Happy New Year Everyone!

This week in P5 we focused on finishing off our ‘Who Would be King?’ topic. We found out about Robert The Bruce and we created our own Scottish battle shields. In Maths we investigated long division with remainders and we looked at area. In ICT we looked at SWAY presentations and created our own SWAYs. We had fun stacking pictures and inserting videos!

It’s CHRISTMAS! This week we went to the Panto! “Oh Yes We Did!” We had great fun at Cinderella. We took part in “The Nativity” at the church on Tuesday night and then again at school on Wednesday afternoon. It was brilliant! We are very proud of our Primary 1 stars and our amazing Primary 2 Narrators. On Thursday we had Christmas lunch and we sang Christmas songs. Finally on Friday we had our Christmas Fayre, we developed our Enterprise skills by painting Christmas baubles to sell at a profit! We also ran the Tombola, we made £165 altogether on the P5 stall, thanks to all your kind donations.

This week in Primary 5 we have really started getting ready for Christmas:

• We put up our Christmas tree
• We created our own nativity scenes.
• We practised our Christmas concert ‘The Nativity’
• We created  ‘Christmas around the World’ flags, paper chains and baubles and we looked at Christmas customs around the world for our Christmas tree at St. Michael’s  Kirk.
• We took part in ‘Unwrapping Christmas’ stories and activities at the Kirk.

We are very excited about Christmas now!

Hi All,

This week in Primary 5 – we completed our arguments about why we thought John Balliol should not be king! We found out that a one -sided argument is called an Exposition. We looked at pictures of English soldiers in the time of the Scottish Wars of Independence and created our own soldier. We completed mixed maths challenges on our Daily Rigour calendar and started to investigate division problems. We found out about St. Andrew and prepared for our St. Andrew’s mass which was fantastic. We filmed out own Weather Forecast videos in French. Eric showed us his super  “Best Effort in Rugby” trophy. Finally  practised for our nativity concert!

Hi All,

Welcome back to our blog!

This week we:

• Found out how to write a Recount and we used our ICT skills to write a Newspaper report about the death of Margaret Maid of Norway.
• Worked on Long Multiplication and Doubling and Halving strategies, we thought about where we could use Multiplication strategies – we thought we would definitely need to use Multiplication if we wanted to be a Scientist or and Engineer!
• Studied pictures of Kings and Queens and created our own pictures.
• Thought about the question “Who Would Be King?” and why Edward 1 choose John Balliol.

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Hi All,

This week in P5 we discussed Fireworks and the safety rules we should follow. We had a visit from the NSPCC and found out how we should ‘Speak out to Stay Safe’. In topic we carried out research on Margaret Maid of Norway. In Literacy we investigated the features of a Recount text and wrote our own newspaper recount on the death of Margaret Maid of Norway. Then we thought about what would happen next? ‘Who Would be King?  In Art we completed our crowns and started our ‘Who Would be King/Queen?’ pictures. Next week we are going to find out how we can blend watercolours to create different tones in our pictures. In Maths we looked at the multiplication strategies we could use to multiply a 3 digit number by a 1 digit number and a 2 digit number by a 2 digit number and how we would use these strategies in real life. In French we used post-its to identify parts of our body. Phew..finally we learned new skills at Rugby!

Hi everyone, welcome back to our P5 blog. This week we have enjoyed many spooky activities in our classroom. We investigated lots of scary adjectives, similes, metaphors and personification and then used them to create a spooky setting for our ‘Haunted House’ Story. We looked at symmetry in Maths and used it to help us completed some  Halloween pictures. In Art we found our how to blend different shades of paint to create a ‘Spooky sky and Haunted House’ picture. We started our new ‘Wallace and Bruce’ topic and found out about the events leading up to the Scottish Wars of Independence. We thought about the role of Kings and Queens and why they were important in 13th century Scotland. We created our own timelines and a family tree for Robert the Bruce. We enjoyed dressing up for Halloween!

Here are some pictures of our week.

Over the last two weeks we have continued to investigate the ‘Body’. We  read body books, we researched using the ipads, w e built our own Skeletons. We found out how to insert pictures into Word and Powerpoint files and started to create our own fact files on a chosen ‘Body System’. We found out about how to round numbers and estimate answers. We have carried out our own research at home about the brain. We also created models at home to show interesting things that are happening in the world!