I enjoyed the chemcial reaction in Science.  Paige

I enjoyed using Litmus paper to test if liquids were acid or alkaline! Tobin

I enjoyed practising for our class assembly.  Jamie

I enjoyed using Litmus paper in Science.

I enjoyed learning the assembly songs with Mrs Drummond.

I enjoyed the Macmillan coffee morning.  Harry

I enjoyed everything at school this week.  Cameron R

I enjoyed doing maths on the iPad.  Callum

I enjoyed making the big erruption in science.  Stacey

I enjoyed the Macmillan coffee morning.  Steven

I enjoyed the Macmillan cofffee morning and seeing all my friends.  Robyn

I enjoyed the coffee morning.  Mark

PLEASE REMEMBE OUR ASSEMBLY IS NEXT FRIDAY 2ND OCTOBER @ 9.15.  WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!

Short week!

We have been developing our self-assessment skills this week. We used our writing piece about the battle of Stirling Bridge for this. We will do more practice on this skill over the coming weeks/months as it’s very important that we are able to identify where we have been successful and where we could do more to enhance our work.

Continuing with the work we are doing to develop our learning mindset and thinking skills Mrs D posed the question, “Was Einstein born smart?” After much discussion we agreed that we don’t think he was. From this we are beginning to understand that the way we think of ourselves as learners can help us to learn better and reach our potential. Mrs D also set us a practical challenge to solve. We had to work with a partner to tie a shoe lace using only our left hand. This was very tricky at times. Here are some pictures and comments…..

Scott – teamwork was important

Lennox – we needed to give each other clear instructions

Ciaran – it was a fun way to learn about working in a team

Eva – you had to be able to listen carefully and work together

Have a great weekend!

Camp Photos!!!!

This week we have been learning to write a newspaper article. We have learned about making catchy, bold headlines and how to compose a full newspaper article. We used the Battle of Stirling Bridge as a stimulus for our writing. Here are some of the headlines we made up –

Lennox- MUDDY MAYHEM!

Rowan – THE KILLING KING

Eva – THE DEATH TRAP

Kate – IN FOR THE KILL

Abbie – THE BIG BRIDGE BATTLE

Yasmin – WALLACE WINS!

Cole – SCOTLAND RULE

Sam – SURPRISE ATTACK!

In maths we have been working on our problem solving skills. We have been learning to think logically as well as thinking ‘outside the box’. Here is a question we found tricky ….can you work it out?

Q. A family has two parents and three daughters. Each daughter has four brothers. How many are in the family all together?

In science we were learning about chemical reactions. We carried out an experiment to with bicarbonate of soda, vinegar, food colouring and water. We put everything except the vinegar into a glass and when we added the vinegar it caused a chemical reaction and the mixture frothed up and right over the side of the class! Great fun!

Another week has flown by….have a great weekend!

Phew, what a great week!

We had a ball at camp and have returned safe and sound. The pupils really did do our school proud. Unfortunately our camera is still at Lowport with p5b so we will put a full post on next week including photos and comments from the children.

Yesterday we had our first full drumming lesson. Pupils will not only be learning about the origins of African music and the Djembe drums but will also use the drums to enhance their learning across the curriculum……watch this space!

Have a great weekend!

This week in P5b…

I really enjoyed science this week. We were seeing which solids and liquids we could separate by filtering. Kamron

I enjoyed listening to the P7 assembly. Paige

I enjoyed the the SRA because it was a challenge. Harry

I enjoyed the assembly because it was funny and interesting. Casey

I enjoyed the assembly because it teaches us stuff that we need to learn in life. Luca

I enjoyed science because we got separate solids and liquids. Lauryn

I enjoyed the assembly and science. Fiona

I loved the assembly and my brother Cameron spoke about Michael Jordan and Cameron would like to grow up to play for the NBA. Skye

I enjoyed making the William Wallace comic strip. Gabriel

I looked doing the problem solving Mystery Wheel challenge. Noah

I enjoyed the P7 assembly. Jordan

I enjoyed the drumming in P5a.

Good luck to Tobin and Noah who are participating in finals day tomorrow at Kingsfield Golf Club.

We are very excited about Lowport.  Those that aren’t going are going to have fun at school and go on their own adventure!

