range of living things we have on our planet. We are looking forward to investigating this further.

On Tuesday, we went out to the Chestnut garden to identify some living things in our local environment. We are looking forward to learning about habitats, species and ecosystems.

Reading:

We had a very chilled out morning in the library this week. We selected a book and found a really comfortable place to unwind and read. Keep up the rich reading P5d!

Maths:

We are really enjoying having more active fun, in class and outdoors, with our maths learning. This week, we continued using lots of active materials as we learn about division, fractions and decimal fractions.

Well done P5d! Keep up all the fantastic work 🙂