Today in P5/6 we used concrete materials and pictures to compare fractions. This helped us discover if the fractions were greater, smaller or equal.
Category: Primary 6
Caine’s Arcade in P5/6
We watched this video and were inspired by Caine’s story so decided to create our own arcade.
http://cainesarcade.com/
Work in progress……watch this space! 
Highland Clearances in P5/6
In literacy we used our knowledge of our Highland Clearance topic to create an informational text for others to read. We used our topic wall for reminders of facts we have learned over the past few weeks.
Fractions in P5/6
In P5/6 we are learning about equivalent fractions.
Today we made posters to show our understanding of them!
We had to choose from 3 fractions to make a poster – 1/2, 1/3 or 1/5.
 
We had to think about the different patterns made with the numerator and denominator when coming up with equivalent fractions.
By Mia and Alex
Family Learning
On Friday we held our first aid family learning course. Parents and children learned what to do if they found somebody unconscious, how to put them in the recovery position, how to give CPR and how to bandage a casualty who is bleeding from a wound. Alan from The Lowport Centre was a great teacher and taught everyone a special mnemonic checklist to follow upon finding somebody unconscious:
Danger – check for danger at the scene
Response – is the person able to respond? Are they conscious?
Shout – shout for help
Airway – is their airway clear?
Breathing – are they breathing?
CPR – if they are unconscious and not breathing, begin CPR
All parents and children involved thought this was a valuable learning experience, although they hope to never have to put their new skills to the test!
P5 Basketball Festival
On Wednesday P5 took part in the cluster Basketball Festival at DCHS. All pupils showed great team work and super sportsmanship. They also showed fantastic improvement in their basketball skills.
Many thanks to all our adult helpers who accompanied us to the festival.
Here are our proud players with their certificate.
Up-levelling Character Descriptions in P5/6
In literacy we have been looking at character descriptions. Today Miss Aikman challenged us to up-level her character’s descriptions using adjectives, similes and metaphors. Our descriptions were pretty impressive!
Fairtrade poster – winner!
Well done to Joshua Duncan-Coat from P3/4 for creating the winning Fairtrade poster. Joshua’s poster will be displayed throughout the school to promote Fairtrade products and encourage us all to buy Fairtrade.
Fractions in P5/6
In maths we explored fractions using numicon. Pupils worked in groups to show the different ways to represent a fraction.
This led to lots of rich discussion around the relationship between multiplication, division and fractions. We also discovered which numbers could not be used to represent certain fractions and discussed the reasons why.
Maths, Maths, Maths
We did loads of fun maths. We were looking at the properties of a cuboid and how to draw fractions.
We also carried on planning our fantasy story.
It was Fairtrade fortnight.
