An eventful week in 5B this week and lots of quality learning taking place also.

English

In our language work this week we rewrote our pitch ideas for our Dragons Den inventions. In our writing we focused on using persuasive language to make the Dragons want to invest in our Victorian inventions. It was also important that we listed the key facts such as special features, price and why our product was unique.

Maths

Maths this week we have been continuing our learning on fractions. The Pyramid and Spheres group have been investigating simplifying fractions and how to produce equivalent fractions using multiplication. These groups also completed work for DidBook this week which will be posted soon that shows everything we have learned about fractions.

The Cubes and Cylinders focused on fractions of a whole and how to tell if one fraction is greater than another. The Cubes then started working on their simplifying and equivalent fractions also.

LAC

This week has been a jam packed week of Victorian activities. In class we have created our own versions of William Morris prints.  All of the class produced wonderful examples which will form a display in our classroom. As well as this we have been inundated with entrepreneurs pitching their fantastic Victorian inventions to the Dragons Den. So far only two products have received investment, (Sophie for her Stomach Slimmer and Mya for her sweets that make children behave) however I am sure that lots more budding inventors could get money out of the Dragons next week.

Our Thoughts

Caitlin: I enjoyed the parachute games and dragons den.

Harry: I have liked everything this week.

Emma: Dragons Den was my favourite thing this week. Mya’s invention was my favourite.

Sophie: I have liked all of this week.

Ellis: I have enjoyed learning about simplifying and equivalent fractions.

Freddie: Creating my William Morris artwork was my favourite part of the week.

Dadirayi: I liked playing with the parachute and Dragons Den.

Leia: Dragons Den was my highlight – Mya’s invention was my favourite so far.

Evie and Erin: We liked doing our maths assessment.

Evan: I liked parachute games, maths and Dragons Den.

This week in 5B our highlights of the week are.

Jayden: I enjoyed doing spelling and golden time.

Leia: I enjoyed choosing at indoor PE, I chose the climbing frame and other people chose gymnastics and basketball.

Grace: I enjoyed making the imposters for our Victorian inventions, I liked writing in a Victorian style.

Robyn: I like building my invention at home.

Dadirayi: I like maths this week we have learnt about fractions.

Emma: I liked PE with Mr Jefferies.

Freddie: I enjoyed learning about the workhouse.

David: I liked PE when we did gymnastics and got to climb the climbing frame.

Kaitlin: I liked doing maths yesterday.

Aaron: I liked writing about the Victorian workhouse.

Demi Leigh: I liked doing PE with Mr Jefferies as we earned free choose.

James: I enjoyed learning fractions in maths.

Kayleigh: I enjoyed designing our six nations strips.

Sophie: I liked writing about the workhouse.

Erin: I liked outdoor PE because I like rugby.

Ava: I liked PE with Mr Jefferies because we did gymnastics, I did a backwards roll.

Evie: I liked outdoor PE because I like being outside.

Caitlin: I liked outdoor PE because I like playing rugby.

Isla: I liked PE with Mr Jefferies because I did a front flip on the mat.

Next week Leia is looking forward to brass training. Freddie is looking forward to going swimming and Cameron is excited for his Birthday.

Our favourite things this week.

Logan: Outdoor PE was my favourite thing this week was outdoor PE because I like sports.

Emma: I liked PE with Mr Jefferies we played castles.

David: I like outdoor PE because we played rugby, I enjoyed tackling.

Robyn:  I enjoyed researching about Charles Darwin, it was fun.

Cameron: I like learning bus stop method.

Grace: I enjoyed writing my Victorian diary it is my favourite type of writing.

Aaron: I liked science; we learned about the ear the parts of the ear are very interesting.

Olivia: I liked writing a diary of our Victorian lives.

Annabelle: Fractions was really fun.

Kayleigh: I liked showing my Victorian book, I enjoy reading Charles Dickens.

Demi – Leigh: I liked writing diary entries.

Sophie: I enjoyed writing about our life in the Victorian times, I was proud of Robyn for being star writer.

Kaitlin: I enjoyed researching famous Victorian inventors which was part of my home learning.

Ellis: I liked outdoor PE because I liked sports.

Leia: I liked spelling because it was a challenge and I wanted to know how good I am at spelling.

Evan: I liked playing rugby because I liked scoring tries.

Evie: I liked learning the countries in the 6 nations.

This week has been a busy week this is our highlights.

Evie: Our assembly was my highlight “I liked the full thing”. I liked writing about my own Victorian invention.  As well as this I liked playing chain tig and Wizzards, Goblins and Giants.

