Hello everyone and welcome to the latest news from Primary 5/4.  Another busy week for us this week!

We have:

* Enjoyed a variety of different science experiences in our Masterclasses across the school.

* Had a wonderful full day trip to New Lanark Heritage Centre where we experienced a classroom from 1825 (including wearing traditional tunics!), the Annie Mcleod Experience where we traveled back in time and everyone really enjoyed it and finally a great tour of the whole of the visitor centre.

* We learned how the River Clyde was used to help spin cotton in the mill and how dangerous some of the jobs working in the mill were.

* We also learned about how people used to live in the tenement buildings sometimes up to 15 people living in one room!

* The most important invention from the Victorian Era, we soon discovered, was electricity and how we cannot live without it today.

* Finally this week, we have been learning how to plan & write an imaginative story – next week we will be attempting this completely on our own!

Please enjoy some of our photos from our trip and see you again next week.

We have been learning:

• about a science topic in our ‘Masterclass’
• how to write a poem
• how to make kites by measuring accurately

The lucky pupils in the P4-7 Volcano Masterclass yesterday caused eruptions!! 🙂

They came along to find out more about volcanoes, we learned all about what they look like, how they are made, what they are made of, where they form and how they form.

We had a lot of fun creating our own volcanoes and to complete the class worked in collaboration to create an enormous Volcano to display in the main hall.

We have been learning:

• to move into space when playing rugby games
• how to make a kite by measuring carefully
• to make a plan of a model robot
• how to make our faces funny

Hello everybody and welcome to our latest class blog. We have had another great week and were kept very busy by Mr Hardworkerson our new Victorian School Master! (Although he did look rather like our own Mr Richards!) This week we have:

* Enjoyed a series of lessons taught in the setting of a Victorian classroom including reading, writing and arithmetic!

* Carried out independent research to discover as much as we could about Victorian inventions (including our favourites of Jelly Babies and Ice Cream!)

* Investigated the similarities and differences between a beach holiday in 1890’s Edinburgh at Portobello Beach and a typical beach holiday today.

* Learned a traditional Victorian Song called “The Wild Honeysuckle” and it was very difficult to do because we don’t use some of the traditional words in the song anymore. We tried our very best and were successful learners.

We have really enjoyed our learning this week although Mr Hardworkerson is very strict! We hope Mr Richards is back next week for our trip to New Lanark Heritage Centre on Tuesday. We will post some pictures of our trip to next week’s blog. In the meantime, please enjoy our photographs from our Victorian Class and have a great weekend!

We have been:

• writing rhyming couplets
  • e.g. I was getting ready to run
  •         And it was going to be fun.
• writing an imaginative story about robots
• learning about magnetic forces

Hello again everyone. This week has been really busy and we have all been working so hard. On Tuesday we had a visit from Maureen Liddell of Museum Services and we were given the chance to handle some genuine Victorian artefacts! We loved it and we hope you enjoy our pictures below.

This week we have also:

* Worked on some targets for our literacy including reading, writing and talking & listening.

* Discovered more about the artist L.S. Lowry

* Found out about a new computer program called “Kodu” which allows us to create worlds & write computer programs and code. This is a real test of our skills in logical thinking!

On Monday 9th March, we will be taking part in a Victorian Day in class and Mr Richards has some genuine Victorian lessons to teach us! Photos will be posted to the blog next week so please keep an eye out.

Below are some pictures of our Museum Handling Session which we hope you enjoy!

Hello everyone! Another week goes by and this week we have:

* Taken part in a Street Jam session with Andy who was very inspirational and enthusiastic. Please check out our photos at the bottom of the page!

* Continued our NYCOS sessions with Mr Gregory and really enjoyed learning about beats and rhythms. More photos at the bottom of the page!

* Within our spelling, we have been learning how to use both sign language and morse code to enhance our learning. It was difficult to do at first but with practice, we became much more confident learners.

* Within our Victorians Topic we were learning about the famous painter Lowry who painted “matchstick men and matchstick cats and dogs”! We will be trying out our own paintings very soon so watch this space. Next week we will be taking part in a Victorian handling session when we will be able to handle items used by the Victorians and understand a little more about the Victorian way of life. Photos will be added to the blog next week!

* Finally it is quite a sad day for P5/4 as we say goodbye to Corey who is moving to a new school next week. We are all going to miss him and wish him every success at his new school!

Hello everyone. A shorter week this week but still really busy!

This week we have been learning about:

* Life in the Victorian Workhouse for children

* The types of foods given to Victorian children in the workhouse

* How to be safe using the internet by researching, devising & writing our own short dramas together with the Primary 5 class

Congratulations to our Skillionaire’s this week – Ellie Chapman & Logan Owens for usin their knowledge to predict what will happen next in their stories!

Hope you all have a great weekend! 🙂

It’s that time of the week again already! We have been busy again this week in P5/4!

This week we have :

* Made our own Passports and writing sentences about our name & age in French.

* Within reading groups , we have been practicing our skills at being the Summary Sergeant & Character Cop. This is giving us more confidence within our reading groups.

* Started our Victorian Topic and found out all about the children of that era and how they were made to work 14 hour days!

* Well done to Lenny & Corey who were this weeks “Skillionaires” after successfully evaluating their learning on times tables in numeracy this week.

See you all again next time! Have a lovely weekend.