Primary 5/6 2023-24

I can’t believe we are at the summer holidays already! What a fast year!

Thank you very much to P5/6 for a brilliant school year and lots of hard work.

Have a super summer holidays everybody!

Best wishes,

Miss Hutchison

This term P5/6 have been working along with Anne Marie and the daycare residents at Fernlea to make their very own needle felting projects!

In groups the pupils made felt pictures to go up on display in daycare at Fernlea. The pupils made sketches and used their own ideas to make their final pieces with Anne Marie.

They also made backgrounds for felt sheep that the daycare clients had made which we framed and presented to the daycare clients on our visit along with the felt pictures.

Before our visit P5/6 presented their work to the other classes in the school. On Tuesday, we were invited to Fernlea for juice and cupcakes! We visited the daycare clients and the Fernlea residents.

Thank you very much to Anne Marie for all of her help on this project this term and to Carolann & Laureen at daycare for having us! P5/6 have all really enjoyed the project and our visit to Fernlea! Well done P5/6! 🙂

P5/6 had a visit from Eleanor Hutcheon today from STEM Outreach. She taught the class all about circuits and electricity.

We started by standing in a circle to demonstrate how electricity goes around a circuit, using ping-pong balls and cones. We learned lots of new vocabulary, such as electrons and components!

Then we got to try making our own circuits. We used these circuits to light bulbs, power fans, and even play music!

Eleanor then showed us how to make our own game controller out of play dough! Using a circuit, she used play dough to conduct the electricity. The play dough game controller was perfect for playing the piano and Super Mario on the board and we all got to have a try! Who would have thought play dough could be a game controller?

Thanks again to Eleanor and STEM Outreach for this brilliant workshop today – we all loved it!

P5/6 had fun dressing up in their pyjamas for Red Nose Day!

P5/6 all dressed up as book characters for World Book Day! We had a fun day celebrating reading and our favourite stories.

We made dioramas and used these to discuss the importance of setting in stories. We then added some character puppets to our dioramas! We made setting and character descriptions then finally we wrote scripts to go along with our dioramas and characters.

We also made our own bookshop to practice sticking to a budget for maths and watched the World Book Day BBC Live Lesson – what a busy day!

Hello! I hope everyone is enjoying their day in the snow!

Below are some home learning ideas that P5/6 can do while at home with the weather. Do as much or as little as you please!

Literacy:

• Write your news – write about what you have all gotten up to on your day off, did you play in the snow?
• Spelling – practice any tricky words that you have found difficult to spell before. You could even try write some words in the snow! Use any spelling game or activity that you wish, more ideas for spelling games are on our class Team.
• Reading – read your AR book or any other book that you have. If you finish a book, do your AR quiz online or a book review from our class Team!
• Websites to practice literacy: First News: https://engage.firstnews.co.uk/ Wordle: https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html Spelling Bee: https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee

Numeracy:

• Practice a times table of your choice – activity ideas on our class Team.
• Log onto Sumdog and play some games: https://www.sumdog.com/user/sign_in
• Find some maths games on Topmarks. Here is some games linked to our topic on time: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock and https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time
• Practice our Time topic – use a calendar and ask an adult to give you some calendar questions like we did last week. You could also practice telling the time using a digital or analogue clock in your home.

Topic:

• Research facts about the Tundra. You could look up some of the animals who live in the Tundra or the types of people who live there. You could write down your facts or make up a word document or powerpoint presentation! If you make anything online make sure to email it to me!
• Make a Tundra poster – add facts and pictures of the people and animals who live there. Remember to include what the Tundra looks and feels like.
• Draw pictures of a Tundra animal of your choice. Look up all the different kinds of animals you can choose from.

Health and Wellbeing:

• Get out in the snow and play if you can!
• Do a Joe Wicks work out on YouTube for some PE!

Hopefully see you all at school again soon!

Miss Hutchison

P5/6 all looked super in their Fair Isle celebrating Wool Week.

P5/6 have been extremely busy this term focusing on our core numeracy skills, I cannot believe it is almost the end of term 1 already! We have been looking at place value, rounding, estimation, addition and subtraction.

This week we began to look at angles. We recapped our knowledge on the types of angles by finding angles in shapes. We even went outside and drew some pictures and shapes with chalk to find angles in! Next week we will look at using a protractor to find out the size of an angle and what sort of angle it is.

This term P5/6 have been doing our class topic on Europe. We have been learning lots about the different countries across Europe by carrying out investigations on the different countries in groups. We have discovered information including capital cities, populations, bordering countries, famous people, popular food and more! The pupils have all completed posters displaying information on their countries as well as doing presentations to the class on what they have found out.

We also looked at famous landmarks across Europe and created some brilliant artwork! We then made some sculptures of the Eiffel Tower out of Lego.

P5/6 have also been working hard to learn the different flags across Europe and have been recording these in their topic jotters.

All of this new knowledge will come in handy for P6 pupils who will be getting the chance to try the Euro Quiz later in the year to test what they have learned! More learning resources and games can be found here: Euroquiz Resources — SEET .

Welcome to our P5/6 blog for 2023/24!