Aaron T – I got a superhero pack on Roblox
Shaun – I am proud learning about the Scottish wars of independence
Jay – I am proud that I play Roblox and have lots of friends
Eva – I am proud because I got to the last level of swimming levels
Charlotte – I am proud of me in swimming
Noami – I am proud of my writing
Jamie – I got a solo win on an xbox game
Annie – I learned to canter in horseriding
Ruby – I am proud because I also learned to canter in horseriding
Ellie – I am proud of my maths and my writing because I tried my hardest
Orla – I am proud that I got chosen to be in the opening dance for our show
Alistair – I am proud because I tried my hardest in band
Max – I am proud of the crossword I did about William Wallace
Leah – I am proud of my maths work
Aaran – I am proud of my maths work this week
Kaycee – I am proud of myself because I won a medal in Judo
Alfie B – I am proud of getting 25 Dojos this week
Brandon – I was proud when Mr Erskine said I worked hard
Brooke – I am proud of myself this week because when I was on holiday I finally went on a water rollercoaster
Dylan – I am proud of getting into the last stage of dirt-biking
Kyle – I am proud teaching about William Wallace
Rory – I am proud of my writing and my story
Owen – I am proud of my writing
Ellie-Rose – I am proud of being in my first dance show
Florence – I am proud learning more of the piano
Jackie – I am proud of learning how to edit stairs on an xbox game
Holly – I am proud that I know my dances off by heart
Liam – I am proud winning on an PS4 game with a friend
Alfie L – I am proud of getting 16 solo wins on an xbox game
Category Archives: P5
P5a
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!
Maths Week in P5b
Kyle, Max & Noami – I enjoyed the countdown challenges
Annie, Liam, Ruby, Alistair, Shaun, Ellie, Rory, Ellie-Rose, Aaran & Holly – I liked the code breakers
Kaycee – I enjoyed the Big Start Maths activities
Eva – I enjoyed writing the post-it notes about what we like about Maths
Jamie – I liked the maths challenge to make a boat float
Orla – I liked doing code breakers with my learning partner
Charlotte – I enjoyed doing code breakers with Aaran
Owen, Alfie B, Florence – I enjoyed the boat float challenge
Leah – I had fun doing code breakers
P5b
Highlights of our week…
Eva – I enjoyed learning with Mrs Aitken
Kyle – I enjoyed playing outside at break
Brooke – I enjoyed Maths
Rory – I enjoyed doing the Hot challenge in Maths
Noami – I enjoyed writing a story
Leah – I enjoyed learning with Mrs Aitken
Alfie – I liked doing rounders with Mrs Aitken
Ellie-Rose – I liked doing Maths and the Spicy challenge
Jackie – I enjoyed learning about King Alexander III
Kaycee – I enjoyed highlighting facts about King Alexander III
Orla – I enjoyed playing rounders
Alistair – I enjoyed the Hot challenge in Maths and playing rounders with Mrs Aitken. I also liked doing home learning.
Holly – I enjoyed playing the French game where you had to match with a partner
Jamie – I liked writing my own story
Owen – I enjoyed Kyle coming round to my house and I enjoyed rounders with Mrs Aitken
Max – I enjoyed rounders with Mrs Aitken
Dylan – I liked writing
Aaran – I enjoyed writing my own story
Jay – I enjoyed playing my xbox at home and I enjoyed rounders
Charlotte – I enjoyed sitting with my new learning partner
Florence – I enjoyed learning about Moses
Ellie – I enjoyed doing imaginative writing
Olivia – I enjoyed RME because we got to watch a short film about Moses
Liam – I enjoyed playing rounders
Ruby – I enjoyed writing
Annie – I enjoyed writing
Alfie L – I liked playing rounders
Bryce – I liked PE games
P5a
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.
P5b
Shaun – My highlight was French because I like to learn new French words.
Kyle – I enjoyed getting my sticker for sitting nicely at assembly.
Alistair – I liked writing my story about the dragon.
