Class of 2022d

This week we celebrated St. Cadoc, the saint of our school, during RE, learning about his life and his encounter with various animals and people. On Friday we celebrated mass in his honour, setting a great example of how we should act at mass, for the younger pupils.

In Art this week we learned how to draw faces using simple but effective steps to accurately draw the shape of the head, the eyes, ears, nose etc. Next week we are going to take what we have learned and apply it to drawing self portraits from pictures of ourselves.

In Health and Wellbeing we focused our attention on each other, creating Name Posters within which the other pupils in our groups wrote strengths of ours. This was a great way to see what makes us shine, through finding out what other people think of us.

In our Connect and Reflect lessons we are beginning to really delve deep into what skills we demonstrate on a weekly basis, but also thinking about what skills we can afford to improve, how we can do that and why it is important we do so.

P5D

Our second week was slightly more normal than our return last week due to the weather calming down.

In line with a new school initiative we have increased our mindfulness periods, trying out new and exciting ways to become relaxed and focused.

In numeracy we continued honing our multiplication skills and began a measurement topic, looking at using cm and mm. In our writing this week we created, completely from scratch, imaginative stories for a cold piece. We became so invested in these stories some of us even continued them on paper after our time was up.

This week saw us go to Mars during an experimental bout of drama while we paired our RE lesson on St. Mungo (Glasgow’s patron saint) with our art and we dabbled with creating our own Glaswegian city crests integrating the symbols from St. Mungo’s miracles.

In PE we continued with racket skills by introducing tennis into our list of sports we’ve learned about.

Already looking forward to next week.

P5D

Well what a week that was! From torrential rain to glorious sunshine, our first week back was Scotland in a nutshell to say the least.

This week we looked at studied the Feast of the Epiphany while also writing a prayer for our year ahead and the new decade before us.

We trained our musical ears by trying to identify different musical instruments in pieces of music. In Science we learned about what had been happening in the scientific community recently including activists sailing across the Atlantic, electric eels powering Christmas trees and a ban on bottom trawling in America.

Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky was the focus of our art this week and we created pictures of colourful circles in his style, looking at blending and mixing different colours.

The first week is in the books and we are all looking forward to our new term.

P5D

With a month till Christmas, Primary 5D are keeping up our learning well into the festive season.

This week we looked at which letters of the alphabet have lines of symmetry along with completing mirrored images. We also put on our designer hats and designed four different types of trainers based on the popular converse brand. In PE we tested our agility and fitness using different coloured cones for different drills.

We have really ramped up our Advent Assembly practice by having a full class run through in the hall, hymns and all. We celebrated Catholic Education Week by exploring the Gospel Values and how we can live our lives through the Beatitudes.

We wrote about Our Best Day in writing, reflecting on the positive emotions we felt during that day and the happy memories we made.

Next week we will perform our assembly to the school, a dry run for our performance the following week.

Have a great weekend – It’s finally December 🙂

P5D

This week started with a bang with a new pupil joining our class family. We worked really hard to integrate him into all of our activities both inside and outside the classroom.

In numeracy we looked at converting grams and kilograms, fractions and practiced our bus stop division. We also used the Chromebooks to play interactive maths games and work on challenging ourselves in numeracy.

With Bonfire Night on Tuesday we looked at the history of Guy Fawkes in comprehension, how to make a fireworks safety leaflet in writing and how to draw and exploding firework in art.

We also used our computer skills to research different saints for All Saints Day and learned why we got an extra hour in bed with Daylight Savings. With the bright but cold sun in the sky we looked to improve our dribbling skills in football, using cones to further challenge our agility.

With ice covering windscreens and our breath billowing out in front of us as we breath, the countdown to Christmas, has well and truly started.

P5D

Coming back from an extended break means getting back into a routine, but this week we enjoyed lots of new and fun activities that helped the week go smoother.

We learned about the famous and quite popular Scottish artist Steven Brown and had a go at drawing our own version of his McCoos. We completed (albeit somewhat unsuccessfully) a science experiment about oxygen and carbon dioxide. We also trained our listening skills and embraced the coming Autumn by writing poems about the season.

On Wednesday we created 3D shapes out of colourful straws using blue tack and sellotape. We continued to revise our knowledge of their faces, vertices (corners) and edges so we can accurately describe and identify the different shapes.

P5D

This week we entered not one but two competitions – the first focused on designing a Christmas card (even though we are in October), and the second was about Road Safety (which we completed as part of our writing this week, learning about what goes into a persuasive poster).

As the leaves start to change colour, we looked at why leaves are green in the first place – a pigment called Chlorophyll – and how the lack of this pigment makes the leaves turn yellow and red.

We used Just Dance videos to work on our fitness inside due to the inclement weather. Splitting into four different groups we played a series of drama games to explore our word, creativity, acting and attention skills.

We look forward to the October break, a chance to recharge, have fun and consolidate our learning.

P5D

This week we continued to look at the Scottish Wars of Independence, focusing on the relationship between John Balliol and Edward I.  In PE we started a new fitness challenge called FASTA PASTA and worked in groups to create basketball obstacle courses that tested our dribbling, passing and shooting skills.

We redrafted our Acrostic Name Poems and learned about the significance of the liturgical colours.

All week we have been participating in Maths Week Scotland and completed numeracy challenges based around the theme of space and finding Scotland’s first astronaut.

On Friday we wore red clothing in our fight to show Racism the Red Card.

P5D

This week we received an invitation from one of Mr. Stockwell’s old school friends to conduct a measurement investigation with rulers, metre sticks and trundle wheels, to measure different structures in the school playground.

We also took part in our first science experiment, watching with glee as we combined vinegar and bicarbonate of soda in a bottle. These reacted to make a gas which blew up a balloon that was tied to the top of the bottle.

The food pyramid was completed as we studied the protein, dairy and fats and oils food groups. We also learned new mental maths games like Champions’ Chair and looked at solving equations with BODMAS.

In comprehension we continued to skim and scan while reading poems about fireworks. Speaking of bright colours, we started our final designs for our Romero Britto posters.

We look forward to you seeing our fabulous artwork displayed in our class and outside our room.

P5D

This week we looked at a particular artist for art – Romero Britto. Next week we are going to create a piece of work in his style using bright colours, different patterns and a special word that invokes the spirit of Romero’s work.

Continuing with creating things, we combined food and animals to create foodimals for our story writing next week based on the popular and funny film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.

This week we also had an assembly in which we learned how to be responsible digital citizens – keeping ourselves safe online.

For health and well being we started to focus on the different food groups, this week looking at fruit and vegetables and carbohydrates. Next week we will complete our study of the food pyramid and what we need to have a balanced and healthy diet.

Finally, we started our topic for this term with a brief overview of what we know already and what we want to know about…”The Scottish Wars of Independence”.

With the routine of school all but set in, we look forward to focusing on our studies, reflecting on our work and enjoying school life.

P5D