Well we have made it to February now, some us will be glad to get through January. We have had a good week in class with loads going on. Please read on to hear all about it. No names as to who added points this week as everyone made a contribution first thing on a piece of paper. Some added names, other didn’t!

• We played basketball games this week in PE. We were looking at defending and man marking.
• In maths we continued on with fractions and looked at working out half, quarter, third, tenth of amounts.
• The nurture group on a Thu afternoon were playing football with the little ones this week. They had to look after their football buddy and help them.
• We had our P5 swimming assessment at ICHS on Monday morning. Mrs Rankin said we all did really well and everyone tried their best when asked to do something. We’ll hear how we got on in a few weeks.
• On Tuesday we had One Day Creations in doing a drama workshop with our class and also the P4s. Some parents came along to see what we had been doing. We learned that we should turn off any devices an hour before going to bed to help our minds relax before going to sleep. We should also set time limits for being on games. It was a good session.
• For writing we are looking at information/report writing. We were taking notes on clips about the V&A Dundee museum as it has been in the news this week. We had to write an introduction and 2 topics about the museum.
• In French we are becoming more confident with our basic numbers up to 30 and there are a few great accents in class!

We are continuing on with our Vikings topic next week and Mrs Rankin is looking for any old newspapers we could bring in to use for something we’re going to make. Any old newspapers would be greatly accepted!

Have a nice weekend.

P5 & Mrs Rankin

Here we are on Friday again and we’re nearly at the end of January. We have been busy in class with our learning and today we got see Primary 4 do their class assembly.  Please read on to hear what we have been doing.

• Amelia S – in PE we were doing basketball –
• Mia – we were learning about the Holocaust Memorial Day by watching Newsround and talking about it.
• Leona – we were doing some research about the Vikings linking it to our writing by taking notes under headings.
• Gordon – we had a taster session this morning for Burn’s Day by having some Irn Bru and shortbread.
• Cameron – we are now banned from playing Hidey-tig in the playground as we are all too rough and fall out or get hurt.
• Amelia S – we were doing fractions in maths this week.
• Lucas – we were looking at visualization this week as our Thinking Reader tool.
• Anna – we drew pictures after reading Scottish
• Junior – some of us got new reading books this week.
• Robert – we had the P4 assembly this morning learning about Robert Burns.
• Amelia B – I brought in my DVD with my gymnastic routine on it.

Here are some pictures of our visualisations of the Scottish poems ‘The Magic Pizza’ and ‘Scottish Rain’. The class captured these poems brilliantly.

A reminder that on Monday we have the P5 swimming assessment @ Inveralmond Community High School. We will be leaving at 11am and returning to school approx. 12.50pm.

On Tuesday we have a drama workshop during the day and will be doing a joint performance following this session with P4. There will be tea and coffee served from 2.15pm and the performance will be starting at 2.40pm until 3.10pm. Invitations are coming home to you today. We hope some of you can make it along.

Have a nice weekend.

P5 & Mrs Rankin

We have now really settled back into school after the holidays and into full swing with our work and topics. We think it’s going to be a busy term and no doubt a quick term as alwaya. Please read on to hear what we have been up to this week.

• Amy – in PE this week for basketball we were working on our shots and trying to score a ‘swish’ sounding shot. This is the noise it sometimes make when it goes through the net.
• Liam – on Monday Mrs Fairley took us for PE and we played team games for this.  We had to work together to try and help our team win.
• Mia/Anna – we were learning about Nelson Mandela with Mrs Zohoorian on Wednesday.
• Danny – in maths we started fractions. We played a loop game on fractions to see what we already know.
• Amelia S/Gordon – we were doing out last piece of persuasive writing this week and we had to write a letter to persuade the head teacher not to ban a game pupils like to play at breaks & lunchtimes.
• Katie – we continued on with out topic about Vikings and we worked on putting together the timeline of the Vikings.
• Abby – I was lucky to be chosen to go to Waterstones with Miss Smith and Rhys on Thursday morning. We bought some books for the library which P5 like and also books on the Vikings for out topic.
• Lucas & Junior – we both went to Chatter Matters on Wednesday with the other Numeracy Ambassadors. We have a small project we are working on and will share what we have been doing when we can.
• Mrs Rankin – I would like to remind parents that the letters for the P5 Swimming Assessment need to be returned by Monday 21st Jan if these haven’t already been returned. This will help the office staff in their planning for this trip.

Here are a few pictures on the class working on their Viking timelines.

Have a good weekend.

P5 & Mrs Rankin

We all came back to school on Monday ready for the new term. It’s nice to see everyone back and ready to learn.

Please read on to hear what we have been doing in class.

