P5 have formed class bands and here are exclusive recordings on Soundcloud! Mat the Hat has been leading drumming workshops for the past 7 weeks, and P5a and P5b are looking forward to performing for some classes on Thursday.

P5a are named ‘Out of this World’ and P5b are named ‘Blazing Bangers’. Inspired names, chosen by the classes.

Enjoy listening to these performances!

 

Primary 7 had a fantastic time on our half day visit to the High School this morning.
Some of the highlights included:

• Seeing the Craft and Design classes
• Going into the canteen
• Meeting children from other schools
• Getting to meet some of our new teachers and guidance teachers

A big thank you to our parent helpers, the brilliant S3s who showed us around and the teachers who welcomed us into their classrooms.

We are all very excited for our two day visit in mid-June!

Here we are in red today, ‘having a laugh with our class.’
We told jokes and did a quiz about noses. We learned that the funny bone is really called the humerus.

We are learning how to write information reports and this week we wrote about volcanoes. In grammar we are learning to use speech marks.

As part of our science topic we are learning about earthquakes and tsunamis, and we painted ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ by Japanese artist Hokusai. Can you see Mount Fuji in the background?

In maths we are using the written methods of the four operations to add, subtract, multiply and divide money. In measure we are learning about measuring volume in litres and millilitres.

What has been your highlight of the week?

We are nearly at the end of our journey and today we played really well in preparation for our performance next week. We will show P4-7 what we have learned about instruments, play our rhythms and sing our song.

Here is a clip of our song.

The Calabash Song

Our trip to the museum took us to a Swiss instrument, the hang drum.

Drummer of the week was Louis, well done!

For World Book Day we made a slide of our favourite books and said why we like them.

We hope you enjoy hearing about them!

Last week p5 worked creatively to create balancing shapes, on their own or with a partner.

We continued to play as a band ‘Out of this World’. We played bass drums, jembes and Brazilian steel drums. We discovered the instrument ‘cuica’ in the museum of magical mimstruments.

The drummer of the week was Jackson, well done!

We heard lots about the hedgehog rescue last week and Ruaridh was very excited when he heard the hedgehog was expecting hoglets!
He was very impressed that Mr Collins came to help too.