Primary 4/5 have been exploring emotions felt throughout lockdown and during the transition back to school. This rainbow-coloured poem includes stanzas from everyone who has come back to school in our class. We hope you enjoy it, but also we hope that you can relate to a lot of these feelings.
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P5 January’s Reflective Friday Post
The hatchery for our trout eggs arrived last Friday and the scientist who brought it was very happy to answer all our questions. We are really excited about Clyde in the Classroom and have already learned so much!
In PE, we’ve been doing gymnastics. Check out our mini routines we put together at the end of last week’s lesson. We had been working on forward rolls, handstands and bridges. We all gave each other feedback, too.
This week, we started work on some pencil drawings of creatures that can be found in the Clyde. We focused on form, size, pattern and shading, and we got the chance to check out everyone’s work just before lunch. It’s great seeing the different styles and approaches everyone takes. Keep up the hard work!
Glasgow Science Centre – Clyde in the Classroom Launch
P5 loved visiting the Science Centre for the Clyde in the Classroom launch day. We arrived nice and early so got to explore the science centre exhibits and test their abilities in a range of skills; picking up useful information along the way.
After that, we went down for our talks from Clyde in the Classroom to help prepare us for looking after 200 new classmates: trout eggs!
We are now buzzing to receive the eggs later this month and will get to start practising looking after the hatchery when it arrives tomorrow. Watch this space for updates.
Outdoor Cricket
 
Our cricket specialist, Mohammed, took P6 and P5 for cricket this afternoon. Everyone had a brilliant time and tried their best – even Mrs Anderson honed her bowling skills! Well done everyone!
P5 update from August and September
Over the past couple of months, P5 have been learning a lot about the Titanic and have even made a huge wall display of it; each making their own cabins and/or lifeboats. Did you know, there were only 20 lifeboats on the real Titanic but it should have had 64?!
The children also took part in a STEM activity to see if they could make a tinfoil boat that floated and could carry coins. We certainly have some budding engineers in our class!
In Health and Wellbeing, we each created our own Colour Monsters to explore feelings and emotions. They’re on display outside our classroom if you’d like to come and meet them.
In RE we listened to and discussed the story of Father Damien who lived with sufferers of leprosy. He was such a kind and inspirational man; he made a real difference to this outcast community.
As part of our topic The Titanic, the children worked in groups to try to put the inventions/events in order. It should give some parents out there a wee chuckle!
The children worked in groups to demonstrate working in canon, mirroring each other and matching.
P5 have been exploring movement: balance, weight through arms, jumping, inversion and rotation.
At the beginning of the year, our P5s worked in groups on 2D Shape.
The first Golden Time in the class saw our pupils working together socially in small groups. We even had a domino rally!
Our class were given potatoes FROM OUR GARDEN!! We made 4 kinds of potato wedges from them and they didn’t last long!
We also hosted a MacMillan Coffee Morning and raised £425! Well done to everyone involved and a huge thank you to everyone who baked, bought or donated – we couldn’t have done it without you.
Summer Term in P4/5
We have been learning about India this term. These beautiful Rangoli patterns have been inspired by the Hindu tradition for festivals.
We have also done some beautiful artwork as part of our work on Pentecost and Corpus Christi.
Whilst some of our class were preparing for the school show, the rest were doing STEM activities. They worked on Beebots and Spheros, aswell as building bridges and towers. These children did a great job presenting their work to the rest of the class.
P4/5 March Reflective Friday
On the 8th of March, we released the brown trout alevins into the Calder. We each had a container of 3 or 4 fish. One of our favourite parts was pouring them into the water. It was really good to get fresh air and a chat with our friends on the way to release the fish. It was great seeing them in the river for the first time. Some of us felt it was a bit sad because we had been looking after them for 6 weeks but it was great to see them searching for – and finding – food for themselves! Some of us felt a bit nervous for them because we noticed a lot of rubbish like glass, plastic, branches, crisp packets, bottle tops, broken bikes and so on in the water.
We have been learning about plastic pollution after releasing them because we saw all that rubbish. We have watched videos about the harm that is done to fish and other creatures in the sea and we’ve been talking about how to stop using so much plastic. We have been writing persuasive letters to people to convince them to stop using single-use plastic.
Don’t use so much plastic.
Recycle plastic.
Reuse plastic.
Don’t litter.
Don’t waste plastic.
At this month’s Merit Assembly, Sophia and Logan showed everyone their presentation about the Brown Trout.
This month, we have also been learning about the church and what being an altar server means. We have prepared questions to ask existing altar servers. Oscar has even just become an altar server! Well done, Oscar!
Science Week was this month.
We did lots of experiments including:
Skittles in hot water: the Skittles melted and the water turned different colours.
Bouncy egg: we put one egg in vinegar and waited 24 hours and when we took it out, there was no shell but it was bouncy!
Bending water: we got a static charge on a ruler and put it beside running water from the tap.
Blow-up balloon: We put a balloon over a jar of vinegar and bicarbonate of soda and it blew up the balloon!
We even tried some experiments that didn’t quite go to plan! It was great fun. Some of us tried them at home.
Some of us made non-fiction books about our interests such as guinea pigs, horses and Fifa.
It was also World Book Day.
We came to school in costumes or in our pyjamas and we read books and went round the classes. In our class, we read Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo about World War II and children being evacuated.
Going Bananas for Fairtrade
We held an event in Fairtrade Fortnight to raise awareness of Fairtrade. The children had great fun decorating Fairtrade bananas, eating Fairtrade bananas and other healthy snacks at our chocolate fountain stall, baking using Fairtrade products such as Fairtrade sugar and also showing their support of Fairtrade by getting their faces painted with the Fairtrade logo.
Here are some photos from the event which raised more than £500 for Mary’s Meals!
P4/5 Reflective Friday post
We have been given a huge responsibility in our class: a hatchery to take care of and prepare for our new arrivals, the brown trout eggs. We have been working hard to keep the water clean and cold.
However, it’s not all hard work in P4/5. We learned a bit about Robert Burns today as it’s his birthday. We learned what the song Auld Lang Syne is about and we sang it together while joining hands, just like we do at Hogmanay!
Clyde in the Classroom – Trout Eggs
We are so excited about getting fish eggs to look after in P4/5! We chose a good spot for them, near a socket but far from radiators, and Clyde in the Classroom delivered our hatchery on Friday so we can start taking practising taking care of the eggs before they are delivered next Monday! We have lots of water bottles in the freezer to make big ice packs but could do with some more, please, so any empty screw-cap bottles of water, please please sent them our way! Thanks!
