Where does the time go? Maybe there is something in, ‘time flies when you’re enjoying yourself’, however we do think that ‘enjoying’, in the context of school, is a little bit too much! Lots of us managed to get away for the October Week, some even to foreign shores, which helped to recharge the batteries for the next couple of months ahead. Even though it was a short school month, we’ve still got plenty of news to pass on.
In terms of our learning, we’ve just started something a little different in class – just a couple of days so far, but it’s something that we hope to do more of. We’ll keep you informed but basically it amounts to Mr Burns setting tasks for the day, some we can do on our own, some we need to speak to Mr Burns about, some we can do together, some we can decide ourselves. The point is that we can choose when we do them in a day. It’s early days, but we really enjoyed the extra responsibility and the choice.
In writing we’ve been concentrating on our descriptive writing and punctuation (we know Mr Burns mentioned that to quite a few of you during the parents’ nights). We’ve been doing our usual comprehension reading and also started to focus on ‘clarifying’ using the context surrounding an unfamiliar word. In Maths some of us have finished division for a while (finally!) and we are now moving on to fractions – love talking about pizza! The rest of us are working on ‘length’ which will move onto perimeter and area. During R.E., being the month of The Rosary, we decided to say a daily rosary for the success of COP26 (pic) – Mr Burns has only forgotten once, but we caught up the next day and said two! All of us had a Reconciliation Service with Canon Eddie and the other two Primary 5 classes the other day, followed by individual confession for those of us who have already made their First Reconciliation – it was nice. Other notable learning would be exciting science lessons with Mr Harkins, learning more about COP26 – well done to Adam for winning the GlasGLOW competition (pics) – , Space Week (pics) and we’ve moved onto Vikings and Picts in our study of Scottish History timeline.
Plenty of other fun has come our way in the form of Judo, being creative with string during Outdoor Learning, Crazy Hair Day and the Halloween extravaganza. Enjoy the pictures!
Catch you in November