• Robert – we started doing basketball in PE with skills for passing and defending.
• Mia – we were correcting muddled up sentences in Literacy.
• Amelia S – we did a survey for the Leadership Groups for P1-P4 and created tables to show our results. We have come up with some ideas to help improve pupils relationships.
• Amelia S / Leona / Lucas – we has assembly to start of the week. We were recapping SHANARRI and looking at resolutions and our school rules.
• Amelia S – in maths we were looking at perimeter for measure and calculating perimeter of different shapes.
• Amelia S / Leona – with Mrs Zohoorian we were looking at Mother Teresa and the kind things she did.
• Madison – we found out our new topic for this term and it’s on Vikings. We were sharing what we already know about this and what we’d like to know.
• Leannah – in Newsround today we saw the new movies due out in 2019 and we are quite excited!

Please be reminded that Monday & Thursday are our PE days and PE kits are required with appropriate footwear on these days.

Some pictures from PE.

Have a good weekend.

P5 & Mrs Rankin

Well the last week of term is over and here we are about to start the Christmas Holidays. It has been a quick week with everything going on in school.

Please read below to hear what has been happening in P5 this week.

• Mia – we had the school talent show on Friday morning.
• Lucas – on Monday we did art where we made our winter tree art scene.
• Katie – today is our last day of term before 2019.
• Madison – on Wednesday with Miss Conway we did the Bean-boozle challenge and we delivered the nursery Christmas cards.
• Anna – Mrs Rankin gave us all a Hot Chocolate reindeer and a candy cane for Christmas.
• All – on Monday we had a movie afternoon where we all watched the Polar Express and had hot chocolate!
• All – we made paper reindeers on Thursday morning.
• All – we worked our way through a Christmas themed literacy this week learning about Christmas Around the World and some Christmas maths which we had to complete to figure out answers to jokes!
• All – Miss Smith helped Santa Claus to deliver some presents for us this morning. We are all really pleased with our presents!

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and we’ll all be back on Monday 7th January 2019!

P5 & Mrs Rankin

Well we are another week closer to Christmas and we have had a busy week. Please read on to

• Cameron – we held auditions for the Talent Show next week (Friday 21st) and Madison & Kerry are our P5 winners representing P5! Everyone did really well and a big well done to all of those who took part.
• Amelia S – we had our Christmas Party with P4 on Wednesday and had a really good time.
• Mia – we had Christmas jumper/t-shirt/top day today. Everyone looked great.
• Leona – we had Mr Hunter for a little while this morning introducing Free Writing.  This is something which has been introduced to let us write for 15-20 minutes a week about anything we want to.
• Esau – we had our Christmas lunch on Wednesday – it was really nice!
• Anna – we are learning a French song for the Christmas Songs afternoon on Tuesday. We hope you like it along with our other song!
• Katie – in art we did our backgrounds for our winter scene artwork. We’ll complete this next week.
• Amelia B – it was my birthday last weekend!
• All – we were invited to see the dress rehearsal of the P1 Nativity on Monday afternoon. They all did so well! Well done to P1 and their teachers for all of their hard work and great performance!

Everyone looked fabulous for the Christmas party yesterday afternoon. Here are pictures of the boys & girls separately. We did try for a full class picture but there was too much excitement before the party!

One week to go!!

Have a nice weekend.

P5 & Mrs Rankin

Here were are into December and what a quick month it will be with all that goes on with Christmas. Read on to hear what we have been up to this week.

• Chloe – in PE we were learning the Dashing White Sergeant dance for our Christmas party.
• Katie – next Thursday afternoon is our Christmas Party.
• Leannah – we received our certificates from Star Harmonies this week.
• Cameron – we had Mrs Zohoorian on Wednesday this week and she was doing STEM and RME with us.
• Katie – the class were involved in making a movie themed freeze to be displayed in the hall and also some class decorations.
• Madison – our picture for the hall is The Grinch and we made snowflakes with glitter to put on this.
• Anna – Next week the choir are singing at Inveralmond High School next Tuesday evening. We’re sounding quite good!
• Mia – we were doing persuasive writing this week and we were planning our letter to a head teacher who has cancelled their school’s Christmas Party!
• Katie – in art we were gluing tissue paper onto paper. Next week we’ll use this to create a winter scene with trees.

Dates for the diary next week:

Tuesday – Choir singing at Inveralmond High School (only certain P5 pupils)

Wednesday – Christmas Lunch

Thursday – P4 & P5 Christmas party in the afternoon.

Have a lovely weekend!

P5 & Mrs Rankin

This week has been full on class assembly preparation with some work in the mornings and assembly practice/preparation in the afternoons. We put in a lot of work to make sure our performance today was the best it could be. We hope you enjoyed it. Read on to hear what else we have been doing this week.

