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Here are the recent Spanish phrases we have all been learning in class:
Can I have a pencil please?
¿Puedo tener un lápiz por favor?
Can I go to the toilet please?
¿Puedo ir al servicio por favor?
I’m having a packed lunch today.
Yo tengo lonchera hoy.
Can I get a drink of water please?
¿Puedo tomar agua por favor?
Keep practising!
Mrs Reeves and the 1+2 Language Ambassadors
Welcome to the P5R blog….
Maths: In maths we were learning to try different strategies to calculate multiplication sums.
PE: In PE we did some football with Miss Ford on the field. We learnt how to dribble the ball and then we were split into our houses and we played mini games. We also ran around the track as a warm up and later we played King of the Ring.
Writing: In writing we redrafted our recount where we had to improve it by adding better vocabulary such as adjectives and conjunctions. We also edited it by checking our spelling and punctuation.
Assembly: In assembly we had a picture taken with the Scottish cup which is held right now by Celtic Football Club and also a picture with the mascot.
Health & Wellbeing: For health and wellbeing we talked about feelings. We made a feelings ruler on a scale of 1 to 10 and we were asked challenge questions and we would place ourselves on the ruler depending on how we felt about that thing. We found out that people have different opinions and feelings about different things.
Art: We started to draw the Eiffel Tower as part of our France topic.
Science: We were learning about water this week. We discussed where it comes from and why we need it. We made water information posters in groups and we presented them to the class.
Well done to Orla and Daniel for achieving Praise Postcards this week.
Written by Cameron F and Cameron C
Have a great weekend!
Mrs Reeves and P5R
We have been busy this week in P5D!
We have been researching famous/well known scientists and journeys that they made. We had to skim and scan information on websites and use our findings to create a new text in the form of a powerpoint, a SWAY presentation, a poster or a report.
“It was really fun and it was fun to find out information about the person!” – Ola
“It was quite hard to do the research but it was fun getting to make a SWAY!” – Kasia.
We have been learning about fractions of a quantity and some of them were quite tricky. We had to find 1/3 and more challenging fractions like 2/8 of a quantity.
In writing, we were writing a recount about ‘The True Story Of The Three Little Pigs!” Did you know the ‘big bad wolf’ wasn’t actually a bad guy? We had to use our knowledge of recounts and make sure we included a title, an orientation, a sequence of events and a personal comment to make it a successful piece of writing.
In art, we completed our very detailed drawings of the Eiffel Tower. We have attached some of them below to show you our great work.
At achievements assembly, the coding club were awarded a certificate for their hard work and effort at coding club. Quite a few of the children in our class are in this club and we are very proud of them.
Another celebration we have had in our class this week, was celebrating the success of Sophie D who successfully managed to ride a bike unaided! Sophie found it very difficult and could not ride a bike before starting her bikeability sessions so we are super proud of her. The whole class received a certificate and a badge for being able to ride a bike safely and responsibly.
Our praise postcard this week has been decided by children in the class and they would like to award this to Sophie D for her hard work and perseverance when riding a bike.
Have a great weekend, Miss D and P5D.
This week in P5D we have been busy writing a recount about Archbishop Cushley’s visit. We made sure that we had all the key features of a recount in our finished piece of work. These included a title, an orientation, a sequence of events and a personal comment. We enjoyed getting to share some of our finished pieces with Mrs Smith.
In PE, we were focussing on hill sprints as there is a big hill on our cross country route and on our daily mile route. We had to walk, jog and sprint throughout the route.
We have been learning all about building resilience and know that our lives are not always perfect and easy to manage. Sometimes we have challenges to face and there will always be ups and downs. We have been looking at how to manage our emotions and how we can deal with different situations we may be faced with. We have made short films using i-movie to show how life is like a river.
We have enjoyed our second session of bikeability this week. We have been cycling around the track and trying to take one hand off the handles bars while going round the cones. We were also doing a slow race again this week. Congratulations to Aaron, Maliha and Hasan who could not ride a bike without stabilisers before but who are all now riding free.
In maths, we have been learning all about equivalent fractions. These are fractions that are equal. You can find equivalent fractions but multiplying the top and bottom number by the same number or dividing them.