Writing

This week we have been finding out about William Wallace. We made a comic strip showing the story of him killing the Sheriff of Lanark. We looked at different examples of comic strips and identified the features that we would need to use in our comic strips.

Cole – we had to use text boxes to show what was happening.

Jennie – we used speech bubbles when characters were talking.

Sophie – we had to show the story in the order that it happened.

Maths

In maths we have been learning about the relationship between fractions and decimals…

Tom – 25cm = ¼= 0.25

Sam – I understand bits of a metre better.

Eva – I can turn centimetres into millimetres and millimetres into centimetres.

Scott – 25cm is ¼ of a metre.

P.E

Lucie T – we were playing games where we had to learn to work as part of a team.

Ty – Mr Jeffries makes the games fun and it helps us to learn.

Science

In science this week we were learning about dissolving.

Alanna – we were finding out what will dissolve in water and what won’t.

Noah – when we mixed water and sand the sand didn’t dissolve because it was like a solid.

Abbie – sugar, sugar cubes and coffee all dissolved in water.

That’s all for now folks! Have a great weekend 🙂

P5b have been very busy this week.

This week I have learned……

Big Maths Beat That. Lewis

how to draw a shadow and I also liked doing the bookmark. Noah

how to sketch and crosshatch. Tobin

how to play the Djembe drums. Fiona

how to do a science experiment. Michelle

how to dissolve materials. Gary

how to play the drums. Colin

learned lots of history about William Wallace and Robert Bruce and I learned how to draw a really cool optical illusion called the 3D hand. Jack

how to draw a shaded apple with a shadow. Skye

how to drum. Paige

how to play on the drum. Darja

I enjoyed science and learned how to dissolve things in water. Robyn.

Here are some photos from our LAC  Potions Lab.  We were investigating which materials were soluble and insoluble.

Congratulations to Gary who is our Pupil of the Week this week for always following the class Rights and Actions and always doing his best.

Have a great weekend.

What a great week!!!!

We have been working hard in P5a this week. We have been learning about letter writing. We used the death of Alexander 111 as a context for this task. We have all adopted Scottish names which we will use as we travel through the various contexts for learning over the coming weeks.

In maths we have been using loop cards to sharpen our recall of multiplication facts. Mrs Drummond will time us each time we do this and our aim is eventually to answer all the questions within one minute! We have also been learning about measure using millimetres and centimetres. Some of us found it tricky to measure using parts of a centimetre, eg. 2.7cm, but we got there in the end!

In science this week we have learned lots. Here is some of what we now know …..

Rowan – there are three types of matter they are solids, liquids and gasses.

Eva – a solid is when atoms are tightly packed together and they can’t move so the stay in that shape.

Scott – the atoms that make up liquids are not as tightly packed together as solids and that means they can move around.

Sophie – gas atoms are able to move around and can fill up any space.

We did the cola and mentos challenge. When the mentos mixed with the cola a chemical reaction took place. It was amazing. Here is a picture….

In P.E. this week we focussed on smart running.

Ty – we did games that helped us to work on our speed. It was really good.

That’s all for now folks, have a great weekend!!!!!

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a lovely, relaxing holiday!

It’s been a really fun few days in P5b. We have made our Class Charter, learned about Solids, Liquids and Gases, been reading Billionaire Boy and doing lots of cool art activities.

What we think about P5b so far…………………

I like being in P5b because the task we did on Billionaire Boy was really fun. Murray

I really enjoyed science when we did the coke and mentos experiment and I really enjoyed when we did the 3d hand optical illusion drawing. Jack

I like being in P5 because we do fun stuff in science. Darja

I like my teachers and I like enjoyed learning about Billionaire Boy. Jamie

I like all of P5! Paige

I liked the 3d hand optical illusion drawing. Katie & Colin

I liked coming back to school because I can see all my friends. Gabriel

I like P5b it is so fun so far you couldn’t have nicer teachers. Casey

I enjoyed doing the 3d hand optical illusion drawing. Michelle

I like our project science when we did the mentos and coke experiment. Aiden

I enjoyed seeing all my friends. Kamron

So far I enoyed art with the teacher and seeing my friends. Katya

I thought putting mentos in coca cola because it was really cool even though we didn’t put the mentos in ourselves. I wish I could do that at home. Anyway it was really cool I am looking forward to other cool stuff like that in P5b. Stacey

