This week we are reflecting on our favourite learning in Primary 5 and what we will miss next year.

Dadirayi: I am going to miss everything in class even the teacher and Miss Elliot

Grace: I am going to miss Mr C and Miss Elliot

Ava: I am going to miss Freddie

Leia: I am going to miss Mr Cunningham

Kayleigh: I am going to miss Mr Cunningham

Olivia: I am going to miss Mr Cunningham SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!

Evie: I liked learning about the Victorians and going to New Lanark. I liked Lowport as well

Emma: I am going to miss Mr Cunningham

Erin: I liked our assembly and I’m going to miss Miss Elliot

Robyn: I liked our assembly

Aaron: I am going to miss the whole class over the summer and I liked Lowport and the powerpoint about the Caribbean Island

David: I am going to miss Freddie

Evan: I am going to miss Mr Cunningham and the whole class and I liked doing the Victorian Inventions.

Sophie: I am going miss everyone over the summer

Mya: I liked Lowport

Ben: I am going to miss Miss Elliot

James: I liked the Victorians assembly

Jessica: I am going to miss Freddie

Ellis: I liked New Lanark

Jayden: I am going to miss Mr Cunningham

Mr Cunningham will miss you all more than you realise. Good luck in Primary 6! I will be up to see you (maybe, if you behave!)

This week we have finished writing our adventure story about the world coming to a pause, we participated in P5 Question Time,  learned about money, made french fortune tellers, worked out with 100,000 other pupils and the body coach in a fitness session and had a class election!

These are our highlights:

Mya: I enjoyed being star writer.

Demi-Leigh: I liked making smoothies and playing the floor is lava. I am also looking forward to Fathers day and I enjoyed Mya’s story.

Lotte: I enjoyed doing question time.

Caitlin: I liked the fitness session. I also liked the part when i threw bricks at the wall in Mya’s story.

Erin: I liked the Joe Wicks fitness session.

Annabelle: I liked column method and bus stop method because I had to make sure there was no remainders as money cannot have a remainder.

Robyn: I liked when we did the maths problem working out how many pencils we had. My favourite story was Mya’s.

Leia: I am looking forward to fathers day. I liked it when Mr Cunningham read Erin’s story and flapped your arms just like Erin does.

Ellis: I was voted as Scotland’s new first minister after question time.

Dadirayi: I liked my story.

Emma: I liked doing the maths exam.

Isla: I liked listening to Mya’s story. I liked doing fitness with Joe Wicks.

David: I liked Mya’s story.

Jessica: I liked Erin’s story.

Evie: I liked the maths exam.

Kayleigh: I liked Evie acting out Erin’s story and Lexi getting a mention.

Sophie: I liked the maths exam.

Kaitlin: I liked listening to Erin’s story and writing my own story.

Grace: I liked listening to Mya and Erin’s story.

Evan: I liked listening to Erin and Mya’s story.

Aaron: I liked  learning about money.

This week we had our first day in Primary 6! How exciting!!! This is what we are looking forward to next year.

Dadirayi: I am looking forward to meeting my new teacher and doing new things.

Kayleigh: I am excited to look for challenges in P6.

Erin: I am looking forward to doing the P6 show.

Caitlin: I am looking forward to the P6 show.

Robyn: I am looking forward to having Mrs Gallagher next year.

Evie: I am looking forward to the P6 show as well.

Evan: I am looking forward to seeing my old teacher again.

Demi – Leigh: I am looking forward to seeing my old teacher and the P6 show.

Mya: I am looking forward to doing the P6 show.

Leia: I am looking forward to meeting my new teacher and talking to her.

Isla: I am excited for P6.

Kaitlin: I can’t wait for the show!

A reminder that all parents consultations arranged are to discuss any concerns about reports, but please keep any appointments that have now been issued as Mr Cunningham will be expecting you.

This was a jam packed week in P5 we have all competed in sports day (great action shots by Mr C), completed some excellent writing focusing on creating an interesting main character, finished our work on measure in maths and started the process of our class election.

These are the highlights of our week:

Evie: Sports day was fun.

Kayleigh: my favourite thing was listening to some other people’s manifestos.

Demi – Leigh: sports day.

Erin: I liked when Lotte and I read our stories to the P2s.

Aaron: I liked writing our manifestos.

Freddie: I liked sports because I came second in the long run race.

Mya: I liked sports day and coming first in the sack race.