Rory – I enjoyed showing my work to Mr McCabe.
Leah – I enjoyed doing Art.
Ruby – I enjoyed Art.
Charlotte – I enjoyed PE because I got to run around.
Olivia – I enjoyed Art because we got to make front covers for our folders.
Florence – I enjoyed learning about our new topic.
Noami – I enjoyed reading.
Ellie-Rose – I enjoyed doing the dragon writing.
Liam – I enjoyed the story about the dragon.
Dylan – I liked doing the dragon writing.
Owen – I enjoyed Art with Mr Bennett.
Holly – I enjoyed doing the timeline of wars of independence.
Lewis – I liked making the timeline.
Ellie – I enjoyed Maths.
Orla – I enjoyed everything. I really liked writing about the dragon.
Kaycee – I enjoyed learning about the wars of independence.
Jamie – I liked doing the dragon writing.
Jackie – I enjoyed Art with Mr Bennett.
Brooke – I enjoyed doing PE.
Eva – I enjoyed learning things with my new teacher this week.
Aaron – I enjoyed going down to the library this week.
Alfie B – I liked playing rock, paper, scissors in a PE game.
Max – I enjoyed Art.
Brandon – I enjoyed writing about the dragon.
Bryce – I enjoyed PE games.
Aaran M – I enjoyed doing the dragon story.
Alfie L – I enjoyed when Mrs Spence came to our class.
P5a
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 🙂
Welcome Back P5a
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 🙂
P5b
Kaycee – I enjoyed having two new people in my class
Orla – I enjoyed doing my Writing because I got to share it with Mr McCabe and Mrs Leamy
Kyle – I enjoyed finding out that Owen is coming to my house on Monday instead of Wednesday
Eva – I enjoyed doing Sudoku this week and I think I’m going to get better at it
Brooke – I enjoyed the Writing because I got to share it with the teachers
Alfie B – I liked PE playing the rock, paper, scissors game
Shaun – I enjoyed meeting my new teacher this week
Holly – I enjoyed meeting my new teacher as well
Rory – I enjoyed Writing because I’ve not written in a long time
Alfie L – I liked doing PE because the game was really fun
Owen – I enjoyed Maths this week
Ellie – I enjoyed being in this class
Florence – I liked doing Sudoku as well
Lewis – I enjoyed reading “Gangsta Granny”
Liam – I enjoyed seeing all of my friends again
Charlotte – I enjoyed meeting my new teacher and seeing my best friends
Aaron T – I enjoyed playing with the parachute today
Dylan – I liked doing PE because I liked playing rock, paper, scissors
Olivia – I enjoyed meeting my new teacher and seeing my friends
Ellie-Rose – I liked doing the game that we were playing in the PE hall
Max – I liked football game at lunch time
Aaran – I enjoyed PE in the hall today
Annie – I enjoyed seeing all of my friends again
Jackie – I enjoyed playing with my friends
Ruby – I enjoyed seeing my friends
Alistair – I enjoyed having a new baby brother
Brandon – I liked PE because it was really fun
Jay – I liked Writing because I got to meet the Depute Head Teachers, Mr McCabe and Mrs Leamy
P5a
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.
P5a
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 🙂
P5a
For literacy this week, we have been continuing to look at persuasive writing. We discussed why education is important and we wrote our arguments. In numeracy we have continued to look at symmetry and we made posters for our Maths Working Wall. We also started looking at negative numbers and used number lines to help us with negative number sums. We are continuing to learn about different political parties in the Scottish Parliament, and we worked in groups to create our own political parties. We decided on a name and slogan and thought of what policies and ideas we would put in our manifesto. Here are some of our favourite things this week:
Suvi – I enjoyed P.E. where we got to practice our basketball skills.
Teighan – I enjoyed making a song with my spelling words.
Alex – I am having a lot of fun at multi-sports club.
Megan – I liked creating our own parties in groups.
Hannah – I had fun designing a poster for the Toy Story float.
