Happy New Year Everyone! P5A have had a lovely and busy first week back. For literacy we have been continuing to develop our reading comprehension skills and have been writing a recount of our Christmas holidays. In numeracy we have started two new topics – time and money. We are looking forward to developing our skills. We have also been thinking about our assembly which will be on Scotland! We have enjoyed talking finding out different facts about Scotland and singing some funny Scottish songs. We also made oil pastel drawings of thistles, which are the national flower of Scotland. Here are some of our favourite bits this week:

Blaire – I enjoyed the thistle drawing & art with Mr Bennett.

Ammie-Leigh – I really enjoyed P.E. and practicing our assembly.

Murray – P.E was really good.

Zara – I loved drawing the thistle.

Donna – I enjoyed writing my Christmas Day recount.

Erin – The thistle drawing was my favourite part.

Jodie – I liked writing my New Years Resolutions.

Ellis – I liked doing the time assessment!

Ross – The thistle drawing was really fun.

Brooke – I enjoyed P.E. and the maths mystery work.

Farrah – I enjoyed maths this week.

Maisie – P.E was really good.

Katie – Maths was really good this week.

Enjoy the weekend.

Reminder-

Home Learning due in on Monday 14th January

Please try to remember to bring your Outdoor PE kit every week !

Parts for our Assembly will be given out on Monday 14th January

We have had a lovely last week of school. Here are some of our highlights and things that we are looking forward to this Christmas.

Donna – I enjoyed art this week!

Callum – I am excited for the Christmas Holidays!

Katie – I can’t wait until Christmas Eve where I get to shout up the chimney for Santa! I loved the panto!

Blaire – I enjoyed making the Christmas tree baubles and I’m looking forward to getting my Christmas Eve Box.

Erin – I enjoyed P.E this week. I’m really looking forward to Christmas!

Zara – I enjoyed watching our movie in our PJs and  being in charge of the computer at church service!

Shelbi – I enjoyed P.E this week.

Mia – I loved the fun spelling activities.

Tamsyn – I can’t wait to sing One More Day on Christmas Eve.

Maisie – I enjoyed the church service.

Ross – I can’t wait till Christmas Day!

Kai – I enjoyed making the Christmas Baubles.

Ammie-Leigh – I’m excited for my cousins to visit.

Murray and Brooke – We enjoyed making the Christmas Baubles.

We hope you all have a fantastic Christmas and New Year!

We have had a great week in P5. On Monday we walked to the library and got the chance to listen to great stories by Lea Taylor. We also made up some of our own. On Tuesday we had so much fun at our Christmas Party with P5b. We played lots of fun party games and got to show off our dance moves. For our Caribbean topic we have been thinking about persuasive writing and have been working on creating persuasive holiday brochures for different Caribbean Islands. We are focusing on mental maths and times tables too. In French we are learning lots of Christmas vocabulary.

Here are some other highlights:

Ammie-Leigh – I really enjoyed making the holiday brochure.

Blaire – The Christmas Party was so much fun.

Katie – I enjoyed the library visit and making our stories.

Zara – I really liked creating the holiday brochure.

Mia – I liked making the holiday brochure.

Tamsyn – I enjoyed the library visit.

Shelbi – I had a lot of fun at the Christmas Party.

Maisie – I liked learning new French words.

Farrah – My elves did a few naughty things in the classroom!

Murray – I liked listening to the stories by the author.

Erin and Brooke – We loved the Christmas Party.

This week we have been thinking and planning for the Christmas Fayre. We discussed advertising and made colourful posters to attract customers. We have also been learning about instructional writing and we wrote instructions for how to make our reindeer hot chocolate jars. In maths we have been learning about perimeter and area – we can even work out the area of a triangle! We also got to listen to some amazing bassoon music from the Genovia Quartet and we talked about the magic of music. We also had another session of handball and are really developing our skills.

Well done to Ross Gibson who was awarded a certificate at our assembly for always showing our school values.

Here are some of our best bits:

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Ammie-Leigh: I enjoyed finding out our new story that we are reading in class – we chose Awful Auntie by David Walliams.

Shelbi: I enjoyed playing Around the Class.

Zara:  I loved making our painting sunsets for art.

Farrah: I enjoyed maths this week.

Blaire: I liked singing the happy song and thinking about what makes us happy.

Murray: I liked writing instructions for our enterprise.

Luke: I liked Handball.

Rory: Handball was fun this week.

Mia: I really liked music.

Jodie: I enjoyed doing the Mystery maths activity with my learning partner.

Katie: I enjoyed writing instructions.

Enjoy the weekend!

Our highlights this week:

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Murray: I enjoyed literacy boxes.

Samuel: I liked P.E.

Ross: P.E was really fun.

Kai: I liked using the Going for Gold booklets to help me learn the times tables.

Callum: I liked learning about Big Deal Little Deal with Mrs Aitken.

Evan: Handball was really good this week.

Lily: I enjoyed learning about perimeter.

