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Primary 5R Weekly News

This is what we were learning this week –

For our maths and numeracy we started to discuss money and we looked at division.

We logged on to GLOW and we started to input our goals and update the details on our Community Profile pages on One Note. We all started to send emails to Mrs Reeves.

We read a book about poppies and we talked about the 2 minute silence for Remembrance Day.

In writing we were trying to think of what silence would sound, feel, look, taste and smell like, all of them are imaginative thinking! We wrote silence poems as calligram poems using pictures.

For our topic we are learning about enterprise. We are preparing to make reindeer soaps and so we researched the best value materials and designed our product. Working in groups we researched what shops our teacher needs to go to purchase the materials and how much it will cost.

In PE we are focusing on fitness at the moment and we did a baby shark ab challenge and we worked with a partner to work on our core exercises.

During RE we talked about how God created the world in 7 days.

Congratulations to Katie and Pawel who both received Praise postcards. Well done!

From the lead learners Rachel and Emma.

Have a great weekend!

P5R and Mrs Reeves

P5D Weekly News

This week we have been continuing on with our optical illusion art work using straight and curved lines.

We have been extending our knowledge of money by using the four processes to work out 1 and 2 step word problems. We had great fun setting up a shop and using money to buy different products and giving change from different amounts.

In Number Talks, we have moved our focus to subtraction and have been sharing our strategies and ideas on how to work out some tricky calculations.

In PE, we have been focussing on our own personal fitness during full body workouts and building up our stamina by running for a certain amount of time.

We have been using our class novel ‘Billionaire Boy’ to learn new vocabulary during our word boost sessions this week. Our favourite word was ‘deafening’.

We have been successful with our use of Glow. As well as carrying out homework tasks using our online accounts, we have also been developing our own personal profiles. We have all managed to complete our community profile page and set our new goals online. Why not have a look at home and see if you can add anything to your WOW wall that you are super proud of.

Our topic focus for the next few weeks in Enterprise and we plan on making a lovely craft which can be bought at the Christmas Fayre. We have been carrying out the research to find the best place to buy the resources we need to ensure we can sell our products at a reasonable price and still make a small profit. Keep your eyes peeled.

Congratulations to Maliha this week for being awarded our praise post card for trying very hard in all areas and being helpful to others during group tasks.

Have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P5D!

Primary 5R Weekly News

Sophie: We had our All Saints Day Mass on Thursday.

Pawel: We also had our Class Mass and we went with P5D.

Kate: It was Halloween this week!

Carly: On Tuesday we had our Halloween disco and there were competitions for the best pumpkin, the best dressed girl/boy and the best dancer. The best pumpkin was Lennon and the best dressed girl was Rachel -both from P5R Well done to them!!

Cameron: During writing we wrote Halloween poems and we made them rhyme.

Sophie: We watched some spooky poem videos to get us in the mood!

Katie: We took part in a Halloween workout in PE, playing Zombie Tig and Dodgehead.

Jack: In Word Boost we mimed out the meaning of the words.

Rachel: We talked about our new enterprise topic to raise money for the school fund.

Maya: In maths we practised our multiplication skills.

Brooke: In RE we wrote our own All Saints Day prayers.

Seamus: We had our committees this week.

Kuba: In the Digital Technologies we shared and sorted all the school devices and handed them out equally to all the classes.

Cameron: In the Health and Wellbeing committee we made posters about kindness and we made them colourful to make everyone feel happier. We are also thinking about starting a healthy tuck shop in school.

Brooke: In the Community Links committee we were talking about taking part in a bag packing event.

This week the Praise Postcard was awarded to Niamh – Well done!

Have a great weekend!

Primary 5R and Mrs Reeves

P5D Weekly News!

We have been working hard in P5D this week and would like to share some of the things we have been getting up to with you!

Most importantly, we celebrated Miss Diamond’s Birthday! She is not 30, she is 18 with 12 years experience :)!

With it being the week of Halloween, in writing, we described a spooky, haunted house setting and focussed on using our senses to help with the description.

In maths, we had to complete a Halloween Party challenge using lots of different maths concepts. We had to use multiplying, roman numerals, adding, subtracting, odd/even, rounding and read graphs to work out who the blindfold thief was! We had fun completing this task and developed our team work skills in the process. We had to be determined, focussed and display a growth mind-set to make this challenge a success. Well done to ‘The Mathematicals’ for working extremely well as a team and completing the challenge first!

In PE, we are developing our own personal fitness by joining in with various activities. We have been doing body weight exercises to strengthen different muscles and continued to work on our skipping skills. We also had a Halloween themed session with Mr McCurdy.

In art, we created optical illusions using line and colour. They were very effective and easy to recreate at home if you fancied giving it a go!

We had our class mass this week which we celebrated with Primary 5R, some of our families and other parishioners from our community. We also participated in a whole school celebration for All Saint’s Day.

