Author: Miss Aikman

This week we started our new topic – The Highland Clearances. We worked in groups to create a clan, clan name, tartan and a Blackhouse for us to live in. All of this has now been displayed on our wall in our class ‘village’. 

In p5/6 we have been taking part in daily mindfulness. We were very lucky this week as Mrs Moyes brought up our school guinea pigs to join us.

Our mindfulness story focused on spending some time on the beach – here are some of the things we saw.

 

Millie – I saw dogs

Tayle – I was playing with a beachball

Arran – I saw Whales.

Liam – I saw a blue whale and a great white shark.

As a class we have seen many benefits to our daily mindfulness. These include being calm and relaxed as well as more positive and focused. 

 

 

We have created a display of artwork showcasing our skills of using oil pastels and black pen and our knowledge of the style of the art work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Many thanks to all of our parent’s/carers and family members who came to watch our performance of 1719 yesterday – we had great fun performing for you all!

P5/6 have been looking at the works of Scottish artist/architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We looked at example of his work and discussed their features.

 

We then sketched some of the these features in our sketch books.

We will then use these ideas to create our own art work inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

As a special end of term treat  P5/6 took part in some baking today. Everyone worked well in their groups, weighing and measuring out all the ingredients. The pupils enjoyed the experience – especially getting to eat them after all their hard work!

 

 

Yesterday in P5/6 we used chalk pastels to create pictures of the Titanic wreckage. First we discussed pictures of the wreckage thinking about the colours created by the rust and sea. We then practiced blending colours together in our sketch books before starting our pictures.

I loved blending the colours – Amy-Louise

I learned that you can blend pastels and that the Titanic is rusty – Charlie Priestley

I learned that some colours you wouldn’t usually put together can be blended and look nice- Alicia

What a busy week in P5/6!

We have been very busy preparing for the Christmas fayre this week! Come and see our crafts for sale this afternoon between 1pm and 3pm.

In maths we have been learning about angles, their different names and estimating their size.

In literacy we have been discovering the features of newspaper articles in preparation for creating  our own news paper article about The Titanic disaster next week.

 

Today in maths we were learning about angles. We learned what a right angle is. We also learned that an obtuse angle is bigger than a right angle and an acute angle is smaller by Paige

 

In our Titanic topic we have been learning to place the order of events on a timeline. We did this by watching a video about the events and then sorting  cards with the events into the correct order. Each group then made a poster showing the events from when it set sail to when it sank. 

By Paige and Miss Aikman