P5b is so fun because you get to do so much fun stuff. Lewis

I like P5b it is fun I like the teachers and I liked when we did the mentos experiment. Callum

I really liked the David Williams Billionaire Boy friendship task. Harry

I liked all the teachers in P5b. Steven

I really enjoyed drawing Bumfresh Towers and our teachers can’t get any nicer. Skye

I like p5b because the teachers are very nice. I also like p5b because the science is really cool. Fiona

My favourite thing in P5b is Solids, Liquids and Gases. Cameron

I enjoyed science because we learned all about matter and I am looking forward to the rest of the year. Luca

My favourite part of P5b was drawing the 3d hand drawing. Mark

I enjoyed learning about Billionaire Boy. Jordan

I enjoyed learning about Billionaire Boy and doing the 3d hand drawing. Robyn

I liked doing the friendship sheet. Gary

I really like the teachers. Archie

I really enjoy being upstairs in P5 because there is a nice view out of the window. Lauryn

I like being in P5b because we get more work. Tobin

I like learning about Solids, Liquids and Gases and drawing the 3d hand. Noah

Have a great weekend!

What I will remember about P5m…

Mrs McClafferty attempting to sing ‘Let it Go’, the Victorian School day and the Victorian assembly. Roan

I will remember all the laughs me, Mrs Mackenzie, Mrs McClafferty and the whole class had! I will always remember singing ‘Still I fly’ when we released our butterflies. Scott

I will remember the Victorian topic because we did an assembly on it and I will also remember Mrs McClafferty singing, ‘Let it Go’. Ella

I will remember going to Lowport because it was really fun! Olivia

I will remember everything including the Victorian school day, Victorian tea party, assembly, sports day, the teachers, play time, lunch time, golden time and choose time! Annie

I will remember New Lanark. Connor

My favourite thing was going outside and doing outdoor PE. Louisa

I will remember Freedom! The Scottish Wars of Independence topic. Ramsay

I will always remember when Mrs McClafferty started singing ‘Let it Go’ and I let my milk go (down the front of my uniform) because I got a fright! Zoe

I will remember the fantastic assembly and our wonderful teachers. Lucy

I will remember Mrs McClafferty because of her COOL singing! Ben

I will remember when we planted our sunflower seeds. Andrew

I will remember the time when Mrs McClafferty was singing ‘Let it Go’ and Zoe got a fright and spilt milk all over her top! Casey

I will always remember running with a sack on my head at sports day and 2 lovely teachers. Kiera H

I will always remember the library and all its bookie gloriousness! Jane

I will remember everything especially Mrs McClafferty singing ‘Let it Go’! Clara

I will remember doing drumming with Mrs Drummond and learning about the Victorians. Ellie

I will remember the Victorian topic because of the assembly. Cameron M

I will remember the Victorian assembly. Madeleine

I will remember EVERYTHING. Especially Mrs McClafferty and Mrs Mackenzie! Freya

I will remember Jimmy (the teddy bear)!. Declan

I will remember the lovely teacher s and all the fun we had like; Lowport, the assembly, the Victorian tea party, Victorian school day, Golden Club event, New Lanark and Musical Theatre (Grease), violin, art and getting into the Golden Club! Jessie

I will remember my wonderful teachers Mrs Mackenzie and Mrs McClafferty. Gemma M

I will remember Lowport because I enjoyed the Jungle Bashing! Gemma B

I will remember the teachers because they are awesome. Sarah

I will remember Jimmy and being the first person in the school to get into the Golden Club! Lexis

I will remember Mrs McClafferkenzie, Jimmy and Lowport. Geo

I will remember the time at Lowport when I got my foot stuck in mud and then Gemma M got struck trying to help me out! Cameron B

I will remember inventing Rowena (poor Roan)! Isla

I will remember Lowport and all the amazing experiences with it! Louise

A huge congratulations to Connor and Ella on sports day for winning both the sprint race and overall award.

Finally, have a fantastic summer. It has been a pleasure to teach all the children in P5m this year and I will miss them all. I wish them all the very best for P6!

This has been another busy week in P5d.

