Primary 5 Weekly News

Primary 5 have been working very hard this week and as part of their topic they have learnt all about what happened to the people who were living in the Highlands at the time of the Highland Clearances. They have been learning about decimals in Maths and they have been reading and talking about their reading.

Here are some of their comments:

Charlie: We were planning how to make our cottages (Blackhouses) for our Highland Clearances topic.

Rachel: We learnt how to use an index to find places on a map and we located different places in Scotland.

Toni: This week we had an assembly for Ash Wednesday and everyone received their ashes.

Vanessa: We also enjoyed Pancake Tuesday (Shrove Tuesday)!

Chloe: This week we started our new maths carousel and it was really fun, especially the maths games. I really enjoyed the decimal bingo.

Beth: We were learning about decimals this week.

Cole F and Lucas: We were learning how to convert tenths fractions to decimals.

Lorena: In P.E we made up our own games.

Cole F: My group made Ninja ball and it was very fun.

Chloe: We also made a game a bit like Rounders, which we called Mountain Climber.

Bea: Yesterday we had World Book day and lots of people dressed up as their favourite book characters. I was dressed up as Amber from ‘The Midnight Gang’ by David Walliams.

Thomas: In Writing we made our own book cover!

Taylor: We took selfies with Mrs Reeves!