Category: Primary 5 Learning

On Monday this week we played football. The teachers chose football teams and we played on the astro. On Tuesday morning we learnt to play the ukelele with two men called Fraser and David and it was great fun! Then we made comic strips about what started the Scottish Wars of Independence – Margaret Maid of Norway died so there was no heir left…

We also started planning a newspaper report about the death of King Alexander III. We planned our newspaper titles, headlines and a date. Most people made the date the 20th March 1286 because that was the day after he died.

On Thursday we did Highland Hustle with Mrs Gargaro. It is a fitness class based on highland dancing. We were exhausted in one minute! We did slow dances and fast ones too.

It was a great week.

By Olivia and Sam

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For Scottish Book Week we made up our own characters and then wrote about them using similes. For example I drew The Emperor Diamond and my similes were “as tall as a giraffe” and “as fast as a cheetah”. We really liked being creative and getting to sit with our friends while we did it .

We were also naming parts of a medieval knight’s armour and it was really fun. We know what a knight’s armour was like now. We enjoyed labelling a picture of all the different parts of the armour.

Also, we read to the P3s, and I read Nessie to a nice boy. It was really fun seeing the P3s and we loved getting to read to our partners.

In maths we made our own graphs .We gathered all the information about how we travelled to school. It was so much fun – we love making our own graphs and find data handling good fun.

We joined in an online Author’s Live session with Joseph Coelho, where we drew a spider graph about “if the world were…”. So if the world were sweets, people would be gummy. It was very interesting and fun.

We got to make a Book Creator e-book about the death of Alexander III, and we added lots of extra information and detail. We enjoyed getting to work with people from the other P5 class.

By Michael C and Iona

 

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This week in PE we played football on the Astroturf. Everyone was cheering each other on and everyone was having fun. We also did more meditation which was relaxing, quiet and calm. Most people enjoyed it and some people fell asleep!

We learnt about the Beatitudes and up our own, one for each class. P5a’s was “blessed are those who love and care for people on the street, for they will be loved and cared for by God”, and P5b’s was “blessed are those who are positive in attitude, for they will be shown positivity and kindness in return”.

We also learnt about Anti-Bullying week. We did a picture of a good friend hand where we wrote what mades a good friend.

We learnt about how medieval houses were made, with wattle and daub. Everyone laughed because the daub was made of manure! We also wrote a diary entry as if we were medieval peasants, which we enjoyed.

By Thomas, Sophia and Lewis

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This week we have been working on Book Creator. It is an app where you can make comics and books. We wrote books about our hobbies, for example some people wrote about gymnastics and some wrote about games like Roblox or Fortnite. In PE we did some mindfulness meditation. We did some stretches then lay down peacefully. Our teachers played a guided meditation to us. It was very relaxing.

We are looking forward to learning more about our topic which is the Scottish Wars of Independence, where Scotland fought England. This week we learnt about the feudal system and Scotland’s Royal Burghs.

I hope you enjoyed reading about our week!

By Amelia and Ibrahim

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This week we have been doing mindfulness, including doing some mindfulness colouring to learn to be calm and relaxed. We really liked how we could stop everything and do something else.

We have been learning about similes and this week we wrote Halloween poems using five different similes about Halloween. It was really fun because we could be creative and make funny similes, like ‘scary pumpkins as orange as Donald Trump’s face’.

In RE we have been learning about All Saints’ Day, and we wrote about someone who is a saint to us in our lives. Then we went to mass at St Mary Magdalene’s to celebrate All Saints’ Day on Thursday.

By Beniamin and Oli