We have been learning to calculate and represent a fraction as a percentage. We were all quite confident about this task as we had already touched on this earlier in the term when Mrs Drummond took a ‘backwards’ approach to teaching fractions, percentages and decimals. We all agree it has helped!

We have also been learning how to interpret information displayed on a graph or table. The tricky part of this was reading the question properly and being able to use a key.  Mrs Drummond agrees that we are all very good at this now!

We have been looking back on the different things we have learned in language over the year. We were then given a passage to up-level. Mrs Drummond asked us to impress her by using personification, similes, adjectives, adverbs, connectives and interesting words. We were all successful!

On Thursday we recorded information about the lifecycle of the plants that we have been growing in class. We had to sequence the process the plants have gone through and state why we think our plants did or did not grow well. We also had to discuss the plants we experimented with. Some had no water, some had no light and some were deprived of both. Growing the plants and experimenting this way really helped us to understand about photosynthesis because when we just talked about it we found it difficult to understand.

This week we had our Golden Club event in school and those of us who attended had a fantastic time!

This time next week …….

2 weeks on Sunday I’m going to start learning bowls at the bowling club! Lexis

I am having a birthday party in the summer holidays and it’s only 9 days until the holidays! Kiera H (Yes! Says Mrs McClafferty)!

I am so excited for the Grease show for choir and musical theatre! Madeleine

I enjoyed being a judge in P5m’s Got Talent! Scott ( and he’s great at the Chicken Dance)

I might be getting a dog for my birthday and my birthday is on the very last day of school.  Zoe

This week I enjoyed doing the talent show.  Olivia

This week I enjoyed the talent show.  Me, Olivia and Clara entered and came joint second! Ella (Well done girls)

I enjoyed the talent show and all of the excellent acts.  (Louise)

On the 19th October – 23rd I’m going to Centre Parcs and I enjoyed being a judge on the talent show. Roan

In the talent show me and Ellie came joint second doing gymnastics.  Kiera B

I’m going to the cinema in the summer holidays! Andrew

I can’t wait until 23rd of June as it’s my little brother’s birthday. Ellie

I enjoyed the talent show and at the end of my performance I did a belly flop! Freya (Ouch! Sounds sore)!

The pictures of the talent show are great! Well done to the winners Isla and Lucy!

Thank you to all who made today’s Talent Show such a success – the fantastic acts, the hilarious judges, Casey and Kiera for counting and verifying the votes and of course – our ever enthusiastic audience.

Enjoy the memories.

Article 29

Education should develop our

personalities and talents to the

full.

We have been learning about evolution and adaptation in P5d. We have finished creating our new species and designing habitats for them to live in. Here is some of our work …

Kari  – I created a new species called a Catara. It lives in the Rainforest.

Meg – My species is called a Hufflepuffbabbit. It lives in the forrest.

We have also been learning about food chains and the inter dependency of humans, animals and plants for survival.

Christopher – a food chain or food web will always begin with a green plant

Polina – the lion is at the top of the food chain because it does not get hunted by another animal

Ryan – if one animal becomes extinct it affects the whole food chain

James – plants are the only producers

Daniel – a consumer is something that eats other plants and/or animals

Evie – a human is a consumer.

There goes another very interesting week! Two weeks to go…..

Our news this week…

In school…..

I learned about fractions and percentages. Gemma M

I enjoyed maths

We went to a rugby festival and played tag rugby and sharks and fishes. We never got to play rugby because of the rain. J Roan

I learned how to play rugby. Geo and Ellie

Cameron enjoyed getting soaked at the rugby festival and Casey enjoyed watching Hetty Feather after the rugby festival.

Clara didn’t enjoy the rugby because she felt sick. L

I have learned about food chains and webs. Sarah

Zoe enjoyed the Food Fight game.

