Well it has been another incredibly busy week at St Nicholas!

In maths, we studied all about measurement. We have looked at distance / length, weight / mass, volume / capacity and how to calculate the perimeter of a regular or irregular shape. We also looked at how to convert from one unit of measure to another. This can be tricky, but we have rules to follow and these help us e.g. there are 100 metres in a kilometre. In Number Talks, we revised our addition strategies, for example Partitioning, Adding-Up and Compensation. We always name the strategies that we use and we explain what strategy worked best for us.

In Literacy, we looked at procedural writing. This can be quite tricky, but we now know the proper layout, so that helps a lot. In handwriting, we continue to practice our cursive joins. In grammar, we revised synonyms; we can see that they can be useful to us.

We researched all about genetics in Science; we discovered that our physical characteristics are inherited from our parents and their ancestors. We also looked into our topic ‘Our Democracy’. We discussed the different types of governments around the world and then we focussed on the differences between a dictatorship and a democratic system of government.

In Art, we have used our design skills to make a card for our Buddies, as we will be meeting them quite soon. We continued with our topic, ‘God’s Loving Plan’, we are learning that as we grow older, we change physically and emotionally and that this is all of God’s plan for us.

It was a great week for learning and fun too with our Silent Disco.

This was a short week for us, but we still managed to do so much. In our Math’s lessons we continued to look at budgeting, it can be tricky, but we feel that we are able to work on a budget now. We also did Number Talks, focussing on subtraction strategies, for example Re-ordering, Adding Up and Adjusting for Easier Numbers. We name the strategies used and we explain what strategy worked best for us. Problem Solving with Mrs Heather was fun; we did some IZAC 9 activities.

In Literacy, we looked at Facts or Opinions. This could be quite tricky until we came up with a definition to help us. We decided that for a statement to be a fact then it needed evidence and proof, otherwise it was just someone’s opinion. In handwriting, we practiced our cursive joins.

We studied the different parts of a plant and their functions in science and then we looked into our new topic ‘Our Democracy’. We stared to write a glossary for this, as there are a lot of specific vocabulary to this subject. It will be very interesting to find out how the Scottish Parliament works and what powers Westminster holds. We are interested to find out what all the different roles are and how we vote; some of us might even become politicians one day!

We continued to look at the technique of ‘One Point Perspective’ in Art. This week we captured a city scene. It took a lot of effort to capture the illusion of a city scene disappearing into a horizon point! PE was fun too, we were running, throwing and jumping within various athletic tasks.

In P6 this week, we started another new topic, ‘God’s Loving Plan’, this involved a lot of discussion and we have some homework to do too. It will be interesting to find out what we were like as babies; to remind ourselves of what we liked and did not like when we were really young.

All in all, it was a great week for learning.

The P6 Blog  (written by P6 pupils)

Throughout this week, we have been doing all our assessments. The first assessment we did was our maths assessment. We just took our time and made sure we understood what the question was asking us, before we worked out a solution to it. In maths and numeracy we did our daily Number Talks tasks (we had to use and name 3 or 4 different subtraction strategies to work out the subtraction problem). We also looked at budgeting this week. We had to make choices for spending money in a budget. One of the tasks was to use a budget of £2000 to design a bedroom; it was tricky, another task, was to buy groceries with a budget of £20, £10 and then £5. This became really quite difficult when we had a smaller budget, as we could not afford everything; we had to decide what groceries would be more useful.

 It was lovely to see Mrs Alvarez and she helped us to revise our Spanish Numbers, up to 30, and she introduced some brilliant Spanish counting games for us to play. 

 In PE we looked at Athletics, we focussed on throwing skills. There were different stations and there was a different activity at each station. It was exciting too, because we got a point for every time we scored. Later in the week, we stayed focussed on Athletics, but this time it was to practise our running skills. 

 In Health and Wellbeing, we watched a video and then we discussed our emotions. We concluded that sometimes it is better to take a step back, calm down and get into the right zone before speaking to others; this can mean that we have better communication with each other, rather than speaking in anger.

