We’re now well into the New Year and looking forward to what the new term is going to bring. There’s loads to get done before Easter so let’s see what P5 have been up to…

Literacy

Writing

We had great fun making our Scottish language Christmas poems. Hopefully some of you were able to scan the QR codes to hear your child reading.

We have now moved onto procedural writing which covers things like recipes, instructions or even building a snowman. Keeping things simple and sequentially correct are core to this style of writing.

The boys and girls are looking forward to the end of this section as that’s when we get to make some chocolate cake! Yum :-).

 

Numeracy

We continue to try and improve our times tables through daily practice and by running the challenge sheets. Lots of the pupils are moving on and some may even complete the challenges by June!

Remember to keep practising at home as this is instrumental in making good progress.

We made some cool percentage pictures using 100 squares which we filled in and counted.

Calum Brand’s Percentage Pikachu

PE

For outdoor PE the pupils have taken over! They are deciding on the lessons and running them themselves. Thus far we’ve had Olivia and Joy running tennis and Kayden and Mason running touch rugby. There are many other lessons to come from different pupils – it should be fun!

STEM

Indi City was finalised just before Christmas. The pupils had all sorts of fun making and running it. But why don’t you see for yourself by following the link below….

Topic

Our topic this term is one of Mr Connor’s favourites. The Scottish Wars of Independence. There is so much to share here from the key people such as Robert the Bruce and William Wallace, to the battles and political intrigue. We’ll be learning the history, making swords and shields and possibly getting involved in a little re-enactment if the weather allows.

William Wallace

‘We watched some episodes which showed us about the people in the Wars of Independence’ – Alaina

I’m excited to be watching Braveheart as I want to know what it is about’ – Eva S

Music

Our external music lessons are coming to an end. We’ve covered so much – from boomwhackers and Katy Perry to learning to sign Makaton. We’ll be presenting our work to the school at assembly on the 24th of January – we’ll be sure to get a video of the proceedings onto YouTube as soon as we can.

‘Sometimes in music we did Incredibox which is a fun music game where you make different beats’ – Calum

‘We did body percussion where we use different parts of our bodies to make music’ – James

‘Using the Boomwhackers was fun’ – Olivia (it was also very noisy – Mr Connor)

Assembly

Our class assembly will be on the 7th of February and will be based on all of the learning we have done this year. We’d love to see you there but if you can’t make it it’ll be on YouTube.