Our learning highlights in Primary 5/6 this week were:

• We have continued to really enjoy learning about fractions and how to find fractions of a quantity when the numerator of the fraction is one and also when this number is greater than one.
• We are still very much enjoying our topic work and researching our chosen famous Scottish person for our projects
• We enjoyed writing our Scots poetry and learning Scots words for weather to include in our own poems
• Many of the boys and girls enjoyed reciting their Scottish poems and using tone and expression to bring the Scots words to life
• We enjoyed the discussions in our Reading groups this week and the new books that we read together with Mr Hamilton
• We are loving our class novel, “Danny, the Champion of the World”, and hearing about the amazing plan that Danny and his Dad came up with this week
• We enjoyed our new PE focus on Gymnastics this week and learning about different ways of balancing, jumping and landing

This week some of us thought that these were tricky tasks:

• Our Maths work with fractions continued to be a bit tricky at times but everyone kept trying hard and asking for help when needed
• A few of us found our reading group work a little difficult this week as we worked hard to read new words and phrases and discuss the detail in the books
• Some of us found the focus on gymnastics in PE a little tricky as we get to grips with different ways of balancing and moving
• Some of us thought that writing our own Scots poems was a bit tricky

Our Lead Learners in Primary 5/6 this week were Chelsea and Harris. They were assisted by last week’s Lead Learners, Paige and Jack. The three targets that our Lead Learners set for the class were as follows:

• Trying to be kinder to everyone in class
• Helping classmates at your table when they need it
• Trying hard not to give up in Maths and work hard

The Lead Learners and their assistants spotted lots of children in the class meeting all three of the targets this week. There was a lot of success across all three targets.

Well done Primary 5/6 on another fantastic week and amazing hard work in Maths with fractions and wonderful poetry recitals for Burns Day.