Lucas He: I liked drawing shapes and working out the perimeter.

Zara: I liked drawing poppies in art

Katie: I liked French this week.

Blaire: I enjoyed handball.

Donna: Learning about pulse and rhythm was really fun with Danielle and Lloyd.

Jodie: I liked the around the class multiplication game.

Farrah: Around the class was really fun.

Shelbi: I liked Handball.

Maisie: Music was so much fun!

**Remember to wear odd socks for Anti-Bullying week on Monday.**

We have had a great week with lots of fantastic learning taking place. In literacy we focused on building up tension and suspense for our spooky Halloween stories and we had great fun writing them. On Wednesday we also had fun dookin’ for apples! In numeracy we are learning how to calculate the perimeter of a shape and have been challenging ourselves with our times table knowledge. We also loved getting outside for Outdoor Learning Day, where we played the alphabet challenge and created raps about the playground. We also had our first session of Handball which we really enjoyed!

*Remember P.E. kits for Handball on Wednesdays and P.E. on Thursdays.

We have had a lovely first week back! We got a special visit from Mrs McGregor from Bathgate Academy who did some fun place value work with us. We have also been learning about measuring length and we played a fun loop game that showed equivalent measurements. In literacy we have been thinking about Autumn and we wrote a senses poem. We used our senses to describe a story about jumping into a pile of leaves and ending up in a magical land! We also started our new topic which is the Caribbean. Here are some of our highlights:

Jodie – I enjoyed using maths boxes.

Arran – I enjoyed Mrs McGregor’s maths lesson.

Luke – I enjoyed P.E where we did different fitness activities.

Lucas K – I liked the Caribbean lessons!

Samuel – I liked PE this week.

Mia – I enjoyed using the literacy boxes.

Ammie – Leigh – I liked using my senses to describe my Autumn story.

Tamsyn – Literacy Boxes are good!

Maisie – I liked writing the Autumn story.

Donna – I enjoyed maths this week.

Erin – I liked Show Me boards in maths.

Blaire – I enjoyed Maths this week.

Katie – I really liked writing my story.

Brooke – I liked learning about the Caribbean.

Things we enjoyed this week:

Ruby – I enjoyed doing the maths assessment.

Lucas H – I liked the maths assessment.

Jodie – I enjoyed the three stages of dribbling in PE.

Blaire – I enjoyed literacy boxes and P.E.

Katie – I enjoyed the writing lessons this week.

Zara – I enjoyed reading with my reading group.

Shelbi – I liked maths assessment.

Donna – I enjoyed writing the start of the story using my senses.

Ellis – I liked the maths assessment

Maisie – I enjoyed spelling this week.

Luke – P.E was fun!

Murray – I enjoyed the writing lesson.

Mia and Tamsyn – We enjoyed P.E. this week.

We have had a busy week with lots of great learning taking place.

Literacy: This week we have been using Literacy Boxes which we really enjoy! We also learned about synonyms and played a fun game with our learning partner. We have been writing story settings, describing them in as much detail as possible using our five senses. We also really enjoyed making up a short funny story in our groups.

Numeracy: We have been focusing on multiplication and have learned the strategy for multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. We had loads of fun doing Multiplication Stations, where each station had a different activity. We also played Big Maths Beat That and used Maths Boxes too.

Here are some of our other highlights:

Blaire: I really enjoyed the Literacy and Maths Boxes.

Katie: I liked learning about synonyms and the learning partner activity.

Tamsyn: I liked writing the descriptions about settings.

Murray: I liked synonyms and maths boxes.

Donna: I really enjoyed using the Maths Boxes.

Jodie: The multiplication stations were really fun.

Lucas He: I liked playing Killer 12 in French.

Maisie: I enjoyed making my own codebreaker.

Brooke: I liked learning how to multiply by 10, 100 and 1000.

Ammie-Leigh and Erin: We enjoyed playing French Chinese Whispers.

Ruby: I found the maths boxes really fun.

Luke: I really enjoyed P.E this week.

We really enjoyed all of our Maths Week activities! We learned about codes and the Enigma machine, and we created our own codes for friends. We used concrete materials for addition and subtraction sums and we played lots of Countdown Numbers games. In literacy we are continuing to use our imaginations to write creative stories and this week we focused on using adjectives in our work. Here are some of our highlights:

Zara – I enjoyed learning about the Enigma machine and breaking codes.

Rory – I really enjoyed all of the codebreakers this week.

Donna – I enjoyed all of maths week!

Brooke – I loved Big Maths Beat That!

Blaire – I really enjoyed writing the animal stories.

Erin – I liked starting to make shields in art.

Niamh – I liked using the dienes materials for maths.

Luke, Callum, Cameron, Samuel, Ellis – We loved P.E this week!

Ammie-Leigh – I enjoyed the assembly and getting to see the floats.

Maisie – I liked learning about Moses for RME.

Enjoy the long weekend everyone!

