Category Archives: Primary 5

Interdisciplinary Learning, Maths & Numeracy, Primary 5

XVI.IX.MMXVI- Roman Numerals in P5B

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Learning intention: We are learning to read Roman numerals and identify the place value of each symbol

As our IDL context for learning in P5B is The Romans, we have been learning how the Roman used to write numbers in our maths lessons this week. We learned that they used letters to represent numbers, for example, I=1, V=5, X=10 L=50, C= 100, D=500, M=1000. We learned about some of the rules involved in creating Roman numerals including that you can’t use the same symbol 3 times in a row and there is no symbol for 0.

We worked in stations to learn about Roman numerals.

Teaching station: We explored Roman numerals by using symbol cards to create our own. We were challenged to write our ages, birthdays, favourite numbers and the date in Roman numerals. Some of us also completed a Roman numeral crossword and some filled in a number square using the correct Roman symbols.

ICT station: We played two different online games to test our knowledge. Why don’t you have a go?
Roman Numeral Game
Roman Numeral Quiz

Game station: We played Roman numeral bingo, as well as a game of Roman numeral loop cards. Mhari and Lucy also invented a Roman numeral game based on one we had playing last week when we were learning about place value. They became our teachers and did a fantastic job!

Can you guess our birthdays?

Maya: XX.VIII.MMVII

Ross: XVIII.VI.MMVII

Stephen: I.V.MMVII

Kayden: XXVII.VIII.MMVII

Joel: XXIX.VII.MMVII

Learning Letters, Primary 5

P5 Learning Letter

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Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 1 in Primary 5. All of the children have settled well into P5 and we are looking forward to a busy and fun term. So far, the children have participated in a community building fortnight where we have been getting to know each other, creating our class charter and becoming familiar with our new class routines. We also had a mini focus on our school value of being inclusive. We have begun our new IDL context for learning, The Romans, and the children have created a set of questions that they would like to find the answers to  and we will be exploring these through the topic.

Miss Sherlow and Mrs Stewart

P5 teachers

Learning Letter P5 Term 1

http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/meet-the-teacher-p5-201617

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iAchieve

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We launched our new approach to achievement last week at Meet the Teacher. Each child now has a copy of their iAchieve level (you can download these below) and this is used to tracked their achievements. When they have achieved three of the tasks in each box they will receive a certificate in class or at a Friday Assembly and move on to the next area within their level, for example if they complete Brilliant Bronze for Responsible Citizen they will move on to Super Silver.

If the achievement has been completed at home the pupil can fill out an iAchieve sheet (found below) which are available from their class teacher. Primary 4 to 6 have the option of using their iAchieve blog (the link to these blogs are above and pupils will require their Glow password as these blogs are private) and Primary 7 can use Didbook, to record their achievements.

Our Achievement Assemblies will now be Celebration Assemblies, these will celebration our achievements for that term and pupils will be presented with a Literacy and STEM Award as nominated by their class teacher. The parents/ carers of that pupil will be invited along to the assembly.

iAchieve Level 1

iAchieve Level 2

iAchieve Level 3

iAchieve Level 4

iAchieve Level 5

iAchieve Level 6

iAchieve Level 7

iAchieve evidence

Health & Wellbeing, Primary 5, School Values

Gotta live them all in P5B

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As part of our welcome to P5B week, we worked together to create our class charter which will help us to be a successful class throughout this year. We began by voting on a theme for our charter, then we created a design for it in pairs. We combined our designs to put together the final pokemon themed product. We used the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to help us create some class rules that linked into the 7 different key articles that we explored.

We agreed that in P5B, we will…

  • Listen to each other and respect each others’ opinions.
  • Respect each others’ privacy.
  • Take part in a range of different learning activities to develop our talents and skills. We will always try our best.
  • Keep our environment and classroom as safe and as healthy as we can.
  • Respect people from all countries and their languages, religions and cultures.
  • Respect each others’ right to an education by staying focused and on task and not distracting others.
  • Make sure we take time to play and relax. We will let people join in our games by being inclusive.
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Class of 2016

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Every year West Lothian Council holds a ‘Class of …’ so Head Teachers can share interesting and new practice and they can find out about what’s new in education. On Friday Mrs McKenzie was invited along to Class of 2016 to share how we use ICT to support our learning and teaching at Mid Calder Primary. You can view the video below.

Health & Wellbeing, Primary 5, School Values

Welcome to P5A

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P5a explored some Articles from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to help create our class charter.

“We looked at the rights of children.”  (Kuba)

“We went into pairs to think about the right and drew a picture of what it means to us.” (Freya)

We voted on how to display our charter.  “We made scuba divers and creatures for our underwater theme.” (Daniel).

We have all been working very hard earning Well Done Tokens and Dojo points for following our charter and living our class values.