Leia: I liked seeing the medals because I got to see who won, it was cool.

Sophie: I liked seeing people getting medals because my brother got one.

Isla: I liked doing writing this week.

Finally here is another reminder of the link for the survey on behaviour policy at Balbardie.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/N853RNT

This week in 5B.

This week in primary 5 we have been preparing for our election campaign and have enjoyed the sunshine. Our highlights have been:

Kayleigh – my favourite thing was trying to survive the heatwave.

Sophie – my favourite thing was doing the campaign posters.

David – I liked doing my campaign poster.

Erin – I liked outdoor PE this week.

Ellis – I liked doing my campaign poster.

Robyn – I liked writing my manifesto.

Dadirayi – I liked doing my manifesto and poster for the election.

Leia – I liked playing DONKEY outside.

Olivia – I liked writing this week.

Kaitlin – I enjoyed PE.

Evan – I enjoyed playing outside during outdoor PE.

Emma – I enjoyed playing DONKEY when Erin couldn’t catch the ball.

Evie – I enjoyed doing writing with Mrs Palmer.

Grace – I enjoyed gymnastics at indoor PE.

Logan – I liked outdoor PE.

Aaron – I liked playing with a tiny tennis ball.

This week has been incredibly busy. We have had celebrating success and our outdoor classroom day on Thursday along with lots of other things.

Caitlin: I liked doing our stories outside.

Demi – Leigh: I liked celebrating success, it was fun doing Honey G with Leia.

Lotte: I liked the lady who came from the Scottish Parliament to talk to us.

Dadirayi: I liked everything.

Erin: I liked when the lady came from the Parliament.

Evan: I liked the voting pads we used in our Parliament session.

Annabelle: I liked being the Presiding Officer.

Robyn: I liked celebrating success.

Evie: I liked the lady coming in from the Parliament.

Leia: I liked celebrating success, especially when I threw out the sweets.

Mya: I liked when the lady came in and told us more about the Scottish Parliament.

Kayleigh: Seeing Annabelle as the Presiding Officer was very funny.

Ellis: I liked when the lady told us more about the Scottish Parliament.

David: Celebrating Success was my favourite part of the week.

Cameron: I liked pretending that we were political parties and trying to get people to vote for us.

Emma: I liked celebrating success.

Isla: I like using the voting pads.

Kaitlin: I loved the french wordsearch we did on Friday.

Grace: I enjoyed painting our books for the float. 

This week in Primary 5. We have practised our celebrating success song in the hall for Tuesday, we did fitness fundraiser, we have learned about weight, we did drama and PE and we wrote a manifesto for our own political party.

Our highlights have been:

Freddie – writing a manifesto

Leia – learning to follow a script in drama

Kaitlin – I liked writing

Grace – I liked outdoor PE

Logan – I liked practising the song for celebrating success

Charlie – I enjoyed weight in math

Cameron – I enjoyed the fitness circuits in PE

Aaron – I liked writing my manifesto

Lotte – I liked maths this week.

Mya – I liked weighing things in maths

Caitlin – I liked weighing books in maths

Kayleigh – I liked learning about the Scottish Parliament.

Demi – Leigh – I enjoyed performing in the hall.

Dadirayi – I liked drama and outdoor PE

Ava – I liked playing football in outdoor PE

Sophie – I liked doing circuits for the fitness fundraiser

Harry – I liked doing PE

Evan – I liked measuring this week.

Evie – I liked the circuits in PE

Erin – I liked writing my manifesto

Ben – my favourite thing was measuring things in maths.

Emma – I liked watching the celebrating success songs from the other classes

James – I liked writing my emotions story with Mrs Stewart.

This weeks highlights.

Leia: I was at my Dads wedding on Monday.

Evie: I liked writing this week and having a day off school.

Caitlin: Lotte and I went to Craigie’s farm and got to see all the baby animals. I also did time trials at swimming doing the butterfly stroke.

Robyn: I liked writing and staying at my Aunties this week.

Olivia: I liked being star writer for the first time.

Kaitlin: this week Grace and I got to go in a hot tub (Mr Cunningham would like to add this was not at school!)

Sophie: I liked being happy

Erin: I liked playing on my new computer that I got for my Birthday on Monday.

Evan: I liked playing with my kitten.

This weeks highlights.

Dadirayi: Learning our celebrating success song and the actions to go with it.

Robyn: I enjoyed learning about measure.

