Category: Primary 5

What a busy week we have had! In maths we have continued to learn about place value and we have been rounding numbers to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand.

We have been learning about our rights such as our right to play and have fun, our right to go to school and have an education, and we have been talking about our school Rights Respecting award.

For our topic we have started designing book covers for our class novel, The Astounding Broccoli Boy.

We have been revising the Spanish and French we were learning last year, by looking at French numbers, days and months and we have started to make Spanish passports.

In P.E. we have really enjoyed starting to learn basketball.

Finally we have now completed all the Dojos for our Class Charter and we are very proud of it!

Have a great weekend!

Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves

This week has been a very busy week filled with dreams. We even welcomed a new boy Maciek all the way from Poland. We have all been very kind to him and have made sure he has had a super week.

Finlay – We made dream catchers with paper plates, wool, feathers and beads. I liked doing this and it’s been my favourite thing this week.

Lukasz – This week we were reading the BFG. I like the silly nonsense words that Roald Dahl uses in his books. It is funn-a-liciousy-do!

Lewis – In the BFG story we found out that the BFG eats snozzcumbers. We then looked at healthy and unhealthy foods. We made food pyramids for our diets and some of them had many sweets and chocolate. This is something we are going to try and eat less and eat more fruit and vegetables.

Aria – In maths this week we have been learning about rounding to the nearest 10. If the unit is 0,1,2,3 or 4 we round down to the nearest 10 and if the unit is 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 we round up to the nearest 10. We did a maths assessment to see what we have remembered from P3 and P4.

Tanatswa – For reading this week, we read a passage from the BFG that had some silly words in it. We had to work in trios to identify the silly words and work out what the sensible word should be.

Mirren – Father Paul has left to go to a new parish so we learned a song to sing to him. It was a lovely song and he really enjoyed it.

Charlie – We also coloured a stain glass cross and wrote many nice words to describe Father Paul. These were put into a scrap book which was presented to him during his leaving assembly.

Check us out with our fantastic dream catchers.

Mrs Wassell and P4/5 shining stars

Primary 5 have had an amazing first week and we have been thoroughly enjoying our new class topic based on the novel ‘The Astounding Broccoli Boy!’ by Frank Cottrell Boyce. The story is based around a boy called Rory Rooney, who is ‘Green by day, hero by night!’ We loved trying to guess what the story would be about from looking at the information on the front cover and then we have all written some fantastic stories about what it would be like if we suddenly turned green!

We have  been thinking about our strengths and all the areas we really want to focus on during Primary 5. We have put lots of thought into discussing our new class charter to ensure that we can all work to the very best of our ability and we have designed some fabulous Class Dojos to help us remember our decisions.

During Maths we have started by looking at Place Value, in particular we have been focusing on numbers up to 6 digits. We have enjoyed playing games where we each thought of a large number and then asked questions with only a yes or no answer to guess each other’s numbers.

Have a great weekend!

Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves

P4/5 have had a very busy but exciting week. They have settled very well into their new shiny, colourful classroom. Here is some of the things P4/5 have been doing this week.

This has week has been awesome. We have been learning all about the BFG. (Jay-P)

We have been reading an exciting book called ‘The BFG’. We learned that the author of the BFG is Roald Dahl. It is a very special year for Roald Dahl because the 13th of September he would have been 100 if he was still alive. (Aria)

We used the description of the BFG from the book to draw a portrait of the BFG. (Finlay)

I was chosen for hot seating in drama and I took on the role of the BFG. I used a funny voice. (Nasim)

In drama I was Sophie. I answered questions from the children as Sophie. (Marcella)

On the first day of school we made superheroes and worked as a team to create a class charter. Our slogan is ‘With great power comes great responsibility’. (Lewis)

This week we did some revision maths using mild, hot and spicy. I liked that I got to chose what activity I got to do. (Abi)

We got to share with Mrs Wassell, Mrs Gardiner and our friends what we did during the summer holidays. we used describing words to describe how we felt. (Louise)

We hope you all have a super weekend and are ready for the week ahead.

Mrs Wassell and P4/5

Last week it was Jammin’ Fitness, this week it has been Judo.  Here are some photos of the highlights.

In class for our writing this week we watched a short animated film linked with the Euro 16 championship.  The children then had to turn this into a comic strip.  Our learning intention was to see the importance of sequencing a story and including enough detail for the reader to follow the story line.  The results were all super!  And hopefully the children can see making a comic strip as a good way to plan when creating an original extended story.

In Maths we completed a fun Number Hunt.  Mrs Currie put questions all around the classroom and area and the children had to find the questions and then work out the answers recording it on a sheet.  Our learning intention for this lesson was to use a calculator to help us solve the problems as well as developing our ability to interpret the word problem.  The children all worked successfully in pairs showing that they were all effective contributors as well as successful learners!

On Monday the weather held us back from completing our athletics work in PE.  So instead we played extreme dodgeball in the hall, this is a HUGE favourite with the children and I cannot believe how well their ball skills as well as team spirit has improved over the course of the session.

Well done P5.  As always I am so proud of you all.  Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Currie.

The whole world are on the road to Rio and are starting to get Olympic fever! So P5 have started a mini focus on “The Olympics Games” this week.  Read on to see how we have linked our learning through this topic.

Reading for information

We initially looked at the history of the Olympic Games and learned a lot of facts about how it all began.  From here we have identified the differences between the Modern Games and the traditional Games.

Maths

We became city planners and created our own Olympic Park.  We used our knowledge of coordinates and direction to complete this work.  Through this work we discussed the massive consideration that has to be given to the infra structure of a city which is hosting the Games.

Art and Design

We looked at examples of Olympic torches and medals from over the past few decades.  We were inspired by these and then used our own creativity to design our own on paper.  Our next challenge is to try and create a small scale 3D model of these designs.

With the weather being so good for most of this week we have also been discussing how to be Summer Safe.  Last week during assembly the children were all given information regarding this topic and they received their Summer Safe sticker from West Lothian Council.  In writing, they were given the opportunity to turn all the information that they were given into a poster or an information leaflet.  Many are still on going, but so far they look really good.

Another great week P5.  Well done.

Mrs Currie