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Lights, Camera, Action!

May 17, 2021 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

While P6 have been taking part in their Play Leader training on Monday afternoons, P5 have been busy with Mrs Douglas, planning and preparing for their own stop motion animations.

Over the past 4 weeks, Liam, Eveline, Conor and Freya have been exploring how stop motion animations are created. They have written their own storyboards and spent time creating resources for 2 different short stories. These stories will be shared with P1/2 when they are ready.

Today the children began filming their stories and quickly learned that it was not going to be a simple task! It requires a lot of patience, trial and error. The group are learning so much from each other and it has been lovely to see everyone being so supportive.

Here are some behind the scenes shots of their filming session earlier today.

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Blackout!

April 28, 2021 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

Today Mrs Douglas did a science experiment with the class to find out which material would work best to black out our windows during an air raid in World War 2.

We had 4 materials to choose from. We made a hypothesis, writing down which materials would be most effective or which materials would be least effective.

Then we attached the materials to the windows and went outside to test them. From inside the classroom , Mrs Henderson shone a torch behind each material and we had to see if any light could be seen on the other side of the window.

Then we had to attach our different materials to the windows.

We didn’t think this would block out the light.

We were surprised that the white paper blocked out the torch light.

The red cellophane was the least effective and we were surprised to find that the light was blocked by the white paper!

Welcome to Mrs Douglas!

April 20, 2021 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

We are delighted to welcome Mrs Douglas into our class this term. She will be with us for 7 weeks as part of her teacher training and we are looking forward to getting to know her.

Having fun together

March 24, 2021 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

Over the past week we have been sharing thoughts on how to stay positive and how we can help other people feel good about themselves. On Monday, everyone decided on some positive words to paint on to a rock and chose a design to accompany it. These will be displayed outside the school next term for all to enjoy.

We have also been finding out even more interesting facts about Space and enjoyed looking at some of the PowerPoints that were created during Online Learning.

On Tuesday we visited the frog pond in the nature garden. It was good fun trying to find the frogs hiding in the heather. They were very camouflaged!

On Wednesday, we had lots of fun with our literacy Escape Room challenge. It was very active! Each team raced to find clues hidden outside and then brought them back indoors to solve as a team. Everyone did really well to take turns and involve every team member in the game.

Just before the next rain shower came, we squeezed in an Easter egg hunt and had fun re-hiding our eggs for someone else to find!

Phew! What a busy time and still two more days to go! Well done everyone!

Anders enjoyed creating his own spacesuit whilst Conor found out if your eyes really do change shape when you go into Space!

Kathryn and Liam worked well together to find out facts on the Solar System.

Great team work in the Escape Room challenge!

Hannah quickly found her egg in the “forest”.

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Can you tell what it is yet?

March 20, 2021 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

After three days of careful painting, we finally finished our collaborative mystery picture! It was exciting to piece together each part of the puzzle and discover what we had made!

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Creative Class!

March 18, 2021 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

Primary 5/6 spent another lovely day being creative on Wednesday! We took a wander down to the beach in the sunshine in search of some interesting natural items to use back in the classroom. We had great fun “purlin in da ebb” to look for crabs, fish and other interesting living things.

Just look at these some of the fantastic pictures P5/6 made using the items they found!! More photos to be added so keep an eye out for them coming very soon!

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Welcome back!

March 16, 2021 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

We’re only a couple of days in and already we have been busy reconnecting with each other through various games and crafts. This week we started a collaborative painting project. Each person has a grid to paint and when all the grids come together it will reveal a mystery picture! Watch this space to find out what it is!

We have also enjoyed making some new bookmarks in preparation for getting back into our daily reading in class. There were even families of bookmarks made…of all sizes!

During our online learning, we began to look at stars and constellations as part of our Space topic. We had fun today finding out about the Zodiac sign our birthdays fall under and what that constellation looks like. Can you guess what they are?

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Merry Christmas from P5/6!

December 24, 2020 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

All of the elves in P5/6 would like to wish you a Merry Christmas!

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Group Presentations

December 24, 2020 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

P5/6 have spent many weeks researching an area from our Biodiversity topic and have been preparing a PowerPoint presentation to share their learning. It was wonderful to finally see their presentations this week and give each other feedback as to what we thought went well and what could be done to make it even better. Each group looked at the importance of plants and how they benefit society in different ways.

Well done P5/6!

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Christmas Party!

December 16, 2020 Mrs Henderson 2 Comments

What a brilliant afternoon we had today in P5/6! We managed to squeeze in quite a few games in a short space of time and a quick snack before it was time to go home.

Mrs Henderson’s favourite game was the “drawing on your head” game. Brilliant concentration and amazing results! I wonder if you can tell what they were asked to draw…?

Unfortunately we didn’t manage to capture any photos of the fabulous dancing that was going on in the P5/6 classroom, but I can tell you it was full of fun and there were smiles all round!