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This week we have worked on our P5 political party presentations. We delivered them to P4 and P6 classes and they voted for the party they felt did the best. The Earth Empire Party won.
We have been noting all our outdoor learning in our Natural Connection Logbooks. We are looking forward to planning a bike obstacle course next week.
We wrote an 100 word story for a competition. The story had to take place in an ancient era. Some of them are really funny and they all have a good beginning, middle and end.
We have been learning different strategies for division work. This will continue next week too.
Tayfield won the Trim Trail Water Challenge today 🙂
Tayfield and Inverdovat came joint first in our Go Yoshi House competition.
Waterstone won the House Relay race.
Sophia-Rose won the Newport in Bloom art competition for P5. Her art will be displayed during the Newport Festival along with the runners-up.

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We have been learning about volume and capacity this week in maths as well as multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.
We have almost finished reading “There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom” and we have all enjoyed it.
Four girls in the class made up a dance and performed it for us. They then taught us all the dance moves too!
We are also making up a dance to “Carwash”
We have been learning about personal boundaries and consent as part of our Health and Wellbeing lessons. Next we will be exploring what makes us feel safe/unsafe.
Some of us took part in an Athletics House Competition today.
We have enjoyed working in groups to plan our Political Party presentation. These will take place at the end of next week.
We have been given free choice for what we want our individual presentations to be on. Some of the subjects being covered are countries, famous musicians, Australian animals and mythical creatures. Everyone is getting time in class to plan and prepare their talks. These will take place in two weeks time.
We have now completed three different pieces of flower art using different skills. Everyone has to pick their favourite one to enter in to the Newport in Bloom competition.

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This week we visited the Scottish Deer Centre. Our favourite parts were the deer tour, feeding the deer, the bouncy pillow and the adventure park.
In maths we were learning about volume and capacity. We can covert between L and ml.
In PE we have been learning how to play Swedish Longball. Today we taught it to the P6 pupils.
On Tuesday, everyone who was here, passed their Bikeability Level 1.
In groups, we have formed our own Political Parties. Next week we will continue planning our campaigns.
In groups of three, we debated different motions. The P6 class came to watch us and were super impressed.
During our Loose Parts session, we were creating boats inspired by our class novel.

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What a lovely day! The sun has been shining and we all need to remember to bring our water bottles and wear sun cream each day as we will be spending time outside.

We have been working hard on our comprehension skills. Lots of us have moved up a level very recently.

We have been learning about parliament and different laws.

We have been taking part in cooperative learning group tasks. Each of us have taken on different roles to complete an activity.

In writing we have been learning how to do a procedure text. Flowers and instructions for a game of cards called Sevens.

In maths, we have been learning about angles – identifying them and measuring them.

We planted our strawberries and are looking after them by watering them every morning.

In PE, we have mainly been focusing on athletics. Some of us can clear very high hurdles.

In outdoor learning we created some chalk art. We then spotted the angles within each piece of art.

In science, we dissected a flower to see all of the main parts involved in pollination. We also put dye in a cup of water with a white flower to see if the petals would change colour.

We have been making animations on PowerPoint, duplicating new slides for tiny movements.

We have learned how to flip and manipulate pictures on Word to create symmetrical mirror images.

In music, we have been learning to sing in rounds. We have learned two songs “kookaburra” and “I love the flowers”

In Loose Parts, we made an obstacle course.

Everyone has enjoyed our first few sessions of Bikeability.

Friday 22nd March 2024

We have had a busy week of learning in P5. Here is a flavour…
  • In Writing we have been learning how to write a summary.
  • We have written scripts for our shadow Puppet Show.  Our scripts are based on well known books.
  • In Maths we have been changing percentages into fractions.
  • In Science we have been learning about shadows and opaque, translucent and transparent objects.
  • In Art we created clay Easter egg decorations and painted them for our Easter tree.
  • We had our last Pupil Committee meeting today and we have really enjoyed them.
  • In Dance we have learned a line dance to Cotton Eyed Joe.
  • In PE we were learning to build our stamina and to keep pace when running.
  • In school we had an Earth Hour which means that we turned off electrical appliances in our class for one hour.
  • We have all been working on something for the Spring Together Time.  It is called ‘Our Wonderful World’.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Love P5 and Miss Donaldson x

Friday 15th March 2024

Our Pupil Committees continued this week across the school. This is an opportunity for us to work with children and staff from different classes and to make a difference to our school. Here is a flavour of our learning…
Enterprise Committee:  We have been planning for our Red Nose Day Fundraiser which took place today.  We raised £147.35 so thank you to everyone who contributed.  We also held a competition for the whole school.  We made 316 red noses and hid them outside. We also made a golden nose which had a special prize attached to it.  We have been learning to plan, meet a deadline, be organised and work together.  We are glad everyone had fun!
Eco Committee:  We have been organising a litter pick as part of The Big Spring Clean Up. Each class will spend time outside next week to keep our environment tidy.  Today we worked in groups to make an I Movie about Eco Tips. Each group included a minimum of 5 tips. Some tips included making sure the tap was switched off, turning off the lights if you are not in a room, reusing and recycling paper and turning off devices when they are not being used. We have been learning to use technology to create our movie, work together and use persuasive language to encourage one another.
Health and Wellbeing:  We have been finding out about the rules for different sports including tennis, basketball, chaos tig and rugby.  We have practised these games and next term we will run different clubs for children at lunchtime. We have created posters to advertise these clubs.  We have been learning to make decisions, be fair and work together.
Junior Road Safety Officers: We have made a video to promote road safety. We sent the link out and we hope you enjoyed watching it.  It is also available on our website.  We have also been creating banners and writing letters about road safety. We are continuing to encourage everyone to take part in the Big Walk and Wheel next week and we are working towards our Silver Fresh Air Frankie Award.  We have been learning to communicate,  write letters and to be creative.
Rights Respecting School:  We have been learning about cultures and discrimination. We know that it is ok to have similarities and differences from our friends and we should celebrate these.  We have been learning to say hello in different languages and have created a display for the foyer.  We have been learning to work together, include everyone and to have fun!
We hope everyone has a lovely weekend.
Love Miss Donaldson and P5

