We read ‘The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me’ by Roald Dahl. We looked at some of the themes and focussed on the theme of dreams. In the book the characters all have their dreams come true, with the character of Billy getting his dream of opening a sweet shop full of fantastical sweets! We were so inspired that decided to design our own amazing sweets! This process by looking at real life context and studying a variety of actual sweets to get some ideas about look, texture, smell, sound and (best of all) taste! We decided to use some our the descriptive language that we’ve been learning about when we’ve been looking at and writing descriptive texts this block to help us describe our sweets. Inspired by this we then created our own marvellous sweety designs, thinking about amazing names and special features they might have. Below are a sample of some of the ideas the class came up with…yum!

Every month the Scottish Book trust runs a ‘Fifty Word Fiction’ competition.  At the end of August P5A had a go and entered some of our compositions.  Unfortunately we didn’t have any winners this time but all the entrants received an email thanking them for their words.  If you would like to have a go at this month’s competition please click on the link below:

50 word fiction

Here are some of the entries we submitted:

The Baking Mystery by Sam Fitzgerald

I was baking a cake and I went to the shops to get some ingredients.  When I came back everything was gone.  It was confusing.  Then the door of the cupboard creaked open and I walked around the table to see what was there and then…everything went black.

The big disaster by Adam Taylor

As I entered the bakery I smelt the cupcakes and bread mixed to make the sweetest smell.  The factory was enormous -trays and trays of freshly baked goods.  The factory began to rumble, the icing fell onto the floor flooding the factory.  I ran out.  The factory exploded.  Kaboom!

The cream disaster by Ben Margiotta

“AHHHHH!!”

There was cream all over the town.  It was like a flood but of course cream.

“What are we going to do??!!”

The cream got bigger and faster!!!  The police came bursting through.

“We’re saved!” everybody screamed repeatedly.

Cupcake World by Aimee Watson

When I woke up I saw a giant cupcake in my room.  I walked up to it and I got teleported to cupcake world.  I ate twenty one cupcakes and then I felt sick.  My sick somehow turned into rainbows.  I liked that.  Then I ate more cupcakes.

Cupcake Island by Flo Kirkpatrick

One day I was on my sponge boat.  It was rocking a bit more than usual.  The sea was made out of creamy blue icing.  The waves got bigger and suddenly the sponge tipped.  I fell on a sponge island.  I stood up.  What should I do next?

P5A have been learning about the use of Classification Keys to sort and identify living and non-living things.  To really check we understood how to use them we had to design one for sorting Dolly Mixtures sweeties…all in the name of Science, of course!

First we had to decide what characteristics the sweets could be sorted by and then we had to create questions which gave a yes/no answer.  Here are some of our finished keys.

We had to work as a team to build a den that we could fit in.  We had great fun but found it hard to tie knots and those of us outside struggled to stop our dens from blowing away in the wind!

As a getting to know you activity Primary 5b brought in a bag with 4 items that told us something about them. They shared these with the class, it was so interesting to see the different things everyone had chosen to bring in!

Lochie’s Mum came in on Friday and talked to us about working for the Scottish book trust.  She showed us some of the information available on the website and also read us one of her favourite stories.

P4a made art in the playground. We could use any natural materials and had the theme of ‘nature’! We had to be responsible and tidy up after ourselves when we were finished.

Robyn’s Mum came in to class to tell us all about being a GP. We got to try out some of her equipment including the puffer which you blow into if you have asthma, the blood pressure test to see what your blood pressure is and the medicine books that tell you how much medicine you should take if you are unwell.

Mr Mulligan came in and talked to us about his job as a Renewable Energy Engineer. It was fascinating to see all the different tools and materials he uses daily. We learnt the difference between waste, water and heating pipes and the different ways they would be attached – either by filing, gluing or soldering. We got to try bending a pipe using a special tool too. Mr Mulligan told us about some of the important skills for his job – for example, maths for estimating and measuring and literacy for filling out paperwork and talking to customers. He also told us a bit about the difference between working for a company or being self employed.

P4a were delighted to have a visit from Clare Prenton, who is a theatre director. We were amazed at how many different jobs there are within the creative arts industry – when Mrs Prenton directs a play she has to lead a massive team of different people (joiners, lighting engineers, vocal coaches, writers, costume designers, and loads more)! We talked about how there are jobs that would suit all interests and skills – creative types may prefer acting, writing or designing, while technical jobs may involve sound/light engineers or set designers and builders.