Tag: Primary 5

It was St Andrew’s day on Monday and we all took some time to revise our knowledge about St Andrew.  We watched a short video clip and then using our Letterjoin handwriting copied some information into our jotter.  We drew the Saltire flag and now fully understand how our flag represents our Patron Saint St Andrew.

In our Science we started to discuss dissolving.  Many children talked about how sugar will MELT in the water, this raised the question is melting and dissolving the same thing?  We conducted a dissolving investigation and started our first formal Science report.  We will be continuing to look at the question of dissolving and melting next week and we will try to understand why these are two different processes.  If you want to get a head start on this watch the below clip.

We will continue to link our learning next week when we complete an exercise about famous Scottish Scientists and we will appreciate that Scotland has a very rich Science background and that this is something to be very proud of and to strive to continue into future generations.

I can’t wait for next week when we will have time to share our Science Book homework projects.  I have been hearing about some of the amazing investigations and learning that has been happening, I am so excited!

There is just enough TIME left to talk about Maths.  This week we have revisited telling the time from analogue clocks and then converting this into digital time.  For your homework I wanted you to find as many opportunities to tell the time this week so hopefully everyone has had lots of practise.  This will be our Maths focus next week too.

Have a lovely weekend, and wrap up warm!

This week some of our P5’s had a trip to the Cathedral in Edinburgh with Mrs Thomson.  The children found this a very interesting experience as they were given access to areas which they would not normally be allowed to go in the Cathedral.  The children who did not attend this trip were involved in the Travelling Tube performance in the school.  Again this was a very informative, as well as enjoyable, experience as the children participated in a workshop where they created their own music.

This week we also had our Class Mass in St Philip’s small chapel.  The children were impeccably behaved and participated well in all aspects of the Mass.  Our thanks to Father Paul who helped to prepare us for this.  Many members of the Parish commented on how impressed they were with the children.  Everyone earned an extra Dojo point, well done!

We still had that sinking feeling in our writing this week as we continued our theme of “Floating and Sinking” as part of our Wonderful Water topic.  We studied the sinking of the Titanic, learning facts and timelines.  We then used this to create a newspaper report about the incident.  Here are a few examples,

Well done P5.  Next week we will move onto investigating dissolving and have our first attempt at writing a scientific report.

This week we have continued to work on our Science topic “Wonderful Water”. We followed up our work on floating and sinking and learned about buoyancy. Mrs Chirinos shared her knowledge of scuba diving with us which was really interesting. We also shared our Science learning to date with the whole school at our Friday assembly. The feedback that we have received has been very positive and the other classes were particularly impressed with the disappearing colour wheel!  Well done P5 your delivery was excellent.  I was really proud of you.

We also had a visit from the Scottish SPCA on Thursday. This was excellent! The focus was on wild animals, learning about their distinguishing features, habitats and how we can help if an animal is in trouble. We shared a lot of stories from our own personal experiences.  We had a chance to be animal detectives by  playing a game where we had to identify the animal from footprints, colour and habitat.

In our Health and Wellbeing learning this week we discussed anti-bullying and created posters showcasing our knowledge of different forms of bullying and how to seek help.

Another fantastic week P5, well done.