Welcome to Primary 5
Welcome back Primary 5! I hope you’ve all had a great summer and are looking forward to a fantastic year. It’s going to be a busy one with lots going on!
General Information
Please ensure you have a pair of shoes such as plimsolls or trainers to change into inside the school building. Time spent outdoors and in the woods means that outdoor shoes make the carpets dirty! Our House Captains will carry out spotchecks and you can earn points for your House by making sure you have your indoor shoes on!
Beginning after the Spring Break, our P.E. day is a Tuesday so please remember your P.E. Kit. Don’t forget to bring your t-shirt, shorts and indoor shoes.
Our other P.E. session will be the Bikeability Training which will be on a Friday. Additional information about this has been e-mailed to parents/carers already.
To stay hydrated, children can bring a bottle of water to school. Water is encouraged as it is the healthiest option. Please avoid juice in bottles. If juice is in the bottle, it can be taken at break and lunch.
Homework / Diary
Homework will be issued on a Monday and can be returned any time during the week. All homework should be returned no later than Friday. I appreciate how busy life is so if homework cannot be completed, please put a note in the diary. Children, please take pride in completing your homework just as you would in the classroom. The children and myself will add a comment about our behaviour, work or effort each week in the diary. Parents / Carers should discuss this with the child when the diary comes home on a Monday and then add your comment.
August
Art Gallery
Enjoying the Art Gallery in the Woods . . . especially their own artwork!
Numeracy
Practising Place Value for Numbers to 10,000.
Alliteration
We’ve been learning about how we can use alliteration to make our story writing much more interesting and descriptive.
This girl created a super tongue-twister using alliteration.
Science
We had lots of fun rubbing the balloons on our hair to create static electricity.
Working together to investigate static electricity.
Woods
Enjoying different things we find in the woods from insects to twigs.
September
Reading Buddies
We met our new reading buddies for this year and are already enjoying sharing stories with each other.
Dance-A-Thon
Some of our best moves!!
October
Halloween
Don’t we all look amazing in our costumes!
November
Victorian Homework Presentations
The children have worked so hard at home to research and present Food, Inventions and some other things from the Victorian Times. They presented their projects to the rest of the class and received both teacher and peer feedback. Great Job!
Click on the link to see the photographs.
Victorian Showcase
On Friday 24th November, we had our Victorian Showcase for our families. So many of them came in to see us all share something we had learned, to play Victorian Games and to make Peg Dolls with us. We think we were amazing!
December
Our Christmas Party
We had the best time playing lots of games and dancing.
Didn’t we look amazing!
Delivering Christmas Wishes
January
We started our Mandarin Lessons today with a new teacher from China. He shared lots of information about where he is from and we practised some mandarin words. It was fun!
Uddingston Hockey Club are in every Wednesday to teach us Hockey. We are all doing really well and are very enthusiastic during the lessons. We will get to play in a tournament against other schools in March.
We started our Forest School Sessions and are loving being out in the woods.
February
In Technology we have been leaning about the African Musical Instrument called the Kalimba. We made our own Kalimbas after experimenting with different materials to see which would give us the best sound.
March
What a busy month it’s been!!
World Book Day – we dressed up as some of our favourite book characters. Can you guess who they are?
We’ve been learning how to draw and write mixed fractions. We had a great day in the sunshine drawing them on the playground with the chalk.
We used the skills we had learned during our Hockey Lessons in practice when we attended the Hockey Tournament at Uddingston Hockey Club. We were amazing!
We spent lots of money at the P7 Fun Day!
Exciting times on the obstacle course for Autism Awareness.
Despite the miserable weather, we managed to deliver some Spring Messages when we posted cards we’d made through letter boxes in Chatelherault Crescent. We waved our flags as we walked to raise awareness of Autism – although the rain did dampen them a bit.
To help look after the environment, we have been doing some litter picking in our local area. Sadly, we found quite a lot of cans and plastic rubbish. We worry that these could hurt animals and would like to encourage everyone to put rubbish in the bins or hold on to it until they can find a bin.
