This week we have been exploring Scottish Islands and working in pairs to carry out research of a different one. We shared our findings. We enjoyed using Loose Parts to create an island that needed to have everything we required to live safe and healthy lives. We used our role play skills to explore the island.

We have developed our use of water colour paint when creating images of Scottish Islands. We enjoyed looking at the work of Scottish artists and sharing our opinions.

In our Writing, we wrote recount pieces, including some of our favourite things about Scotland, focusing on using descriptive language and including our feelings.

We have learned how to filter dirty water in Science and made links to our class novel, Kensuke’s Kingdom, and what we might need to do to survive.

In Numeracy, we have been developing our skills in multiplication. We have also been exploring symmetry as part of our Maths problem solving.

We have enjoyed football skills in P.E and played some mini games.

Today we had our pupil committees and also a House sports challenge organised by our P7 House Captains.

 

Today, we met again in our pupil Committees and we are working hard with others across the school to make progress in our groups.

In our topic work, we have been exploring the Scottish mountains in detail and have used ICT to display our findings.

We have been developing our skills further in addition and subtraction, using a mixture of written and mental strategies. We have also been exploring reflective symmetry in our Maths.

In Writing, we have developed our recount writing skills further and have written about our greatest achievements, focusing on describing in detail and using interesting vocabulary. We have continued to enjoy our class novel, Kensuke’s Kingdom. We have been working hard to develop our spelling skills.

In French, we have devised games to help us consolidate phrases for weather. We have also been revising numbers.

We continue to enjoy drumming with Mr Foggo and Mr Higgins has been in class to carry out cello assessments. We have been writing our own lyrics in music to a rap song to encourage people to be kind to each other and celebrate diversity, and we have sharing these in class and giving feedback to each other.

In P.E, we have been developing our basketball skills further and have enjoyed participating in mini tournaments.

A huge thanks to Mr Avery for helping us bake Rocky Road today in preparation for tomorrow’s Summer Fair. We worked well in groups and followed instructions well. Thank you for the wonderful donations for our baking stall tomorrow.

In our topic work, we have been exploring the Loch Ness Monster and discussing whether we think it’s fact or fiction. We explored evidence online and discussed, giving reasons. We also drew what we thought it looked like with annotations. We developed our skills in note-taking in a mind-map format from a video we had watched.

We have continued our class novel and used this as our inspiration in Loose Parts play/drama, where we worked together to create shelters in groups and then as a whole class, it was lots of fun.

We have been discussing different strategies to help us when are in the learning pit. We had lots of good ideas. In PE, we have continued to develop our skills in team games, like basketball.

We have continued to enjoy developing our drumming skills with Mr Foggo.

In Art, we have been developing our use of water colour paint, and pattens and line to create our Christmas cards.

In Writing this week, we wrote about someone who is special to us and how they make us feel, focusing on using descriptive language.

We have been developing our skills in addition and subtraction in our numeracy work and looking at symmetry in Maths.

In RME, we have used book creator to display our findings.

 

We have looked at why challenges are good for our brain and why we should embrace mistakes as part of our learning in Health and Wellbeing. We have also begun Bikeability Level 1 training and this has allowed everyone to build their confidence in cycling in our playground, as well as developing their skills in controlling their bike safely, emergency braking and taking one hand off to signal. A very good start from all.

In our writing, we have been working on on recount of our happy place and using interesting descriptive language.

We have continued with our class novel, Kensuke’s Kingdom and used this in our drama to create short scenes.

We have enjoyed our drumming sessions this week, including playing along to the music of a pipe band. We also enjoyed a performance from P7 cellists.

In our topic, we have continued to explore Scotland’s physical features, including rivers and lochs. We have been developing our ICT skills to display our findings.  We created some beautiful artwork of Scottish mountains, using watercolour paint.

In Numeracy, we have been developing our skills using different strategies in addition and subtraction.

We have been learning terms for weather in French and writing some phrases.

In RME, we have been exploring holy books and Hebrew writing.

 

This week, we have been exploring what a growth mindset looks like and why it is important to challenge your brain. We considered what we can now that we didn’t used to be able to do, because we have pushed ourselves to try new challenges.

In our topic of Scotland’s Landscape, we have been exploring Scotland’s major rivers and focused on The River Tay. We worked in pairs to carry out research and complete a fact file. We also completed a map of Scotland’s rivers.

We are continuing to enjoy our class novel (Kensuke’s Kingdom) and we used this for our inspiration in loose parts play.

In Numeracy, we have been developing our skills in place value.

We have been working on recount writing and we wrote about a day we would never forget, focusing on describing using our senses.

Mr Foggo continued his drumming lessons this week and we are all enjoying learning to keep a steady beat.

In Art, we developed our skills in using watercolour paint and created images of the River Tay.

We explored some of our school environment in outdoor learning and identified some of the trees we have in our playground.

 

This week we have been exploring Scotland’s cities as part of our topic learning and we worked in pairs to research and create interesting presentations. We tried to persuade others that the city we had chosen was the best one to visit! We developed lots of ICT skills, as well as finding out more about Scotland.

We have enjoyed creating pieces of artwork that represent the things that make us unique. These will be displayed in our school hall next week.

In Numeracy, we have been developing our skills in rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.

We have continued to use our islands that we created last week in our learning this week. In loose parts, we worked together to create a part of our island. In Drama, we were learning to create freeze frames of different parts of our island adventures and in writing, we wrote letters home from our islands. We focused on using detailed descriptions of the island using our senses.

In outdoor learning, we were exploring our outdoor environment and we completed a scavenger hunt in small groups.

We developed our skills in keeping a steady beat in music and we enjoyed starting our drumming lessons with Mr. Foggo.

In P.E, we have been enjoying basketball and developing our passing, dribbling and movement skills. We have also explored the Wellbeing Indicators as part of our Establishment Phase in school. We also worked in pairs to record what a good learner looks like.

It has been lovely to be back together in school and we are getting used to the new routines of being in the Huts.

We have worked together to create a Class Charter based on our rights. We decorated hand prints to go with our Charter.

We have written letters to share some of our holiday highlights and our hopes for this new school year. We also created postcards of our favourite holiday moment.

Our topic is Scotland and exploring the geography of our country. We have started to think about what we know and have mapped the main cities using atlases to help.

We enjoyed playing team games in P.E and developing our communication skills.

We have also completed a group learning task, where we we stranded on an island. We had to think of the basic needs to survive and the rules we would need to live by.

Our class novel is Kensuke’s Kingdom, by Michael Morpurgo and we have enjoyed the start and thinking about the feelings of the main character.

We hope that you enjoy sharing the learning that is happening in P5 at Newport Primary School.