Christmas

Between the pantomime, class games and plenty more, the children have enjoyed the festive season.

Victorian Classroom

The children recently got the chance to experience life in a Victorian classroom.

STEM tasks

This past couple of weeks the children have had the chance to use both K'nex and Little Bits during STEM tasks.  The Little Bits task allowed them to look at electrical circuits.  

Math Week

As part of the Scottish national math week the children have taken part in STEM challenges, math mysteries and have tackled some math related art.

Sunshine!

Thursday was Outdoor Classroom Day and what a beautiful day we had for it! P5 enjoyed their maths lesson outside in the glorious sunshine!
The children used their knowledge of co-ordinates to locate cards hidden in the playground. Once they found the card, they had to answer a question from our Health and Well-Being topic.

Aaron and Megan checking the co-ordinate grid.

                                Teaghan reading the question

Rosie, Max and Mirren look deep in thought!

                     Finished groups reporting to Miss Lennox

Zoe smiling for the camera!

                 We love learning in the sunshine!

Back to School

We have had a busy 2 weeks back after the Easter Holidays in P5. We are all enjoying our new health and well-being topic on the World Cup, especially learning football skills in PE.

In maths we have been learning about data handling and time with Miss Lennox.

In language we have been learning to write stories with flashbacks through exploring The Piano, a short  animated film by Aiden Gibbons. Here are some photos of us reading and editing writing examples.

Science

Primary 5 have enjoyed a range of science experiments as part of our Human Body Topic.

We used lemon juice and crackers to show how the stomach uses acid to help break down our food.

Gabriella and Rebecca are testing the difference between the crackers with lemon juice and the ones without. Which was easier to crush?

Aiden did not like the look of the cracker after it had been crushed and mixed with lemon juice! This is how it looks in
 your stomach!














We also used milk, food colouring and dish soap to show how the liver uses bile to break down fats in the body.The dish soap breaks down the fat in the milk and the colours start to swirl around the plate!

Huda adds the soap to the milk mixture.

 Everyone was very interested to see what happened next!

Abbie, Aaron and Elle watch the food colouring swirl around as the fat in the milk breaks down.

January

Well Primary 5 have had a very busy January! Highlights have included writing a range of poetry, with the opportunity to work with teachers from P6, P7/6 and P7. The class also worked hard to learn to 'To a Mouse' by Robert Burns as part of our Scots Language unit. This was topped off by a Burns recital competition judged by Mr Clark on Burns Day. Well done to Huda and Aiden who showed great courage to recite the poem to the whole of the upper school!

Here are some photos of us explroing weight. After making predictions, we used digital scales to weigh a range of classroom objects.