• Madison – we had our class assembly today for our parents to see. Thank you for coming along.
• Leona – we had our last Star Harmonies session with Aimie on Thursday.
• Chloe – we finished off our headbands for our assembly.
• Leannah – we were publishing our spooky stories this week in our best handwriting.
• Leona – we were in the hall a few times this week practicing.
• Junior – I got my plaster off my leg on Monday but still have to use my crutches.
• Cameron – today is St Andrew’s Day today!
• Madison – Thursday was spent rehearsing for our assembly and the P6s got a sneak preview on Thursday afternoon. They gave us some good feedback which we hope we improved today.
• Daniel – we hope you all enjoyed our assembly.
• Anna – some of us have been selected to be in the school Christmas choir and we have had 2 rehearsals for this. We’ll be performing in a couple of weeks at Inveralmond High School.
• Katie – we got good feedback from our parents for our assembly.
• Junior – after our assembly Mrs Rankin extended our snack & read and had brought in a few extra treats for our hard work.

Here are a few pictures from the assembly. Thanks to Mrs Mackie for being the official photographer!

Thanks again for coming to our assembly and we really appreciate you kind feedback you gave us!

Have a lovely weekend.

P5 & Mrs Rankin

We are flying through November and another week is over. We have been busy getting ready for class assembly next week. Please read on to hear what else we have been up to.

• Amelia S – We all have our scripts now and we have been practicing in assembly this week.
• Amelia B – there was a party for the pupils with the top 5 house points in each class. It was on about The Greatest Showman.
• Leannah – we had Star Harmonies this week with Aimie. We are doing really well with the singing and dancing.
• Abby – we had a school snack & read with the whole school on Tuesday and we sat with the nursery children and read with them.
• Katie – we made some pictures for our assembly
• Brooke – we created slides for our assembly and Mrs Rankin is putting these altogether on 1 presentation.
• Junior – Mrs Zohoorian is covering STEM and RME as of this week has split her full afternoon with us into 2 sessions during the week.
• Anna – we were editing our writing from last week and selected a paragraph to update. Next week we will publish these neatly.
• Mia – we took part in a spot the different competition for Road Safety this week,
• Liam – we had a judo taster session on Wed from Jidel Judo. It was good fun.
• Katie – Mrs Fairley was in class for a little while on Thursday morning.
• Junior – I am hopefully getting my plaster off on Monday.

Invitations were written by the class this week for the class assembly. These were sent home with pupils so incase your invitation did not make it home, here is what you are all invited to next Friday morning.

Dear                            Parent/Carer

We would like to invite you along to our P5 class assembly.

When:              Friday 30^th November 2018

Time:                9:15am for tea/coffee

9:30am for Assembly

Where:             Letham Primary School Hall

We hope you can make it along.

From                 P5

Here are some pictures from Star Harmonies and Judo this week.

Have a nice weekend!

P5 & Mrs Rankin

We are nearly halfway through this term already and we have been our usual busy selves. We have had an assembly, Star Harmonies and getting our plans into action for our own class assembly. We’ll be buys getting organized for ours which is on 30th November, St Andrew’s Day.

Read on to hear what we have been doing this week:

• Leona – we started working on our class assembly this week looking into the areas we talking about and finding out facts and writing our scripts.
• Leannah – we working in groups/pairs for Class Assembly.
• Amelia S – we completed the Bleep Test in PE for the second time and most of us have improved from our first attempt. Well done everyone!
• Brooke – for Star Harmonies this week we had Aimie’s mum Alison working with us.
• Daniel –  we have almost finished our whole song for Star Harmonies and it’s sounding good.
• Liam – we dressed up today in spots for Children In Need Spotacular! Everyone looks great!
• Madison – in writing we got to write our full spooky stories this week. We have been working on areas of this over the last few weeks so it was good to put it all together.
• Leona – we were looking at division in maths and looking at patterns to help us with this.
• Chloe – on Monday we had an assembly about Respect.
• Junior – in class we followed on from the assembly and created a respect wall in class.
• Amelia S – we were asked to design a Christmas card for Neil Findlay – he has asked a few schools to design a card and he’ll choose one to use.
• Leannah – Mrs Zohoorian was working with us on underwater volcanoes.
• Cameron – we had Miss Conway in class for a short lesson on Tuesday. She was talking to us about kindness.
• Anna – this week the school photographer was in taking our photos.
• Katie – the P7s hid stars in the playground again this week and this morning Anna & Mia earned an extra house point for finding one each playtime.
• Cameron – Junior is back in class after his injury and coping well with his crutches.

Have a nice weekend!

P5 & Mrs Rankin