We are focusing on internet safety this week in school.
There are lots of resources available from the saferinternetday.org.uk website
including:
1) Learn more and get involved – Safer Internet Day 2022
5) Organisations and Resources for Parents and Carers
Literacy
In writing this week, we continued to develop our storyline during our narrative writing. We were writing about a winter story. We had to develop our setting and a character.
We continued to develop our reciprocal reading skills by summarising our text. We had to only write about the most important details.
Maths
In maths, we continued to develop our subtraction skills. We were looking at worded problems and had to use our critical thinking skills to understand what the question was asking.
IDL
For our Christianity topic, we were learning about the bible story of Adam and Eve. Christians believe these were the first humans and they lived in the garden of Eden until they ate the forbidden fruit.
PE
Kyle – I enjoyed playing hockey matches!
Brain breaks
Bella -I enjoyed the body percussion.
Outdoor Learning
Debbie-I enjoyed building the willow dome and playing hide and seek. (I was the last one to be found.)
Emily – Next week I am looking forward to th fire-pit and toasting marshmallows!
Emily was very good at tying the knots when we were building the willow structure.
Numeracy
Anton – I have improved my subtraction skills.
Literacy
Bailey – I liked learning about adverbs. An adverb describes a verb.
Digital Technology
Cameron – I enjoyed coding and presenting my propaganda PowerPoint to the class.
Learning with Mrs Dobbie
Bella – I am looking forward to painting the shed outside.
Wordle
Bailey – I like doing Wordle!
Debbie managed to guess a word in 4 this week at home before shool. (All by herself.)
Anton
Anton had a great week this week. He won the star award, the raffle, was chosen for the compliment poster and earnt a prize in maths!
What a star!
Monday:
Extended writing on writers craft, continuing the narrative theme. The class watched the first part of a short animation called “Trapdoor”, and then finished writing the story themselves. The focus was on adjectives, similes and metaphors. KH was proud of their written work.
Maths was spent continuing work on percentages. SS, LM, LH and ShP excelled in this.
PE was spent working on tennis skills. MM, MxD, ShP and EY excelled in this.
We also started a KWL grid to support our learning on vertebrates and invertebrates.
Tuesday:
In Maths we were still working on percentages, with two groups using calculators. A third group started to revise place value.
Literacy was spent bumping up narrative from the previous day, continuing to focus on adjectives, similes, metaphors and speech marks. Two groups did this by writing up their work into a word document. MDs lead the learning on this, showing the class how to make a Folder in Teams. To link with this work in the afternoon, we continued “Macbeth”, with drama and a descriptive writing passage about the battle and the witches, still focussing on adjectives, similes, metaphors and speech marks.
Wednesday:
Maths was spent working on angles. EY and MxD excelled.
Some people spent time during literacy today bumping up the “Breakfast Time” work from the previous day, especially speech marks.
The class were also putting up fences around the bug hotel with Mrs Dobbie.
Thursday:
In maths today one group used calculators to help their understanding of fractions, division, decimals and percentages. Another group worked on their understanding of place value while the third group worked on ways to simplify percentages.
With Mrs D the class started designing their Mars Rovers and did French days of the week and months of the year.
Friday:
Spelling, as usual.
PE: activities to support awareness of space. LI “Using appropriate movement skills I can often move about shared space without anyone bumping into me.”
Maths: review of all the work we have done so far this year, looking at learning intentions and how we can transfer the skills and use them in real life.
During the assembly LM, who had also won the star award, confidently and dramatically read their great story to the whole school.
During friendship time SU, EY and SD elected to teach each other science facts! Also LH shared an activity with some friends.
Digital Day
Yesterday, we had a very fun day doing lots of different digital learning. We practiced our keyboard skills, we worked on coding a character and we even made robots move! We also made a short movie, in our groups, by taking lots of pictures, step by step and then adding them altogether to look like a movie. We have uploaded the videos onto Seesaw if you want to see our amazing work!
“It was the best day!” Hussain.
“I was so good at the typing!” – Katie
Scotland
Our display is now finished for our McCoos and tartan and we thought you would like to see it! This week for IDL, we looked at a map of Scotland and what the key in a map tells us. We then learned some facts about different cities in Scotland and had to label the cities on a map.
