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! 🙂
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!
P5d have had a fun filled week with lots of active learning.
STEM:
We have been learning about chemical changes. This week, we did a fantastic experiment to show how chemical reactions happen. We followed the scientific method to prove when one or more substance reacts together it makes a different substance.
Outdoor Learning Day:
Yesterday was Outdoor Learning day. We planted lettuce and garlic chives. First, we put some compost into trays. Then, we sprinkled some of the seeds into the tray. After that, we put some more compost on top and gave them a drink of water.
We have put them in our classroom windows and we are going to water them every day. They need sunlight and water to grow. When they start growing we are going to each take a little bit home in our own pots. We are planning to recycle pots from home.
Good ideas for these pots include big yoghurt pots, butter cartons, ice cream cartons or bottles cut in half. We are also going to bring a bottle to school, so that we can water the lettuce in class. When our seeds have grown, we are looking forward to eating them.
“I liked doing this because we are going to get to eat it when it grows. It was fun to measure how much compost we needed.” (Ethan)
“I liked it because we can make things out of what we grow.” (Laibah)
“I would love to grow tomatoes and basil so that we could make soup, pizza or pasta.” (Cara, Lewis & Lucas)
“I think potatoes would be great to grow because I like them and we could make chips, wedges or crisps.” (Lucy, Finn & Lewis)
“We could maybe grow strawberries.” (Joseph)
“We could make carrot soup if we grew carrots.” (Brodie)
Maths:
We have been working really hard this week at maths. We have been learning about fractions. We can recognise equivalent fractions, simplify and order fractions. We can also find quantities of a fraction. We have had lots of fun with big materials and games as well as recording our work in a jotter.
Well done P5d on another hectic week! 🙂
Primary 5d have been very busy active this week.
STEM:
This week, they planned, designed and constructed a model using KNEX. There were some wonderfully inventive and ambitious structures. Well done P5!
PE:
P5d have been enjoying having the sports leaders from St.Ninians down working with them. This week they were working on fitness and basketball.
Outdoor Learning:
P5 have been learning all about China. They were particularly interested in the Great Wall of China, which they researched and found out facts about.
Today, they used sticks, blocks, wood, stones and chalk to recreate their own Great Walls.
They had great fun in the sun 🙂 Well done P5d!
Another busy and productive week in P5d.
Have a lovely October break everyone!
Today we participated in Reciprocal Reading. Each pupil took on one of five roles and within their group took turns to carry out their role. We showed our understanding of the text being read by asking a range of questions and using context clues to read unfamiliar words! We applied our knowledge of reading strategies to summarise, predict, question and clarify meanings! Pupils enjoyed leading their own learning!
Reciprocal Reading
Art & Technology
We have been creating a collaborative Chinese dragon using our art and technology skills. Today we began the process of painting the body of the dragon before it is put together in a 3D model! Well Done P5!
It is the end of another busy week in Primary 5a! We have enjoyed our second week of swimming lessons and have been enjoying a range of activities as part of Maths week!
Visitor
We were very lucky to have a special visitor today- local business owner Mrs Capaldi. She spoke to us about how important Maths is within everyday life, particularly when running a successful business.
Outdoor Learning
We have been learning in Numeracy about symmetry of shapes and coordinates. We created our own coordinate grids using bark and sticks.
Cillian said “We looked for different materials and we saw different types of plants. We used them to make the grid.”
Literacy
We have been focusing on developing characters to make our writing more interesting. We have been considering how we can make characters come to life. We had different stations. Some of us highlighted descriptive language by authors, some of us watched a video clip and took notes on the authors description while some of us created a life size character!
Christopher said: “We drew round Gavin and then created a huge character which we named and gave a personality to.”
Social Studies & Literacy
We have been working in partners to research different aspects of Chinese culture as part of our topic. We have been note-taking and are in the process of creating a leaflet.
Eilish said: “We made a leaflet by first researching on the chromebooks information about China and then wrote down important information to include in our leaflet”.
VR Headsets
We loved trying out the VR headsets this afternoon!
