Primary 5b Wallacewell Primary

It is almost the end of our Primary 5 adventure. It has been a very fast year and we have made so much progress in our learning. We can’t quite believe we are almost in Primary 6!

This year, we have had many highlights that we all enjoy remembering and speaking about. Such as….

• Our diversity showcase
• The library trip
• The Science Centre trip
• The pantomime
• Sports Day
• Our visit from the Ice-Cream van

We have felt so proud of ourselves in terms of our learning. Some of us feel like we have really improved our numeracy and maths skills especially when using our strategies like the algorithm. We also feel like we developed a lot of confidence and knowledge with fractions. Some of us also feel like we have tried very hard with our spelling strategies this year. Finally, many of us in the class feel like we have really improved our reading and use of reading strategies!
Overall, we feel like we have done FANTASTIC this year and have had such an enjoyable and successful year. We feel like Primary 5 has been so much fun and an amazing experience and we have worked had to achieve our goals.

Personally, I am very grateful for having the opportunity to work with all of these amazing children this year and getting to know each and every one of the families. I have had a great year teaching Primary 5 and I am thankful for the effort the children have put in this year. Well done everyone!

We only have 8 days of school left and can’t wait to make the most of them and enjoy the final couple of weeks as P5b!
Have a brilliant summer ☀️

We have had a really busy week with our writing assessment and spelling assessment. Everyone tried really hard to add detail in their writing and do their best to succeed. Our spelling tests went really well and many of us improved our results from before.

In gym, we have been developing our fitness skills. We used the parachute this week to get our heart rate up and we were all very tired after the games. We worked as a team to gain points and try to win some of the games.

We have been exploring measure and measuring our heights and items in the classroom. We also created some shapes using the squares in our jotters and enjoyed calculating the area and perimeter of them, this was tricky especially when we tried to do it for our names!

We have a lot of learning still to do in P5 and are working very hard to get as prepared for P6 as we can!

Have a good weekend and fingers crossed for better weather 🤞

We revised our division this week and many of us enjoyed working on these strategies. Some of us felt like we couldn’t remember how to do it but after our practising we built confidence and noticed how much we had progressed.

Some of us have enjoyed our response writing. We like watching the different clips and responding to them including emotions, thoughts, feelings and opinions.

We had some very important visitors this week and loved showing off our learning. It was good to be able to show our strategies and let people see how much progress we have made.

HAPPY WEEKEND!

For most of us, we looked forward to the disco the most. We enjoyed spending time with our friends, playing the games and dancing. We took part in a Conga line and went all the way outside into the playground.

We continued our response writing block this week and expanded our paragraphs to include our thoughts, feelings and opinions. Most of us liked the clip we used and thought the kindness was cute.

We used our problem solving skills to find the missing values for expressions and equations. At first, some of us found this tricky but when we got started we all done very well and helped each other. We completed a numeracy assessment this week and most of us felt proud of how confident we felt during it.

Happy Weekend ☀️ 😊

P5b Curriculum Newsletter – Term 4 2025-26

Hi everyone,

Please see attached Term 4 newsletter.

Thank you,

Miss Hamilton

A highlight of our week has been the drama lessons linked to PATHS for health and wellbeing. We all requested drama to be involved and enjoyed working in our small groups to invent different scenarios.

As part of our maths lesson, we took advantage of the sunshine and created some symmetrical patterns outside. This allowed us to be creative with our patterns and we used the mirrors to find different lines of symmetry.

Some of us enjoyed the Athletics and Fitness stations again, practising a variety of different skills and challenging ourself to make improvements from last week.

We have began to explore response writing and used different short movie clips as a hook. We had to choose different parts of the clips and explain thoughts, feelings and opinions. We all had a different favourite clip that we liked reviewing.

We hope everyone has a great long weekend!

Luckily for us, the weather has been amazing for our first week back after the holidays. This means we have managed to use the pitch for our P.E lessons, practising athletics to help us get prepared for Sports Day! We have also started a fitness block. We worked with a partner to measure our fitness levels and will hopefully feel like we have improved these by the end of term.

We have been exploring Symmetry and Number Sequences. We used the grid and squares in our maths jotters to make symmetrical patterns and drawings. We had to find a rule to complete the number sequences and applied our knowledge from previous terms to count on and count back.

We started our week off by brushing up our Tools for Writing skills. Some of us enjoyed correcting the mistakes in the paragraph and identifying proper use of punctuation.

Don’t forget to book your appointment for the pupil progress meetings and to check bags for the Summer Disco letter!

Have a great weekend ☀️

We were very lucky to be part of the Interfaith Roadshow this week. Most of us felt like we learned a lot and we couldn’t believe how interesting it was! This involved visits from people who follow lots of different religions and they taught us all about their cultures and customs. The police also came and taught us all about safety and let us try some police gear on!

Secondly, we would like to thank all of the adults that managed along to our STEM open afternoon. We found the activities really fun and enjoyed testing our creations.

For maths/numeracy this week, we were introduced to Magma maths. This is an app on the iPads that we can use for tasks. Some of us enjoyed using Magma and working out the problems but some of us have said we still prefer Sumdog.

We attempted the Daily Mile this week on the pitch, some of us loved it and actually challenged ourselves to complete 2 miles. However, some of us did not…. we could not wait for it to be over 😅

We are all very excited for the Easter holiday and can’t wait for our long lies and time off!
Have a great weekend 🐣

Firstly, we would like to say a big huge THANK YOU to everyone who came along to our showcase. We felt so nervous before it but all of our hard work and practise paid off. We are all very proud of ourselves.

We have continued to develop our knowledge and understanding of decimals this week and many of us feel more confident with this! We have been challenging ourselves and connecting our learning to fractions.

Spring is here and we are taking advantage of the good weather by doing some P.E. on the pitch!

This week we have been exploring balanced arguments in writing. Our paragraph was all about children under 16 using social media and if it should be allowed or not. This was a very thought provoking subject and lots of interesting arguments were raised for both sides.

Have a wonderful SPRING weekend 🐣🌼🌻

We have been working really hard on our showcase this week and some of us feel confident with our lines, not even using a script! We have all been trying to practise our songs and our main focus now is to become a little louder!

We had a visit from the Budding Engineers who introduced us to their website/app BlocksCAD. We all used coding to make cups and tried our best to do this independently. Hopefully one day we can actually use a 3D printer to create them.

We connected our learning between fractions and decimals and used a place value chart to help us. It started off as very tricky but we all grew in confidence and could see success in our work!