Category: Primary 5

Paige: Today we had an emotional assembly as we said goodbye to Miss Smyth.

Grace: All week we practised a song for Miss Smyth and it really made her smile.

Chloe: Mrs Purdie put up some embarrassing photos of Miss Smyth that made us all laugh.

Maxx: This week we have been working on International Week and we have been learning all about Malawi, Spain and France. You can check it out on Twitter!

Bea: For international week we also did Picasso self portraits. We found out he uses hot and cold colours and he doesn’t make it symmetrical (Toni)

Joseph: We started a new maths topic: Fractions- we have been looking at how to make fractions, played a matching game and we are looking forward to working more on this next week.

Rebecca: Our writing for International week linked to our topic group. We looked at lots of different leaflets for different countries and then we made our own linked to our group’s country.

Beth: In PE we did gymnastics. Our main focus was cartwheels and if you could do it you got to do a double cartwheel.

Thomas: In PE we also had Kieron Achara back in to coach us. He was playing games and races with the ball.

 

Good Luck Miss Smyth and thank you. You’ll be missed. Remember to Keep Smiling!

Have a lovely weekend.

Primary 5

 

 

This has been a very busy week filled with lots of new learning. Over to you kids;

We have been continuing to develop our mental maths strategies through our number talks. Miss Smyth came to our class to see how well we are doing with this. (Abi)

We have been working with money this week in maths. We have been working out money problems. To work out a word problem we use 2 coloured pencils. We circle numbers with one colour and mathematic vocabulary with the other. We throw away all the other words so that we don’t get confused. –Louise

This week for writing we wrote an imaginative story called ‘The Night Before Christmas’. We watched the Sainsbury’s advert and listened to Christmas songs to find good vocabulary and descriptions to help with our writing. – Lewis

We explored a passage called ‘ The Mysterious Gentleman’ to find alliteration. We looked at other examples of alliteration and came up with sentences of our own.

Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper. Nasim

Santa’s Shining sparkley sleigh – Lewis

This week in P4/5 we have started a new Science topic ‘Forces’. We went on a magnet hunt to look at push and pull forces. Lukasz

I used a magnet to see if a mental pole was magnetic and it was. Joshua

Our tables that are made of wood are not magentic. Lewis

This week was the beginning of Advent. We learned what each candle in the advent wreath represents.

Week 1 – Purple (Hope)

Week 2 – Purple (Peace)

Week 3 – Rose (Joy)

Week 4 – Purple (Love)

Christmas Day – White.

We made our very own wreath for our class Alter. (Mirren)

We hope you all have a great weekend starting off with our Festive Fun afternoon.

Mrs W and P4/5

Another busy week, here are our comments:

Vanessa: On Thursday Beth, Taylor and I went to Craigswood Sports Centre to take part in a gymnastics competition. Beth’s team came second  and Beth also came second individually. It was very nerve wracking but we all really enjoyed ourselves!

Taylor: We started to create our drama scenes ready for our class assembly.

Toni: In Writing we wrote a refugee diary entry following our Cool to be Kind week.

Matt: In Maths we started to learn about multiplication and division.

Lorena : We all recorded our Walking in a Winter Wonderland Christmas song to be put onto a CD.

We found out that we have raised enough money with our sponsored bounce to invite Kieron Achara back so we are very pleased about that.

Have a great weekend.

Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves

P4/5 have had a fantastic week. It’s been really busy with lots going on. We celebrated All Saints day with a lovely whole school mass. It was great to see so many parents join us for this special feast day.

We have been doing lots of preparation for our big Titanic banquet that we hosted yesterday. It was a fantastic afternoon. We were so over whelmed with all of the support from our families. So many passengers came on board our Titanic showcase!😆

We thoroughly enjoyed our food technology this week. We prepared so many delicious foods. We researched some of the Titanic menus and chose some foods that would have been served on the Titanic. We learned lots of new skills that we will be able to use at home to help make the dinner. Some of the skills we learned were cutting, peeling, whisking, mixing and spreading. We even learned how to use a food processor. Now we can make our very own  homemade hummus. We hope you enjoyed sampling some of these scrummy treats washed down  with some welcome ‘champagne’.

Some of us had very important jobs to do on board the Titanic. Charlie was in charge of collecting the tickets. He looked very smart as a 1st class passenger. Daniel and Louise were meeting and greeting all of the passengers as they made their way onto the ship. They did a super job!

Lewis and Oliwia made sure all of the passengers enjoyed a welcome ‘champagne’ and guided them around our ship.

We loved sharing all of our knowledge about the history of the Titanic. We have learned so many interesting facts.

Harry – The Titanic was built in Belfast in Ireland.

Nasim – The Titanic was so luxurious. It even had a golden staircase.

 

Finlay- There was only enough lifeboats for roughly half of the passengers.  

Thank you again to all who came to our showcase. We all really appreciate your support.

Have a very happy and safe Guy Fawkes weekend.

 

Mrs W and P4/5

On the European Day of Languages we all took part in a language carousel and played Bingo, Hangman, a European quiz and we also searched to find the word ‘friend’ in many different languages.

Rebecca: This week we started to make Egyptian masks.

Brandon: We have been writing about Egyptian tombs – it was fun!

Matt: This week we started to make Power Points about Egyptian facts to show the rest of the class.

Toni: This week in P.E. we did half-court matches which was fun!

Bea: We started a new topic in maths about shape. We learnt about a cuboid, a prism, a square-based pyramid and a tetrahedron.

Maxx: Our drama was based on our Egypt topic.

Beth: In our drama we had to pretend we were stuck in a pyramid and it was lots of fun.

Taylor: We learned all about mummification and we painted a mask that looked like a golden pharaoh.

Vanessa: We did some Science with Mrs Currie and we learnt that if you mix water with salt, the water evaporates and the salt gets left behind.

Kalin: I am looking forward to starting our new shape topic in maths.

Have a great weekend from Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves

 

Nasim – We have had a fantastic week building the titanic together in groups. We were sent another letter from anonymous asking us to design and build the titanic.

Lukasz – This week Mrs Wassell bought us Warrick the Worry bear. We did circle time and talked about times when we felt worried. We will be able to share our worries with Warrick every day.

Abi – We were working on place value expanded form in numeracy this week. We did lots of different activities to help us learn this. I liked the writing activity with mild, spicy and hot. I challenged myself with the hot activity.

Louise – We worked on out mental maths strategies this week. I enjoyed doing this.

Lewis – This week we have been doing basketball and handball in PE. We are learning lots of new skills.

Finlay – With Mrs Steel in Music we learned some new songs. I like Mr McGrue.

Mirren – In writing we designed a poster to advertise the Titanic. We talked about the different classes of the passengers and how much tickets would be for each class.

Jay-P – This week with Mr Glen from NYCOS we played a rhythm game called ‘Hot Potato’.

Harley – In RE we have had a lot of discussion about loving our neighbour. we talked about ways to show how we love our neighbours.

 

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend.

Mrs Wassell and P4/5