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.

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 🙂

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.

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 🙂

Firstly, a huge WELL DONE to everyone for learning their song/poem. It was a hard job choosing the winners but we are delighted to announce that Sophia-Rose, Morag and Elise are the winners for P5 this year.
As a reward for doing so well with the song/poems and learning five dances we had a class ceilidh today. Everyone really enjoyed themselves 🙂
In art, we worked together to create a collaborative portrait of Robert Burns. We used different tones by adding white and black to form the shape of his face. The finished piece will be going on a display board in the corridor.
In writing, we have been learning to write a discussion text. We needed to write both arguments for and against the topic. In the concluding statement we were able to give our opinion on the topic too.
In maths, we have been learning how to draw and interpret bar graphs. Next week we will move on to line graphs and pie charts.
For our topic this week we have been learning about the ferries that used to run from Newport to Dundee.
We are really enjoying our class novel, The Boy at the Back of the Class. We all take turns reading it out loud. This week we created a flow diagram on Word about their plan to visit the Queen.
As a whole school, we have been focusing on showing kindness. We each had a secret mission to be extra kind all day to one person in our class (we picked out lollypop sticks) in the hope that they would guess us at the end of the day. We enjoyed doing it so much that we asked if we could do it again!
Many pupils shared their presentations about someone famous that they admire. We learned lots of facts from each other.

The highlight of the week was learning how to make improvements to a design. We were challenged to make a paper plane. They didn’t fly too far so we made adaptations to them so they would fly further. We continued to change small things and test our planes. At the end of the lesson we had a competition to see who designed a plane that could fly the furthest. Faron won! Not only did his fly the furthest but it was the fastest too.

We have been writing narrative texts over the last couple of weeks. We are using images and ideas from Pobble 365 to inspire our written work. Our main targets are that we can write with description. That description could be adding adjectives, adverbs, similes or extra information to our sentences.

In maths we have continued linking our multiplication to our division work. We have also started learning about information handling. We enjoyed drawing pictographs this week.

Our new topic is about transport in the past. We have started looking at planes because we have an airport nearby. Next we will be learning about other modes of transport.

We all really enjoyed taking part in the dodgeball house competition today.

Skills Academy started today and everyone went to a group of their choice. Some people were baking, some were learning how to crochet while others were coding.

Half of the class have given their talk. We have learned facts about a variety of people ranging from Emma Watson to David Beckham. We have been giving each other feedback to let everyone know what went well and how they can improve.

This week we shared our learning at Together Time for the school and in the afternoon for our parents. We had such lovely feedback about our assembly from our families and the other classes. We are pleased everyone enjoyed it so much 🙂

We were delighted to have Miss Donaldson in with us for our writing lesson. We were learning how to write an informal letter. Each of us selected a person we would like to thank and explain why. Brownie leaders, football coaches, climbing instructors, gymnastic coaches, dance teachers and TADAMS leaders were some of the people that we thanked.

We have been learning about the digestive system this week. We are able to label all the parts and say what each part does. We started drawing our own diagrams that we hope we will get the chance to finish next week.

In maths we have continued our learning on 3D shape. We created skeletons of different 3D shapes. We learned how to draw 3D shapes too.

We created a mixed media piece of art of trees in a forest. We were aware of how the light hit the tree trunks and we drew shadows in the correct direction.

We enjoyed our first Festive Friday today. Everyone looked great in their Christmas jumpers/dresses. Our class decorated our display board as Candy Cane Lane. We were able to choose from six crafts.

We have started planning our sharing assembly this week. We look forward to showing the other classes and our parents on Monday.
We have been learning to type up our information reports on Word, using different fonts, formatting images and adding colourful texts. We read our next steps and edited our work.
We have been learning about the nervous system. We know what a neuron is and have created some of our own in class. These are on Twitter if anyone would like to see them.
In Art, we have been learning how light can affect our work. We drew otters and created a shadow behind them. They look great on our display.
We continued developing our volleyball skills in PE. We learned how to serve accurately by aiming for a hoop.

We have learned about personification. That is when an object is described with a human quality. For example…The washing machine spat my clothes out. The human quality is spat.
We learned about the Fibonacci sequence. It goes like this… 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and so on. When it is drawn as a picture it turns into a spiral.
We have been learning about red squirrels. We took notes while we watched a video and then searched for more facts using the internet. Using our notes we created an information text. We had to include lots of facts about the red squirrel (what it looks like, what it eats, where it lives, how it moves and what it does in winter).
In art we drew bubbles with chalk. We had to choose two colours that we saw in bubbles along with white and yellow to show how the light passes through the surface. We made our lines curved to make the bubbles look 3D.
In our bands we had a budget of £500 to get to Edinburgh, stay in a hotel, eat at a restaurant and visit a local attraction. Some people wanted the cheapest option while others enjoyed spending the money.
We are happy to have Miss Monteith with us for the next few weeks.

We have been learning about “Big Deal” and “Little Deal” and “THINK” before we talk in Health and Wellbeing lessons this week. We created posters that we will share during our Together Time next week.
In PE we have continued learning skills that will help us during a game of Four Square or Volleyball.
We learned all the body parts in French and enjoyed singing songs about them.
We wrote an information text about modes of transport. We learned how to use subtitles, include adjectives and open all our sentences in a variety of ways.
We used the internet to research some places of interest in Edinburgh – this is the first city our bands will be visiting!
In maths we have continued working with decimals. We have been ordering decimal numbers, adding and subtracting decimals and read decimals from a scale.
We have learned how to use commas to add a relative clause to a sentence. This is another way we can up-level our sentences.
During Fun for 31 we all made dens inside the classroom. Once our dens were made we read, played games and completed jigsaw puzzles.
In music we have been learning to play a glockenspiel in time to a piece of music. Next week we will see if we can play in parts and sing at the same time.
Our dances to Kylie’s The Loco-Motion are coming along nicely. We will be performing them to each other next week.