Hello from Primary 4/5. This week we kicked off with a juicy debate which became our writing assessment task. The subject ‘Should parents be allowed to limit their children’s screen time?’ Many arguments were impassioned as points included parents are not always a credible role model as they often excessively indulge in their phones and social media! A lot of new vocabulary was explored including hypocritical and ironic. We had a fun time with a lot of laughter. To improve our writing, a lesson was included on synonyms (replacement words) which are now displayed in the class as visual prompts for future tasks.

Numeracy has focused on mental maths cementing the link between multiplication and division. Our times tables are rapidly improving which is helping in our day-to-day maths lessons. Our topic has a STEM theme we are exploring changeable weather and commenced with a science activity to create our own Tsunami. Many of the class commented that this is the messiest lesson ever but many were successful and we made mini mangroves to stop the full the force of the Tsunami. Please note parents if there is a untidy bedroom, I have seen first hand super tidying up skills so you would never know a Tsunami had hit our classroom.

We are approaching our music concert so have been practising our songs and discussing the words which relate to motivation, self-belief, caring for the world and tolerance. Active schools PE is a continued success and we have many budding footballers. Bryanna homework task included making her own game which we shared with the class and played together. It had educational brownie points as it included maths skills. Well done Bryanna and all of Primary 4/5 who have worked very hard this week.