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P5 have been learning to understand why fruit and vegetables are good for our body. We have explored how they can be sorted into the colours of the rainbow with each colour having specific benefits to our bodies.  We learned that red fruits and vegetables can be good for our hearts and yellow provide vitamin C to help our immune system.  We have started some artwork to share our learning with you. Take a sneaky peek:
Hi everyone,
During our short week back to school after the holidays, we have completed lots of fun and engaging learning activities.
Literacy: We have been working on our ability to read for information through our use of skimming and scanning techniques. We looked further into how to summarise information from a chapter in our class novel, where we focused on picking key phrases/words from the text to show our understanding.
Numeracy: We have been developing our knowledge of multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. Mrs McConville began teaching us about perimeter and area this week.
Topic/IDL: We continued our topic of the Human Body – Body Systems where we looked further into the Skeletal system. We identified the key facts surrounding the Skeletal system and completed a task where we had to work collaboratively to name all of the bones in the body (this was tricky!).
Health and Wellbeing: We looked into gender stereotypes and ensuring that everyone is treated fairly and equally. We had many class discussions where we were able to listen to the opinion of others and express our own opinions.
Have a lovely weekend!
This week we completed our Scottish Contexts topic. We recited our Scottish poems in front of our peers, where two winners were chosen to perform in front of the whole school. We all did a great job and are so proud of our representatives!
In Numeracy, we have been working on adding and subtracting decimals using mental calculations and column sums/chimney sums/formal written method. We have grown in confidence in this across the week, where we were then able to answer and create our own word problem examples for our peers.
We began our new topic for the remainder of the term, where we will investigate Body Systems. We began this through sharing what we know as a whole class and coming up with questions we wanted to investigate across the coming weeks.
In Health and Wellbeing, we looked into what a friendship and/or a relationship is, what makes us a good friend and how to maintain each of these. We collectively created a ‘P6 Friendship Soup’ which incorporated all of our ideas for maintaining positive relationships and friendships. This is now on display in our classroom as a daily reminder.
Have a lovely weekend!
Physical Education – Volleyball
This week in PE we have been developing our knowledge of Volleyball and introduced the underarm serve. Once we practised this skill, we moved on to using this in small games. We are improving our skills every week and we are enjoying trying a different sport. Next week we will be moving on to learn the overarm serve.
Modern Languages – Polish
This week we have been learning more Polish vocabulary. We have been learning how to say basic greetings, colours and recapping our knowledge of the alphabet. We want to say thank you to Ola for sharing all of her knowledge with us, creating resources for us to use and we can’t wait to use this on a daily basis.
We are looking forward to the next couple of weeks where we get to take part in lots of Christmas based activities alongside our learning.
As tonight is Bonfire Night, Primary 2/1 have been Responsible Citizens learning how to stay safe around fireworks. Here are some important things we learned:
-Never throw fireworks
– Keep pets indoors
-Always wear gloves with sparklers
-Stand well back from fireworks and bonfires
-Never go back to a lit firework
We created our own firework pictures using different materials.
Thank you for your support with school uniform and our new approach to P.E. kit.
We would request that on P.E. days children wear to school:
In order to continue with our inclusive ethos and promoting our school identity we would request that children don’t wear branded clothing. We also have nearly new school polo shirts and sweatshirts that can be purchased for a small donation.
On non P.E. days children should wear their normal school uniform (this does not include tracksuit bottoms, leggings – unless with a skirt or jeans).
Term 4 P.E. Days
Thank you for your support with this.
Thank you for your support with school uniform and our new approach to P.E. kit.
This is just a reminder of what children should wear on P.E. days.
We would request that on P.E. days children wear to school:
In order to continue with our inclusive ethos and promoting our school identity we would request that children don’t wear branded clothing. We also have nearly new school polo shirts and sweatshirts that can be purchased for a small donation.
We would request that on non P.E. days children wear their normal school uniform.
Term 3 P.E. Days
Thank you for your support with this.
On Friday we ‘dressed to express’ to raise awareness for children’s mental health week.
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