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We’ve had a very busy week in Primary 5/6!

We enjoyed the last of the sunny weather during PE running 400m races and playing Rounders on the field.  Both teams played excellently, but unfortunately Mr McCurdy forgot to keep the scores!

Our focus in Maths this week was solving word based problems, and we used our practice with these to create our own maths board games – there were a lot of interesting themes, such as pizza, Minecraft and football!  We also had a Health and Wellbeing themed Maths lesson with our visiting teacher Miss McDonald during which we learned how to add up the calories in the foods we eat in order to help us to make healthier choices with our diet.

The Health and Wellbeing theme continued during a Science on Monday with Miss McDonald, as we found out how much exercise we need and how exercise can help our hearts.  We used this information to create a weekly exercise plan for another person in the class to make sure we are all keeping fit and active!

In Literacy this week, we learned about similes and metaphors.  We used this song to help us to remember the difference between them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoSBVNUO2LU .  Once we knew how to use these to help our writing, we worked on character descriptions.  We watched a short film about the characters Rock, Paper and Scissors, and thought of some excellent adjectives to describe their appearances and personalities.  We then wrote a paragraph about our favourite character using our adjectives and imagery.  Here is the link to the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GymppwZ7lU4 .

To end our week, Mrs Purdie held an assembly about staying safe in and out of school.  Mrs Purdie also announced our new House Captains for next year, and we were all very pleased to hear that Kaden had been voted joint Vice Captain for Galloway house! Well done, Kaden!

By Paris, Jessica, Broady & Jack

In numeracy this week we completed our division check up to show Miss Boyes how much we understand the concept of division. We moved on to learning how to estimate.
Rachel- “The first thing you do is take a guess at how many you think there are and then you count to find out how many there actually are.”
We estimated how many cubes were on the desk.

Seamus- “It helps to think about the amount of cubes there were before and think about does it look more or less this time.”

We also learnt more about estimating by playing this game-
http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Estimate-and-Count-Marbles-402

Also this week we learnt how to round to the nearest 5 and the nearest 10. We played a game on the smart board.
Katherine- “The game showed a number and asked you to round it to the nearest 10. ”
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=DartboardRoundingv2
This week we went on a visit to the Health Centre. A lady showed us around the different areas: reception, doctor’s room, health education room, nurse’s room and waiting room. We got to see all of the files for all of the 10,500 patients. It was very interesting to be able to look at the equipment. Here is a list of the equipment we saw: “blood pressure machine, Stethoscope, the temperature gauge, sharps box and the doctor’s bag.

The lady at the Health Centre was super impressed by our behaviour and amazing knowledge so she gave us a certificate.

She also asked us to write about our trip to the Health Centre. Therefore this was our stimulus in writing this week. We gave an account of what happened and we had to use different openers.

At the beginning of the week we went on a trip to the library. We were super quick at returning our books and taking out new books because we know how to do it now.

In the sun shine we went outside for PE and practised racing around the track. We completed our races in our houses and the winners then raced against one another. The most important part is that we all gave 100% effort!

Have a lovely weekend, from Miss Boyes and P2B!

This week in Primary 5/6, we did Jammin’ Fitness with Andy and learned Capoeira (Brazilian martial art) and how to think positively under pressure.  On Tuesday,  Primary 6 attended a Cross country running competition at James Young High School.  Jack won the boys’ race, which means that St Ninian’s have been invited to attend the Primary 7 cross county school competition later in the year.  Well done, Jack!

On Wednesday, our visiting teacher Miss McDonald led a lesson on Health and Wellbeing.  We learned about the nutritional values of our food as well as how to determine which snacks are better for us.  On Thursday, Miss McDonald taught us science and we found out how much salt, fat and sugar are in different foods.  Did you know that 7-10 year olds should only have 24g of sugar per day and that a small packet of Haribo sweets contains around 63g of sugar – scary!

To end our week, we attended an assembly about keeping ourselves safe in lots of different situations, like riding our bikes and playing on-line. It was very useful!

We had a great week spending a lot of time learning outside in the lovely sunshine too!

By Kornelia, Mark, Kaden and Danielle