In primary 5 we have being learning about area and we thought it was fun. We were also doing our space topic and we learned about how far planets are from each other.

In PE we played crabs and cranes and we did a daily mile and a monsters game.

We had master classes. The theme was Roald Dahl books. The choices were Charlie and the Choclate factory,  James and the Giant Peach, The Twits, The Witches, Going Solo and Georges Marvellous Medicine.

In literacy we pretended we were someone else writing a biography about ourself.

We also did reading and we had to find wow words in the book and write a new sentence about it. We had different reading books for each group.

Caiden and Riley

Maths

We did graphs with p4 and p5/4 we did bar graphs ,line graphs and pictographs

We also finished off learning about rounding.

IDL

We made power points about Mary Queen of Scots

Literacy

To make a news report about the most incredible sport

We hope you have a lovely break.

 Last week P5 were working with Mrs Harrison

Some of our favourite things were:

The Rangoli patterns

Going on Did book

Golden Time

And competing in the Sum dog competition

We learned about

Hinduism

How to draw Hindu gods and goddesses

What we can do on glow and Did book

Something we would like to do when we are in p7

RME

Problem solving

Listening to the story “The Secrets of the  Sun King”

Sumdog

Did book

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By Artemis and Dionne

IDL

We have been learning about Mary Queen Of Scots and the Tudor times.

Maths

We have been learning about fractions and multiplying by 10’s 100’s and 1000s. Mrs Macgregor was teaching us about the factions and so on. We have also learned a new strategy that is called something like the counting up strategy.

Literacy

In literacy we have been learning about openings and endings. We have also been encouraging people to read our favourite books.

Health and wellbeing

We have been doing P.E and have had a king queen dodgeball tournament with p5, p5/4 and p6.

By Artemis Russell p5

On Wednesday 13^th February 2019 P5, P5/4 and P4 performed our Scottish Celebration, we sang lots of different songs including lots of different poems such as “From a Railway Carriage” by Robert louis Stevenson and he also wrote “The Whole Duty of Children” . After we celebrated some of the parents had some tea, coffee, irn bru, short bread and we also announced some of the raffle prize winners, some of the winners were Jordan, Brogan, Emily, Adam, Jamie and Kelsey.

On Tuesday 12^th February 2019 Mrs Craig’s bike crew organised a bling your bike contest and we had to decorate it with Scottish things such as tartan, Scottish flags and also some  people even put irn bru and shortbread which was super creative.

Maths

This week in maths we were learning about how multiplication and division are linked together and have been putting them into triangles. And also we have been practicing adding money together.

Health and Wellbeing

In health and wellbeing we have been talking about how much  your top priorities cost and the value of them such as gas to keep your house going, electricity so you can cook/use electronics, food, shelter and clothes.

Literacy

This week in literacy we have been practicing our grammar and we have been looking at the hidden objects and symbols in the picture book called into the forest by Anthony Browne.

This blog post was written by Summer Brookes and Abbie McAllister.

Well done to Kirsty and Jack who took on the Tech Team responsibilities on Friday at assembly because P6 and P7 were at CAB.

Also to Artemis, Amy-leigh. Kallie-Marie and Jordon for taking on the responsibilities of the JR’s.

You all did a fabulous job! Maybe P5 need to take over more often!

Primary 4 and Primary 5 put on a successful Scottish Celebration last night. They performed songs and poems from several Scottish artists and made their teachers very proud.

The money that they have raised through ticket sales and selling shortbread and Irn Bru will go towards an excursion for all 3 classes. We will have to work together to figure out the amount of money we have made and take into account any expenses before discussing between our classes what we would like to do.

Here are some moments from their evening.

This week in IDL we learned about burns poems and scots words.

This week in maths we have been learning about square numbers, 5 times tables and to explain  lots of different strategies.

This week in literacy we have been learning about different poems from Robert Burns.

This week in health and wellbeing we have been talking about what we would do if different things were taken away from us such as school , home and around the local community.

We hope you have a very nice week.

Lyle , Summer B and Adam.

Maths

Multiplying by 10 using partial products strategy

To times multiples of 100 and 10

IDL

We have learned  about  Robert burns for our Burns Show .

As well as songs for our show.

Literacy

We did kung-fu punctuation.

To find similarities and differences between characters.

Health and wellbeing

We were talking about why we have jobs.

We talked to our learning partners about why do we have to go to work ?

Blog post by Brogan and Sean

P5 and Mrs Craig

In the P5 P4 and p5/4 Christmas  party we where having lots of fun playing games, and dancing along with music  and having a good time.

The party winners were Warren Aleisha and Kelsey a big well done.

Blog post by  Sean and Brogan.