We finished our topic, Biological Systems, and discussed our knowledge of the life cycle of mammals, plants and birds. We learned about the differences and similarities between them all. 

 In R.E we studied the The Wedding Feast Of Cana, we watched a short video of Jesus’ first miracle. We discussed that Our Lady played a big part in helping the family at the wedding. Later in the week, we discussed how we can ask Our Lady to intervene on our behalf, all we have to do is pray the Hail Mary and Our Lady will help us.

 We also did many literacy tasks, some of these were assessments; we did a spelling, reading and writing assessment.

At the end of the week, we all took part in our Learning Participation Groups, we continued to look at the different tasks that we have chosen to undertake. We also, all brought in a book to ‘Donate for a Doughnut’, we thanked the Parent Council for the lovely treat.

It was a very busy week, but we have enjoyed our learning. Thank you for reading all about our week at Saint Nicholas, we hope you all have a lovely, long weekend.

This week’s blog was written by the P6 pupils!

Welcome to P6 Blog  

We have been busy doing our tasks this week:

Maths

This week in Number Talks we continued to practise our subtraction strategies. We also looked at equivalent fractions, this is where fractions look very different, with different numerators and denominators, but they actually represent exactly the same amount. We played fraction  games and did a maths colouring/matching task, to improve our fractions knowledge.

Reading

For reading, our groups had Literacy Circle tasks to do, these tasks are to be carried out using our reading books. We read with the teacher and then discuss what the author has written and why certain styles have been used to describe characters and locations. We also did a Reflective Reading task, this was a Blankety Blank activity and was all about Edinburgh. In this task, we have to fill in missing words to make the text make sense.

Literacy

During literacy, we have been learning the correct way to use apostrophes for the contraction of words. When we put two words together to form a shortened version, we use the apostrophe to replace the missing letter.

Art

In art we learned about a popular artist called Paul Cezanne . He was known for doing still life art.

So we tried his style of art we used props like a flower, a hat, an orange and an apple it was very exciting trying this style of art.

Topic

We did some research on our Europe Topic, we also did a quiz with a whopping 75 questions all about Europe. This quiz will also help our Euro Quiz Team, who will represent us in the West Lothian European school quiz.

Mass

We went to mass this week at our local parish and sang some hymns and listened to Cannon Jeremy  talk about the Holy Spirit. We also had a good little walk over to the church and back which was really enjoyable.

Science

For science this week we learned about Newton’s disc. We learned that if you spin Newton’s disc in a fast frequency the Colours will become white to the human eye because the frequency of the disc is fast.

P.E

One of our P.E activities was the bleep test which is a fitness test to see how long you can run.

We also did gymnastics, which was very good. We revised some ball skills too, shoulder and chest passes.

Music

In music we went to the music room and played Instruments including maracas, drums and other instruments.

Problem-solving

In problem solving each group got 9 cubes and we were asked questions to solve with the cubes which we were given.

Thank you for reading this week’s P6 blog!

Have a lovely long weekend everyone and see you all next Wednesday!

This week’s Blog was written by the P6 pupils, well done to the group who focussed on the recount of this week’s activities.

Welcome to the P6 Blog we’re going to inform you about what we have been doing this week. We have been doing presentations, this is for our new topic, which is learning all about Europe. We had to develop a presentation about travelling to a country in Europe. It had to include a lot of details; capital cities, currency, landmarks (man made and natural), languages, famous people from that country and how we would travel to get there. It was very exciting to watch everyone present their work and it has helped us all learn lots about the countries of Europe. We have also learned, that France is really popular!

In maths we have been learning about mixed numbers and improper fractions more specifically how to convert from one to the other, yet again we have realised how important it is to know our times tables.

For writing, we looked at developing our own poems. The type of poem we looked at was Bio Poems. This is where we write about ourselves, using adjectives and figurative language to describe how we think and feel about things.

We continued to do literacy circles all week and we followed our rota, this meant that we did different activities every day, using our homework reading chapters.  It’s fun discussing our novels in our reading circle.

