Hello everyone and welcome to the blog for P5/6/7. I’m Campbell and I’m Joe and we will be sharing some of the things we have been doing this week and last week in our class.

Writing. Last week we worked in groups to write a rap. We started by watching the ‘Michael Rosen Rap’ on Youtube (you should look it up as it is very funny). We all chose different topics to write our raps on but we had to make sure they had a beat, rhythm and rhyme. We then performed our raps to the class. They were very funny and everyone did an excellent job.

This week, we have been writing stories using the 5-part plan. We could write our story about anything linked to Ancient Greece. Here are some of the stories below.

This or That. Here are a selection of photos of things that people have done for ‘This or That’ over the last two weeks.

Enterprise and Business. Last week, we all made up our companies for the sale on the 28th of November. We made the company logos on Canva and we have nearly finished our companies stuff that we are going to sell. We thought of ideas last term with P4/5. We have worked really hard all week on the different stalls and even been helping out other groups.

Gymnastics. For PE, we are currently doing gymnastics and have been working on the different pieces of equipment. We have got to try out the A-frame, the high box, the big climbing frame, springboards, benches and more. It has been lots of fun and the whole class have enjoyed it!

Hi, I’m Freya and I am the ruler of the blog this week. Read on to find out some of the exciting things we’ve been doing this week.

Speedy Skills. In maths, we have been working on our different ‘Speedy Skills’. We did a counting challenge and we have discovered a new game called ‘Daily 10’. You have to choose a time and pick a topic and try to answer the questions as fast as you can. It is lots of fun.

Writing  – Ancient Greece.  In writing, we have been each focusing on Ancient Greece as our writing topic. We all wrote about different Ancient Greek gods or goddesses, created fact files about mythical creatures of our choice and then wrote reports on Ancient Greek celebrations and festivals.

This or That. This week, we had two tasks. Our Sustainable Squad task was to make a mind map about our dream jobs. The Animal Adventurers task was all about fish. You could do anything you wanted in a creative and engaging way. See below for some of the completed tasks this week.

Class visitors. On Friday morning, P4-7 enjoyed having a few visitors to help us on our business project for the Christmas Craft fair. We learned about different parts of a business and how to run a successful business. We even got to take part in a fun competition. Thanks to Brian and Kristina for coming in to see us.

Castle fort building. On Friday we had a great afternoon building the best castle forts ever! We watched a short film and enjoyed time in our cosy castle table forts. Some people brought in dressing gowns, onesies, pillows, blankets and all that cosy stuff. It was a fun way to finish off our topic.

Thanks for reading the blog this week. I hope you haven’t fallen asleep and managed to read to the end.

Bye 👍😊✌️💖😎

Hello and welcome to this week’s blog. I’m Magnus and I’ll be sharing about what we’ve been doing.

Resilience. On Wednesday the class were learning about resilience. I interviewed the class to find out about what they had learned.

Magnus: What can you tell me about resilience?

Megan: It is when something is hard and you don’t give up.

Ava T: You are able to stand up for yourself and trust in your abilities.

Rebekah: You just keep trying even if you feel it is hard.

Eilidh S: You can use the ‘Power Pose’ to help you feel powerful and gives you a boost of confidence.

Big Question. For our Big Question this week, we’ve been learning about life in Scottish Castles. Each group had to learn about different stuff and there were 7 groups. The groups were learning about transport, food, hobbies, clothing, houses, health care and jobs. Each group set up a stall in the ‘Museum of Scottish Castle Life’ and then P1/2 and P3/4 came in to learn from us. It was fun and the small kids all seemed happy.

Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh Visit. On Friday afternoon, P5-7 had a workshop with Eve from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh all about Scottish roots. We learned about the names of Scottish plants, stories behind them, tasted some different plants, created ‘Frankenstein’ plants and also thought about plants that held memories for us. We all had a super time and enjoyed learning about plants in a different way.

Thank you for reading my blog this week.

Hello my name is Megan and I am going to tell you what we did this week in P5/6/7.

