Mr McMullan has asked that students in Primary 5 bring some extra outdoor clothes and shoes/wellies to help him plant some trees tomorrow.ย Children should come to school dressed in their school uniform with the spare clothes in their bags.
Miss Donaldsonย ๐
Wow what a busy week! I hope everyone who made it along really enjoyed our disco on Wednesday night, the costumes were fantastic!
I hope to see you all at Parents Night next Thursday.
Miss Donaldson โจ
This week Primary 5 have been learning about food hygiene and how to ensure that our food is safe to eat. We made fruit skewers and they were delicious! ๐๐ผ
Miss Donaldson โญ๏ธ
Our Wednesday P.E. slot has returned to normal now that the Primary 7โs have completed their block at the high school. This means that Primary 5 no longer have to come to school in the morning dressed in their P.E. clothes.
Miss Donaldson ๐
A huge thank you to everyone who managed to come along to the Macmillan coffee morning today, what a great sum of money that we raised!ย The children were really proud of their performance, what fantastic singers we have – I’m looking forward to the Christmas nativity already!ย If you couldn’t make it I managed to get a video of the children singing both songs that you are welcome to pop in and see.ย Unfortunately I can’t seem to upload them onto the blog as they are too long.
Miss Donaldsonย ๐
Last week Primary 5 took part in a variety of STEM activities!
On Tuesday we focussed on science; we constructed and tested hoop gliders and experimented with different design variables. After that they journeyed through to Primary 6 where they made ice cream in a bag using salt and ice.
On Wednesday the focus shifted to Technology. Primary 5 had the opportunity to go on a variety of coding websites such as Kodu and Scratch in ICT then, later that day we created a Lego maze and wrote out the code to help our character navigate the maze successfully. Following that Primary 5 created trailers for their own movies using iMovie. They were absolutely brilliant!
On Thursday we looked at engineering. First of all Primary 5 learned about what causes earthquakes and discussed the challenges earthquakes face to building engineers in countries that lie along fault lines. We investigated the strongest shapes (we discovered that triangles are the strongest) and then designed structures that would hopefully withstand our jelly earthquake. Huge congratulations to Jessica who had the strongest and most earthquake-resistant structure. ย After that Primary 5 constructed bridges using spaghetti and rubber bands.
Finally, on Friday, Primary 5 weโre using tangrams to tell the story of the three little pigs and learning about the Fibonacci sequence.
Apologies that it took so long to get this blog up, as you can see there were a LOT of photos to go through!
Miss Donaldsonย ๐
Today we went on an Autumn walk.ย Whilst we were out, we took some notes on what Autumn looks like, what colours we see in Autumn and what the weather is like in Autumn.ย We also found lots of chestnut trees so we spent some time rummaging through the leaves to find conkers.ย Then we returned to the classroom and created some Autumn poems.ย The children had so much fun they asked if we could create a poem on every season!
Miss Donaldsonย ๐
Just a quick thank you to everyone who came along last night to Meet the Teacher, it was great putting some faces to the names and the children really enjoyed showing you around our classroom.
Also, a huge well done to our first star writers of the year!ย Great work!
Have a great weekend and I’ll see you all on Monday!
Miss Donaldsonย ๐
Just a quick reminder that our ‘Meet the Teacher’ night will be taking place on Thursday 19th September (this Thursday).ย This is an informal occasion to give you the chance to meet myself, visit your child’s classroom and get an idea of the kind of activities that we will be doing this year in primary 5.ย I’m looking forward to seeing everyone who can make it!
Miss Donaldsonย ๐
As the Primary 7’s are visiting the High School for the next 6 weeks, our gym time will change from before lunchtime to first thing in the morning.ย As a result, could all children please come to school wearing their gym kit on Wednesdays and bring their school clothes with them in their bags.ย This will mean that we don’t lose any of our precious gym time getting changed!
Thanks in advance,
Miss Donaldsonย ๐
