Our new topic is Scotland and we are looking forward to learning about it. We thought it would be a good idea to give our tables really Scottish names.So now we are Shortbreads, The Highland Cows, Scottish Nesslings, Alba, Nessies and Highland Haggis.

Our first star writers for this term are Caillean, Emily, Riya, Amy, Iona and Nina as they gave some great reasons why Scotland is so special to them.

This is the latest news from the P5 bloggers – Griffin, Iona and Olivia.

The winner of the joke competition is… Grant from P5!!! Well done, Grant.  We loved your  joke about Sherlock Bones!

All Homework tasks to be handed in by Friday 2 November please.

It is a busy week with Disco and Halloween.

Spelling words (written twice) Activity:Write 5 sentences using your words and make sure you have adverbs in your sentences.

Maths – Times Tables Booklet pages 6 -10.

Topic task – find out what your name means and if you were given it for a special reason.

Keep thinking up ideas for the TESCO Ness-side Monument Competition. We will be drawing our designs on Friday.

Opera and Cinema parent helpers required.

Whoooo  can tell the best joke? Please post your best Halloween  joke before Tuesday 30 October. Here is one for you.

Why couldn’t the skeleton cross the road?

Because he didn’t have the guts!                                          (Olivia)

This is our first post. We are the Pr 5 bloggers – Olivia, Griffin and Iona.

Week 1 homework is all about going over Times Tables and brushing up on speed and accuracy.

Remember your ideas for the TESCO Ness-side monument/sculpture competition too.

After lots of  technical hitches in Term 1, we hope to update our blogs regularly this term.  We have a keen team of Media Managers who will take responsibility for this. Griffin, Olivia and Iona are getting some Blogging training this week to help get our Pr 5 Blog up and running. Look out for photos of what we’re up to and news updates!

Good to see everyone back and some of us even have  a suntan!

Our topic for Term 2 is about Scotland –

OUR NATION – Is it Fair? Is it Special?

We will consider our rights and responsibilities as citizens of Scotland. We will find out about diversity and  inequality past and present.

We have received some responses from our letters and emails sent out at the end of our last topic. Through our “Food and the Consumer” topic we looked at challenges facing poorer farmers around the world. The Oxfam GROW pack was helpful with this.  Our aim was to raise awareness of ways small scale farmers can be helped further. We contacted MPs, MSPs, Charity organisations and large scale supermarkets to tell them about what we had learned and ways they could support and change the future for many farmers.

We hope our increased knowledge will help us to make positive choices when we go shopping and appreciate the differences we can make.