Special Achievements
Well Done to Orla for winning a trophy in Irish dancing! What an achievement!
Cameron visited the Emirates arena to watch professional tennis players training for their games this weekend. Cameron managed to get Jamie Murray to sign his top! Well Done Cameron.
This week has been another busy week with plenty of fun and learning.
Our Lady of the Missions 60th Birthday
This week we went to St. Vincent’s church for Mass. We celebrated our schools 60th birthday. “Brodie”
It was a beautiful Mass and we all enjoyed a day of celebration for our school. It was very interesting to learn some facts about the school and when it opened. It was funny to think that our school opened with four children!
P.E. St. Ninians – Sports Leaders
On Tuesday afternoon, we went to St. Ninian’s to do sports. We did athletics circuits. “Maya”
My favourite station was the hurdling one. “Ellie-Angel”
I liked the speed bounce one because you had to try and jump over the hurdle from side to side. “Vincent”
It was a fantastic opportunity for us to develop our fitness skills in St. Ninians with the sports leaders. The stations were great fun and everyone really enjoyed themselves. Thanks to everyone at St. Ninians for organising it for us.
STEM
This week, in the STEM room, we learned about changes of matter; solids, liquids and gases. I liked the sorting activity. (Mirin)
Well done Primary 5 on another jammed packed week. Have a lovely weekend!
Primary 5A have all settled well into the year and are enjoying the new routines of P5. Have a look what we have been up to this week:
STEM
We have been learning about materials and the way that they can change into different substances. This week we had 5 different stations that we visited to learn more about changing substances: melting chocolate, melting and freezing ice cubes, dissolving salt in water, a video station and a worksheet station!
Alice said: “I liked the chocolate station because we got to heat the chocolate and see it melting.”
Marcus said: “I also liked the chocolate melting station because it was like cooking. I liked seeing solids becoming liquids!”
Kamran said: “I liked watching the TigTags videos which were about dissolving and making substances change.”
Rachel said: “I liked the salt experiment because you got to see the salt dissolving in the water, it was quicker with warm water. The worksheet station was good because you had to discuss in your group what you thought made the substance change.”
Have a look at some of the pictures below:
Writing
This week we have been learning to write a personal recount. We wrote about our favourite days and focused on using excellent sentence openers, wow words and including detail in our writing.
Technologies
We have been enjoying using a range of technology since we came back to school! We have been learning how to use Google Classroom and having fun editing documents together and answering questions. We also have been incorporating Education City into each of our Numeracy lessons to reinforce the concept we are learning in a fun and interactive way.
Social Studies
Our new topic is China! We are excited to learn all about the culture, schooling system and geography. We have decided as a class what we want to learn and so far have drawn the panda (as it is Native to China) in Expressive Arts and began researching China through Technologies.
Friendly Reminder
A friendly reminder that swimming begins next Tuesday morning!
This week was our first full week in Primary 5d. We had a very busy week. We were getting used to our new routine, our new classroom and our new teacher.
This afternoon, we are reflecting on some of the things we did this week.
“We went to the STEM room, on Tuesday, with Miss Collins and Miss Gavin. We did a science experiment. We created a chemical reaction using vinegar and salt. The solution cleaned a copper coin. I loved doing this because it was an active task and I had never done it before.” Lewis
“On Monday and Thursday we did the daily mile and PE outside. We did lots of active games. It was great because I like being sporty and active.” Maya
“On Wednesday, we made cookies for our class charter, using Microsoft Word on Laptops. Everyone created a different cookie. We voted to make our charter theme ‘Cookies’. I loved using the laptops because it was fun and after we got a chance to play some games.” Rocco
Well done P5d! You worked very hard on your first full week back at school. Have a great weekend.
Primary 4 are spending the last few weeks of term rotating around different master class activities. Week 1 for Primary 4c was a chance to explore rivers and lakes from around the world using the virtual reality headsets. They discussed what they could see with their peers and compared the similarities and differences between the rivers from different countries. Inspired by what they saw they then used their artistic skills to create their own river line drawings! Check back next week to see what master class primary 4c will attend next!
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