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In Literacy, we have enjoyed creating a house for Hope Haven. We wrote a description of the setting and next week will will create a map of what it looks like on our wall. We will also plan stories in pairs and write them so that each story has some sort of connection between two characters that live on Hope Haven.
In Maths, we have been continuing to learn about fractions. This week we have been adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator. If they don’t have the same denominator, we have been using our understanding of simplifying and equivalent fractions to make the denominators the same.
In Art, our learning focus was on foreground, middle ground and background. We used different tones of grey to paint trees at different distances. The furthest away trees were the lightest and the closest trees were the darkest.
In PE, we have been improving our skills in balancing and movement across mats and apparatus.
We all enjoyed a couple of sessions of Outdoor Learning. One session using the loose parts and the other using natural resources to create places from our novel.
In French, we translated orders from a cafe. We were able to identify the numbers and items in each order from our previous learning. We all drew the order but some people wrote the translation too.
We have started our new Science topic on Light and Sound. We have been learning that sound waves move in solids, liquids and gases. We know that sound does not travel in a vacuum – that is why there is no sound in space.
We learned how to create a Sway to share all the information we have been learning about our topic.
Lots of children are enjoying the Home Learning grid this term. Every day there has been the chance to share the learning that has been completed at home. We have seen several musical instruments, shared posters and facts about frogs, shared information about inspirational women and found out about the affects of caffeine on our body.

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We created a poster called “Open your eyes to…” to show our learning on discrimination.

We have enjoyed taking part in a couple of play dough challenges. We have been creating models of different nouns.

We started a new novel called “Impossible Creatures” there are lots of mythical creatures in it.

In maths, we have been learning how to simplify fractions – we need to use our multiplication and division knowledge for this!

In literacy, we have been drawing and describing mythical creatures.

In writing, we have been writing character descriptions about who lives behind our door…our class village has a street called Hope Haven where all our characters will live. Oak Drive and Wonder Wood Terrace will also appear in our village.

We have been learning about pike, tuck and straddle in gymnastics. We learned how to do a forward roll with these skills in them.

In PE we have also been working on our fitness levels. Ask me what the “Accumulator” is…it is fun but tiring!!

We are bringing home our World Book Day tokens and the new homework grid – look out for these!

Have you seen our new reading homework bingo? Ask me about this too!

We finished off the week with fun outside playing with the loose parts – we all really enjoyed it 🙂

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We really enjoyed having all the grown-ups in for our learning on Wednesday. Thank you to everyone who made it along.

In art we have been using charcoal to sketch landscapes showing a background, middle ground and foreground. Everyone liked how forgiving the charcoal was. We enjoyed blending it and using the rubber to highlight parts.

In maths we have been using Mathigon to make digital graphs this week. We have also been linking our understanding of division to fraction work. We will continue learning about fractions next week too.

We wrote a discussion text about whether screen time should be limited. Everyone found some very interesting arguments for and against. We will be using our texts from this week and last week to create debates in groups.

We thoroughly enjoyed a visit from Mairi Shields on Monday. She told us all about the transport linked to Newport in the past. We loved seeing all the photos and hearing lots of facts.

In PE we taught our Scottish ceilidh dances to the rest of the class. Everyone learned them so quickly.

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Sophia-Rose, Morag and Elise did an amazing job performing their songs and poem at our Together Time on Monday.

We have been busy in literacy this week. We have been learning about contractions, editing our discussion text, writing scripts based on our novel, doing a dictation and completing two comprehension tasks.

In maths we have been learning how to chunk hundreds, tens and ones while doing division. We solved word problems and then created some of our own. We have also been learning how to interpret line graphs. Today we used Excel to create a bar graph digitally.

In PE we have been using our knowledge of Scottish dancing to create our own set dance. We all worked really well in sets of eight 🙂 We will all be learning the Fifie Reel, Dundee Dash, Newport Fling and the In and Out.

In music we have been learning how to play a tune percussion accompaniment to Mama Mia. All of us were able to play and sing in unison.

In French we have been learning what drinks we might order in a cafe. We are hoping to make a full menu by the end of the term.

In art, we have been improving our observation skills. We used a loose pencil grip so that our lines were light and sketchy. We kept looking at the object we were drawing to make sure we were getting the correct shape, size, texture and shading. We drew our shoe and then everyone had to guess who drew which one 🙂