Lauren – I am really enjoying drawing mythical creatures in Art with Mrs Thomson.
Mia – It was really fun making our own political parties and policies.
Euan – I liked the 2D and 3D assessment.
Miles – I really enjoyed the Mental Maths.
Connor – The Loch Ness Monster reading was really interesting and I liked the challenge task.
Have a lovely and relaxing long weekend!
P5a
Our blog post didn’t work last week so we’ve got two weeks worth of highlights to share! In literacy, we have been focusing on persuasive writing. Last week Miss Carrera pretended that school was going to be open on Saturdays – we had a lot to say about this! We thought up reasons why school should not be open on Saturdays and we have been working on writing a persuasive essay. In Numeracy, we are continuing to learn about 3D shapes. We looked at lots of different 3D shapes and thought about the properties of each one. We can say how many faces, edges and vertices a 3D shape has. For our Holyrood topic, we have been looking at the different political parties in the Scottish Parliament. In groups, we used iPads to research a different political party. We then shared our findings with the class and talked about which party we thought was the best. The majority of the class thought that the Green Party sounded the best, because we think that the saving the environment is really important. Here are some of our other highlights:
Catriona – I really enjoyed P.E. this week.
Kiara – I really liked the persuasive writing.
Connor & Suvi – We are enjoying drawing mythical beasts and hybrids in Art.
Murray – I enjoyed making the 3D shapes.
Mia – Violin is really good as we are now getting to use our fingers to play.
Amy – I really liked doing problem solving with my learning partner.
Megan – I thought finding out about the different political parties was really interesting.
Enjoy the weekend 🙂
P5a
We have had a busy first week back at school! In numeracy we have been looking at different types of triangles and their properties, and in groups we made posters for each triangle to go on our Maths Working Wall. In literacy we learned about writing a letter and we wrote a thank you letter. We also began our new topic – Hooray for Holyrood. We are learning about the Scottish Parliament. We looked at what it means if a country is run by a democracy or a dictatorship. We also looked at the Scottish Parliament website to learn about what the government’s powers are. We are looking forward to learning more! Here are some of our highlights:
Ranna – I really enjoyed writing the thank you letter to Miss Carrera.
Suvi – I loved P.E this week because we got to play castle relays.
Mia – I liked learning about the properties of triangles.
Kiara – I liked finding out what our new topic is!
Connor – I liked doing the division work.
P5a
We have had a really busy and exciting week! We have been practicing for our Jazzamatazz concert next week and are really excited to perform in front of our families. We have come to the end of our Victorians topic and are working in pairs to create a fact file with information about what we have learned. A museum assistant visited us with loads of amazing and real Victorian artefacts which we got to hold. As part of 30 Days of Happiness, our targets this week were to make someone laugh; meditate; do 15 minutes of exercise; and share a good memory.
Our favourite part about this week was our fantastic trip to New Lanark. We got to go on a ride called the Annie McLeod experience which was really cool. We went on a tour all around the village and even got to go inside Robert Owen’s house. We had a great time.
Today some of our parents came in to see what activities we do for VCOP. Thank you for visiting us!
On Wednesday at 11 am we will be performing at our Jazzamatazz Concert – if you can come along please fill in and return the slip handed out yesterday.
Here are some pictures from the trip to New Lanark. Enjoy the weekend!
P5 Jazzamatazz Performance 21.03.18
Primary 5 have been lucky to receive weekly input from Mike Brogan for a Jazzamatazz music workshop over this school term. As this finishes next week, we’d like to invite parents/carers to come along and share in the pupils showcasing their learning through a brief concert. This will take place in our upper hall at 11.00am on Wednesday 21st March and siblings are also invited to attend to be part of the audience. Letters with details and a returns slip to follow.
Hope to see you there!
