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

* A clearer understanding of problem solving strategies

* Learned about confidence in the classroom and perfect our superhero poses!

* Been learning important life saving techniques with Heart Start including how to put someone in the recovery position. We had a lot of fun practicing but also learned how to be successful learners, confident individuals, effect contributors & responsible citizens!

More next week!

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2016-01-15 P5-4 Jan. Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the latest news from P5/4. This week we have:

* Had a HUGE spelling test involving 75 words. It took us a while but we got there in the end! Mr Richards will let us know the results very soon!

* Thoroughly enjoyed our trip to the Filmhouse in Edinburgh to see a film version of “The Gruffalo’s Child” followed by readings in Scots of “The Gruffalo’s Wean” by the first Scots Scriever Hamish MacDonald, and a reading in Shetland dialect by Edinburgh Makar, Christine De Luca. It was was also screened live on the Glow website and was watched by other primary schools around Scotland!

It was a very enjoyable morning and we had a great time watching the film, hearing the different dialects and asking lots of questions. Well done to all of the children in Primaries 4, 5 & 5/4 who were a credit to the school!

Please enjoy the pictures below and see you again next week for more!

Huge congratulations go to Miss Katie Clifton for her very successful gymnastics. Please check out her photos below!

Huge well done to Katie – we are all very proud of her!!

Hello from everyone in P5/4. We have had a great week this week including a DVD and popcorn treat for topping the points chart for the term across the whole school and yesterday we had a fantastic trip to see Aladdin at the Civic Centre in Livingston. We had a great time and we were a credit to our school with our behaviour and manners! Well done to everyone concerned.

Below are a few pictures from our Christmas Party and we would like to wish all of our friends and family a fantastic Christmas and a Happy New Year when it comes along. Here’s to an exciting 2016! Happy Holidays everybody.

Mr Richards & Primary 5/4 xx

A massive congratulations to everyone at the school for their fantastic efforts for the Christmas Concert. The staff and children did an amazing job getting everything ready and the final result was brilliant. Very proud of my own Primary 5/4 who were excellent and gave it their all!

Well done!

Mr Richards

This week in Primary 5/4 we have:

*Been learning how to dribble using a hockey stick as well as developing a better understanding of how to keep myself and others safe when using hockey sticks. Some photos are shown below!

* Learning about similes in our reading. We were as bright as lightbulbs when we had finished!

* Learning about subtraction sums up to 10,000 using chimney/column sums and understanding how and where to borrow from!

See you all again next week!

Another week whizzes by! This week we have:

* Had our final ocarina lesson from Mrs England and performed a selection of tunes with P4 to Mr Benyon’s P3 class & Mrs Sneddon’s P5 class! We’ll keep practicing on our ocarina’s and prepare some Christmas tunes!!

* Within our topic on Britain we started looking at the capital cities and found some facts about each city which we will present in class soon.

* We had a mild, spicy & hot challenge to do in maths this week and we all did really well. Our learning over the last few weeks has really helped us to become successful learners.

* In spelling, the apples looked at verbs ending in -s, -ed & -ing and the Bananas and Cherries worked on words ending in -le. We think we’ve got the hang of this now!

* We had to solve a really tricky problem during problem solving where we had to work out an answer which was over 200,000!! We managed this together and are rightly proud of our achievement!

See you all next week.