Caitlin: I liked learning all the songs for our assembly. I also enjoyed planning my own Victorian invention.

Kayleigh: I liked learning about the Victorians because they are very interesting.

Leia: I enjoyed learning about what jobs we may have had if we had lived during the Victorian age. I also enjoyed playing hide and seek during free choose at PE.

Sophie: I liked the assembly especially when we were performing our songs. I also was happy to accidently find out I was star writer this week.

Erin: I liked doing the assembly and I liked getting a biscuit.  I also enjoyed PE particularly playing cops and robbers.

Kaitlin: I liked reading the history book yesterday it even had the beginning of the world!

Demi Leigh: I enjoyed doing writing.  I enjoyed the punishments in PE like having to sing I’m a little teapot.

David: I liked the Victorian song and all of our assembly.

Olivia: I liked writing because it got me to use my imagination to think of different things.

Grace: I liked playing chain tig and running away.

Ellis: I liked writing because I enjoyed writing instructions on how to operate my own invention.

Evan: I enjoyed rehearsing the assembly and chain tig.

Robyn: I liked performing the street children song.

Emma: I liked assembly.

Charlie: I enjoyed learning all the song in the assembly.

Ben: I liked having a juice and biscuit after the assembly.

Well done to all the pupils for their hard work this week and fabulous performance and a big thank you to all the parents, family members and carers that came along to show your support. From Mr Cunningham.

Thank you to everyone who came along to our first PATPAL session. The children really enjoyed sharing their learning with you.

We received lots of positive feedback:

“Enjoyed the morning and coming into class. It’s great to see all the children working in different ways. ”

“Really enjoyed seeing the different strategies at work and to be able to gauge their level of understanding. Hope the sessions continue again as found it very beneficial.”

“The children showed lots of enthusiasm and explained things well.”

“Very informative – nice to see children working and enjoying it.”

“I enjoyed learning the cross method and will try to use that at work.”

Don’t worry if you did not have the opportunity to come along. The link for the powerpoint from the session has been uploaded to this blog post. There will be a second session later on this academic year. A questionnaire will be sent out nearer the time and we would appreciate your ideas. This information will help us shape the next session.

Thank you for all your support.

P5-7 Team

patpal-session-1

This has been a busy week in primary 5. We have been practising hard for our assembly; on the 27th in which we will share with you some interesting stories about the Vile Victorians; in maths we have had the pleasure of welcoming in some parents during the PATPAL where primary 5 shared our excellent strategies for the 4 operations and in language we have continued our block on righting instructions and created a ‘The Bedroom Tidier’.

Maths

Thanks for all that came along on Wednesday morning it was good to see so many happy faces and for the pupils to share their learning with you. We hope that you learned something new and that it gives you an insight into how we are learning maths in class. We have continue applying what we have learnt by working hard on our division skills the rest of the week.

English

As mentioned above we continued to write instructions about inventions.  Last week we created teacher pleaser machines and this week we have created bedroom tidiers (this must be useful for most of the class). The writing produced has been fantastic and star writers this week are Ellis, Lotte, Leia and Annabelle.

LAC

Our journey back in time to the Victorian era has led us to learning about the differences between poor and rich children this week. We learned how hard life was for poor Victorian children and how they did not have many toys. Most of us thought that working for a living sounded like a bad idea.  As well as this we have continued to work hard on our assembly and it is starting to sound really good! All pupils who need one have been given a costume and the girls thought they looked a little silly. All pupils should wear dark shoes and sensible clothing to wear under their costume (t shirt and tights for girls, white shirt,polo or t-shirt for boys with dark trousers, hat optional).

Finally…

Primary 5 got the opertuntity to take part in street dance on Wednesday morning below are some pictures of us busting a move!

This is the last full week of school before the man with the sleigh and reindeers comes to visit us. We have had a very busy week with our party, Christmas lunch and Breakfast with Santa for some of us.

Despite all this though we have still managed to work incredibly hard. In maths we completed our work on Data Handling by looking at how to read information from different types of charts. In English we have looked at parenthesis using brackets and written fantastic stories about ‘Sprout Boy’ and in our context for learning ‘The Caribbean Island’ we completed our model islands and investigated how Christmas is celebrated throughout the Caribbean. It was interesting to see how something were the same as us and others were different.

As well as this Mr Cunningham set us a challenges using infinity tiles to test our growth mindset and ability to get out of the ‘Dip’. It was good to see how some pupils have improved their growth mindset and how others still need to take some time and effort to grow their mind when they are faced with a challenge.

This Monday was primary 5’s party. We all had a great time and played pass the parcel, musical arms and corners. Here are some photographs of us looking our best.