Finally, congratulations to Robbie and Ethan for being rewarded our praise postcards this week. Both boys have been giving 100% in all areas of their learning and multiple members of staff commented on this throughout the week. Well done boys!

Have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P5D!

P5R Weekly News

This week in primary 5R…

We had a visit to the library and we each chose a new book to take back to school.
In maths this week we completed our triangle information posters and we presented it to our class in groups.
During writing we learned how to layout and write a science report.
We learned how to log on to our GLOW accounts and we all started to make our own Power Points that we can access at home.
We continued to learn how to introduce our family in Spanish.
We took part in some balance and stretches during P.E.
In RE we learned that if you love God you love your neighbour, so the two most important commandments are loving your neighbour and loving God.
Congratulations to Cameron who received this week’s Praise Postcard!

By Sophie and Seamus

P5R Lead Learners

Have a great weekend!

Primary 5R and Mrs Reeves!

P5D Weekly News

We have had a busy week in P5D!

I maths, we have been learning about money as this term we will be doing an enterprise topic so felt that learning about money would fit in. We have been learning about adding and subtracting total amounts.

In PE we have been focussing on fitness. We have been improving our stamina by all over body workouts and have been developing our skipping skills with Mr McCurdy.

In writing this week, we wrote book reviews about our old class novel. Most of us rated it 5* and would highly recommend it to others.

We have tried to set up our online profiles this week. It has proved to be very tricky but keep your eyes peeled for progress and updates.

We had our class visit to the library this week and some of us are keen to participate in the reading challenge but this requires our families to take us along and to join the library at the Lanthorn.

Have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P5D!

GIRFEC theme for October – HEALTHY

Our House Captains and Vice Captains led fantastic assemblies this week by promoting healthy lifestyle messages. They reminded the children about healthy packed lunch choices and the importance of getting regular exercise. They had also recorded a special video message from Mr McCurdy who was so proud of our 2 PE lessons each week and the numbers of children attending after school clubs.

The Captains have challenged the whole school to start Fruity Friday by bringing in a piece of fruit for snack each Friday. We look forward to seeing everyone’s healthy snack this Friday!

Well done to our Captains. #stninianskidscan

P5R Weekly News

Yet another busy week in P5 and we have been learning how to do lots of new things:

In Maths we have been rounding numbers and in Number Talks we have been revising our subtraction strategies. We have also been learning the names of different angles and we have been identifying triangles by the length of their sides and also their angles.

In Writing we wrote about Francis part two, where we wrote about what happened next to the girl in our story from last week.

In R.E. we have been thanking God for all the things we have and we have been learning how prayer can help us in our life. We have been discussing what people were respected in the time of Jesus and we have been talking about Jesus helping the Tax Collectors and the Sinners.

For Word Boost we have been learning some new words and their meanings and here are some examples: ‘stooping, flickering’ and ‘thundered’. We have been using these words throughout the week.

In Spanish we have continued to talk about our families and we are going to learn about pet names next week.

We are continuing to read our reading books and we are still enjoying our class novel, ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ by J.K. Rowling. It is amazing!

In Spelling we had some new spelling words. We all have challenging words this week but we were all still successful.

In Science we have had fun learning about the difference between dissolving and melting and we have been testing different materials to see if they are soluble or insoluble in water. We tested salt, sugar, coffee, flour, rice, chalk, gravy and sand.

For our homework task we all read an extract from Harry Potter and answered questions about it.

In P.E. we have been learning Tennis skills and playing practice games. We also had a choice to take part in dancing.

Congratulations to Jack for being awarded the Praise Postcard this week!

The Lead Learners this week are Kate and Daniel.

By Kate and Daniel and P5R

Weekly News P5D!

This week has been fantastic in P5D!

We have been learning about things that are soluble and insoluble and what solids would dissolve. We have learned that different variables can have an effect on what happens. We also learned the difference between dissolving and melting.

In maths, we have been using tower sums to solve more complex addition and subtraction problems. We carried out a small number assessment to see what we have learned.

In art this week, we linked it to our science topic and used watercolours and salt to see what happened. We discovered that the salt absorb the colour and change the look of our painting.

We celebrated national poetry day by writing poems all about our teacher eating our homework!

My teacher ate my homework,

She was VERY hungry!

I spent AGES on that homework,

So I was very angry!

My teacher ate my homework,

I was so surprised.

She swallowed it in one gulp!

I couldn’t believe my eyes!

My teacher ate my homework,

I won’t be doing it again!

So I just said to my teacher,

Thank you and AMEN!

By, Calvin, Michelle, Aaron and Andrew.

We have been learning about being ready, respectful and safe and Miss Diamond will be looking out for people being very respectful next week as some children will be chosen for hot chocolate Friday.

Congratulations to Andrew for being awarded our praise postcard this week 🙂 !

Have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P5D!

The St Ninian’s Family Playdate during the October break

St Ninian’s Family Playdate

We are holding our first ever St Ninian’s Family Playdate during the October holidays. Please get in touch if you and your child would like to join us. We can’t wait!!!!