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P1/2B literacy questionnaire
Primary 5/6 April / May 2019 Post
As we were off for a lot of April due to our Easter holidays we have made a joint post to share our experiences during the months of April and May as part of our Reflective Friday.
H Factor was enormous fun and gave us a great opportunity to showcase our talents and develop our confidence in performing in front of an audience. There was lots of audience participation as you can see during this performance of Tsunami !
We had great fun making sandwiches using the cress we had grown in class as part of our work about food miles. It also linked well to our health week activities and our Global Picnic ( although it was indoors because of the heavy rain !!!!)
In literacy we have been studying Saving Finnegan and learning about writing for a younger audience. We wrote our stories for P1/2a and then went downstairs to pay them an author visit and read our work aloud to them.
In numeracy we have completed our work on fractions. We have been learning a lot about money through using coins effectively as well as calculating cost and change.
In Spanish we have been learning outdoors and testing our knowledge through a variety of active games. In this photo we are playing the line up game based on our knowledge of the weather.
One person calls the weather type in Spanish and the two contestants race to touch it first.
Preparations for the Jungle Book are going well and many members of our class have been practising with microphones and music. They are really working hard and learning when they come on and off stage as well as memorising all their lines. All of them are staying behind after school a lot. We hope it will be a great success when it takes place in St Gerard’s Primary on the 18th and 19th June. Tickets are now on sale at £4 each.
During health week we had a bouncy inflatable assault course which was great fun but really hard to climb. It was a really busy week with golf, healthy cooking and other different activities. We ended the week with Sports Day which was a bit different as we had to hold it indoors as the weather was terrible. It was still great fun though and we have the P7 sports championship race still to run on the first dry day.
Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company have been coming in to work with us as part of Developing The Young Workforce. They are explaining how many jobs are involved in the creation of a product and the challenges of getting your product just right. It has been great fun so far as you can see.
P5/6 Reflective Friday Post March 2019
Welcome to our March Reflective Friday post. We have had an amazing month learning in all curricular areas. Maths has been really interesting as Mrs Cook has been using lots of fun ways to teach us about fractions using number jacks. We have enjoyed our problem solving tasks in our cooperative learning groups on a Friday morning. We have to work as a team to solve the challenge using logic and numeracy. We are learning a lot from the reporting back sessions too.
In literacy we have been studying the short novel “ Cheat “ by Judy Waite and Mrs Wilson has been teaching us about grammar when she is with us on Friday. This month we looked at homonyms and similes. Take a look at the photos we have posted here where we made up our own similes to describe our emotions in a way that was meaningful to us.
We have made our Lenten promises and checked in weekly to support one another in keeping strong.
We had our own fashion show based on recyclable objects which demonstrated our creativity, deepened our understanding of sustainability and showed we have amazing fashion sense !
We have planted seeds to find out which germinate quickly and which take longer despite being exposed to the same conditions. Our cress grew over the weekend so we are going to make sandwiches today to enjoy the fruits of our hard work, zero food miles for this snack !
Our vegetable seeds are coming on well and we will ask Mr Crielly to take care of them during the holidays so that we can plant them out in late April in the school planters and down at the allotment.
We hope to make soup with the vegetables we grow as they will also have zero food miles.
We have enjoyed learning about martial arts in PE too. What a busy month !!
Parents Night Questionnaires
These are the results from our questionnaire seeking your views on Holy Family Primary School.
Thank you for sharing your opinions which were overwhelmingly positive.
We have kept open our questionnaire relating to our pupil equity fund spend which this coming year is an allocation of £31000 as we only received 7 responses to this. Please click on the link to complete this. Thank you
P5/6 Reflective Friday February 2019
This month has seen us say goodbye to Mrs Gardner and welcome to Mrs Cook and Mrs Wilson who will be working with us now.
We really enjoyed Global Play Day and had great fun using our imagination and developing our social skills. At Thinking Circles we had to justify our reasoning for repeating this in 2020, hopefully Mrs Wilson was convinced !
We all took part in the 2 day programme on Developing The Young Workforce and learned a great deal about the range of career opportunities that are available from being a teacher or an engineer right through to becoming an entrepreneur making bird food.Here are some photos of the humane mouse traps we were designing as part of our engineering focus with Mrs leblond.We have been starting to look at our environmental footprint and what we can do to affect and reduce this as part of our interdisciplinary learning this month. February isn’t over yet and we are looking forward to next week and the launch of Fairtrade fortnight when the whole school will be participating in lots of fun activities from face painting to baking banana loaf! Thursday will be our focus day for this and we are very excited by the wide range of ideas that are being suggested for us to raise awareness of Fairtrade fortnight.
In literacy we have been learning to write newspaper articles
In numeracy we have been deepening our understanding of subtraction and decomposition.
In RE we have been learning about the muslim faith and the significance of the Qur’aan. We have also been drawing our own Arabic prayer mats.
We are looking forward to the month ahead and addressing our social studies and technologies targets.
P5/6 November Reflections
This has been a month of a lot of change for our class. We felt sad to see Miss M Gallagher leave us to go and work in Mossend Primary. We wrote letters to her and got a lovely letter back. We miss her and hope to meet her on the Daily Mile in the park.
We were very busy with Poppy Day and had great fun doing face painting, decorating cakes and playing pin the poppy. We raised a lot of money for Poppy Scotland.
We went to see Fantastic Mr Fox at Silverburn Cineworld which is a film based on a book by Roald Dahl. It was a great experience to compare the book and film version.
Bryce from our class represented Holy Family Primary along with P6 and P7 pupils from other classes and we came first !!!
We won medals and trophies and Mrs Wilson went on twitter to say she was very proud of us for giving up our lunchtimes to practise so hard. We feel sad that the two cross country heats have had to be cancelled due to the weather.
We are continuing to learn to read music in P Buzz and have nearly mastered Jingle Bells. In numeracy we are practising our tables using triangle numbers and Mrs Wilson is going to teach us tables tennis today !
In literacy we have focusing on poetry and relating it to Storm Diana.
In ICT we learned about coding and made our own dance based on this.
Please look at twitter to see the clips of us putting our learning into practice.
It has been lovely to have Mrs Gardner back and we are looking forward to working with her this year.