This week in numeracy we have been working on addition and subtraction, with carrying and borrowing. We also did Big Maths Beat That which we really enjoyed – every day we will try to beat our score. In literacy we have been writing imaginative stories using a picture to give us ideas. Some pictures we used were: a haunted house; a treasure chest and an enchanted tree. We played Rounders outside and really enjoyed it – we are getting better and catching the ball to get the other team out. Here are some of our favourite bits from this week:

Ammie-Leigh – I enjoyed mindfulness colouring and the addition and subtraction worksheets.

Jodie –  I enjoyed Big Maths.

Blaire – I liked playing Rounders for outdoor P.E.

Shelbi – I liked Big Maths Beat That.

Tamsyn – I enjoyed writing my speech for Pupil Council and presenting it to the class.

Niamh – I liked singing along to Leon the Chameleon in French.

Maisie – I enjoyed learning about bullying and talking about it with my group.

Donna –I liked art with Mr Bennett.

Erin – I liked P.E with Mr Jeffries when we did team work activities.

Ross – I liked playing Shipwreck in P.E.

Ruby – I liked presenting my speech for Pupil Council

Arran – I liked Big Maths.

In literacy this week we have been writing imaginative stories. We created stories with a beginning, middle and end about a princess and a dragon. First we drew pictures of each part of the story and used these to help describe our stories. We have also been continuing to learn about place value and have been working through our booklets and doing mental maths. We also played another game of Splat – this time the boys won! We went outdoors to play rounders and we loved it! We also got to have our first lesson with our new art teacher, Mr Bennett and are looking forward to more. Here are some of our highlights.

Blaire – I enjoyed playing rounders outside.

Jodie – I liked learning about King Alexander and the place value work.

Lily – I liked writing the story about princess and the dragon.

Donna – My favourite thing was writing the imaginative story.

Katie – I enjoyed rounders – I want more practice!

Ellis – I enjoyed P.E. with Mr Jeffries when we got to play Head Shoulder Knees and Cones.

Erin – My favourite game was Splat!

Ross – I enjoyed rounders.

Ammie-Leigh – I enjoyed our art lesson with Mr Bennett.

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

We have had a lovely week back at school and are looking forward to the year ahead. We enjoyed getting to know our new teacher during Circle Time where we spoke about highlights from our summer holidays. We then wrote about things we saw and did during the summer. We also learned about sudoku and played Countdown numbers. Here are some of our other highlights this week:

Katie – I enjoyed the name art activity because I got to show my personality.

Brooke – I really liked playing Splat against the boys and doing the art activity.

Tamsyn – I liked learning how to do Sudoku.

Callum – Hop Rock Paper Scissors in P.E was really fun!

Arran – I enjoyed the parachute game in P.E.

Ross – I really liked Sudoku games.

Ammie – Leigh – I enjoyed mindfulness colouring and Countdown numbers.

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

Literacy:
For literacy this week we have been focusing on creative writing. We looked at different ways to open a story: dialogue, action and description. We sorted different examples into the categories and worked with our learning partner to continue the story. We then got to choose a character, setting and dilemma to help write a creative story.

We have also been working through Literacy boxes to answer literal and inferential questions.

Numeracy

This week we have been looking at probability and chance. We worked out the probability of rolling different numbers on dice; picking letters from the alphabet; playing rock-paper-scissors and picking coloured marbles. We have also started looking at function machines and will be moving on to learn about expressions and equations.

Here are some other highlights:

Megan – I really enjoyed team dodge-ball in P.E.

Suvi – I loved getting extra P.E this week because we have been the quickest class to get changed!

Kiara – I liked creative writing this week.

Joshua – I liked dodge-ball.

Amy – I enjoyed the Big Start we did for creative writing.

Teighan – I liked putting my friends into my story.

Alex – I liked learning about different ways to open a story.

Miles – I enjoyed the maths box activities.

Ranna – I liked drama this week.

Hannah –  I liked Capture the flag in P.E

Jason – I liked being sassy in drama!!

Have a lovely weekend.

In literacy we are continuing to focus on debates and writing persuasive arguments. This week we look at different debate topics and discussed our opinions. We then wrote arguments about the debates we were most interested in. In numeracy we are learning about length and focussed on converting different units of measurement. We also learned about eating a balanced diet and we worked in groups to create healthy breakfast and lunch meals.

We really enjoyed singing our song at the Celebrating Success assembly and want to say thank to our families for coming.

Here are some other highlights:

Amy: I enjoyed working with my learning partner to solve the maths mystery.

Connor – I really enjoyed the one-line improvisation we did for Drama.

Mia – I loved violin this week as we got to use three fingers to play.

Skye – I enjoyed drawing our mythical creatures in Art.

Kiara and Euan – We had a great time at the triathlon!

Hannah – I liked doing the mental maths.

Alfie and Jason – We really liked playing basketball in P.E.

Teighan – I liked making a song using our spelling words.

Megan – I liked learning more about healthy eating and getting to work in groups.

Enjoy the sunny weekend 🙂