Tag: Primary 5/6

This is our last blog post as P5\6! On Monday we had music, we learned some new songs, they were called ‘build up’ and ‘you are a star’. On Tuesday we had French we made origami French ‘fortune tellers’ to practice French questions, colours and numbers that we have learned this year. Wednesday was a very exciting day as it was Sports Day! We loved all of the stations and also enjoyed watching and taking part in all of the races. Even some rain didn’t stop us! Everyone was able to meet their new teacher on Thursday, we are excited about next year. We then got a huge surprise! We got to watch a pantomime called ‘Treasure Island’. This week we have also been keeping up to date with the latest on the EU referendum by watching Newsround. We have also been having discussions in class and creating posters about our opinions on the referendum.

We cannot believe next week is our last week as P5/6, we hope you all have a wonderful summer!

Thank you for all your support this year!

By Billie, Broady, Isabella, Darryn & P5/6.

This week in Primary 5/6, we have been very busy.

We had a visitor on Monday who taught us how to perform some basic judo moves.  It was a lot of fun! In PE, we continued our races – this time practising our long distance running with the 800m. On Tuesday in PE, we had an exciting game of Russian long ball, which ended with a very close score of 20-21!

We also learned about the heart in a Science lesson with Miss McDonald and found out some scary information about what can happen to our hearts if we don’t look after ourselves.  Our last lesson with Miss McDonald was this week and we summarised everything we had learned over her 6 lessons into an informative leaflet to help encourage others to stay healthy.

In literacy this week, we’ve been learning about alliteration and onomatopoeia to continue with our imagery work.  Here’s a link to the video we used to help us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1b5kCvVBo8

Talent Show auditions were held this week and both Paris and Aurora have been chosen to perform – congratulations girls! We are all looking forward to seeing the show.

Summer is coming up very soon now, and we are all getting excited thinking about it! Today we are going to find out who our new teachers are and this is making us look forward to moving up in the school even more.

 

By Aaron, Moiz, Aurora, Oskar & Billie

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

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

This week in P 5/6 our highlight was, the division  ‘hit the button’ competition, boys vs girls and the girls won yay!!

• In Maths we learned how to read various pie charts and we continued to work on our division skills.
• In writing we learned how to write instructions. We made sweet chili chicken vegetable wraps first and then we wrote our instructions based on how we made our wrap.
• In PE we did a 200m sprint race this week for the house competition. Next week we will do a 400m race. The primary 6 children are looking forward to the cross country race next week.

Have a lovely weekend.

By Isabella and Paris

Wow, what an exciting week we have had!

Here are a few comments about Health Week from our class:

“It was exhausting”- Jessica                                     “It was fun”- Joshua

“My team won the football tournament and this made my week”- Kaden

“My favourite activity was the assault course because it was interesting and fun”- Danielle,

This is what we got up to;

Monday – basketball & body combat

Tuesday – football, boxing, buddies & hockey

Wednesday- boot-camp, gymnastics & capture the flag

Thursday – cricket, assault course, Snergy & flex and buddies

Friday – fun run, netball, football tournament and tug of war

 

We already can’t wait for Health Week next year!!!!

By Primary 5/6

This week in primary 5/6 we have been learning to multiply 2 digits by 2 digits. We have learned two multiplication strategies that can help us solve these problems.

In topic we were investigating which foods contain carbohydrates, protein, fat and fibre. The Primary six children also had visitors in to teach them about tobacco.

At assembly the P6 children who went on the skiing and snowboarding trip got there certificate from Low Port for achieving different levels in skiing and snowboarding.

 

Have a good weekend

By Mark and Aaron

This week we revised 2D and 3D shape properties. We also revised the multiplication and division strategies we learned last term. These have helped us learn how to multiply 4 digit numbers by a single digit. Next week we will continue with multiplication strategies as our class needs to continue to learn their times tables. Why not play ‘Hit the Button’ at home! http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

In PE we have started our athletics block by practising the skills needed to do the long jump. On Monday we also got to play capture the flag on the field.

We used our dictionary skills this week to find the definition of unknown words from our reading books and also revised how to put words in to alphabetical order.

This week was creative industries week and we enjoyed doing creative activities such as renaming objects in our classroom and creating our own games. In assembly we played ‘can you guess the object’.

Our topic this term is Health and wellbeing. As a class we decided to focus on investigating how to have a healthy balanced diet. We looked at the ‘Eatwell Plate’ and discussed the foods in each section and why it is important to have foods from every section, in your diet. Next week we will be doing a fruit and vegetable survey, creating meals with all food types in them and designing our new topic display. To help with our display we need lots of food labels. If you are finished with packaging at home please wash out and bring it in to school next week.

Primary 6 are extremely excited about their skiing and snowboarding trip next week!

Have a lovely weekend!

Primary 5/6 & Miss Bell