Category: School Updates

P5 have had a fun week this week.

Christmas Card Competition

Mrs Stewart set the class a task of designing a Christmas card. Miss Stanway had a difficult job of picking a winning one because the standard was so high! This card will be sent out to a community group.

Summer – My card was a Christmas tree with a snowy window!

Health

Bella – Football is fun.

We love seeing Bella buzzing around enthusiastically like a rocket on the football pitch in her bobble hat although Oscar being successfully tackled by a large plant pot this week was a sight to behold!

Topic – Europe

This week we learnt about the Seville Fair that usually happens every year in Spain.

Colin – we designed a persuasive poster to encourage people to go to the fair.

Our success criteria for designing a good poster included detailed pictures of an appropriate size, colourful font and a persuasive slogan. Cameron knew it was important to make sure important information such as when and where it took place was included.

We listened to some flamenco music and many of the children were keen to have a go at being flamenco dancers.

Bailey enjoyed being a bull and Leo volunteered to be a matador with a swirling cape. This led to an interesting conversation about animal cruelty.

Music

We started our music sessions with ‘Limelight’ and have been practising using our body as a percussion instrument!

Numeracy

This week we have learnt different strategies for mental subtraction such as counting up to and we have used number lines to support our thinking.

Look out for our numeracy video coming soon!

Literacy

After reading this week, we practised writing a summary of what we have read. It is important to only include key information and make sure the facts are in the correct order. As we found this tricky, we agreed that it is a skill we need to practise.

Look out for our spelling strategy video coming out soon!

Compliment box

Jaxson was chosen this week and the class had several compliments to give him because he is so supportive and kind.

Homework

Some people brought in homework to share with the class, which was a very high standard. Well done everybody!

Literacy

Book Week

This week it was Book Week Scotland so we had a ‘blether’ about what are favourite books were.

Lily-Elen – I like Jaqueline Wilson.

Writing

We wrote some terrific stories this week using the main character in our reading book. Colin and his partner wrote a great opener that we agreed would make us want to read on.

Reading

This week we practised our visualisation skills and drew scenes from stories in our reading books.

Numeracy

This week we practised adding multiples of 10 and discussed different strategies.

Maths

This week we walked around the school on a shape hunt and discussed why certain shapes such as cuboids were used to make things.

Art

As part of our work on shape we used clay to sculpt imaginary creatures using tools to create various effects.  Alexis – I made a Unibug.          Sophie P – I made a dog that had a turtle shell and a unicorn.

Health

During P.E. we have been practising running without stopping for four minutes. We are much fitter now!

We have also discussed what makes us happy. Most of us said it was our family and surprisingly when given a list of different things most of us said tablets/IPads are the least important when it comes to happiness. We learnt about how some children living in different circumstances would be happier if they were able to go to school more and have larger houses with running water.

Remembrance Day

This week we celebrated Remembrance Day or  Poppy Day . We had a two minute silence on Wednesday to remember armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. We also watched a video by Rev. Nelu who talked about what it meant.

This Weeks Learning

Literacy

On Monday we continued to read our novels in group reading in order to improve our fluency and decoding skills. We practised answering questions about the text with our reading partner on Tuesday. Then on Wednesday we discussed our novels in detail in order to practise our talking and listening skills while being encouraged to back up our ideas with evidence from the text. Finally, on Thursday we wrote a persuasive piece connected to the novel.

Numeracy

Hope – We learnt how to add several numbers using different strategies.

Anna – We can look for numbers that make 10.

M – Then we can look for numbers that make 11 and 9.

Then if we add these together it makes a multiple of 10.

Debbie – It was tricky at first!

We did find it difficult. However, practise makes perfect so we had another go and we feel more confident now.

Maths – Shape

We continued to practise discussing the properties of 3d shapes and this week using pipe cleaners, to represent the edges of a shape, built our own 3d shapes.

Science – Micro-organisms

Bailey – I learnt that some microbes are harmful but some can be helpful. There are three types – bacteria, fungi and viruses.

Jaxson – I enjoyed designing my microbes poster showing how they can help us.

Health

We learnt about the difference between direct and indirect bullying and continued to discuss ways of dealing with conflict.

