Friday 17th January
On Wednesday we headed back to Urban Nature.
First things first – get the chores done! Article 29 – Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. It must encourage the child’s respect their environment.
But there is always time for fun. Article 31 – Every child has the right to relax and play.
Then there was the challenge – build a bridge and get your team across! Article 29 – Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.
Yes – there is always someone who has to fall in!
Thursday 9th January
We have been finding the perimeter of our playground
We all worked well with our partners and were able to show Mrs Hopkinson that we are ready for independent learning through out the school. Well done P5!
Wednesday 8th January 2020
P5 – Urban Nature
Today we had our visit to Urban Nature as a whole class – and yes they worked us hard!
No rest for the wicked – school work – oh Mrs Hopkinson
Wednesday 18th December
All of P5 pupil will be going to the farm in January for a block of outdoor learning and team building.
Camp
Sorry for the delay but Mrs. Donnelly has finally managed to upload all the camp photos… enjoy!!!
Christmas Past – memories
9th Dec 2014 – when we were all young!
Wednesday 4th December
Down at the farm helping Sean with Elsa the reindeer and helping to make some Christmas cards.
Tuesday 3rd December
Yesterday the happy campers received their achievement certificates from camp.
Primary 5 have been looking at the work of Romero Britto a Brazilian artist.
Here are some of their masterpieces.
Today we were putting some of the finishing touches to our sustainable Christmas decorations.
We have a willow arch in our infant playground. This year it has grown out of control.
We decided to use the excess growth to make Christmas decorations.
Monday 11th November
Today we went to the Vue cinema in Livingston. We went to see ‘How to Train Your Dragon’
Romeo – my favourite part was when Toothless used his powers to become invisible.
Kyle – when they go on the boat and they see the babies.
Friday 1st November
Nathan and Febin – On Monday we learning about the story of Rama and Sita.
Febin – Diwali is the celebration of goodness over evil – light over darkness. This a Hindu celebration that takes place in late October and early November.
Nathan – Food is shared amongst friends and neighbours.
Febin – They make Rangoli patterns with different coloured rice.
On Tuesday we started our new book
On Wednesday we had did some outdoor learning with Mrs Potter. Mrs Coiro helped us make a Rangoli pattern with coloured rice.
We made a symmetrical Rangoli pattern
On Thursday Mrs Wood helped us to make a spooky picture using tissue paper.
On Friday we went to Church with the whole school.
Mrs Corio spoke to us about being super heroes.
Here are pictures of real life super heroes.
Friday 25th October
On Tuesday we started making our weather vanes with Mrs Hopkinson. Hopefully we will get them completed and home for next week.
Hopefully our ones will look as good as this one – no it will be better!
We are having to read the instructions on how to make the weather vane and carry them out. Both Mrs Hopkinson and Mrs Coreo will be helping us.
Recycling.
Over the last week before our October holiday we had to eat lots and lots of jelly so that we could all have an empty carton with a lid to use for the base of our weather vane.
Wednesday’s farm visit
Friday 4th October 2019
This week we have been looking at Climate Change
What if ….
We have also been introduced to The First Minister’s reading Challenge. We are challenging ourselves to be to build a reading culture within our schools, home and community to help us to discover the power of reading.
We have all been given a Reading Passport – for every book we read we will be given a FMRC sticker. Once we have read 10 books we will be given a reading award medal.
Thursday 19th September
We had a great start to the day by practising our number on SUMDOG. Everyone loves SUMDOG!
After play we did our writing like we do every Thursday. We looked at the different characters in our class novel and created a character description of them. So far the storyteller doesn’t have a name so we could name him what we wanted. When we created our plans we had to try and remember things that had been mentioned in the story like Mr Irons one of the teachers is really moany and doesn’t like people being happy, he is very strict and is always trying to secretly comb his moustache. We had been doing work on adjectives and similes so then we had to use our character plan and write a description of the character. Before that though we heard and looked at some WAGOLL’s so we had a better idea of how we were to write. We tried really hard to use adjectives and similes and to write in joined up handwriting. Miss Angus is going to read out some of the descriptions without saying who it is so we have to guess the character.
Wednesday 18th September
P5 have been reading the book “The Boy at the Back of the Class” by Onjali Q. Rauf. We are really enjoying finding out about a boy called Ahmet who is a refugee from Syria. The storyteller is trying to make friends with Ahmet so brings him in a pomegranate.
Most of our class hadn’t seen or tasted a pomegranate before so Miss Angus brought one in. We looked at it and touched it first. It looked like a squashy ball with a funny neck sticking out of it and though it had a tough skin it felt quite soft and squashy in bits. Mrs Brady then went and cut it open for us. We washed our hands and then could taste it if we wanted to . It was delicious and we want to go and buy our own pomegranates! Only one person didn’t like it.
Friday 13th September
We have had anther busy week in P5 . We still haven’t finished our McCoos but we have made a good start. We have to thank Declan and Olivia who ran the resources that we needed like a shop. Class monitors and others got all the glue and spreaders prepared . We have some work that is going to be fantastic when it is finished! In number we have been working with numbers that are bigger than we normally work with. It was hard at first but we are getting there. We played a really good game where we had to roll a dice – some of Miss Angus’ dice had numbers to 20 on them and generate a list of 5 3,4,5 or 6 digit numbers and then put them in order from either the biggest to the smallest or the smallest to the biggest. Someone stole the time because in no time it was playtime! That’s what Miss Angus says when we run out of time. Who has taken the time because sometimes we can’t believe how quickly it has passed. In our reading and writing we have been looking at questions, different types of questions and settings to make our writing grab the readers attention. We had to describe the setting for a photo of a room that was abandoned using our senses. The photo had mould on the walls, pigeon poo everywhere, a damaged roof and one chair that was filthy and had a rabbit toy on it. We will show some later.
Friday 6th September
Welcome to the Fantastic P5 blog! Already we have been doing lots of fun learning and we were very lucky to have a teacher in from MISSIO who took some of his class to Zambia to help build and set up a school. Throughout the year we are going to try and help them through various fundraising events to help them build and set up a school in Uganda.
Have a look at some of the things P5 have been doing! Already we have been finding out about refugees and what a refugee is because we are reading an amazing novel called “The Boy At The Back Of The Class” by Onjali Q. Rauf. We can’t believe that we play so many games to help us to learn our number and maths work! Every day we use our Emotion check in to let our teacher know how we are feeling. We can then change it as our feelings change throughout the day. We have started our art work but you will have to wait until it is finished before you see it. We will give you a clue….McC00……….
