All of the children in Primary 5 achieve greatness on a regular basis.  They have high aspirations and try their best at all times.

Today, we had a Celebrating Success assembly where we celebrated some achievements from in our classes.

Congratulations to:

Mae for making excellent progress in maths
Alex for being a role model for good behaviour
Alexander for creating a spooky, eye- catching and atmospheric persuasive poser for ‘The Haunted Hotel’

Finn for working really hard and learning his multiplication tables
Robbie for being extremely polite and helpful in class
Freya for producing some fantastic Scottish narrative

Amelie for developing more confidence in Maths and Literacy
Adam for focusing and working on his behaviour
Grace for always producing outstanding work of a high standard

Drishti for outstanding homework
Harry for school values, being a responsible citizen
Marc for super effort, trying his hardest in Literacy and Maths

Well done, everyone!

In Primary 5b, we have been developing our skills in leading our own learning in PE.

This means that once a week, some pupils are Skills Sharers and their job is to create stations and games to teach other children in the class.
This week we were developing ‘ball skills’ in hockey, football and basketball.  Alice, Lachlan, Connie, Maya and Alex were the Skills Sharers and they set up unique stations.

Skills Sharers must also: clearly explain their station, adapt their station to meet the needs of all pupils and include everyone.

We love developing skills for life through PE!

Here you can see Maya teaching her peers how to shoot in basketball.  She told them to make a W shape with their hands on the back of the ball so it was easier to control it and aim for the basket.

Connie developed skills in dribbling in hockey.  She reminded everyone to keep the ball close to the stick.

Here are some children sharing their intended learning outcomes with the class.

When we saw the open top bus we were surprised because we thought it wouldn’t come to the school gates.  There were two buses with ‘private hire’ displayed.

When the bus started moving, it was very cold, even though we were all wrapped up warm!  When we went under a tunnel the guide told us to scream and hold our breath.  It was also fun when the leaves touched the bus and they came falling down.  It was fun when we all caught the leaves!

First of all we went to Muirend and Cathcart. After that we went to centre of Glasgow where we saw St Enoch station. Then we saw the tower of Glasgow – it was special because it rotates 360 degrees, which we know is a full turn. It is also special because it is the only one in the world like it. We liked it because it looks nice.

The next thing we saw was the SECC (the Scottish Exhibition Conference Centre). We saw the Armadillo and the Hydro next to it. There used to be 40 cranes on the Clyde. Now there are only 2!
We saw the squinty bridge (the Clyde Ark) over the Clyde.  We got to go over another bridge and got a good view of the railway station.

After we drove around for a while, we went to Kelvingrove to look at the exhibits.  Some people looked at the Egyptians Mummies after we had had our snacks.  Then we went back on the bus but it wasn’t that cold this time.   We learnt lots of facts.  It was cool because we saw places that we might not have seen if we hadn’t gone on the trip.  I think that everyone really enjoyed it and we had lots of fun.

Written by Dan, Anna and Erin P5b

On the 5th October P5a and P5b went for a Scavenger Hunt in Linn Park.

We split into groups with Miss Montgomery, Mr Duncan, Mrs Keith, Mrs Chalmers and Mrs Coleman-Smith.

Every group got a bag each and we worked in partners to collect the items that were on the sheet.  Some examples are: acorns, sticks, pinecones and grass.
We also had to look and see if we could see squirrels, butterflies, ladybirds and animal prints.

We also noticed that some leaves were falling from the trees because it is autumn!  We tried to catch some leaves as they fell.

We had a Journal to complete after we had filled our bags.  There were some pages that asked you to make a finger print using mud!  We had to draw a map of Linn Park and trace the items in your bag, too!

Some horses came over the hill so we stood quietly to let them pass.  There was also time to explore some woods and caves that we discovered.

“Everyone had lots of fun!” Gabi P5b

“Linn Park was amazing!” Emily P5b

“It was the most fun ever!” Affan P5b

“It was great fun because we got to split into groups and find all of the items!” Alexander P5b

Written by P5b