What a quick (and busy!) term it’s been… below are some photos of what Tay Class have been doing.
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Primary 5 this week…
Wow what another busy week we have had in Primary 5!
We have started our subtraction in numeracy and everyone has been putting in so much effort with our new topic! Keep it up!!
In writing, we were researching our own topic for our Information Reports using our class technology and will be writing our reports on Monday!
It was Book Week and we had lots of activities relating to this. We made book character wooden spoons and we may have contacted a couple of famous people to show them off to them!! Everyone did so well with this activity and all the spoons looked amazing!!!
It was also Catholic Education Week – ‘Pilgrims of Faith.’ Everyone researched a Saint they were interested in, some of the Saints were St Margaret, St Ninian, St John Ogilvie and St Bernadette. Everyone completed some great research and it was amazing to hear their different reasons for who they chose to look into. We then spent some time reading about St Margaret as the 16th of November is her Feast Day. We learned some very interesting facts!
Thanks for another amazing week P5!! Have a great weekend 🙂
Busy, busy, busy in Primary 5!
What a week we’ve had!!
Firstly, it has been ‘Money Week’ in Numeracy so we have focussed a lot of our activities around this. We attended assembly where we listened to our Numeracy Ambassadors tell us all about money week activities and we had a big school discussion about money too. 
Mrs Wotherspoon ‘gifted’ us all £150.00 to spend in Tesco and Boots, some of us were club-card owners so got bigger discounts. We had lots of fun doing this activity, cutting and pasting our shopping lists as well as using our subtraction knowledge to calculate how much money we had left to spend.
We also had a visit from Blackburn District Credit Union who explained different ways for us to save our money and we played some games relating to saving too! We all participated really well with this activity and, used our manners and school values with our visitors. There was some great answers about what we would like to learn to save for from Primary 5, some of them were; animals we’d like, university, travelling and gifting it to charity.
We also completed our castles this week finishing up our Mary, Queen of Scots topic. Again everyone worked really well on this, using paper mache, different textures and colours to create and design replica castles of place where Mary, Queen of Scots lived.
And finally we have been learning something really special for our Christmas celebrations. After the summer holidays Primary 5 asked to learn British sign language so we are also challenging ourselves to learn ‘Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer’ in BSL. Watch this space….
Massive well done on a very busy week P5!! Have a great weekend 🙂
Mrs Wotherspoon
Primary 5’s busy week!
Lots has happened in Primary 5 this week!
We have completed our numeracy assessments – we tried our very best with these as there was lots of questions. We had to use many different strategies to help complete the assessment but we did it!
Sentences was our grammar topic this week and we did really well with this activity too. We also started our new writing genre, information report, and did some investigations about firefighters which we all found really interesting!
We celebrated Saints Day at Mass and discussed this in our class together too.
Very well done on another great week Primary 5! I’m really proud of you all!!
Mrs Wotherspoon 🙂
A Happy Halloween From Primary 7
Halloween preparations began last week where primary 7 created their own Halloween art and even made their own Halloween raps to music.
On Friday we celebrated Halloween with pupils attending a Halloween party showcasing their costumes. It was a fun filled day consisting of dancing, party games, Halloween jokes, snacks and lots of laughs. The Halloween costumes were of a high standard and primary 7 enjoyed strutting their stuff at the party.
It has been a busy time lately in primary 7 with lots going on. We are continuing our new writing topic of Information Reporting where we are looking at non-fiction texts, analysing information, conducting research and making sure we have the correct structure and layout to create our own information report.
In numeracy we have been completing our Maths assessment under exam conditions.
We are starting our new topic of World War 1 and look forward to learning more about this.
Last week we started a project with 5 sisters zoo and had a representative from the zoo who will be leading the project visit us to introduce this. This will see us creating posters and sending letters to a school we have partnered with in Ghana for the project.
We now have our newly elected House Captains and Prefects who has taken on extra responsibility around the School. A huge well done who everyone who participated for their hard work and especially to everyone who was successful in achieving a role.
Rannoch News
We’ve had a super week in Rannoch! We have started learning about time – to the hour and are getting really good at our initial sounds in our Literacy times. We have also enjoyed time in the Outdoor classroom. Tomorrow…we are making Ham and Cheese toasties…yum!!
Primary 5’s visit to Broomlee Camp
This week Primary 5 had the very exciting experience of going to Broomlee Camp for two days and one night! Everyone had so much fun and did so well with all of the challenges & activities.
There will be lots more photos uploaded onto the children’s Digital Profiles for special adults to have a look at.
Whilst we were away, the children that didn’t attend camp had lots of fun with Mr Henderson. The children got to play Ukulele’s, play poison dodgeball and create amazing Halloween art using oil pastels.
Have a good rest this weekend everyone, you deserve it after all the activities!
Mrs Wotherspoon
P2
This week we have been learning all about the changing seasons and Autumn. We discussed the changes in trees, plants and animals.
We enjoyed an Autumn scavenger hunt where visited the local woods and collected leaves, twigs, sticks, berries, pine cones and other natural materials.
Rannoch News
This week has been another busy one in Rannoch class….We have learned lots about how to make sums of money in a number of different ways and have shown great progress in knowing our initial sounds during our Literacy time. We have also created some wonderfully spooky witch faces!! Tomorrow…Friday…we are going to enjoy some fingerprint paintings on spooky creatures! 
Happy Campers P5
A brilliant day had by all here in Broomlee. After an uneventful bus journey, we set up in our dorms before heading for a tour of the camp. A delicious lunch was a big hit with most of our campers before our afternoon activities-Low Ropes and Crate Climb. Dinner was pasta with cake and custard then we headed into the woods for campfire. Well done to Raeya who won the award for the best campfire singer! Supper and playtime in the grounds ensured a happy end to the day… with hopefully a long nights sleep.
Looking forward to tomorrow’s adventure!
