Primary 5/6

Primary 5/6 News

This week in primary 5/6 we have been working on our interview skills and answering questions as a character from our favourite book, in writing.

In maths we used different strategies to add and subtract decimals. The strategies we used are

-Doubling

-Partitioning

-Take away the decimal

-Blank number line

– Formal method

We have been investigating which strategy is the most effective and we created posters to explain how to use these strategies. We will display these posters on our Maths Wall to help everyone in our class remember how to use each strategy. IMG_3704[1] IMG_3703[1]

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The skills we have been working on in PE are shooting and quick passes. To practice these skills we have been playing Russian long ball.

Today we learned about the Stations of the Cross and had some quiet reflection time to consider this time during Lent. In RE this week we learned about Wednesday Word which is a website we can access to prepare us for Mass.

In French we completed our personal leaflets that will help us when having French conversations. We will be using these next Tuesday.

On Thursday afternoon we had Ninians Natter. We all created an action plan to help us achieve our current goals and we even got to enjoy the sunshine while creating our action plans.

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Have a lovely weekend!

Danielle & Jessica.

Primary 5/6 news

This week in primary 5/6 we learned how to add decimals to make a whole number in maths. One of the activities we used to help us practice this was the rolling tenths game, all you need is a dice , some counters and a list of decimals. We have added a maths vocabulary section to our maths working wall. During our Maths morning on Tuesday we have be working on solving money problems. To help us decide which operation to select, to solve the problem, we have added a maths vocabulary section to our maths working wall.

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We made Spanish passport’s which included the key information that we have learned this term, Me llamo…, Soy de and Mi cumpleaños es… I am sure everyone in our class can tell you what these three statements mean. IMG_3652[1]

We are always reviewing our Agar.io goals in our class and this week we had the opportunity to share our goals with the rest of the class. Our display is looking very full and colourful. It is fantastic that so many goals have been achieved! IMG_3651[1]

Everyone in our class had to pick a character from a book to be, as part of our writing task this week. We learned information about our characters personality and appearance. In groups we discussed good questions we could ask our character in an interview. Next week everyone in our class will be an interviewer and be interviewed in their character role.

Today everyone in our class enjoyed wearing their PJ’s to school to raise money for the Lenten Appeal.

by Mark, Aaron & Issei

Primary 5/6 News

During writing this week, we learned what key features are needed to write instructions. We used our learning to write our own instructions about how to build a robot, this was linked to our technology topic.

Yesterday was World Book Day, we had lots of great characters in our class such as Pippi Longstocking, The Maze Runner and Box Troll. We all received a £1 voucher towards a book.

In RE we have been learning all about the Sacraments, this week we created our own bright and colourful Eucharist posters.

We have continued to improve our daily mile times and in PE we continued to work on aiming and catching skills whilst playing touch rounders.

In Maths we learned how to order decimals, to practice this skill we played some Topmark Games and Balloon Pop. Why not try this at home!

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/decimals/BalloonPopDecimals1.htm

We used an App on the iPad, called Sock Puppet, during French to practice having a conversation with another person.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Bell & P 5/6

Primary 5/6 News

This week in primary 5/6 we have ran a daily mile every day; we only have 15 minutes to complete it. The class has been working on improving their fitness and really enjoying the daily mile. In maths we are continuing to learn about decimals and learning how to recognise the place value of decimals. During our maths morning, on Tuesday, we learned more about how to add and subtract 4 digit numbers using the formal method. In P.E we have been doing ‘Superman Rounders’ and it was really fun. We worked on our aiming and catching skills during the game. In writing we interviewed a member of our class, took notes and then we all wrote a profile about them in our writing jotters. Next week we are looking forward to World Book Day and seeing lots of fantastic costumes.

By Paris & Broady.

Primary 5/6 News

This week in primary 5/6 we learned a lot about technology. Primary 6 had the opportunity to do the ‘RoboKid’ topic. We had to work in teams to build and test our robots. The teams came up with fantastic names like Robo, Wheelie and Bob. We also had to learn how to control and drive our robots round obstacle courses we created. On Monday, primary 5 went on a trip to the fourth road bridge education centre. They learned about different types of bridges and how they were built. They got to build their own mini bridges and try on safety clothes that would be worn when building the new bridge.

On Thursday a women called Jenny, from Scotch Beef, came and taught us about why eating red meat can help us grow, be strong and give us iron. She taught us how to make beef fajitas and some people in our class got to help prepare the fajitas. They were yummy. After our fajitas lesson we came back to class and took notes on what we had learned. Next week we will use these notes to help us write our own Beef fajitas recipe.

