Primary 5 – Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

January 25, 2019

Primary 5 w/e 25th January 2019

This week we had the opportunity to put our handball skills to the test, at the Handball Festival at Linlithgow Academy on Thursday. We played against other schools from Linlithgow and had great fun.

In maths we have begun to explore money. We will continue to do this next week too. We have begun to use a new mental maths resource to help us with our mental agility.

Our storywriting this week was about The Arctic Circle. Our stimulus for the story was a character outside a small metal building in the Arctic. We then created our own stories about the character and the events that might happen to him.

In our Guided Reading Task this week we described what we might do if we could spend a day with a character from our reading book. There were some interesting ideas. We have also completed comprehension tasks.

We have looked at Alexander Fleming as our Famous Scot. We have created posters and powerpoints about both Fleming and Alexander Graham Bell.

September 21, 2018

Primary 5, w/e 21/9/18

A short, busy week this week.

Numeracy has seen some of us explore the strategies we can use to double numbers while others looked at formal methods of recording addition sums.

In Science, we recreated the phases of the moon with oreo biscuits! We also joined a GLOW meet, during which astronaut, Sunita Williams, talked about her career and how engineering was the starting point to becoming an astronaut. She answered questions about her job and about what it was like to be in space.

We have looked at different types of maps and then identified the continents on a map of our own.

We have also begun our Committees today. Some of chose to stay in the same committee, others to explore something new.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

Kind regards

Primary 5 and Mrs Kerr

August 31, 2018

Primary 5 Blog – w/b 26th August

This week in Primary 5 we have been learning about the 5 point scale, to help us understand our own and other peoples feelings. We also completed our Class Charter, using emojis to show that we agree to keep the class rules.

In Maths we did a carousel of activities practising our tables and subtraction. In number talks, we looked at subtraction strategies.

In PE our focus is teamwork. We played a variety of games to help us with this.

In writing we wrote a story based on video clip called ‘Create’.

We also completed some dictionary work.

We read the Dr Seuss story – ‘The Places You’ll Go’ and discussed how having a Growth Mindset will help us in life.

In science with Mrs Tulloch, we created mnemonics – for the planets – ask us if we can remember these.

Have a lovely weekend.

Kind regards,

Primary 5 and Mrs Kerr

August 24, 2018

Welcome Back Primary 5

It’s been lovely to see the children back in school this week, refreshed and keen to get started.

We’ve had a busy first week, getting to know each other through a variety of activities including bingo and creating jigsaw pieces.

In literacy, we designed our own aliens and then used a thesaurus to find interesting words to help us describe them.

Numeracy included a treasure hunt and a task to help us identify the areas we need to develop further this session.

We’ve discussed the qualities that make an excellent pupil and teacher and shared these together. We’ve also begun to create our Class Charter, discussing rules and why we have them. We have voted on the theme for our charter, choosing emoji’s for this session.

Have a lovely weekend.

Primary 5 and Mrs Kerr