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!

Hi everyone!!!

What a busy, busy time we have had in Primary 5 since returning after our summer holidays 😀

We’ve been settling into our new routine and all the new work that we will be completing! We’ve moved up from working at ‘First Level’ and are now working at ‘Second Level.’ Everyone should be so proud of themselves for all the hard work and effort they have been putting into all our activities!

Miss Fox was back in our class for a couple of weeks whilst Mrs Wotherspoon was off and it was lovely to have her back! She’s now off on maternity leave and hopefully, we’ll get a visit from her and the twins once they’ve arrived.

In class we have been working on lots of different literacy activities including writing, spelling and grammar. In numeracy we have been focussing on place value. We played some outdoor games in the sunshine practising rounding numbers. Soon we will be moving on to addition and subtraction.

Our class topic is ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’ and we have all really enjoyed this so far! We have been up to the woods with Mrs Hudson-Price, Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Watson for outdoor learning and, on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons we have been enjoying spending time in the outdoor classroom exploring the mud kitchen and playing foos-ball.

We have also started two new languages in class, Spanish which we are going to be focussing on until the October holidays and on Thursday, we started sign-language. We are learning the alphabet first then we’ll be moving onto greetings.

Homework will start Monday 25th of September after the September weekend and short 3 day week back. We all have new Teams log-in details and have access to this too!

Massive well done to everyone for all their hard work and enthusiasm so far, you are all doing fantastic and are such superstars!! Big well done P5!! Enjoy your September weekend, can’t wait to hear all about it next week!

It has been a very busy, sunny week in P5!

We’ve nearly finished our Time topic in numeracy and the children have all done really well completing this.

In grammar, this week we were focussing on Time Connectives to help us with our writing topic of Exposition. We practiced these by completing an activity on our desks in small groups.

We were using different active methods to practice our spelling word this week and had the choice of scrabble tiles, foam letters or partner testing!

We ended our week with Sharing Our Learning focussing on Friendship, Trust and Communication. Thank you so much for all who participated, it was a great morning and the class loved it.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend in the sunshine!

It was short but very busy week in P5 this week!

We all caught up after our long weekend, sharing tells of the adventures we had been on and listening to each others stories.

We continued with our reading, spelling and numeracy work. We also started a science experiment with lemon seeds to see if we can make them grow.

With this week being the first week of May, we also learned about Our Lady, Mary and ways we can celebrate her throughout the month. Primary 5 will be conducting the school Mass on Thursday 18th of May and have already been practicing in preparation for it.

The most exciting part of our week was going swimming at Excite in Whitburn. The children were in the water for 45 minutes and had lots of fun being either sharks or dolphins! They all did very well, put in lots of effort and were very encouraging towards one another.

I hope everyone enjoys their Bank Holiday this weekend and I’ll see you all on Tuesday morning!