Demi – Leigh: I liked maths and doing the song this week.

Caitlin: I liked outdoor PE and doing the races.

Kayleigh: I enjoyed learning about the Scottish Parliament.

Olivia: I enjoyed learning the song.

James: I liked doing Minecraft to build the Scottish Parliament.

Mya: I liked doing Minecraft and doing the Scottish parliament.

Evie: I liked doing outdoor PE.

David: I liked outdoor PE.

Evan: I liked doing teamwork with Aaron on Minecraft.

Leia: I liked doing the song.

Kaitlin: I liked yesterdays PE.

Welcome back after the Easter break P5. This week’s blog tells you about our holiday highlights and what was good about coming back to school.

In the holidays we had lots of eggciting adventures:

Mya – I went to Caitlin’s house and we made chocolate cake.

Demi – Leigh – I went to my aunties house, watched a movie and my sister was there too.

Leia – I climbed Ben Ann, it was nice at the top.

James – I went to Edinburgh Dungeons.

Dadirayi – I went with my cousins to Hot Flames and I liked the chocolate fountain.

Isla – I liked seeing my sister in the hotel.

Evan – I liked going to Harry’s house and seeing his puppy.

Ava – I loved going alpaca trekking, I got to walk an alpaca.

Annabelle – I went to Mill farm and I loved going on the Go-Karts.

David – I liked going to the cinema and I saw the Boss Baby.

Aaron – I went to my Dads I woke up at 5.54am and played the Xbox.

Our first week back school has been busy too. This is our highlights.

Emma – I liked PE because we are doing teamwork games.

Grace – I enjoyed playing Minecraft and building the Scottish Parliament.

Caitlin – I liked doing measurement in maths.

Evie – I liked learning our celebrating success song.

Erin – I liked writing this week on How to Trap a Dragon?

Sophie – I liked the first day of school because I was bored during the holidays.

Olivia – I enjoyed seeing all my friends and Mr Cunningham again.

Kayleigh – I enjoyed writing about how to trap a dragon.

Logan – I liked writing.

Robyn – I liked learning about the Scottish Parliament.

Our favourite things this term!

Evie: I liked Victorian because I got to see people wearing the Dunces hat.

Erin: I liked assembly it was fun.

Robyn: I liked doing Victorian writing on Victorian day.

David: I liked the trip to New Lanark.

Leia: I liked Victorian Day because on google it says teachers were strict and scary and Mr Cunningham.

Demi – Leigh: I liked getting the punishments on Victorian day like holding the books and the Dunces hat and going to the other class.

Olivia: I liked spending time with the whole class.

Caitlin: I enjoyed New Lanark, it was fun to be a mannequin.

Kayleigh: I enjoyed winning the snuffles competition and eating the Harbios.

Aaron: I liked when Erin got the Dunces hat because she was writing with her left hand.

Emma: I liked doing our assembly.

Dadirayi: I enjoyed every this term.

Have a great holiday P5B! See you in April!

This week we worked together in small groups to create our own news reports based on our finished kidnapping stories. To do this we had different roles. In groups we assigned the roles which best suited our abilities there was a reporter, presenter, editor, director, victim and witnesses, camera person and script writer.

Evie: I liked getting interviewed.

Erin: we chose one person’s out of our group and based the report on that.

Emma: I liked being the editor for my group because I also produced the artwork for our studio.

Olivia: I liked being the cameraperson because I like filming.

Grace: I liked cameraperson because I had fun doing it.

Kayleigh: I liked signing the jingle for our report “K news now”. It stands for kids news.

Leia: I liked getting interviewed.

Next week is the last week of term. It is also our trip to New Lanark and Victorian Day on Thursday.

Leia: I am looking forward to seeing the first ever infant school.

Robyn: I am looking forward to our trip.

David: I am looking forward to PE next week.

Demi – Leigh: I am looking forward to sleeping on the bus. Also in the Easter holidays I am going to see Ed Sheeran.

Evie: I am looking forward to Victorian day.

Grace: I am looking to seeing Mr Cunningham putting making us wear dunces hat and dressing up as a Victorian teacher.

Annabelle: I am looking forward to Victorian day.

Aaron: I am looking forward to seeing the cotton.

Dadirayi: I am excited for my trip and Victorian day.

Olivia: I am looking forward to Victorian day and maybe dressing up as a Victorian.

Emma: I am looking forward to Victorian day.

