Primary 5a Wallacewell Primary

What a busy year we have had, we can’t believe our year in p5 is coming to an end! We have been reflecting back on our learning and achievements throughout this year and the memories we have made too. We all worked very hard this year on developing our skills and our building our confidence across the curriculum. From fun topic work on contexts such as the Titanic, Space and the Solar System, Oceans and Diversity, to Creative Enquiry sessions as well our Maths, Literacy, Writing and Digital Skills. We have been developing our emotional literacy through our Health and Wellbeing  lessons and Paths. We have enjoyed opportunities for active learning and teamwork as well as developing our independence on tasks. We have really enjoyed our trips this year, to the Science Centre and the Panto, we also really enjoyed working on and presenting our Diversity Showcase, it was really fun!  We have had  a very successful year in p5 and look forward to new challenges in p6.

This week we have begun our learning on Angles in Maths, we have focussed on right angles , acute and obtuse angles. We have been identifying and exploring these in class and outside then presenting our findings. We have also been working on area and perimeter. In writing we are working on procedural writing, in preparation for this we make and tested paper aeroplanes which we will then be writing about to explain to others how to make them.
In Art we drew astronauts with a space reflection. In Topic we have been working on our display of knowledge to showcase all our learning on space and the solar system.

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We have been busy in p5a this week. In maths we have been revising our division strategies, and we’re able to use these when playing ‘highest wins’  against our partners. We have started a block of procedural writing, where we explored what a good piece of procedural writing looks like and what features we must include. In our topic time we have been learning about life for astronauts on the International Space Station. We then worked together to prioritise things that we think astronauts would need in space. In reading we have been focussing on our skimming and scanning strategies to find and use information from the text. In Art we worked on perspective drawings. In PE we worked on our fitness and teamwork through stations.

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Please find attached the class curriculum newsletter for term 4.

P5a Curriculum Newsletter – Term 4 2025-26

This week in p5 a we have been working hard on our Response Writing as well as focussing on types of questions as part of our reading comprehension. We enjoyed taking on  different roles within our Reciprocal reading groups this week.  In Maths we finished our block on number sequences where we had to find and use a rule. We then focussed on subtraction strategies. We have enjoyed using Magma to show our working and support our learning. In Topic we have have been doing some independent research on the planets of the solar system and have been working hard on creating a Keynote presentation to showcase our learning. We continued our Athletics block in PE and set our next Targets as part of our HWB.

This week in p5a we have been very busy! In Maths we have been revising all of our addition strategies , using resources and Magma Maths to show all our working. We have also been playing our maths games for our project. In literacy we wrote

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a balanced argument and have begun exploring features and strategies for non fiction texts. We have begun a new mini topic on Spring and new life. We enjoyed our pastel artwork inspired by this. We had fun during our STEM open afternoon where we designed and made a marble maze and tinfoil boat and had to test them to see how well they worked.

We also took part in an Interfaith roadshow this week, where we got to learn about lots of different world religions and diversity.

This week started with many rehearsals for our showcase! In between we managed to fit in some reading skills activities and reciprocal reading groups. We began planning our next balanced argument in writing and we finished our  block on decimals in maths.
We enjoyed performing our Diversity showcase on Thursday for our grown ups. We have worked very hard learning our lines, songs, dance and even sign language , we hope you enjoyed it!

It has been a busy week as our practice for our showcase is in full swing! We can’t wait to share our learning and all our hard work in our performance next week. In Maths this week we have been continuing our work on decimals; comparing and ordering decimals, using a number line and our knowledge of place value. We have also been using our addition and subtraction strategies for calculations with decimal numbers. In writing we have been presenting our balanced arguments, giving both sides of an argument equally. In reading we have been developing our use of strategies through different and trickier texts.

This week we began our new genre of writing – looking at balanced arguments. In maths we have been working on our decimal numbers , on number lines and ordering numbers, using decimal place value. It is world book week so we have done some activities for this including making our own comic strips. We explored our trusted individuals and bullying behaviour as part of this weeks RSHP. We have also been working very hard learning our songs and dance for our upcoming showcase all about Diversity. We made the most of the good weather and enjoyed some outdoor PE doing some team games.

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Please see the attached letter with information about our P5a Showcase. We look forward to seeing you there.

P5a Showcase Letter – March 2026