What  budding artists we have in P4/5! Today we created some clay models of penguins and they look fantastic! We will wait for them to dry then add some paint!

We enjoyed lots of lovely fruit on Friday because we were the healthiest class in the school . We had some kiwi, apples, melon, grapes and oranges and we ate it all!

By Elena Pieroni and mya mcgowan

This afternoon P4/5 had great fun carrying out some science experiments.  We were investigating the effects of animals in the Arctic and Antarctica having blubber. We learned what blubber is and how it keeps the animals warm in the freezing conditions.

We we used timers and thermometers to see how long we could keep our bare hands in ice cold water and then how long we could keep them in using blubber mitts!

We could keep our hands in the ice cold water much longer using the blubber mitts so our hypothesis was correct!

We have been working hard on our table facts in P4/5. Today we enjoyed some games and challenges using our times tables.

We have been working on learning to tell the time with Miss Clark, our Student Teacher. Today we were learning about 5 minute intervals.

We had great fun in P.E today learning some badminton skills. We were practising getting used to using shuttlecocks and working as part of a team.

The P4/5 worked really hard this afternoon to make Fairtrade pancakes for themselves and P5. The theme of this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight is ‘sit down for breakfast, stand up for farmers’ so we used Fairtrade products to make some pancakes! We thought about how even before we finish our breakfast in the morning we could have depended on half the world already! Have a think about where your breakfast comes from – you will be amazed!

We  then watched a Fairtrade video about the farmers and scoffed our pancakes! Well done P4/5!

This week we will be working on telling the time. We have revised o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. Now, we will move on to telling the time using 5 minute intervals!

Get practising by having a go at these games.

Game 1 – Matching Digital and Analogue

Game 2 – Listening to the time and setting the hands correctly

Game 3 – Answering different questions based on time

P4/5 created beautiful polar landscapes using chalk. We researched different landscapes from Antarctica and created our own ‘Antarctica moonrise’. We thought about the cold colours we would need to use and had a go at blending colours together to create some wonderful effects.