In art this week, we have been focussing on using line and following a step by step guide on how to draw The Eiffel Tower. We aim to get this completed next week and will share some of the finished articles with you.
“I am proud of myself for learning how to ride a bike!” – Maliha
“I really enjoyed making a movie using i-movie and I hope we can do it again!” – Zuzanna
“I am so proud of myself that I can actually ride a bike with pedals now and I am no longer afraid!” – Aaron
“I have enjoyed maths, making groups from different amounts!” – Sophie R
“I enjoyed doing the Eiffel Tower art this week!” – Morgan
“I enjoyed writing a recount about Archbishops Cushley’s visit!” – Ola
“I really enjoyed doing the slow race in bikeability!” – Andrew
Congratulations to Aaron and Sophie R this week who received our praise postcards. Aaron for super focus in writing and applying his learning to his independent tasks and Sophie for her hard work, determination as well as having a positive attitude in maths. Well done Aaron and Sophie R!
In P5D we have been working very hard this week. We have been continuing with our work on PM writing, still focussing on recounts. We have learned that the key features of a recount are a title, orientation, sequence of events and personal comment. We have been focussing on nouns and pronouns, past tense verbs and using sequential language.
We have also had the chance to do an extended piece of writing this week all about what we have learned during our sleep Scotland lessons. We are all full of very important information so why not ask us to share this with you.
We are enjoying using our new reading resource which focuses on our understanding of what we have read. Getting to use the answer cards to assess ourselves is one of the perks.
We enjoyed our class trip to the library this week. We got to pick another book of our choice and enjoyed having the chance to read some of these in the library whilst sheltering from the crazy hail and windy weather.
In maths, we have been learning about decimal numbers. We have been reading scales with decimals and placing decimal numbers on number lines. This has been quite difficult as we have had to work out what each increment represents.
On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, and for the next 2 weeks, we will be participating in a bike ability course. This week we have learned how to do ‘M checks’ to ensure they are fit for purpose, how to put the bike down properly to avoid any damage to the chain and how to use our brakes properly. We had lots of fun activities like a slow race, emergency stop and the cone colour game to make sure our heads were looking up and not down towards the ground.
We got to support some of our classmates and watch the Glee performance of their 2 songs which they participated with in a competition this week.
“They sang beautifully!” – Zuzanna
“They worked well as a team,” – Hasan
“My favourite song was Proud Mary!” – Andrew
We enjoyed our stay, play and be well session this week where we got to showcase some of the HWB activities we have been doing in class. Thank you to the parents/families who were able to come in and join us.
We had the opportunity to join the nursery again this week for 10minutes of their PE lesson helping them develop their throwing and catching skills. In our own PE lesson we have been doing team cross country relay.
Congratulations to Calvin this week who has been awarded our praise postcard for good teamwork and being ready to learn :)!
Have a great weekend, P5D and Miss Diamond.
This week in P5D we took part in an Ash Wednesday service to mark the beginning of Lent. We have spoken about our Lenten promises and what we are going to give up.
We have also celebrated World Book Day and enjoyed taking part in a ‘Drop Everything and Read’ session.
In maths, we have started a new topic and have been learning about decimal fractions and how they appear on a number line. We have also being consolidation our knowledge of time, making games to share with our class. We have a mixture of board games, snakes and ladders, kahoot quizzes online and snap. “I had fun making my game about 12 and 24 hour time!” – Maliha. “Making our game was really fun because we got to use our knowledge of time to help us!” – Emily.
We have been continuing with Number Talks and sharing strategies with one another.
We have been learning all about how to structure sentences properly and have learned that there is different sentence patterns. Why not ask us about what we have learned.
We have continued using PM writing this week and have been applying our knowledge of recount texts in a recount about our school show. We have enjoyed learning about past tense verbs, irregular verbs, sequential language, nouns and the important features of a recount. “I enjoyed PM writing because it was fun and I learned more about verbs.” – Sophie R. “In PM writing, I really enjoyed it because I learned about regular and irregular past tense verbs.” – Michelle.
In PE, we have enjoyed developing our tennis skills and look forward to applying these in games of tennis. We have also been building up our stamina with Mr McCurdy by doing cross country running and ab exercises. “I really enjoyed playing Russian long ball!” – Morgan.
