Another busy week in p5a, we have finished off our Co-ordinates block in maths and moved onto to decimal numbers, which has been tricky but the children have shown great perseverance and determination !  In literacy we have been writing non chronological reports about some of the natural disasters that we have been learning about. We have also been trying to make mini versions of them in science, It was messy but good fun! In our new block of creative enquiry we have also been exploring ‘communication’ .

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We have been making the most of the nicer weather this week and been taking our learning outside, we have been giving and following directions using compass points and angle turns in maths. It was good fun, and we showed great teamwork and communication skills. In writing we finished our own adventure books after being inspired by the author visit last week. We had our finial week investigating forces in creative enquiry. We were exploring ‘responsible actions’ during our PATHS lessons, where the children had lots of great contributions to share.

P5a have been working really hard this week.We have continued our learning about angles (right angles,acute,obtuse,supplementary and reflex angles.) we have been learning about volcanoes in topic this week and consent in HWB. We also were making a book called the magic box.  World book day was good fun, where a lot of people came dressed up…or down, we made corner origami bookmarks and had some star readers at our book day assembly. There was also an author who came,  his name was Rob Biddulph and we learned a lot from him! what super stars! 🌟

By Nirman Dosanjh.

As always, a busy week in p5, but as the weather has been getting better we took the opportunity to go outside and learn about angles in maths. We were able to identify different angles in the environment, as well as making our own ‘body angles’ we took lots of initial of what we found and used the mark up took on our iPads to edit them to show our knowledge of angles, then presented to the class. The next day we identified those of angles that were tales to our desks then used the protractors to measure them.
In writing this week we began writing our imaginative stories all about a magic box, we will develop our stories more next week. In creative enquiry we continued exploring forces with lots of fun stations. We also began our new IDL topic this week, investigating natural disasters.

It’s been a short but busy week in p5! We had a fun session with Golf It, practicing our golf skills.

We have also been working vert hard on our Word Religions showcase , which was a great success, our teachers were so proud of how hard we worked! Superstars!

This week P5a have been very focussed on their upcoming showcase about world religions, and are sounding fabulous already! We have still had time to make ballon rockets and cars as well as making magnetic games and testing out different electric circuits as part of our Forces theme.

We enjoyed having the play leaders from Smithycroft in working with us on Monday. Keep up the great work p5a!

By Freya

Another busy week in p5a! We have been exploring fractions in maths, this week we were using our knowledge of common factors and division to simplify fractions, we thought it would be really hard but when we practiced we could do it!

we took part in a competition to promote ‘walking to school’ and designed our own badges. We also took part in another competition for improving our local green spaces. We were very creative with our fabulous designs!

In literacy we think we are improving our reading skills and we also produced some great writing when presenting our balanced arguments!

We have begun working in our RME Showcase and our songs are already sounding amazing! We can’t wait for you to see all our hard work.

We ended the week, by starting our next block of committees, where we have set out lots of things to achieve this term.

by Blake and Mrs Mair

P5 had a great day at the science centre! We started off with a show in the planetarium which was brilliant, then spent our time exploring all the exciting things in the science mall,  ending with taking a short walk along the river to see the old boats before heading back to school. What great day out!

We have had a busy couple of weeks to start off the new term. In maths we have begun a unit on fractions , whilst in literacy we have been working hard on our reading skills through our new books. We have also been learning all about Scotland, and were able to use this knowledge in our discussion writing to present a balanced argument of all the good and bad things about Scotland to help people from other counties decide whether to visit.
Creative enquiry this block is exploring sound and light and we had our first session trying out some of the stations.  We have been busy choosing songs and a dance for our showcase next month and have had fun creating some lovely artwork too.

What a busy final week of term we have had in p5! We have been consolidating our learning in maths through games.

We had lots of fun at our Christmas party, and we have been very busy preparing for our p5 enterprise, where groups have run a small business, making products to sell. We held our enterprise on Thursday afternoon, just between the 2 p5 classes and it was a huge success, where children have raised approximately £160! We would like to thank you all for your support in making this venture such a success!
The children all had lots of fun working on their team enterprise and showed fantastic teamwork and communication. Well done p5!

Merry Christmas and Happy holidays!
P5a and Mrs Mair