We also celebrated Mass this week with Canon Jeremy. On February the 2nd, it was Candlemas Day, this is where we celebrate that Jesus was presented at the Temple. During the Mass, Canon Jeremy blessed all of the candles.

Bye and we hope you enjoyed reading all about our week.

This week’s Blog was written by some of our pupils. Well done to you, you have written a really good recount of our week.

The Blog

In maths we learned about Factors and Prime Numbers. We did this using a ‘Maths Through Story’ activity. It was based on the book ‘Bean Thirteen’ by Matthew McEiligott  and following the story we saw that some numbers can only be divided into equal parts by themselves or the number one, this makes them a Prime Number. We also learned that if a number has more than two factors, then we can call it a composite number We also did our maths assessments this week. In number-talks we did subtraction strategies.

We did literacy circles and did our writing assessment. Our assessment was to write a recount of something that had happened to us. We had to make sure we used the proper layout for a recount story.

In P..E. with Mr Muldoon we did fitness circuits and skipping. In P.E. with our teachers we made up our own dance routines. We had to make a pattern of movements to a count of 16.

In Grammar we learned about different types of conjunctions ( for coordinating conjunctions we learned to use the acronym for them which is FANBOYS – For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet and So).

We also were learning about Europe, and we also learned more about the countries in Europe and their capital cities. We also did a Kahoot challenge.

We did a collaborative art project in Art, the portraits were of Billy Connolly and Robert Burns, this was in the style of the Artist Chuck Close.

In Science, we learned about light (light sources), and had a discussion on how rainbows are made.

Finally, we had a workshop from ‘Shoogalie Road Productions’ all about  Robert Burns and, together, we all developed a Poem, Wee Jeanie helped us to do this, she was Robert Burns’ wife.

This week’s Blog has been written by our pupils. Well done, a great report everyone.

In P6 we did Maths, it involved playing 3 games and it was all about pie charts. One of the games was making pie charts and the other games were using pie charts to solve problems. We played all 3 games and really enjoyed them. We also found out about how pie charts work and how they help us store useful information and gather information.

During the week, after our breaks, we have milk, snack and watch News- Round, it’s fun, as we then discuss the issues we have just heard about.

In literacy we did Literacy Circles, in our groups, and worked on certain skills of reading and understanding.

Later in the week did PE, then we had science with Mrs. Quinn.  We attended Mass for the Feast of St. Nicholas. It was really lovely because we were in the Chapel and we were singing beautiful hymns. We also practiced our cursive handwriting this week.

Throughout the week, we have practised the Carols for our Christmas concert. At first we found them quite tricky, but now we can really enjoy them as we are more confident. The Carols are,  C is for Christmas, Christmas Calypso and All the Angels in Heaven Rejoice.

We also did some Reflective Reading and this really helped us with identifying good adjectives. Our writing this week was an information report on someone that we admire and are inspired by. We had to remember to use the proper layout and include lots of facts.

This week was so fun.

This week’s Blog has been written by some of our pupils, well done for a wonderful report.

P6 St.Nicholas Blog

In p6 we had a very busy week.

Maths

We played three different math games like Dice Predictions, Lucky Numbers and Football Data. In all of these games we were learning to sort and handle data using Tally and Frequency charts( (.

Number Talks

In Number Talks we had 3 options (Hot, Spicy or Mild) and we had to pick one and work it out showing 3 to 4 different subtraction strategies.

Literacy

We did Guided Reading, Literacy Circle Roles, Independent Reading and Discussion Group work .

We continued to look at writing an informative report. We were looking at using the proper structure, Then we planned and wrote a report about Saint Nicholas.

Health and Wellbeing

P6 had P.E with Mr. Muldoon, we were continuing to learn about the game of badminton and we practised these tactics in games.  We are also starting to learn Scottish Country Dancing. We continued to practise ‘Strip the Willow’ and our next dance to learn will be ‘ The Gay Gordons’.