We have also been supporting the nursery and helping them develop their throwing, catching and bouncing ball skills.
Congratulations to Huda for being awarded our praise postcard this week for always having a good attitude towards tasks, even when they are challengingJ!
Have a great weekend, P5D and Miss D!
This week we have been working really hard.
We have been finishing up our time topic and have made evaluation posters to share all we have learned and evaluate what we know.
We have introduced something new for writing this week called PM writing. We have really enjoyed using this so far.
“It was fun learning about a recount!” – Ola
“It helped us learn about sequential language!” – Zuzanna
“”I really enjoyed it because it made learning about nouns, verbs and past tense verbs easier.” – Michelle.
In art we have been using still life images to create pictures using cubism. We will share some of these with you next week.
We have continued with number talks and have enjoyed sharing strategies about how we solve calculations and our number sense.
We have enjoyed working with the nursery in PE where they have been developing their throwing and catching skills. We have been demonstrating real responsibility during this activity.
In our own PE lesson, we were learning tennis skills and participated in cross country running. Next week we will try to beat our personal time.
This week our praise postcard was awarded to Ola for going over and above in her role as 1+2 language ambassador ensuring we all know how to pronounce our phrase of the fortnight. Well done Ola!
Have a great weekend,
P5D and Miss D
Welcome back to another fantastic week in P5R!
PE: We played football on Wednesday and basketball on Monday. We all enjoyed it.
RE: We did RE with Mrs Howley on Wednesday. We made posters about sin, friendship, repentance, and reconciliation.
Bike ability: In bike ability most of us went out with Nicky, our instructor. We had a slow race.and it was fun!
Reading: We did a reading comprehension where we had to read a couple paragraphs and answer questions.
Maths: We learnt about the temperature of places around the world. We also played a negative number game.
Topic: We wrote about the artist Henri Matisse and made paper collages inspired by his work.
World Book Day: Cameron and Kate will be going to Waterstones to pick two books for our class.
By Brooke and Michael , Lead Learners
Hope you have a great weekend!
P5R and Mrs Reeves
Welcome back to another fantastic week in P5R!
PE – in PE we played Gang Rounders. Most of the class went to a Basketball festival and we had 3 groups and each group played 6 games. Everyone really enjoyed it and St. Ninian’s did extremely well. We scored lots of goals and we were given a certificate for our school.
Maths- in maths we were learning about decimals and fractions – we built decimal towers with cubes and we were looking at mixed numbers, improper fractions and tenths. We also learnt about digital and analogue time and we had to convert different times to 24 hour times. We also played time bingo.
Show – we did 3 performances for our show ”A Blast from the Past” – we all enjoyed taking part, although some of us felt both excited and nervous. All the performances went really well and the audience loved it.
Writing – in writing we are writing a letter about the past like ‘A Blast from the Past’ and we are using tea bags to make the paper look old which we are going to use next week for our writing.
Reading – we did reading comprehensions and we enjoyed reading and answering the questions.
We also had visitors from Norway who came to see the school.
Well done to Emma and Jack who each received Praise Postcards for their outstanding efforts this week!
Have a great long weekend!
Written by Jack, Cameron and Kuba
Primary 5R and Mrs Reeves
This week we have been very busy.
We have been rehearsing our show a blast from the past! We had a dress rehearsal in front of the whole school.
In maths we have been doing 24 and 12 hour clock times.
“When we were doing time it was very very VERY fun”- Aaron
“It was difficult but fun!” – Emily
“I like playing shut the box with Mrs Currie in maths.” – Sophie R
In number talks, we enjoyed sharing strategies about how we solved subtraction calculations.
In writing, we used a picture as a stimulus and had to use our imaginations to put together a story.
“I liked writing about it because I love the Ocean!” – Andrew
“I liked to write about the picture because I got to use my imagination!” – Kasia
We had our first mindfulness workshop with Miss Townley. We had to relax and lie down and think about only positive things. This helped us get rid of worries, relax and more focussed. We could feel the changes in our own bodies.
In PE, we have been using the apparatus in gymnastics. We had a focus on body tension this week to help strengthen our muscles.
We hope you have a great weekend, P5D and Miss Diamond
