What a busy New Year we have had in Primary 5/6 and we actually surprised ourselves with how much we have achieved in this short space of time.  We created a list but are only going to share a few things as we don’t like to show off!

Our new IDL topic is Global Goals which we had little knowledge of but after some research time we know that there are 17 goals and we will study each one.  We created posters to highlight the importance of each goal.

In literacy we all have new reading books/novels and we are developing our reading strategies.  One novel is called ‘Tilly and the Badgers’ and we are learning about badger baiting.  This has given a great opportunity to talk about the facts and opinions of the subject.

We started our year in Health and Wellbeing and Thinking Circles looking at what we are thankful for and what we should aim to do more of.  It was a great dusting of our minds and promoted meaningful growth mind set.

As we are a composite class our P6 peers have been able to share their experience of Cardinal Newman transition.  They love the Science Ambassadors and the Sports Champions and we enjoy hearing about the learning.  We are fortunate their learning on friction has enhanced our science topic on floating and sinking although we do have an idea for a home project so be aware parents and carers!

The best fun is martial arts every Tuesday were Kasia puts everyone through their paces and we all need to keep our guard up.  She promotes active fitness and skill in a specialised area. We laugh at Mrs Gardner as she tries our lessons out on her family but we really enjoy Magic Mixer.  It has improved our thinking in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division but we time it so it is quite competitive.

Most of all we have aimed to improve our classroom environment and routine to ensure we have variety.  We hope you liked our twitter picture of a ‘Starry Night’ by Vincent Van Gogh.

Happy Robert Burns Day one and all!

Primary 5/6 have been extra busy this month as we wanted to finish the year on a high with all our hard work.

We finished our IDL topic on The Victorians and created fabulous posters showcasing all our learning.  We enjoyed using a variety of sources to gather our information particularly, the Charles Dickens Shows from the internet.  Everyone enjoyed the art activity which involved drawing Victorian houses and using different techniques to create line, patterns and shading.

In all our curricular areas we have tried to link it to the festive season by writing letters to Santa Claus, describing our perfect Christmas Eve and learning the poem ‘Twas the Night before Christmas’.

In numeracy we have been working on Christmas coordinates with a particularly challenging Christmas Tree activity.

We have also been extremely creative this term and have made robins, wreaths, tree decorations and advent candles using a wide range of techniques.  Our Primary 5 pupils enjoyed an arts and craft session at the Baptist church and made decorated tiles.  It was a fun filled morning and the children met many new friends.

During our PE lessons we learned some new Scottish dances and danced with our peers from other classes.  We showcased our moves at our Christmas parties.

We wish all our family and friends a very happy and holy Christmas!

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.