Hello from everyone in Primary 5/4! This week we have:

• Learned how to get through a slalom of cones using our improving hockey skills!
• Improved greatly on our skills in Bench Ball & we are now much more confident about the festival on Wednesday 16th March.
• Using a picture and listing adjectives to help us write a story (please see the pictures below of all the words we came up with)
• Started work on our Topic PowerPoint which we hope to share with the class next week!
• Problem solving this week – we looked at the 5 steps to problem solving which are (1) Read & Think, (2) Choose A Strategy, (3) Experiment, (4) Consider & (5) Report & Record. This has been challenging but very worthwhile.
• Huge congratulations to Zac Wilson and his successes in Tae Kwon Do – enjoy his pictures!
• We had a class presentation on Monday to showcase our Homework Challenges and there was some amazing work produced! Please enjoy the photos below!!

See you next week!

Late entries to our photos last week! Kirstin was awarded a certificate in the regional Burns competition for her great recital of a Burns poem. Kaiden with his excellent model longboat.

Just a reminder that our Viking assembly is this Friday , 11th March, all are welcome !

This week we say goodbye to Mrs Caggiano after 6 weeks in our class. We have really enjoyed having Mrs Caggiano in class and loved doing art, writing, health and well-being and maths with her. We’ll miss you loads and loads and wish you all the best for the future! We hope you like the cards we made you!

This week has been another busy one and we have:

* Learned the rules of bench ball for the Primary 4’s upcoming tournament on Wednesday 16th March at the Community Centre

* Learned about the sugar content of some of our favourite foods in health and well-being

* Used pictures as a stimulus to plan our writing. One of our favourite websites we use is www.literacyshed.com – check it out!

* Masterclasses were held in school on Thursday 3rd March and the children across the school had a great day participating in a number of different activities – well done everyone.

* Finally, P5/4 are incredibly proud of Ellie Chapman & Dean Robertson for participating in the Burns competition which was held at St Kents on Tuesday 1st March. Although they didn’t get through, to stand in front of an audience and judges to perform a song (Ellie) and poem (Dean) is an amazing achievement and speaks volumes about the confidence the children at Murrayfield Primary School are continuing to develop. Well done!

Below you will find some photos from this week. Enjoy and see you again next week!

Miss Proudfoot’s last week this week! We are sad she is leaving, the children have enjoyed her active science lessons and creating Viking runes and  shields  during her Viking lessons . Miss Proudfoot ‘s RME lessons allowed the children to find out interesting facts about Islam. We hope to see her  again!

We have resumed our French learning this week, Mrs Miller will be teaching this every week.

We celebrated Neve’s success in the Burns competition, winning first place in the musical instrument category for primary stage 4/5, well done Neve! Photo of her fantastic winners’ cup is attached .

Our Viking assembly will be on 11/3/16, everyone is welcome to come and share our learning. We also have a Benchball  festival  on 16/3/16,  1-3pm at the Community Centre.

Photos of our fantastic model longboats attached !

This week in P5/4 we have:

* Using more wow words in our Reading Routes lessons

* Using a chest pass or a bounce pass in P.E.

* Learning the numbers up to 10 and all the months of the year in Italian.

* Enjoyed our 80’s dress down day and disco!

Please enjoy some of the pictures form this week.

Shorter week this week due to the holiday but no less busy! This week we have:

* Looked at Anthony Browne Picture Books for comprehension.

* Marched to the 7 times table!

* We shared our most prized possessions with one another during Health & well being

* Completed our Pop Art Pictures.

* Mild, Spicy & Hot challenges using money in class. Huge thanks to all the parents/carers who came in to see our learning.

More updates next week.

This week in P5/4 we have:

* Had great fun participating in the Rabbie Burns one day event at school on Monday (see our post to the blog on Monday for more information & photos!)

* Practiced using onomatopoeia and alliteration in our own sentences when working on an imaginative story.

* Worked on co-ordinates & perimeters in maths

* Made our own maps of United Kingdom as part of our topic.

* Started making Pop Art pictures!

Hope you all have a lovely February break!

We have started our new social studies topic of the Vikings and are looking forward to our trip to the National Museum of Scotland on 22^nd February. A homework challenge has been issued to make a model of a Viking Longboat !  To be in by 19/2/16.

Celebrating skills and success in primary 4 !  Anna celebrated her recent success at a horse show, and showed us her winning rosette. Lexi  was very excited to show us all the information on her recently adopted snow leopard and Khizar has been helping  us  to learn all about Islam and showing us his prayer mat.

A special early update on our blog this week as we couldn’t wait to share it with you. We received a special visit from Linsay Duncan from the “Drama & Dance” team of the One Day Creative Workshop Group. Linsay taught the classes loads of different things about our very own Rabbie Burns and then both classes put on a performance of their learning to the whole school! We are very proud of the effort the children put in today and we hope you enjoy some of the pictures!

Hello and welcome to all the latest from P5/4. This week:

* We welcomed Mrs Caggiano, a PGDE Student from Edinburgh University, into our class and she will be with us for the next 6 weeks. We are looking forward to her teaching us lots of different things!

* We have been problem solving using pentominoes and working out how many different combinations there are!

* We have completed our Heart Start training and are now very confident in knowing how to deal with various life situations.

* Learned how to paint a town scene using cut out rectangular & triangular shapes and mixing colours using the primary colours. This was Mrs Caggiano’s first lesson with us and we had great fun! See the photos below!

* Continued to refine our skills in hockey ready for some games next week!

More updates next week!