Category: Primary 5

In French this week we were practicing key weather terms. We listened to some French presenters talking about the weather and tried to identify the words we knew. Then we did some written work on the same terms and then we worked with a partner to practice speaking about the weather, pretending we were weather forecasters presenting the weather for different towns in France.

In our topic we continued to learn about the life and times of Mary, Queen of Scots through scanning and comparing some interesting accounts of the lives of different people in different parts of Scotland during the 16th century. In addition, we explored the use of code and encryption by the royals and nobles during Mary’s lifetime, we made up our own codes and asked our friends to decode our messages using our key. This was challenging because we really had to pay attention to what we were writing and think about our spelling. We also had a really good discussion about how code is used today, with lots of excellent examples suggested by the class, including braille, sign language, morse code and secret messages we might make up ourselves to share with friends.

Our maths focus this week has been multiplication. We’ve revised multiplying by 10 and extended this to think about multiplying by 100. Some of us found this quite tricky, so it would be a great thing to practice at home, being sure to identify what happens to our place value each time, and the pattern of adding ’00’ each time we multiply something by 100.

We hope you are all having fun in the snow and keeping nice and warm Hopefully we will all get back together on Monday!

In Maths this week we have been revising and consolidating our knowledge of subtraction of two digit and three digit numbers. We have also been revising and learning our three, four and five time’s tables.  On Friday we challenged ourselves against the clock with our BIG Maths.

We have also been learning our numbers from one to fifty in French and completing some written work to practice writing our numbers in the French language.

We have been continuing our work on the Mary Queen of Scots topic by researching and making a fact file about the main characters in her life and finding out about what they did. In art we linked the topic by looking at art in the sixteenth century and sketched portraits of some of the famous characters.

Hope you all had a great holiday and managed to do something nice on the Monday & Tuesday.

On Wednesday in Maths we worked on our addition skills and linked this to the previous work done on money. We also looked at reading information from a table to solve the addition problems.

We continued our Mary Queen of Scots topic by finding out the various places around Scotland and France where Mary stayed or fled to. We then learned how to sketch pictures of these famous castles and palaces using the medium of pencil.  We also looked at how to use light and shade in the drawings.

In Science we were looking at mixtures and used the context of oil slicks to learn how to separate oil from water.