I liked when the caterpillars went into the net. Ben

I am looking forward to Sports Day! Declan

I have learned how to play Slurs on the violin and learned how to play Ode to Joy. Lucy

I have enjoyed learning ‘Chicken in the Kitchen’ on the violin. Thank you Jessica for teaching me. Isla

Outside school…

On the Gala Day I am walking with Funky Fitness. After that I am going for a barbeque at my best friend’s house. I have another barbeque this Saturday. Jessie

At gymnastics I learned how to do a straddle shoot ½ turn! Annie

I am excited about doing the bars for the first time at gymnastics! Kiera B

At gymnastics I learned my compulsory level 5 bar routine. Olivia

I enjoyed practising for my dance exam. Madeleine

I found out that my cousins and my Auntie and Uncle are coming up from England to stay for the summer holidays! Lexis

I am going to Belfast on Friday because Glasgow Warriors (the team I support) are in the league final! Scott

Congratulations to Zoe Dunbar who recieved a certificate and badges from Girl’s Brigade for excellent attendance.   Well done Zoe.

And the good news is….

It is only 30 days until the summer holidays! Kiera H

Have a great weekend!

Another busy week in P5m…..

Here are some things we’ve been learning…

I’ve learned how to multiply by a single digit in decimals and how to play The German Tune on the double base. Lexis

I learned how to dribble with a hockey stick. Ella, Scott, Madeleine & Roan

I learned how to solve a decimal puzzle. Gemma B

I learned about fractions with Mrs Drummond. Ellie

I have learned what similes are. Cameron M

I learned how the world was created! Sarah

I learned my 7 times tables off by heart! Jane

I learned how to multiply single digit decimal numbers. Ben

I have learned how scientists believe the world began. Declan

We also learned about seed dispersal and the ‘Fight for Survival’.

Here are some photos from our dispersal experiment.

We used our knowledge of recording data to record the number of seeds on a tally chart and then displayed the information on a bar chart!

And some news from outside school…..

Kiera H’s guinea pig fell on his back and got a fright!! Oh no, poor piggie!

Annie learned how to do a back walkover on a beam in gymnastics! Wow!

Olivia learned how to do a cartwheel back tuck of the beam in gymnastics! Wow!

Have a great weekend! Remember 10 gem points for everyone who comments on the blog!!

This has been a busy week in P5d.

We had the second of our rugby taster sessions and were invited along to the sports centre to learn how to play short tennis. Here are some of our comments and pictures….

Aaron – in our P.E. lessons with Mr Jeffries we have learned about quick reflexes and we had to use quick reflexes at the short tennis. We also had to use what we have learned about balance and agility to help us.

Viggo – I could see that the things I have learned with Mr Jeffries helped me to play short tennis.

LATC

We have been learning about evolution, different species and habitats this week. We are creating a new species and building a habitat for it then we will take all this information and create a fact file about our new species. Pictures will follow over the next couple of weeks.

We are also watching caterpillars develop into butterflies. Our caterpillars are now at the chrysalis stage and will be transferred to their butterfly home on Monday to complete the change into a butterfly.

James – We have watched the caterpillars shed their exoskeletons …..it was very interesting to watch.

To help us with our next writing piece we have been learning about personification –

Aidan – The old boat crawled across the waves.

Emma – The sun glared down on me.

Daniel – The black car screamed along the road.

Brooke – The waves ate the boat.

Have a great weekend……5 weeks to go !!!

Congratulations to P5m who sang Circle of Life beautifully for Celebrating Success!! Well done everyone, it was not an easy song to sing!

A special mention goes to the following people who received certificates….

Lexis McGrorty – Head Teacher’s Award

Roan Laing – Demonstrating School Values

Declan Doyle – Effort and Improvement

Louise Kirk – High Standard of Work

Scott Aitchison – P5 PE award

In between song practices we learned…

Lots of stuff about the insides of plants (ovary, styles, stigma, carpel) and grew plants. Roan

I learned about pollination and fertilisation. Annie

I learned how to times and divide a decimal. Ella

I learned about money when I did my shop. Louisa

I learned the song Circle of Life. Declan

….a catchy but very annoying song that is stuck in my head now! Kiera H – would that be ‘Pollination Rocks’ Kiera?

I have learned how to sing!! Well done Cameron M!

I learned how to multiply a decimal by a single digit and I learned about pollination and fertilisation. Casey

I learned how to play Brass Profundo in Double Base. Louise

I learned about Pollination, fertilisation and germination. Zoe

I learned how to describe a species. Ella

Just for Kiera, here’s the link to Pollination Rocks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5yya4elRLw

Have a great weekend!

Article 29 – Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities.