Category: Our Learning Stories

“In Maths, I found reversing function machines to solve an equation tricky at first as there were two different methods.  I found the best one for me and feel more confident.” (Alexa)

“At my athletics club I think I have improved since I have been accepted to the older group of mixed sports.” (Sophie)

“At high school, I enjoyed being in different groups with people as I became friends with some of them.” (Shannon)

“I enjoyed P.E because we got to run”  (Jordan)

“At high school, I enjoyed being able to use the fitness suite with the machines.” (Elli F)

“At dancing, I managed to go all the way down to the splits.” (Rebecca)

“In nurture, I learned to plant potatoes properly.” (Michael)

“In karate, I feel more confident in modelling kicks for the younger ones.” (Holly)

“At football, I have managed to keep the ball balanced longer on my foot.” (Jake)

“At football, I was accepted into the Livingston Pro Youth Football Training sessions.  I was given the Scotland jumper for it.” (Anna)

“At high school, I liked playing rugby.  I got to tackle a dummy player but I was tackled by others with pads.” (Connor)

“At camp, I learned that the giant wasn’t as high as I first thought!” (Zoe)

“At horse riding, I showed confidence when I rode a horse I didn’t think I could ride as it is usually quite naughty and cheeky!” (Amy)

“In CDT at high school, I learned how to design a character drawing.” (Josh)

“In football, I improved scoring goals at 11 aside.” (Shea)

“At high school, I enjoyed using the bunsen burners in science.” (Cameron)

“At the sports festival, I enjoyed trying out the fitness suite machines.” (Bayleigh)

“At high school in art we learned a new printing technique using chalk and wax crayons.” (Ellie)

Once again this week has been another busy week for Primary 5. We have had lots of different events including an exciting concert on Tuesday! We were lucky enough to be visited by the girlband 5Angels – what fantastic singers!

Our literacy focus this week has been poetry, and in particular the poems of Grace Nicols. We learned key vocabulary (personification, metaphor, stanza, verse) and talked about how poems make readers feel emotional. We also did a few freeze frames in role – can you guess what we were acting as?

In maths this week we all practised our times tables. Some of us know all the times tables to 10! We need to continue to develop this as next week we will move onto division and then fractions later in the term.

Disaster Island now has a family who are holidaying. They are Darren (the dad), Anna (the daughter/sister), Liam (the son/brother) and Meety the sausage dog. They are visiting Grandpa Joe, who lives on Disaster Island. We have learned about Tsunamis and will be learning about Volcanoes. Here is a photo of our family.

We also took part in the memorial service for Miss Martin. We feel that this was a lovely way to remember her and look forward to seeing her tree grow big and strong.

We are working very hard on our assembly and everyone has created an invitation to take home. If you are a parent/carer of a P5 pupil and have not received an invite please ask your child to check that they have completed this.

We are all looking forward to the Bank Holiday on Monday and we hope that everyone remembers to stay safe.

Miss Anderson and P5

P7 are having a ball at Dalguise! Forest hikes, Giant swings, abseiling, to name a few. Everyone has slept, eaten well and had showers!!  We have lots more pictures and stories to share with you tomorrow.

This week we have been thinking about our reading and how we can ask powerful questions to learn more. We read an abridged version of Billionaire Boy by David Walliams and then worked in groups to create and answer powerful questions. A good way to know if a question is powerful is if it makes you think rather than remember. Here are a few examples of our powerful questions.

1. How would the story change if the main character was a girl?

2. What would life be like if the main character had a friend?

3. If the main character had one friend do you think he would want another?

4. What would be different if the main character had no money?

All of these questions made us think about the answer – we couldn’t just say yes or no.

We have also started our topic about natural disasters called Disaster Island. We are not quite sure what type of thing happens on Disaster Island, but it probably isn’t good! We’ll keep you up to date…

In maths this week we have been continuing with number work. The pyramids have been partitioning numbers that have hundreds, tens and units and comparing the pictorial form, written form and expanded form. The Spheres and Cuboids have been continuing to identify and continue number patterns and using function machines to add on in hundreds and tens. This has been quite challenging to start with but we all got there in the end and will continue to work hard on developing these skills. Next week the Pyramids will be counting up in tens and hundreds and matching digits to number words. The Spheres and Pyramids will be balancing sums and subtractions and using letters to represent numbers.

We still have our P5 Rocks display – with lots of samples to examine. If you have any examples of rocks that you find we would be interested in examining them and classifying them.

That’s all from us this week – hope you all have a lovely weekend. Remember we love to read comments about our learning so please leave us a message.

Miss Anderson and Primary 5