On Wednesday it was Ash Wednesday, Father Paul came along and led Mass, we received our ashes and reflected on what Lent is.

We have started our Money topic in maths. We have been learning how to solve different money word problems and we will continue this next week.

By Mark, Mikolt and James

Primary 5/6 homework

This week is technologies week and our homework is slightly different.

Please visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zh79wmn and watch the video on batteries, this is linked to our technology topic this week.

In your own homes investigate and find out the different types of batteries there are. Please post the batteries you find in your homes in the comment section of this post.

Thank you

Miss Bell

Primary 5/6 News

This week started with some disappointing news as our Primary 6 skiing and snowboarding trip was cancelled. After that we found out this week was going to be different as we were going to be doing a Growth Mindset topic! On Monday we discussed what we already knew about growth mindset and then in groups we discussed what we wanted to learn about growth mindset. Some of the suggestions were how does our brain work, how do we make decisions and how do we stay positive? These questions became our plan for the week .Before we learned anything more about Growth mindset we all did a quiz that told us if we had a growth mindset or a fixed mindset. It was very interesting to find that we only had two people in our whole class that had a growth mindset. We then learned who discovered the growth mind set theory and what growth mindset and fixed mindset really means. We then researched how our brain works and the different parts of our brain, which was very interesting! We worked in teams to create posters to show what we were learning over the week and these will be displayed in our upper area. On Thursday we thought about a time we had struggled and how we overcame our struggle by not giving up. We used these events to write a letter to future students telling them how important it is to have a growth mindset and overcome struggles. At the end of our letters we gave future students advice on how to develop a growth mindset. At the end of our topic we did an experiment to see if anyone in the class had developed a growth mindset over the week. We repeated the quiz we did at the start of the week and were amazed that everyone in the class had developed a growth mindset. We all found the topic helpful and it taught us to persevere even if we struggle as that’s when we learn the most. Have a lovely weekend.

Primary 5/6 & Miss Bell

Primary 5/6 News

In writing this week we had all week to think about a significant event in our life that we wanted to write about. We learned how to write a personal recount, the four key things we needed to include in our writing were Chronological order, Past tense, 1^st/3^rd person and descriptive language. We peer assessed our work and today some of the class were able to share their work with the class and also the pictures they brought in linked with their writing work.

In our short read we learned how to recognise the purpose of a text, the four purposes we focused on were, to entertain, to describe a personal experience, to inform and to persuade. We enjoyed working with our table groups to decide what the purposes of 3 different texts were.

We are learning about symmetry on our maths morning on a Tuesday. This week we were practicing how to rotate symmetrical patterns, you can see some of our symmetry work in our talking book.

In our class we have a talking book, Joshua and Mark designed the front and back cover of it. We add our learning in social studies, science and maths in to it. Here are some pictures of our work in our talking book so far.

Today during Ninians Natter we were able to evaluate our ‘Agar.io’ goals, we wrote our next steps in our profiles and added new goals to our class goals display.

By: Sophia and Mark

Primary 5/6 News

This week in P5/6 during topic we worked on our drawing skills by using photographs of Mary Queen of Scots to create our own self -portraits of her.

In maths this week we have been learning more about fractions, how to recognise equivalent fractions and how to subtract fractions. We made fractions posters to put up in our classroom to remind us of our learning about equivalent fractions e.g. 2\6 =1\3. We used our cups again to play fraction subtraction and become confident with addition and subtraction with fractions. In writing we wrote a personal account about what qualities we have that make us good friends. This linked to what we have been learning about Mary Queen of Scots and the friends she had. To help us think of qualities a good friend has, we listened to you’ve got a friend in me and footprints in the sand, we took key words from the lyrics to help us. Today we got a special treat, we got to watch the primary 3 and 4 Burns show. It was fantastic!

By Kaden & Billie

This week, in maths we learned how to add fractions together using cups, there was half cups, quarter cups and whole cups, this really helped us understand how to add fractions because we had a picture in our head. On Tuesday we revised lines of symmetry and we will continue this next Tuesday. During our short read this week, we worked in groups to find alternative words with the same meaning, practising our thesaurus skills. We also had to check definitions using a dictionary. During topic, we learned what primary and secondary sources are. By using secondary sources we learned new information about Mary Queen of Scots and created posters to display our learning in our class talking book. We used our knowledge of Mary Queen of Scots to write a diary entry about a key event in her life. We now know the various features of a dairy entry and we were able to use time connectives to write our own diary entries.

By Joshua and Isabella