We also continued to work on our Zones of Regulation program.

We had Science with Mrs Quinn and we had Problem Solving with Mrs Heather (we used the IZAK 9 cubes – they are so much fun).

In Art, we looked at shading to create a 3D object. We did a pencil drawing in our Snapshot Jotters and then we did an oil pastel still-life of the Advent Wreath.

Next week, we are attending Mass, celebrating the Feast Day of St. Nicholas, so this week we have been learning all about him. We have also been participating in some hymn practice.

In Spanish we worked in groups to make a movie about Spanish classroom instructions. We then posted our movies into the P6 TEAMS.

Miss McCormack and Mrs Kilpatrick wish you all a lovely weekend.

This week, two of our P6 pupils have written the Blog, here is their report.

P6 A Busy Week!

This week we have been very busy with our work and activities.

We did a STEM activity with Mrs Quinn. It was planning and carrying out an egg drop. The idea was to design a safe way to drop an egg, so that it would not be damaged. Most of the eggs did not crack, so we were very pleased with our results. Also in science we revised the Water Cycle and then we used our knowledge of this subject to debug some programs, using SCRATCH, that were showing the Water Cycle process.

In maths we moved onto a new subject. We started to look at surveys and making up good questionnaires to gather information. We continued to look at using addition strategies in Number Talks.

In Spanish we were learning new vocabulary for classroom instructions and we played a game of Simon Dice (Simon Says).

We looked at the Zones of Regulation in Health and Wellbeing. With Mr Muldoon we played badminton and we were learning new skills and tactics. We also stated to learn a Scottish Country dance with our class teachers. It was Strip the Willow and we were warned that it was a bit tricky but lots of fun. We will be practising this and learning other traditional dances.

For literacy, we did a verb task, we had to recognise and underline the verbs in a sentence. We also continued with our Literacy Circles, were we focus on our reading skills.

We designed a Christmas card, an entry will be chosen from each class to go into a big national competition. Very exciting.

On Friday we started our Pope Francis Faith Award program, we looked at the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and then we looked more closely at the Gift of Knowledge .

Well done you two! A very informative report.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

This week’s Blog was written by two of our P6 pupils, well done you two!

Blog about our week

On Monday we did science we learned about air resistance and we made a parachute we also learnt about Saints. A particular Saint can become special to us and when we need guidance or help we can pray to that Saint and ask them for their help. We also did some grammar too, we were looking at prepositions. We started looking at divisibility tests in maths. We carried out tasks that required us to test a number to see if it could be divided by 2, 4 and 8.

On Tuesday we did tennis in P.E. it was so much fun. We also did literacy circles, this is where we take a close look at the text in our novels. We then do activities that help us create, evaluate, analyse, apply, understand and remember, this really helps us in our own writing too. We did maths, again we used the divisibility tests to see if a number could be divided by 5 or 10.

On Wednesday we looked at the divisibility tests for dividing by 3, 6 and 9 and then played some games to try out the new tests we had just learned. Then it was time for handwriting, this is where we get to practise writing in cursive. Later, we had a musical appreciation activity. We listened to music and then we drew an art piece, our art was inspired from the music.

On Thursday we played games in maths that used our divisibility tests knowledge. We also made posters that will be put together to make a booklet, so that we can always check on the divisibility tests when we need to use them. In writing, we looked at writing a recount and once again we studied the proper layout that we should use. We know that a recount should have a title, orientation, sequenced events and a personal statement at the end. Finally we looked at numbers in Spanish and then went outside to play some P.E games, it was very fun.

On Friday we looked at the pilgrimage of St. Columbus and then we tried to locate important parts of St Columbus’ journey on a map of Scotland. We had Build-Up Time and then we settled to listen to our School Assembly, it was all about catholic week, which is next week.

Thank you for reading about our week.

This week’s Blog was written by two of our P6 pupils. They collected all the information and then using their ICT skills they developed their report and sent it to the Blog. Well done P6!!

Hello this is what we did this week.

Maths

In maths we learnt how to use brackets and the strategy of re-ordering digits to make calculations easier. We where playing maths games – Race to 100, and games using our new re-ordering digits and using bracket skills.

PE

We got put into teams and played basketball against other teams.  Later in the week, we played games to do with hockey, we are getting better!

Topic

We researched star constellations, we choose a constellation to model with marshmellows and straws then wrote facts about that constellation around it.

Class Assembly

In groups we all were  doing the Story of Moses timeline.  We finished this task off and then we displayed it in class, this will help us while we are preparing for our Class Assembly.

We were working hard on our Class Assembly tasks, we all put forward our ideas of what should be included and then we decided in our groups how we are going to show our information.

We then started to plan our work by using  storyboarding techniques and then we started to capture our ideas in the ways that our group had decided.

Literacy circles

We got new chapters for our books. We read through our pages and discussed any vocabulary that we weren’t sure of.

We read through our novels and then answered Bloom’s Questions to show we had a good understanding of our stories.

Well done P6 a very good report. Have a wonderful October break everyone!

The P6 Blog was written by two of our pupils! Great job you two!

Hello this is the p6 blog on what we have done this week!

Wednesday

In the morning we were finishing unfinished work when we entered class.

Next we were writing our spelling words three times and writing three sentences with our words in the sentences.

On Wednesday we had a template of a line graph based on a story called Less than zero. The graph was called saving clams for a scooter and we had to follow what the penguin had on his graph

We had break milk, story and Newsround. The story was based on the book called wonder and that is linked to our kindness topic for literacy.

We did a comprehension on the song A Cover is Not a Book which really meant not to judge somebody of how they look. P6 were discussing about questions on a comprehension sheet.

After lunch we did self-portraits and we drew lines around it to decorate in between the lines and add precepts. ( precepts really are sayings and rules of life)

And then it was home time.

Thursday

We come in school and finish more of our unfinished work.

After that we did an apostrophes work sheet where you had to put the apostrophe in the correct place.

After that it was break and we had milk, story and Newsround.

Then we make our own line graphs and follow how many clams ( which is really money ) Perry penguin had.

After lunch we did a bit of bible studies on Moses.

We played some P.E games with the other class like grannies and Grandads,shark attack and saucers and tea cups.

Friday

We did unfinished work, we had a bit of build up time!

We also wrote our own prayers on paper stars and put them on our prayer wall.

Then we have break, milk and Newsround

We have assembly and more build up time then it is home time.

That was our short week thank you for reading our Blog!

The Blog, this week, was written by two P6 pupils. They asked their peers what they wanted included, and then they wrote their report. They did a wonderful job, well done!

P6 school blog 

 On Monday to start the day of we had some teamwork games with Ross (Active Schools). It was extremely fun. We also listened to the audiobook of wonder, we got to quite an interesting part. We all went to P.E. and played some basketball. We were focused on dribbling and shooting. At the end of the day some people passed bike ability and they are now on level 2!  

On Tuesday we did our targets for numeracy, literacy and growth mindsets then we stuck them up on the wall. We started literacy circles. We also then did S.T.E.M.  We did the plastic cup telephone and found out it works but only if it is taut.  

On Wednesday we created our own superheroes! We had to write a paragraph about our superheroes and why they do good and how they became a superhero. We listened to wonder again and finished our S.T.E.M. We also did more literacy circles. 

On Thursday we had P.E. with our teachers we played shark attack, grannies and grandads and pirates. We finished of our superheroes and did number talks. We also got told we were great at literacy circles. 

On Friday we did a worksheet on kindness, courage, friendship and courageous we had assembly and then had build-up-time.

We’ve had a very busy week of learning and yet again P5 have produced some marvellous pieces of work.

In Number Talks we looked at multiplication and subtraction (lots of partial products and repeated addition strategies being used) and in maths we looked at symmetry and did a little revision on lots of other aspects of mathematics.

In Literacy we had fun looking at Onomatopoeia words and Wow we did well! Everyone was asked to develop a Word Art poster about themselves and the results were incredible, unfortunately they contain names in them so can’t be shown here, but take my word for it that Mrs Mac and myself were so impressed!

Other tasks in literacy were to use our spelling words in various activities. We designed a poster showing 5 Acts of Kindness and we designed crazy uniforms for pupils and for the teaching staff, which I’m sure they would all love to have for real! There was also an opportunity to practice some French greetings…Bonjour!

In our topics we looked at making Power-Points and Sways on sea animals to celebrate  World’s Ocean Day! These were amazing and very informative. There were some science tasks to carry out, one of these was to watch Dr Chips showing us how to build a Solar Oven, very useful to have if we ever have a power cut!

One of the Art tasks we had this week was to use the drawing techniques of hatching, cross hatching, shading and gradating to capture an image of a Giant Panda, I think you’ll agree that P5 rocked this task, it’s a shame that only a few examples can be shown on the Blog.

Well done P5 for all of your hard work this week, have a lovely weekend and we will catch up again on Monday. Take Care everyone.

Mrs Mac and Mrs K

Hi Everyone!

There were many activities set for this week, many involved doing research, while others focused on doing revision.

Number Talks looked over the strategies for subtraction and Multiplication. In Maths, we looked at revising our skills at adding and subtracting whole numbers and Place Value. We also used our skills to work out real life maths problems involving the planet Mars.

There were various spelling tasks over the week, one I particularly like to look over is the hidden word task, as there are always words that the children come up with that we were just not expecting!!

We researched famous Mathematicians: Albert Einstein and Sir Issac Newton to name a few.  We looked into our climate and our environment and discovered the differences between the two terms. As part of our environment studies we investigated the Scottish Fishing Industry and also learned to identify some of the fish that swim around our seas.

There were a few fun challenges, we had a General Knowledge Quiz about animal facts and we also had a Sumdog challenge.

Our week finished with a lovely Mass from Father Jeremy. It was so nice to hear familiar voices! We also had probably the worse rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’ ever!!! I think Father enjoyed it though! Happy Birthday Father Jeremy from P5!

Have a lovely weekend everyone, stay safe and we will all ‘meet’ up again next week.

Mrs Mac and Mrs K!!

Another very busy week, we were off on Monday but still managed to fit in lots of fun, challenging and thoughtful tasks.

We had our usual daily tasks of Spelling, Number Talks and Reading, along with our energetic participation to Joe Wicks exercise classes and Mr Muldoon’s challenges; teachers included, thankfully no video footage of that!

Here are some examples of the work uploaded onto Teams from our classes. We have a lovely example of spelling and a fantastic Number Talks layout, clearly showing the strategy of removal.

In Maths we looked at fractions of a whole number and did a little place value revision. Here are some fantastic examples provided by our classes.

We also did lots of tasks for Literacy, this included, reading, developing our listening skills, writing and also looking at some grammar points. There was an activity looking at prefixes and this was particularly well done by P5. Here is just one example of the work carried out.

There were tasks to design French posters, make a happiness jar, make a wind chime, research the story of the amazingly brave girl Anne Frank. We have also been following the music scheme ‘Treasure Island’ and the children were asked to practice the 6th song of the series ‘Jimmy be Good’. Maybe we could have a P5 concert when we all get back together to showcase all of the songs we have covered! We also had some General Knowledge quizzes, for all the future budding ‘The Chase’ competitors, maybe one day we could have a go at taking on the Governess!

We hope you enjoyed today’s Mass, it was truly lovely for many reasons but in particular it was so nice to hear the children’s voices at the end. We miss you all and are so proud of how well you are all coping with things. Take care everyone and have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Mac and Mrs K

Hello everyone! It has been a busy few days, we have been tackling spelling tasks, ‘Number Talk’ tasks, researching famous people (we looked at Mother Theresa this week), investigating metaphors, looking at loads and loads of maths and we even squeezed in a little bit of science!

Here is a small example of what we did this week:-

Money Tasks and Number Talks

Metaphors

We have had some great examples, here is one to show you how well this exercise was done.

Science

We looked at the ‘Water Cycle’ and then for fun we carried out a ‘Making a Rainbow’ experiment! It was packed with lots of scientific language for us to learn!

Your teachers are so proud of how well you are all coping with these changes, keep doing your best, but more importantly stay healthy and happy.

Take Care Everyone!

Hello Everyone! This week we Joe Wicks’ed every morning

then we exercised our brains with some number talks and multiplication practice!

We also looked into inference; when we have to think about what information the author is subtly telling us. This can be tricky sometimes, so we have to practice it!

We pondered about ‘Thoughts of the Day’, we discovered that when we talk about ‘Forgiveness’ that we are actually quite a forgiving lot, even when our sister ‘borrows’ our chocolate or when our little sister thinks our head needs a seat and so throws a chair at it! What does this tell us? Well, maybe it is telling us that it is safer to have a brother? Maybe not?

Today is a very special day, it is the first of May. May is the month of Our Lady, so we have had a lot of fun making ‘May Altars’ and doing some fun crafts to decorate our own altars.

We hope you have had a good week and that you are all happy, healthy and safe. Remember next week Monday and Tuesday are holidays, so we will catch up again online on Wednesday.

Take care everyone.

Mrs Kilpatrick and Mrs Macdonald

BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!

We have been practising our times tables, mainly the 7 and the 9 times tables. We have also been journalists for our paper ‘The Broxburn Bugle’, it was fun pretending to be a journalist covering an event and interviewing people for our reports.

We have been learning and practising songs (we also discovered that it’s really important to do a vocal warm-up, just like we warm our muscles up before PE, we have to warm our voice up before we exercise it!).

There was great excitement at the book swap today and now lots of us have a new book to read over the holidays. Our Literacy Circle groups reviewed the novels that we have been reading this term and we gave our honest opinion, with evidence, of these books.

Have a great holiday everyone and see you in the new term!

(Written by: Hanza and Gaby P5b / Zofia and Umaima P5a).

(Written by Lara, Matthew, Cameron and Haroon )

In P5 we were learning to write a newspaper report, it was about a basketball match, we were being sports journalists! It was fun to pretend to be a real member of the Press.

We also made posters to advertise the Coffee Morning that we were hosting today, we hope that we have raised lots of money for the Macmillan charity. We will let you know how it goes!

P5a and P5b have been focusing on Money in maths this week. We learned how to budget, calculate different amounts of money using notes and coins and we played money games with a partner.

This week in p5b we have been dealing with money and learning how to budget. Sometimes this was quite difficult but it was really enjoyable and something we will use all the time, especially when we’re older.

I am really more confident with budgeting and using Google shopping` said Catherine

We also used SWAY to practice our Spanish skills, we focused on the weather El Tiempo!!

I am more confident in using ICT and SWAY`  said Mya.

In p5a we have been revising the rounding of numbers to their nearest 10s, 100s, 1000s and 10,ooos, we also started to look at rounding numbers up to 100,000. Some of us found rounding quite difficult and will practice more, however, some of us have increased our confidence with this task.

`I used to think that rounding was quite hard but now I'm confident in rounding to the nearest 10,000s`  said Raqab

A few of the class made up their own rounding game:-

In 5a we had fun creating a chant for our Maths Champ game, it uses the tune of Queen’s We Will Rock You` but we are using the words

We’ll do, we’ll do…MATHS CHAMP!!!

Well done Niamh for creating the winning chant.

In p5b and p5a, we are learning to create QR codes, we can now create these codes and display them. When you read our QR codes it will show everything that we are learning.

We have been having such a fun time this week playing with and learning about everything digital! And it’s only TUESDAY!!!! So far we have experienced a Silent Disco and then discussed why would this be designed? Why would people want this? And what technologies would be needed to make it…we also danced a lot! There was also an opportunity to Code and today we collaboratively developed part of a digital story that will be added to by every class in the school. Here are some pictures of our classes.

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