This week we started the week having a look at some of the countries that take part in the Olympics.  They worked together in small groups to research some facts and create either a poster either on paper or digitally.

We were also up in the Creative Enquiry continuing on with our DYW jobs.  We had some more finished outfits, a completed house and a working windmill.  We also have lots of advertisers busily planning.

In PE we were learning how we can mix Maths and PE with some fun team ball skill activities.

We have also been working on fractions and decimals in maths and writing a descriptive story.  We ended the week with music.  We have been learning about rap music and are now writing our own rap songs.

We continued our look at possible career options this week in the creative enquiry room.  Children were able to choose which job they would like and get an insight to what is involved.  We had lots of eager fashion designers who started by creating a mood board, sketching their design and then making their outfit.  We had lots of fantastic results.

Other job options were advertising, builder / architect or environmental scientist.  Most of these are still being worked on but there is lots of working together and problem solving happening and it is great to see their enthusiasm .

We finished our week practising our putting and chipping skills in PE.

It has been another busy week in P5 but we have had fun learning about different jobs we can do.  We were lucky to get a class visit from one of the active school coordinators who told us how he got into his job and the fantastic opportunities he has had with it. They children had lots of great questions to ask him.

We then attended the careers fair where we learned about lots of other jobs and the skills needed for them.

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With so many interesting jobs available these days we will be continuing to have a DYW focus over the next few weeks.

In the last few weeks of term we finished off our space topic and revisited looking at electricity.  Using copper coins, zinc washers and a salt/ vinegar solution we were able to build a cell to light a LED light.  We were lucky that most groups were successful and able to get the bulb to light.

We also had a go at building circuits.

As part of our space topic we made some of the star constellations.

Lastly we used the straws to build our own rocket.

This term in art P5B have been focussing on tints, tones and shades. We started by using pencils to try to create different tones on everyday objects and then made our own pattern which we coloured in using different tones. It was really tricky especially with the lighter tones to make them appear different but we ended up with lots of great results.

We then moved on to tints and shades this time we used paints to produce the different colours. 🖌️🎨