Congratulations to the children from P5 and P5a who took part in the French choir event on Wednesday 21st September at Cathkin.  They showed lots of enthusiasm and put on a great performance.  Well done to you all!

Today we visited the Spanish Café and got to sample Spanish omelette, chorizo, Spanish rice, tortilla chips and bread and jam.  We listened to Spanish music and some of us even did a little bit of dancing.

Tomorrow we will visit the Spanish photobooth and on Thursday we can wear a yellow or red top to school to represent Spain.

As part of Hallside Modern Languages week, our homework this week is to create a door sign for the School Office in the Decant building.  The nameplate should be on A4 paper and should be landscape.  The sign should be written in both French(Le Bureau de L’ecole) and English with the words clearly visible.  Pictures can be added too to help the younger children read the sign and you might want to consider using the colours of the French flag.

We are also going to be holding elections for the Pupil Council in class next Tuesday 27th September so anyone who is interested should begin to prepare a speech at home this week to be delivered in class on the aforementioned date.  The speech should have an introduction and explain what you will do if you are elected and what qualities you have that make you a strong candidate.

Some of us have found estimating numbers on a numberline and rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 quite tricky so I have included some games for anyone who wishes to work on this at home.

Mrs Duffy

Dear P5 Parents

Welcome to our class blog!

Here you will find information about homework, important dates, pictures of us doing various activities and useful links to help reinforce learning at home.

Feel free to comment on anything you see!

With thanks

Mrs Duffy

On Tuesday 14th June the P2s participated in a fabulous cheer dance led by a dance instructor called Lisa.  The P3s were taught Scottish Fusion which is a mixture of street dance and Scottish traditional dancing.  They all had an amazing time!

P2s

P3s

Thankfully the rain stayed off on Monday and the children had a great time competing in their teams!

On Tuesday 24th May our butterflies started to emerge from their chrysalis.  They are Painted Lady butterflies.

On Thursday 26th May we took them to the John Muir wildlife garden at the back of the school to release them.

As you can see, they children were amazed when they flew out of their butterfly habitat.

Here you can see one resting in the grass not long after it was released.

The children thoroughly enjoyed our topic and now have a much better understanding about the life cycle of the butterfly.

Our caterpillars are now in their chrysalis and have been moved to the butterfly habitat.  We can’t wait to see them emerge!

Here is a picture of our caterpillars on Day 1:

Here are our caterpillars on Day 6:

The children had a fabulous time yesterday on our trip.  They saw a show in the Planetarium, they tried out all the different experiments in the Science Mall and they took part in a Forces workshop.