P5a
We are almost finished learning about the Victorians and are looking forward to giving our class talks next week. This week we were learning about the Victorian seaside and we watched a black & white video clip from the seaside in the Victorian era. We wrote postcards describing a seaside holiday. In numeracy we are continuing to learn how to calculate change and mentally add and subtract money. Students from Bathgate Academy have also been coming in to teach us sign language which we are really enjoying!
It is International Happiness Day on March 20th, and each day we are trying to do one small thing for happiness – today we are trying not to complain for a whole day. This is really hard!
We also made Mothers’s Day cards for all of our amazing mums. Have a lovely day on Sunday.
Here are our highlights –
Ranna – I liked P.E this week because we were playing golf.
Lauren – I liked writing the postcard from the seaside.
Catriona – I liked Jazzamatazz this week. We got to learn more tunes.
Kiara – I liked talking about Happiness for March – but the no complaining for one day is too hard!
Alex – I am enjoying preparing my class talk for Victorians.
Suvi – I liked art this week – we are designing beasts!
Connor – I liked doing the money sums.
Enjoy the weekend 🙂
P5a
In Numeracy this week we have been learning about money. We have been doing mental maths where we have to add up lots of different amounts, then work out how much change we would get. Last week we had a Victorian Day in class, and this week we wrote a letter to a Victorian child to tell them about our experience and ask them questions. We have also been learning about important Victorian inventions, and we worked in groups to create our own inventions. We each took on a role – the engineer, designer or the marketing team, and worked together to design an invention. We then presented our ideas to the class and took a vote on who had the best invention. Well done to the Infinity Inventors who won with their idea of an Invisi-car!
Here are some more of our best bits:-
Miles – I really enjoyed playing Benchball in P.E.
Alex and Kiara – We liked Art this week where we were drawing houses.
Mia – I loved violin!
Ranna – The Victorian Day last week was really good, but I got the Dunce hat!
Suvi – I liked writing the letter to the Victorian child telling them about our victorian day.
Joshua – The Victorian Inventions lesson was good fun as we got to work together in a team.
Teighan – I liked doing cosmic yoga and coming up with our own yoga moves.
Jess – Jazzamatazz was really good – we got to improvise and play our own tunes.
Remember – next Thursday is World Book Day – dress up as your favourite book character, or dress down.
P5a
This week we learned all about Victorian schools. We used Venn diagrams to compare and contrast Victorian schools to Balbardie Schools. We also wrote a diary entry from the perspective of a Victorian school pupil. We are really looking forward to having a Victorian Day next week. In Numeracy we are continuing time and angles. We have been calculating long time durations, using clocks and number lines to help. We got two sessions of Jazzamatazz this week, and we loved it because we got to improvise on our glockenspiels. Here are some of our highlights:
Mia – I loved violin this week because we passed a test in violin and got a certificate.
Lauren – I really enjoyed P.E this week.
Teighan – The Valentines Disco was really good!
Megan – I liked learning about Victorian schools and writing the diary entry.
Connor – I liked working with my learning partner to do the Venn diagram.
Kiara – I’m looking forward to having the Victorian day in class.
Jason – I am liking planning my class talk.
On Thursday 15th February we will be having a Victorian Day in class. The children can come to school dressed up as Victorian children.
Enjoy the long weekend everyone 🙂
P5a
For our Victorian topic we have been learning about horrible accidents that used to happen in workhouses! We wrote newspaper articles, reporting on real accidents that happened in the Victorian times. In numeracy we continue to learn about angles and time, and we played a time loop card game – we will try to beat our time next week. We also had a great time at Jazzamatazz where we got to play music on glockenspiels. In Science with Mrs McClafferty we are continuing to learn about solids, liquids and gases. Here are some other highlights –
Suvi – I liked doing the Dashing White Sergeant to music in P.E.
Skye – I liked Jazzamatazz because we got to play music.
Mia – I am really enjoying using the bow at violin practice.
Alfie – I liked Science this week.
Kiara – I really enjoyed writing the workhouse accident news article.
Amy – I liked Mental Maths this week.
Enjoy your weekend everyone.
