This week P5a has been doing so much they have been exploring weather in creative enquiry, 2 digit by 2 digit using the box method in maths, practicing our handwriting, reading our books and answering questions about the book, tennis and badminton in PE. In our topic on space we were learning about how astronauts live and work in space, on the international space station.

The have been amazing what super stars 🌟

By Olivia Dalgleish p5a

Last week we were working on some new things like our topic on the solar system as well as reciprocal reading. In science p5 we’re doing some experiments to see if we could create enough carbon dioxide bubbles to build enough pressure in our bottles to erupt- a small scale space rocket! Some of our experiments worked better than others so we will need to try again with some adjustments.  p5 have also been working incredibly hard on their multiplication in maths.

P5a had a great time outside today with Donald from Wildside Nature. We were learning all about the spooky Halloween animals. We learned all about bats and how they use echo-location, through a fun game. We learned about owls as predators hunting for mice and we learned all about the different parts of spiders through a fun dance!

P5a have been learning addition and subtraction strategies and they are really good at it. They were also learning about comfortable and uncomfortable emotions in PATHS and learning about the control signals to help us calm down. They started learning about the solar system and they were learning about Diwali and Rama and Sita in RME. Also they were learning about creating descriptive settings in writing. They also did some drama this week, and that’s all they did this week and they are so good at everything! What super stars!⭐️

By Nirman Dosanjh

Lots of great exploration in creative enquiry this week, all about ‘changes’. We have also worked hard on our persuasive writing, we used our iPads for editing. We created some fantastic iMovie trailers to advertise our class novel; Charlottes Web. We rounded off our Romans topic this week with a taster of some Roman style nibbles. It was good fun!

Have a great October week holiday!

p5a have been dong great work this week. Working on subtraction strategies in maths and hockey in PE. We have been learning about the Romans and in writing were trying to Persuade men to join the Roman Army., using lots of good persuasive features.

by Zachary Furphy

It’s been another busy week in p5a, the children have been working on addition in maths and demonstrating their knowledge of a wide range of strategies, it’s lovely to see their confidence grow! In literacy our focus has been on persuasive writing, where they have written super letters using lots of persuasive features. We managed to finish our Roman Mosaics and they look fantastic! However the highlight of our week was receiving our own iPads! We have spent some time familiarising ourselves with these and exploring the apps. We are excited to use them to support and enhance our learning this year!

P5a have been working extremely hard, they have been doing journeys in creative enquiry, rounding to the nearest 10 100 1000 and even decimals. Their work on their novel Charlotte’s web has been fantastic. In reading they’ve been focusing on summarising they’ve been absolutely brilliant💯what superstars 🌟!!

By Olivia Dalgleish , p5a

It has been a busy start to the term this year. We have been working hard in maths and literacy already, and supporting our learning playing games and working collaboratively to share our knowledge.
We begun our IDL topic exploring the Celts in the iron ages, we looked at how they lived and what they did. We had lots of fun making roundhouses and hillforts for the tribes. We also had a go at paper weaving, since weaving was very popular back then! We produced some fabulous examples. Next we will be comparing the Celtic life to the Romans and finding out what happened next!

Our final day at Pinkston was great fun, spent in the forest taking part in a survival game. We also enjoyed popcorn made on the campfire!
after completing the 3 day course we have achieved a few different certificates (yet to come!) for Glasgows urban adventure award and the national outdoor learning award.