Writing
We have had another busy lesson for writing this week. The children had to tell a recount of a visit to the park. The children are working hard to include our core-writing targets and use a joining word to extend a sentence.
We started a new maths topic – area. First we used cubes to create specific areas then we worked out the area of a variety of 2D shapes using the formula length times breadth. Good work P.5!
Hello and welcome to this weeks post. Some super learning to share with you!
This week in preparation for our narrative writing we enjoyed listening to the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The children began by tracking Little Red’s jounery through the forest and drew maps to detail her route. Some examples below-
Writing – Little Red Riding Hood
Once that was completed, the children wrote an imaginative story using the Little Red Riding Hood story as a stimulus. The children had to imagine that the wolf wasn’t hiding in the bed , it was another animal. They had super ideas, some examples below-
We now have a new display which hopefully will help the children focus on achieving their core writing targets.
Health and Wellbeing
Some super action shots of the children developing their skills during our Monday PE lesson.
In class, we have been reading the Colour Monster. The colour monster changes colour depending on his mood e.g. he is red when angry, yellow when happy, green when calm etc. The children have drawn their own monsters and we are going to use them in a corrider display (will post a picture of the completed display next week)
I hope you have a lovely weekend. I will be back next week with more updates.
This week in P5 we have continued with our digital learning. We learned more in coding so that we were able to make several items move on a screen at one time. We were very engaged in this and excited to see how many items we could get moving at once.
Chloe – I liked when we could make our own code because I figured out you could make your own background and I made a house.
Gracie – I liked how we could move all the characters around, it was fun!
Lewis R – I liked the coding because it was fun that you could make your own background.
Giullia – It was really fun how we could tell the little characters what to do. It was really interesting!
Kayleigh – I really liked moving the characters around.
Ariah – I liked how you could make the characters move and decorate the background.
Sophie C – It was really cool how we got to move the characters around and we got to choose where they went. We could also change the background.
Matthew – I liked that we could multiply the characters and could change the characters to get different colours.
Sophie G – It was how we could customise our own background.
In Numeracy we worked on dividing by 9 and 7 in one group and then linking division and multiplication and dividing 3 digit numbers in the other groups. It is still apparent that for many of us, we need to learn our tables as we don’t all know these yet. Mrs Hillan has given us times table and division charts home on a few occasions so that we have these at home to practise. Mrs Hillan encourages us to do this when we can!
In Literacy we have made predictions on the next part of our stories. This week, some of our groups were asked to try and find evidence from our text to support our thinking.
In spelling this week we made wordsearches using our spelling words and we also practised them with a partner using Spelling Tennis:
In Writing this week, we used our maps we created last week to write our own adventure stories. We had to remember to include a problem and resolution.
In topic we have started creating some Celtic families. In our groups we created a family which contained at least 2 adults and some children. We started drawing these family members and recorded some information about them below their pictures. We decided on family names and had to make sure that they were dressed appropriately for Celtic times. We will continue these next week, ready for our class display.
Scotland
We have been looking at the famous artist Steven Brown this week and made our own McCoos.
We also looked into the history of tartan and made some of our own tartan.
Writing
For our narrative topic, the children had Mrs Stewart’s job for the day and they had to decide what they would do when something went wrong! Some of the children were giving Mrs Stewart her job back but other children thought they would make a good boss.
Basketball
We are working hard to be aware of the space around us to be able to pass the ball to our partner. We are still working on our dribbling skills, as it is not easy to move around the hall without bumping into someone and bouncing the ball at the same time!
In reading this week, we have been developing our reciprocal reading skills. We also had to create questions about the text to ask a friend. We then had to identify the key details of the story in order to summarise the text.In writing this week, we continued to develop our narrative writing skills. We were using our imagination to create a story about a magic key. We had to read over our work to check that we had used our core writing targets.MathsIn maths this week, we were continuing to learn about time. We were focusing on o’clock and half past. Throughout, the day we would check the time on the analogue clock.In numeracy, we continued to look at subtraction. We were learning about the column subtraction method. This is where you take away the ones colum and then the tens. With some equations, we needed to regroup.IDLIn RME, we were looking at the Christan bible story. We were learning about Jonah and the whale. As a class, we had create a discussion about moral decisions Jonah had to make and what our personal views were on these decisions.