Monday: We played race to 50. How to play is that we got two spinners and one had numbers to ten and the other had a + or a – and you spun it. For example I might spin a 4 and a – so i got -4 for my score. It was lots of fun.

Tuesday: in music with Mrs. Pottinger we were playing the Weller man on the keyboards,  ukuleles, and xylophones and we also helped the P3/4s learn how to use Canva and we made cool comic strips.

Wednesday: We had art and did cat pattern pictures. We also played ‘The case of the Missing Sceptre’ and it was like a real life Cluedo but Scottish castle style. We did it for our big question and we did writing about saving the marshmallows too.

Thursday: In the afternoon we played the game that we did on Wednesday again and it was really fun. In P.E we did rugby and we have been doing it for a couple of weeks and some people have really enjoyed it.

Friday: We had a big play in the morning and we got to watch a film and it was The Sword in the Stone. All the P6s did our last playleaders training and we all had so much fun. We did games like jungle on fire and farmer farmer.

Thanks to everyone who supported the bookshelf at Tesco during September. We raised £102.50 for the school.  Tesco community champion Derry (and also Mrs A’s dad) came in to present us with a cheque. A big thanks to Mrs Bannister and the P5s from our class for sorting the books to put up to Tesco.

Thanks for reading my blog. Have a lovely October holidays and if you are going away have a nice time

Megan 😊

Hi my name is Rebekah and I am writing the blog for P5,6,7.

Maths – Which one doesn’t belong? In maths this week both of the group have mostly been doing subtraction. Each week we do different activities for flashback focus. This week we played ‘Which one doesn’t belong?’ It is a game that you have to chose a reason for one of the numbers being the odd one out. There were different reasons from people in the class and no wrong answers. It was cool to hear other people’s ideas. Here are some example of ‘Which one doesn’t belong?’

Big Question – Scottish Castles. We did all about different Scottish castles and we were to design a mini-book with our group which  Mrs. A put us into.  In our books we had to write (by hand) facts with reasons why the castle was important to Scotland and famous figures who were associated with the castles.

Writing – 100 club! Our theme for this week was ‘Pigeon Impossible’. We had to try and  involve long, medium and short sentences in our writing. We did research and created posters about different types of pigeon. We were still trying to get 100%. We also wrote pigeon adventure stories and created Super Spy Profiles about different animals.  We managed to get 100% for our Spy Profiles.

Sustainable Squad. In sustainable squad this week, the whole class had to make a machine that cleans water and filters water. We had to make it out of junk modeling or resources in the classroom.  When we did our sustainable squad most of us did it in groups. Here is some things that we did!⬇️

Thank you for reading the blog.

I hope you enjoyed it, bye! ❤️

Hi world! I’m Anthea B. Here are some things we have been doing this week in primary 5/6/7.

Maths Week Scotland.  This week is Maths Week Scotland which means we celebrate maths. We have played some games like BEWARE and RACE TO 30 to celebrate maths. We also have a Sumdog competition were we have to answer sums to get higher up the leaderboard within the whole of Scotland. The class with the highest score at the end of the week gets a prize.

Homework Presentations. On Monday we presented our homework projects about people In The Arts. People have been doing things about Peppa Pig, Ava Max, Maggie Adamson, Taylor Swift, Bruce Peebles, Chris Pratt, Ella Bright, Ariana Grande, Sir David Attenborough and Benson Boone. They were all very interesting.

Big Question. We have been learning about Scottish castles and key Scottish figures. On Wednesday we worked in groups of 2 or 3 to research famous people who lived back in that time like Mary Queen of Scots, Saint Margaret and William Wallace. There were presentations, plays, puppet shows, models and detailed pieces of artwork created.

Writing poetry. Last, we have written some poetry about the mini movie, Something Fishy. We wrote ‘Something Fishy’ adventures and acrostic poems. See below for the selection of poems that were written.

I hope you enjoyed it 🙂 🙂 Bye!

Hi its me Ava G and I’m in charge this week of the blog.

