Primary 7a (and teachers) had a fantastic day today, in James Hamilton Heritage Park. What a wonderful job you did sailing, raft building and rafting!
Well done on your terrific teamwork boys and girls. We had fantastic fun!
Miss Gavin & Mrs Cumming
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!
A lovely celebration today for World Down Syndrome Day! 🙂 Well done P5d
World Religions Presentations:
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!
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. 🙂
We have been learning how to identify and classify angles using the terms: acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex.
We have been investigating angles in the environment and classifying them using appropriate mathematical vocabulary.
Today, we took our learning outdoors and searched for angles in our school environment. We recorded our findings on worksheets and discussed the properties of the objects.
“We were looking for angles in the outdoor classroom. We found right angles, acute and obtuse angles. We did find some reflex angles in the tyre. We worked in pairs. We recorded what we had found on a worksheet on clipboards. We also discovered that there are angles in between our arms and legs.” Shay & Rocco
“We liked looking for angles outside because we didn’t know that there were so many angles all around us. It was more fun than doing indoor work. We found lots of right angles but not a lot of reflex angles.” Lucy McG & Mirin
Excellent Effort today P5d! Well done 🙂
After a very busy morning, P5d had a fun afternoon playing with their board games.
Have a very well earned long weekend everybody! 🙂
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!
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:
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!
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