Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

Our week started off with some sunshine and the new and exciting Quidditch tournament. We were placed into our house teams, and fought for the winning cup. Putting our new found Quidditch skills to the test, we played numerous rounds competing against each other, until the final team won for the day. A big thank you to Mr Newton for coaching us over the last few weeks and for organising a spectacular day!

Joining P5A on Tuesday, we all joined in a bit of Zumba.. Amazing how much of a sweat we worked up just with a little bit of dancing. Taking part in Zumba we are extending  our skills of following directions and working on co-ordination, which is much trickier than you may think.

Over the last few weeks we have been very busy planning a holiday for a family wanting to visit Linlithgow. We needed to research flights, hotels and calculate a budget for the family. A lot of effort went into researching to meet all the requirements of our travelling family. This week we presented our travel arrangements to the class. Mrs Matos was very proud of all our hard work!

On Thursday some of us auditioned for Springfield’s got talent. We have some very talented children in P5B, the acts ranged from singing, to dancing and some gymnastics too, all the acts did really well. Unfortunately we could only select two acts to go through to the finals, which will be held next week Tuesday. The class voted and Anna and Dayna , theywill be representing P5B on Tuesday.

Over the week, we completed our personal projects. We have all worked really hard on our projects, we have been using the netbooks to do research and to help us compile our projects. We also spent some time on Thursday and used the netbooks to play some Sumdog. It is a lot of fun, and remember we can play it at home too, especially over the summer holidays which will help us keep on top of our Maths.

It’s almost summer holidays, which means we are getting nearer the end of Primary 5. We spent this week reflecting on the year that has gone by. To help us reflect we created these stunning hand portraits, we used colour and patterns to help show our personalities. Around our hands we shared our memories of Primary 5. Looking back we all have some very fond memories

P5B and Mrs Matos

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Its has truly been a week of sports and fitness. This week finished our eight week block of Futsal. We finished with a mini Futsal tournament. It was great to see everyone using the skills they have learnt in their matches.  We were fortunate this week to have PE specialist, Mr Stewart , to take us for a gymnastics PE lesson, our lesson focused on keeping safe and challenging ourselves. It was lots of fun getting the gymnastics equipment out, a big thank you to Mr Stewart, P5B had a lot of fun.  On Wednesday was our final Quidditch training before our big Quidditch tournament on Monday. We looking forward to using the skills we have learnt with Mr Newton, and having good sportsmanship during our games.  Another thank you goes to Mr Logon for taking us for PE on Thursday, we enjoyed playing some football.

French this week was taken with Mrs Gordon, we listened to some French songs and revised counting in French. To end our lesson, Mrs Gordon took us outside to play the French version of ‘Duck, Duck goose’. We behaved so well for Mrs Gordon, and Mrs Matos was very impressed with the positive feedback, as a reward we got to watch Thomas the tank Engine in French!

In Numeracy this week we worked on weight. We learnt to convert grams to kilograms, we estimated weight and we sorted weight from lightest to heaviest and heaviest to lightest.

In literacy this week , we wrote a special letter to our new P6 teacher. Our focus was on the correct layout of a formal letter. We discussed the importance of using a variety of sentence openers and to try not over using pronouns as an opener. We spent some time with our new P6 teacher, and we are all looking forward to the new session after the summer holidays.

Next week Monday we have our Quidditch tournament to look forward to as well as sports day on  Wednesday, please remember to  wear sports gear and house colours.

P5B and Mrs Matos