Pupil Learning Blog P5 2026 Term 3 

Literacy – Reading 

P5 have wrapped up their work on Fantastic Mr Fox and have been getting stuck into their new novel – The Borrowers.

Arwyn: I loved learning about animals because it was more interesting than human characters.  

Elliot: I loved that in the book there were different stages to the plot and it was very creative because it had lots of twists and turns.  

Shea: I liked doing news articles and wanted posters because it was really interesting.  

Caled: I liked we picked a side for which characters we supported, it was like debating.  

Lily: I really liked doing the hot seating because it was really entertaining to watch people act as the characters and try to answer questions in character.  

Florence: The Borrowers is really interesting to read but it does have some tricky words, but I am enjoying it overall.  

Harley: I like doing the metalinguistics tasks because it was interesting to see what the words mean. 

Sophie: I like the type of language they use. It can be difficult at times but it is really unusual the way they speak and I liked the detail in the characters.  

 

Literacy – Writing – Exposition 

Jessie: I really liked making posters with our writing because it made it more interesting. 

Morris: I liked doing exposition writing about a famous figure because we got to pick whoever we wanted that inspired us. We had to do our own research and find out our own information about them on the Chromebooks. 

Daniel: I liked doing food miles because it was really interesting and the activities that we did were really fun and gave us lots of inspiration. 

Arwyn: I like using the Chromebook to do writing because it makes it easier to get your ideas down.  

Shea: I liked doing posters in our groups because you can do more team work and get to know other people and their ideas.  

Numeracy – place value, fractions, decimals, percentages, addition, subtraction, dividing, multiplication, money, shape, time, angles 

Halle: I like doing multiplication because it gets stuck in your head and you can remember the answers quickly. I think the martial arts multiply test helps me to remember them.  

Elliot: I really liked the songs for timetables because its very catchy and  its a fun way to learn – because its a rap, it makes people happy.  

Kaitlyn: I liked doing fractions because we had the pizza slices which was fun and we could work with one another and it was easy when you got the hang of it.  

Hannah: I liked doing percentages because it was really fun and I was good at it and its also really useful for future jobs when you grow up.  

Lucy: I liked doing addition because it got your brain going in a different way and it was quite a fun challenge to do, for example, the mental maths stuff on the big board was my favourite.  

Florence: I liked doing the rounding because it was kind of tricky but then I got the hang of it and it was really fun, stand up sit down helped me the most.  

Leah: I liked doing shape because we had real shapes you could actually touch. I figured out that there are loads of angles within shapes. 

 

Topic – Architecture 

Kaitlyn: I liked when we went on the trip learning about Mackintosh and we actually saw some of his works in real life.  

Arwyn: I liked doing the assembly because it was really funny and exciting to do. I loved preparing it and the outfits.  

Layla: I liked learning about Mackintosh and making the paper-stained glass flowers .  

Walter: I liked researching about each of the architects and finding our own information.  

Hannah: I liked doing the assembly because I really liked acting it out and rehearsing it before we performed it.  

Sophie: I enjoyed learning about his unique art style and I think it’s really inspirational.