P1-7 can log into Marshmallow Land and peer assess the Christmas Music videos. You can also create your own music video and upload it!
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Category Archives: Primary 5
Seasons Greeting Cards
P1-7 can log on to Purple Mash or use materials to make a Seasons Greetings/ Christmas Card. Show it to the rest of your class when you come back to school.
Save Christmas from the pesky pirate!
P4-7 can use their Glow log in to visit The Pirate Who Wants to Steal Christmas and answer the questions.
Maths SumDog Challenge
P1-7 can log into SumDog and take part in a Maths Challenge.
P1: Number to 10 Competition
P2-3: Number to 20 Competition
P4-7: Multiplication Competiton
Who will have the highest accuracy?
P5 Christmas Party
“Tis the season to be jolly…” and Primary 5 were certainly feeling jolly today when they celebrated at the P5 Christmas Party.
We kicked off the party with a game of Christmas themed Corners followed by a very impressive game of Musical Statues that Miss Sherlow and Mrs Redmond found extremely difficult to judge because everyone was so good! Next, we played an energetic game of Musical Arms. After that, we stopped for a bite to eat in to replenish our energy, then got back to party mode with another game of Musical Arms. We then took part in a P5 Mannequin Challenge. We finished our party by showing off our dance moves in the Primary 5 Dance Off. Everyone had a fantastic afternoon 
Merry Christmas Primary 5!
P5 Christmas Music Video
Log into Glow to view the P5 video for the WL Digi Learn Competition.
Marvellous Advertising Posters
Learning Intention: We are learning to use persuasive techniques to create a poster advertisement.
Success Criteria:
A successful poster will include:
– A picture of the product
– The price
– A slogan
– Persuasive techniques
– Key information from the text
In P5B, we have been learning about persuasive language and techniques that advertising experts use to sell products. We used this to help us to create poster advertisements for our redesigned versions of George’s Marvellous Medicine as part of our Dragons’ Den challenge.
We were allowed to select which ICT software we thought would suit our task the best, then set to work creating our posters. We had to make sure that we used as many persuasive techniques as possible to sell our product to our customers.
When we thought we had met all of the success criteria, we posted our posters onto our Yammer page, then gave our peers two stars and a wish feedback.
We used our feedback to make changes to our poster to ensure that our final product met the criteria, and was as clear and as persuasive as we could make it.
We think you’ll agree that our final designs are very persuasive. Would you buy our ‘marvellous medicines?’
Christmas Lunch
Todat pupils and staff joined together to have our annual Christmas Lunch. A big thanks to our House and Vice Captains who served lunch to P1-3! Although, in return, Mrs McKenzie and Miss Burton served them their lunch! Thank you to our dinner ladies and to everyone who made the lunch run so smoothly.
Author Visit
As part of our focus on reading this session, today P1, P5 and P7 had an inspirational talk from the author, Emma Mooney. She shared where some of her ideas for writing come from, really making us think about how a simple idea can be transformed into the beginning of a whole novel. We learned about the importance of an interesting and engaging first line of a story, and were challenge to try and recognise different novels from the first sentence of the book.
When asked what advice she would given aspiring authors, Emma shared that it is extremely important to have people around you who believe in you, and to stick to the ‘not yet’ plan by not giving up, even when things get tough. We thought that this was great advice for everyone, not just those who want to become authors.
Thank you to Emma for such an encouraging and motivating talk.
Advertising Expert
Today the Primary 4s and 5s had a very special visit from Martha Tod, an advertising expert, who gave us a fantastic insight into the world of adverts. As part of our IDL context, George’s Marvellous Medicine, we have been given the challenge to try and sell the idea of George’s medicine to the Dragons’ Den. As part of this challenge, we have been asked to create a company name and logo, an advertising poster and new packaging for the product.
Martha explained to us about the importance of advertising, as well as what kind of jobs someone who works in advertising would be asked to do. We looked at what makes a good logo and were challenged to search for hidden meanings and objects in some well known logos. We also learned about the importance of colour in advertisements and logos, exploring how different colours make us feel and what they represent. For example, did you know that black gives a sense of power and mystery, while purple suggests royalty, luxury and wisdom?
Thank you to Martha for giving us such great hints and tips to help us with our challenge. We have a lot to think about now!
