St Albert's P5 – Mrs Brightman's Class

I will never forget the time when we made pizzas and when we made our own Charlie and the chocolate factory inventions. You can watch my video on the videos page.

I will never forget Stirling Castle and cooking in class. In cooking I LOVED the pizzas and pancakes.In Stirling Castle i loved it when we saw all the history and interesting things about clans and castles.

In our penultimate week of the school year, we have:

• created a path for our nature trail
• practised our song for the final prize-giving assembly
• we have created data graphs and charts for our homework
• raised money for Human Appeal by painting our faces and decorating cupcakes
• had a big 4-ball game of dodgeball in P.E.
• finished writing our student reports
• learned some watercolour painting skills
• learned how to draw some animals using shapes
• completed our health and wellbeing questionnaires
• had a visit from Miss McCue
• enjoyed lots of visits from professionals from different jobs on World of Work Day

Mrs Brightman also got a sticker from Mrs Connell because she finished all of our reports and was only the second teacher to do it! (Miss Hewitt beat her!)

This week we have:

• Made board games to help the players improve their mental calculations
• Revised decimal addition and subtraction in mental maths
• Learned how to find a fraction of an amount
• Raised money for Human Appeal in our non-uniform day
• Made hexa-flexagons with Mr Metsch
• Made a summer themed landscape drawing with  chalk pastels
• Been trying to decide what song to sing in the final assembly – we haven’t decided yet!
• Started writing our own reports of our year in P5
• Stripped our classroom bare to make our school easier to concentrate in
• Had a visit from a mini-Michael Jackson
• Improved our dodgeball and rounders skills
• Learned what it means to be a Good Samaritan
• Voted for who we think should run the country! Labour won!

• we wrote a report  about Spain
• we edited our video for Spain
• we deigned our own carnival costumes for our  topic on Spain
• we learned the months in Spanish
• we have been learning how to say happy birthday in Spanish
• we started  a new book called Mr Gum
• We did long multiplication
• it was parents evening
• we did some athletics in gym
• in the morning to wake us up we do a code breaker
• in reading we learned how to change the words in the past tense correctly
• on Tuesdays in basketball we learned how to dribble  a ball.
• we did reading and in reading we did poems grammar and reading
• in reading we were doing poems about home
• we wrote things about our friends
• in topic we learned about Antoni Gaudi

This week in Primary 5:

• We made miguellitos.
• We finished Don Quixote.
• We started making our video for the Spanish school.
• We learned about the geography of Spain: cities,mountains, seas and rivers.
• We planted our sunflowers.
• We did mental maths outside and worked out the area and the perimeter.
• We learned about integrity.
• We have been learning about Hinduism.

This week we have had special visitors from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education! While they were here, we have been:

• comparing  our school and a school in Madrid , Spanish
• learning to make a Spanish dish tortilla
• learning to use basketball passes
• learning the language of measure
• learning facts about Spain
• understanding  our higher order thinking skills
• using maps to learn more about Spain
• continuing to read Don Quixote
•  Converting units of measuring
• improving our athletics skills
• finding circumference and diameter of circles
• saying “How are you?” in Spanish (“¿Cómo Estás?”)
• comparing Scottish and Spanish music

The inspectors were so impressed with our learning!

This week, our first week back after the Easter break, we have:

• Started our new context about ‘Spain’
• Started to read a new book called ‘Don Quixote’ (DON KEY JOT EH)
• Twinned with Coleghio Publico Antonio Machado in Madrid
• Started to learn the Spanish language – how to say Hello (Hola!) and ask someone’s name!
• Started a circuit of athletics in P.E. and measured our results
• Learned the passes in basketball in our joint lesson with Class 2
• Learned the language of measure in mental maths
• Measured items in the playground using non-standard units
• Had a special mass to celebrate James and Ellie’s confirmation!

What a great start to the term!

Now that it’s Easter, we can all enjoy some egg-shaped treats! In the run up to the Easter break, P5 and Class 2 ran a very successful bake sale in aid of Missio Scotland. This charity helps people in the developing world to have a better life through basic things like providing clean water, medicines and education.

We raised over £100 to send to Missio by selling our cakes so thanks to all the parents who helped to provide the goods to sell! Thanks too to anyone who bought the cakes from us!

Rather a late post on this but just in time to remind you to take your library books back this week!

On March 23rd, Pollokshields Library welcomed P5 for a Non-Fiction Workshop! We were introduced to the Dewey Decimal system which all libraries in the UK use to organise their non-fiction books. The system arranges books in topics so you can find all the books about ‘Medieval Life’ for example without having to know the authors. It’s very handy.

We had a fun quiz to practise using the system and then had time to browse the lovely books on offer. Lots of our mums came with us too! Hopefully we’ll be able to go to the library at weekends on our own now we all have library cards!