This week we have been doing lots of fun stuff.

Monday – silent maths. We played silent math games which was when we had to work in groups and find numbers from 1 – 100. We weren’t allowed to help each other but it was fun. Mrs. A pointed out how the puzzle worked and then it was a bit easier.

Tuesday – Floating and Sinking. We had to test 5 things in salt water and the same 5 things in fresh water and record if the things floated or sank. Some things floated in salt water but sank in fresh water.

Wednesday – Flying Turtle writing. We had to make a flying turtle fact files based on the short animation Once in a life time.

Thursday – This or That. In the afternoon, we had chance to work on our this or that stuff. This or that is where we have to complete tasks by Friday lunch time. Culture crew this week is to plan a party on a event or special day in South America. Sustainable squad is to find out about what education is like for children in different countries.

Friday – Boat testing. Our big question is how water is used to attack castles. So we made boats and tested to see how buoyant they were this morning. The boat ‘Pom-Pom Mania’ created by Eilidh S, Eilidh R and Ava T held the most marbles and everyone’s boats floated.

I’m Ava T and I’m writing the blog this week. I hope you enjoy it. 

CASE Shetland visit.  On Tuesday, CASE Shetland came in to run a workshop all about engineers and what they do. We first spoke about different skills that engineers use like communication, creativity and problem solving.  Then we all took part in a bridge building competition using Knex as our building material. We had an hour and a half to design, test and adapt our designs. Then we tested the bridges to see how much they could hold. The winning  team was Rebekah, Isaac, Alagna and Ava G.  Everyone did well but that team scored the best ration of bridge weight to how much it could hold! We all really enjoyed it and could see lots of different skills that we were using throughout the challenge.

Writing. Our stimulus for writing is Crab Phare which is basically a giant crab who collects ships. People have written horror stories ( me ), making friends with it, and lots more awesome story adventures. We have also created fact files about crabs and worked in groups to create persuasive presentations about protecting our oceans.

Big Question. Our big question is all about engineering and how people used different engineering skills to build and defend castles. Using what we had learned about defending castles and engineering skills, Mrs. A challenged us to create our own trebuchets and catapults. There were lots of super designs created and we definitely had fun trying to fire “cannonballs” with our designs.

Hello everyone. This week it is me, Emma-Lee, who will be updating you on what has been happening in P5/6/7.

Big Question. In Big Question we have been learning about different types of Scottish castles. We have been learning about Motte and Bailey castles, Stone keep castles and Concentric castles. Some of us have been also been learning about castles and palaces in Scotland.

Writing.  This week at writing we watched a clip called Embarked and then did some writing on it. We have written imaginative stories, ‘how to’ instructions and balanced arguments too. Also on Wednesday we got 100 percent in writing, so we are going to have a Starbucks day on Friday.

Morning Maths Madness. Morning Maths Maddness is just a maths exercise to get our brains ready for the rest of the day. This week we have been doing counting circles, and solve + do exercises.

Culture Crew.  For Culture Crew this week we have been doing about 3 geographic features of south America.

Sustainable squad.  For Sustainable squad we are doing all about zero hunger/fairtrade. Some people made posters and presentation, and even animations.

Tesco bookshelf. For the month of September, we are running the bookshelf at Tesco to raise funds for the school. If you are in Tesco, please feel free to browse the books.

Hello its Eilidh Smith here and I have the POWER of this blog this week.

This week we have been learning about castles. We all were split up in to groups and were told to make realistic castles. So, my group made a fairy princess mushroom fantasy castle.

Also we have been learning about Sustainable Development goal 1 – No Poverty.

We have been writing about Spy Fox who is a Fox that tries to defeat Dr Hammer. We have written stories about Spy Fox, created newspaper reports and also made made posters about new gadgets.

In maths, we did a maths really race with Mrs. A, P4/5 and Miss Mann. We were working on our times tables and this time focused on the 2x, 5x and 10x tables. It was fun because we didn’t do a times table that was hard.