Author: Mrs Reeves

Bea: This week we haven’t been in school very much because we had a holiday for 2 days! One day was on Monday and another on Thursday. But we have still been busy! Here are our comments:

Charlie: This week in writing we practised note-taking.

Bea: This week we have been busy preparing for our writing. We are going to write to Jeremy Hunt and we are talking about how sugar is making people unhealthy and what he is going to do about it. It’s about key arguments.

Rachel M: This week we were learning about sugar tax and what the Government are going to do.

Isla: We wrote about how sugary food and drinks are going to get more expensive so less children will buy them.

Joseph and Maxx: We’ve been learning about the human body!

 Matt: In our topic about the human body, we are learning about the heart, lungs and other organs.

Lucas: In our topic we were talking about how we breathe.

Chi-Chi: This week we learned about a stimulus and we also learned if you touch someone closer to the brain they will react faster and vice versa. Here we are testing our reactions to touch:

Beth: This week we did a science experiment to measure our reaction times. We worked with a partner and a ruler. One of us held the ruler at the 30cm mark and the other person hovered their fingers near the 1cm point. Then, the person who was holding the ruler let it go and the person who was waiting near the 1cm point tried to catch it between their fingers as quickly as possible. We recorded our scores and worked out our reaction times. For example, if the person caught the ruler at the 14cm mark, they had reacted quickly. We repeated this a few times to try to beat our scores and compared our results.

Preston: This week we did P.E. and we raced against each other and it was fun!

Lorena: This week we continued with our relay races.

Vanessa: We had a really great time doing our P.E. outside on the new track.

Chloe: This week we had our committees.

Louise: My committee is Enterprise and Mrs. Purdie said we might be able to design the playground!

Taylor: We were able to make pizzas and our families could come!

 

Have a great weekend!

Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves

Primary 5 have had a fabulous week! The highlight has to be our trip to the New Lanark Visitor Centre as part of our Highland Clearances topic. We spent the whole day learning how people of New Lanark lived back in the time of Robert Owen. We learned many interesting facts and had lots of fun. Here are our comments:

Charlie: On our school trip we went to an old school room.

Lucas: We went on our school trip and we went to Robert Owen’s house.

Brandon:  On our school trip we went on a ride that was called the Annie Mcleod ride – it was really fun!

Rebecca: On our school trip we went to an old mill and our tour guide told us to look, listen and smell.

Taylor: On our school trip we visited an old school. We were able to dress up in old fashioned clothes and we got to write on mini blackboards and we had a small lead to write with!

Grace: The Annie Mcleod experience was my favourite thing!

Rachel M: On our trip to New Lanark, we saw the cotton machines.

Lorena: On our school trip we went on a Annie Mcleod ride it was dark and exciting!!!

Toni: In PE we went out into the field and had girls and boys races and a competition.

Thomas: In P.E. we raced each other on the field!!

Preston: The races were really fun!

Beth: We took part in relay races in PE. I came 2^nd out of the girls. I’m so proud of myself!!

Vanessa: For P.E on Thursday we went outside and we ran the 800 metres and the 60 metres. We split into groups and the boys who were in the top 3 were:

1^st Ethan, 2^nd Matt, 3^rd Thomas

The girls were:

1^st Chi Chi, 2^nd Vanessa, 3^rd Paige

Mixed races:

1^st Vanessa, 2^nd Chi Chi, 3^rd Ethan

I enjoyed coming first over all – BEST P.E. EVER!!!!!

 

Louise: On Tuesday we were doing the standing broad jump in P.E. and there were 3 in a group. One was the marker, one was the judge and the other was the jumper. We all switched places and I enjoyed the jumper the most.

Kerrigan: Today at assembly we watched and enjoyed the primary 2/3 assembly. It was about the Egypt. Primary 2/3 were very good and they sang two songs. Afterwards Mrs Purdie told us all about fairness.

Chi Chi: This week on Friday, we were told that fairness isn’t about giving every child the same thing; it’s about giving every child what they need to succeed.

Bea: This week in maths we were learning about measure. It was fun. We were in carousels and did fun activities.

Isla: In writing we wrote a report about our school trip to New Lanark.

Have a great weekend!

Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves

We can’t believe this is the end of another term and we have finished with another busy week!

Here are some of our comments:

Chloe: This week we finished our spontaneous talks.

Lucas: We finished our time and money carousel in Maths. We have got much better at multiplying and dividing using a decimal point and we are still improving our ability to read analogue time and convert between 12 hour and 24 hour.

Bea: We finished our Black houses and then we showcased them to Primary 6 who visited our class to see them.

Rachel W: This week we had a dress down day.

Taylor: I suggested that we dress down and give money to SCIAF and Mrs Purdie agreed!

Rebecca: Our entries were sent off for the Young Writer’s Competition.

Vanessa: In P.E. we did the Bleep test again and quite a few people improved their scores.

Taylor: We were sad to say goodbye to Mrs Craig and Mrs Black.

Chloe: Some of us changed our spelling groups this week and now we have five groups.

Charlie: We played a game of Rounders outside during P.E. with Mrs Reeves this week.

We are all looking forward to our Easter holidays and wish you a great Easter!

From Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves

Here are our comments for this week:

Ethan: I came first in the whole school in the Bleep test with 10.3!

Brandon: We started a new maths carousel learning about finding fractions of quantities.

Thomas: We played ‘Hit the ball’ in P.E.

Rebecca: We did our spelling assessment – it was quite fun!

Cole B: We all wrote a report about the St. Ninian’s 40^th anniversary celebrations for our assessment.

Vanessa: Today some of my friends went to sing our St Ninian’s school song to some of the parents.

Matt: We started our new topic about the Highland clearances.

Charlie: We learnt that years ago many people living in the Highlands were thrown out of their houses and their farms were replaced with lots of sheep to make money.

Cole F: I learnt that the word ‘clan’ comes from the Gaelic language and it means ‘children’.

Have a great weekend!

Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves

What an amazing week we’ve had! Here are our comments:

Rebecca: On Wednesday we celebrated St Ninian’s 40^th birthday.

Chi Chi: We had a very special Mass to celebrate.

Bea: During our special Mass we had lots of important visitors and we were so pleased to see Miss Smyth again!

Rachel M: It was also really exciting to see Archbishop Cushley who came to our celebration Mass.

Rebecca: I was able to hand a special plate to the Archbishop as a gift.

Ethan: We all received St Ninian’s prayer cards as a souvenir to remember the anniversary.

Beth: At the Mass I said a bidding prayer.

Chloe: We all enjoyed clapping for Mrs Purdie’s boss!

Lucas: On Thursday we also had a fun day.

Maxx: On the fun day we took part in an art competition, which was fun!

Joseph: We all watched the movie The Incredibles and we were allowed to eat snacks.

Brandon: We all had a slice of St Ninian’s cake during our party. Also we have had two dress rehearsals for the concert and we all performed in front of the nursery and the Primary 1s and 2s.

Vanessa: In gymnastics we learned side vaulting and we tried to challenge ourselves to build up our skill!!

Cole B: We are all very excited to go to the basketball match tonight.

Have a great weekend and we are thoroughly looking forward to seeing you all at  our celebratory concert next week!

 

Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves