This week in gardening 🧑🌾 club we were working on the new sensory garden that everyone in the school is helping to create. The first stage is digging out the soil. We had to safely use the shovels to dig out the turf and put it in the wheel barrow.
Today in gardening club we got to use the secateurs. We listened to the safety rules as they are very sharp and strong. We then listened very carefully to how we prune the trees in our school garden. An excellent job completed and the trees are now under control.
We also weeded one of the large planters……weeding again 🤯 and this made us think of how quickly the weeds grow and why it is important to keep on top of them so our vegetables 🌽 and flowers can grow.
we even managed to harvest some.
First week back at gardening club. We got out in the garden to talk about what we need to do during our time at gardening club.
We managed to move a planter and fill in a big dangerous hole and harvested some cabbage 🥬. We are looking forward to getting stuck in to helping to maintain the school garden.
A great first week at gardening club.
That was a very quick week in Primary 5!
We had our Monday holiday which is our last day off school until the Summer Holidays in a few weeks.
This week we have been back to our usual routine of Numeracy, Literacy, PE, and IDL subjects as we didn’t have Health Week or Sports Day!
In Numeracy we have finished off our Money topic this week and everyone worked really well getting this completed. In Literacy we started some new books which were really interesting and practiced our c, k, ck, ch words!
Our Assembly has been rescheduled until June 17th and we hope to see lots of you there!
Have a great weekend everyone!
What a week we have had in Primary 5!!
On Monday, we spent the day at Stirling Castle and took part in the Mary, Queen of Scots tour – we saw in the Palace, the Bed Chambers, the Great Hall, and walked along the wall to see Mary, Queen of Scots lookout! Ryan our tour guide was great and even crowned a Queen, King and Jester in our group!
Then Tuesday to Friday we have had loads of Health Week activities; Badminton with Mr Elliott, HIIT class with Mrs Saunders, Flower Bomb Making with Mrs Watson, American Football, Football skills, Polbeth Bowling Club, Smoothies on the smoothie bike, Fruit Kebabs in our classroom, Dream-catcher making with our School Nurses and SPORTS DAY! Huge congratulations to St John Ogilvie on winning the House Cup!!!
It has been a very busy but amazing week – huge well done and thank you to Mrs McMaster for arranging everything for us all!
Enjoy the Monday holiday P5 and I’ll see you on Tuesday!! Happy weekend!!
Mrs Wotherspoon 🙂
Primary 5 have been really busy this week even although we’ve only been in school for 2 and a half days!
We started our new Numeracy topic which is Money – we had lots of great discussions around this; where we get money from, how we get money, what different money is like, different ways to earn money. Everyone has put lots of effort into this topic so far, massive well done! This weeks Learning Intentions have been focussing on splitting amount of money using decimals. Next week we’ll be moving on to rounding to the nearest amounts.
In Literacy, we were still focussing on our procedural writing and creating our board games – they all look great and I can’t wait to have the chance to play them!
The children introduced me to a new game they have been playing in PE with Mrs McMaster – Castle Tumble! Each team needs to build a castle out of hula-hoops, the pitch is split into 4 sections and it is all about protecting your castle from getting knocked down from the dodgeballs! It was great fun and really fun activity to do before our visit to Stirling Castle on Monday!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Mrs Wotherspoon
It has been very, very busy in Primary 5 over the last two weeks!!
We have been really busy getting all our Literacy work done – we have been practicing our ‘s, ss, c, ce, se,’ sounds AND our ‘j, g, dge’ sounds. Everyone has been putting in so much effort with their spelling work, very well done Primary 5! We have also started our new writing genre; procedural writing and, through this we have been designing and creating our own Board Games. Some of the ideas have been excellent.
We have finished off our Time topic in Numeracy. We learned the difference between the 12 and 24 hour clock, how to convert duration of time using seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years. Again, everyone has worked so well on this topic, massive well done!!
We have completed our John Muir award and are awaiting our certificates. We have been spending Wednesday afternoons in the woods completing different challenges such as natural art work, den building, litter picking and discovering different leafs to recognise a variety of trees.
We are visiting Stirling Castle on May 13th and this week were researching, learning and discovering different facts about the castle. We completed a timeline of all the important dates relating to the history of the castle.
Everyone has worked really hard and deserves their holidays. Enjoy and I will see you all on Wednesday!
WOW WOW WOW!
What a week we have had in Primary 5! We have had such a busy week with all our fun ‘Lent’ activities with ‘Cake & Candy’ on Monday, ‘Funfair’ on Tuesday, ‘Bingo’ on Wednesday and our amazing ‘St Marys Got Talent’ show today! On Wednesday, St Marys Gymnastics team also had a competition and three of our girls from Primary 5 took part.
We have had so many children in our class rehearsing for the talent show over the last few weeks and everyone from Primary 5 that took part, was amazing!!
We had The Karen Show, The Comedy Show and a poem called ‘Monday Blues’ written by Connor in our class.
At the Funfair on Tuesday, Michael guessed the correct birthday of the chick and won!!
And today at the talent show, Connor won the P4-P7 category with his own poem!
Also, at the gymnastics competition St Mary’s came first with Victoria, Kornelia and Zofia all getting medals and, Victoria getting a second medal for her individual performance.
Massive well done to everyone! Enjoy the holidays and I’ll see you all in a couple of week!
Mrs Wotherspoon 🙂
It’s been very busy again in Primary 5 this week!!
We have been working really hard on our new Numeracy topic ‘Decimals’ in preparation for starting our Money topic after the Easter holidays. Decimals has been a challenge but we’re doing really well with it.
In Literacy some of our reading groups started new books – Rockets started ‘The Iron Man’ and Shooting Stars started ‘Paradise High.’ The Crazy Craters are nearly finished ‘The BFG’ and the Astronauts are nearly finished ‘James and the Giant Peach’ so both of those groups will be getting new books before Easter too.
It was Science Week so to celebrate we completed the Tower Challenge! You have to build a tower using only once piece of paper and nothing else. Using different strategies such as cutting, slotting, folding and rolling the winning group built their tower 61.5cm high!
We worked in teams to complete this challenge and everyone showed amazing school values throughout.
We were also told about ‘St Mary’s Got Talent’ taking place on Thursday 28th of March before we split up for the Easter Holidays. We decided on our groups and what our acts are going to be for the talent show. We are going to be practicing a couple of times a week before the show and we are all really excited!
Finally, we had Parents’ Evening this week and it was lovely to see so many of you, and catch up! Everyone has been working really, really hard throughout Primary 5 and I am so proud of all of the pupils in class!
Have a great weekend everyone…see you next week!
It has been a very busy week in Primary 5 this week.
We have finished our Graph topic in Numeracy and have moved onto more Multiplication. The class were very excited about this!!
They have all worked really hard at Literacy this week; we have some exciting books in our reading groups – BFG, James and the Giant Peach, The Powder Monkey and Petey! Everyone has also worked so hard learning our new spelling sound ‘sh.’ We started our new Writing Genre last week so have been learning more about that too – Narrative. We will be creating our own stories soon and the ideas that have already been shared are excellent!
The big event in Primary 5 this week is that the class lead our first 2024 School Mass and what a great job they did. We are all so proud of you all; for your singing, participation and respect to others. Massive well done P5!
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