 

Literacy
Writing
We continued to develop our persuasive writing techniques.
In addition we practised using various openers to create interesting sentences.
Reading
In group reading we read our texts, discussed them and practised using different techniques to work out the meaning of unknown words in order to improve our vocabulary.
We also discussed what made a good story and then with our partner wrote down what we thought would happen next in our novels. Some of us wrote great beginnings that would make the reader want to read on. Some of us applied what we had learnt about openers earlier in the week and used them in our stories. Also some of used some descriptive adjectives and powerful verbs!
Bailey – I am enjoying the class novel.
Spelling
Sophie Smith – I am proud of my spelling.
Numeracy
We all feel we have improved our addition skills.
Hope – I learnt strategies to help solve problems.
Topic
We practised using the art of collage to decorate flags of various European countries.
Bailey – I enjoyed making the flags. I learnt that each country has a different flag.
Health
This week we learnt that spreading rumours and name-calling is unacceptable and we discussed different strategies that we could use to deal with this.
Grace – I also enjoyed completing my racism ribbon from last week.
Art
This was linked into our learning about shape and we drew worlds where everything was made up of geometric shapes.

Numeracy

This week we continued to improve our addition skills.

We feel we have improved our ability to double a number but adding near doubles was trickier!

Maths

We revised 2D shape and learnt about the properties of 3D shapes.

Literacy

In group reading we used inference skills to answer questions about the texts. We discussed in detail how we felt about the books with our partners. On Thursday we pretended to be one of the characters from the stories and wrote a letter to another character in the book.

Spelling

Hope – I enjoyed clapping out syllables when spelling and writing sentences for each word.

Grace – I enjoyed putting the spelling words into alphabetical order.

Christmas comes early!

Colin – I enjoyed designing a Christmas Card and spreading some Christmas joy!

Drama

I enjoyed the number game!

Health

We continued our ‘Celebrating Difference’ theme and learnt about how people are discriminated against because of the colour of their skin. Then we went on to design ribbons to raise awareness of racism and to help stop it.

Although it has been a short week we have still been busy learning about lots of things!

Literacy

We practised joining up our handwriting and learnt about how to punctuate direct speech.

Numeracy

We continued to practise adding and this week used the compensation strategy.

Art

We started a new topic – shape – and learnt how to use shape when writing different words.

Topic – Europe

Bailey – I enjoyed acting out the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a story from Germany.

Grace – I enjoyed the capital cities quiz.

Extra Play

Before we broke up for the holidays our class earnt the most pegs so we had 10minutes extra play this week!

Art

This week we looked at pieces of Surrealist artwork by various artists.

Cameron – It can be quite funny!

S – Surrealism is real but with a twist.

Then we designed our own pieces of surrealist art.

Anna – I enjoyed thinking about what I wanted to draw.

Grace – I drew an upside-down ice-cream.

Bailey – I drew the earth as a clock!

Robbie – I drew a pineapple with legs!

Numeracy

We have been practising different addition straategies which initially we found quite challenging.

Bella – I enjoyed the jump strategy.

In addition we have continued to practise our times tables.

Bailey – I enjoy practising tables using ‘Supermovers’ dance video.

Spelling/Outdoor Learning

We took our spelling word list outside and using chalk in the playground practised how to spell using different strategies.

Debbie – I used bubble writing!

Summer – I used word pyramids.

Sophie – I enjoyed the spellings.

We all thought Kyle did a great job using joined up handwriting to copy his spellings down.

Writing For a Purpose

Summer – I enjoyed writing thankyou cards!

Have a great holiday everybody! Stay Safe!

 

Numeracy

This week we learnt about historical number systems. We learnt about Egyptian and Roman numerals.

Bailey – I was surprised that the Egyptians used a frog to represent 1,000,000.

Some of us liked the number systems but some of us didn’t.

Robbie – It is way better.Much easier to do.

Lily-Elen – It is tricky. Our numbers are easier.

Maths

We learnt about the different types of triangles such as equilateral, isosceles, scalene and right-angled.

Literacy

In our grammar lesson this week we learnt how adverbs can make our writing more interesting.

When writing we wrote another descriptive piece – this time all about ourselves.

Topic – Europe

We started our new topic and enjoyed the map work.

Sophie S – I didn’t know there were 7 continents

Jaxson – I enjoyed learning how to greet people in French.

Science – The Solar System

With a partner, we have started to research an area of the solar system that we are interested in. In our first session, we used non-fiction books and practised making notes from them.

Bella – I did not realise Neptune has 8 moons

Robbie – I was surprised Uranus has 15 moons.

Bailey – I didn’t know there was a dark side of the moon.

Hope – I found out there are three dwarf planets.