James: I am looking forward to New Lanark.

This in primary 5 our highlights were.

Maths

We have revised our addition strategies.

Robyn: we used column method.

Emma: we looked at partitioning and I enjoyed word mayhem.

Evie:I learned how to compensate, I liked that, it makes it easy.

Caitlin: I liked counting on.

Sophie: I liked doing the word mayhem because it was fun.

Evan: I liked making my own strategy for compensation by subtracting from one number and adding to the other.

English

We finished out kidnapping stories this week.

Grace: I liked ending my story about how we escaped.

All the stories were fantastic and we had 8 star writers. Lotte, Erin, Annabelle, Sophie, Logan, Freddie, Jessica and Harry. The class voted Sophie’s and Annabelle’s as the best stories.

LAC

Demi Leigh: we watched Oliver and I liked doing my Victorian poster.

Dadirayi: I liked the movie and I enjoyed everything about it.

Leia: I liked watching Oliver and I liked the character Bullseye.

Erin: I liked PE because we voted for the three games we got to play. We played football, hockey and basketball.

Kayleigh: I enjoyed watching Oliver, I liked Oliver.

Olivia: I liked everything this week.

Happy 10^th Birthday to Dadirayi this week.

Maths this week we have been exploring decimals. We have found this hard to start with but by the end of the week we knew how to turn fractions into decimals and what tenths and hundredths are.

Evie,Caitlin and Sophie: I liked doing decimals and turning fractions into decimals

Cameron and Annabelle: I liked the decimal song.

English

This week we have written then flashback part of our adventure story. These were excellent Mr Cunningham was very impressed and had 7 star writers this week, with the class voting Evie’s story as their favourite.

Grace: I liked listening to other people’s stories.

Evan: I liked writing because we got kidnapped in our story.

Freddie: I enjoyed writing our kidnapped stories.

Ava: I enjoyed writing about where I was kidnapped and getting taken hostage in a pub.

Kaitlin: I liked listening to other people’s stories.

Ellis: I enjoyed writing this week.

LAC

This week we also looked at Victorian food. We learned the difference between what the different classes of people ate and how only rich people had low tea and middle class people had high tea. Then we got to try some poor people food… GREUL!!!

Erin: I liked learning about Victorian food.

Demi – Leigh: I liked tasting the disgusting gruel.

Dadirayi: I liked learning about the rich and poor people.

David, Aaron, Lotte, Jessica and Leia: I liked tasting the food. (Leia gave it 10/10)

Olivia: I didn’t like the gruel.

We have had another busy week!  As you know we have been learning all about Victorians and this week we looked at what they ate.  We got to taste Gruel and it was pretty disgusting!

In maths we finished off learning decimals and fractions, and are moving onto different strategies for addition.

We painted cherry blossom in Art too –

Lucy M  – I liked Art because it was linked to Spring.

Karys – I liked Art because it was fun.

In Writing we were showing off our up-levelling skills and used all sorts of wow words, openers and connectives.

In 5b this week

Maths

In maths this week we have continued and finished our learning about fractions. We have been looking at how to calculate fractions of an amount.

Dadirayi: I enjoyed revising division by colouring in a minion.

Aaron, Reece and Kayleigh: I enjoyed working through the TJ textbook.

Kaitlin: I enjoyed working with Kayleigh and Dadirayi to complete maths.

English

In English this week we have tried to create dramatic openings for a kidnapping story. We used locations familiar to use to help us add description.

Erin: I enjoyed writing the story.

Ava: I enjoyed writing my story because I liked this kind of writing.

Sophie: I liked writing because of the dramatic theme.

Evie: Writing was god this week because I like kidnapping stories.

LAC

The winners of the Dragons Den have been decided. All pupils pitched well and worked incredibly hard on all their inventions. However, only a few managed to secure investment from the Dragons. Those lucky people were Sophie for her Stomach Slimmer tonic, Lotte for her coal powered bike, Mya for her superstar sweets that make children behave, Caitlin for her desk/bed and Logan for his cholera potion.

Emma: I liked doing PE with Mr Jefferies.

Annabelle: I enjoyed the Dragons Den and showing my model to the dragons.

Leia: I enjoyed PE with Mr Jefferies and I liked handball.

Robyn: I liked playing rugby yesterday.

David: I liked the Dragons Den.

Isla and Grace: I liked playing football.

Evan: I liked doing Dragons Den even though I didn’t get any investment.