We have been learning a little bit of Mandarin in class and we are going to be looking at the culture of China. Today, a lady called Lily Chim came to teach us about Chinese knotting.
We managed to complete a knot called the ‘coil knot’ which was tricky to achieve at first!
Primary 5 have been hard at work building models of the Unsinkable Ship at home with their families. It was really fun to spend time with people at home and to come up with unique ways of recreating the ship.
Primary 5a and Primary 5b will be displaying their masterpieces in the Atrium at Parents’ Evening so please pop along and have a look! We know that you will be very impressed.
On Tuesday 28th February, we visited the Tall Ship and the Riverside Museum in connection with our Titanic context for learning.
We found it really interesting and Iona and Ruby even got to act out the Titanic at the front of the boat!
We participated in a workshop on the Tall Ship where we had to be Marine Archaeologists and excavate artefacts from sand. We used gloves and a special brush so that we didn’t damage the items. Once an item was uncovered, we had to use a co-ordinates grid to give the location of it. It was fun to apply our maths to this activity!
We also toured the ship and compared it to the Titanic! There were some similarities but also some stark differences.
After lunch, we had a look around the Riverside Museum to look at different forms of transport and how they have developed over time.
Thank you Ms Bell for organising such a great day out.
P5b
We hope that you enjoyed your winter break – we certainly did!
We are back to school to work hard and we have started to learn about our new context for learning – The Titanic!
In French, we have been learning vocabulary for classroom objects such as pens, pencils and highlighters!
We played a game called ‘Qu’est-qu’il manque?’ where we laid out a selection of items on the desk, and Miss Montgomery stole one when our eyes were closed! We then had to guess, in French, which item had disappeared. It was really fun.
In science, Miss Clark let us feel the temperature of the North Atlantic ocean! We measured the temperature with thermometers and recorded our results. Using the iPads, we researched the temperature of the water and different factors that caused trauma at the sinking of The Titanic.
“Collaborative learning is when you work with different people. You can learn from others and can achieve something that you wouldn’t be able to do alone.”Keira , P5a.
P5a and P5b have been working collaboratively in Literacy. We have been using the book ‘Coming Home’ by Michael Morpurgo as a stimulus for our work. The book is based on the tale of a robin at winter and follows the story from the Waitrose advert.
Today’s lesson focused on the idea of ‘home’ and what this word means to us. Our task was to use similes and metaphors to describe our homes and to try and use these phrases to ‘build’ our houses!
We are looking forward to the next lesson that our teachers have planned.
Here we are working hard together:
Here are just a few of the fabulous pieces (it was difficult to choose only a few!)
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