Today we read a book called the best thing about me. We thought about the best part of us and wrote about it. These responses showcase the children’s individuality and what they cherish about themselves. They reflect creativity, kindness, curiosity, humour, and determination—qualities that many of us can relate to!
We celebrated European Language Day by dressing up like the country Italy. We also had great fun creating our Italian inspired Pizzas and even more fun eating them!
P5 were learning how to round to the nearest 10/100. This is an important skill for children to learn as it helps them estimate and simplify numbers. Once the children understood the concept, they played a fun rounding game together. This helped to reinforce what they learnt in a fun and engaging way. Well done P5!
We were learning all about place value. We had to race round the school yard to find numbers on cones and place these to make the biggest possible number and the smallest possible number. We had so much fun with some active learning and made some more sums of our own in class.
In an inspiring art session by Mrs McKenna, P5 explored the vibrant and abstract style of Pablo Picasso, channelling their creativity to create self-portraits that reflected their unique identities. Using a variety of materials—such as colored paper and paint—they experimented with bold colors and geometric shapes, much like Picasso did in his masterpieces.
Each child began by discussing what symbols represented them personally. This reflection process allowed them to connect more deeply with their art. As they crafted their portraits, they incorporated these personal symbols into their designs, adding meaning to their work.
The room was filled with laughter and excitement as they shared stories about their symbols and the artistic choices they made.
Our new topic is all about our body and organs. We enjoyed doing some active learning outside. We took chalks out and drew around our bodies. We then tried to place our bones in the correct place and write in their scientific names. As you can see from the photos this was great fun. We continued our Picasso inspired art by creating skeletons with their organs placed inside. This really helped to consolidate all our learning about our skeleton and organs.
P5 have been learning all about themselves and wanted to know more about their blood. After some exciting experiments to see how fast blood is being pumped around their body they decided to have a go at making blood models to show all the different parts. After careful research they choose materials to represent each part. The cheerios represented red blood cells, the white marshmallows they felt looked like white blood cells, they had brown foam for platelets and yellow paint for plasma. They then recorded their findings. Such clever scientists in Primary 5!
Primary 5 have been working hard on their Circle of Life Topic planting seeds and creating Food Chains using Adobe Express. They really enjoyed working on the aesthetic of their poster and their finished pieces turned out beautiful. They have also been working with Pic Collage to create posters displaying Fish, Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles and Invertebrates. Well done Primary 5 😊
Primary 5 have been working so hard on their Digital Movie Making. They have been learning all about Underwater Sea Animals and have been using search engines to find out facts on their animal of interest. Using Apps like PicCollage, Movie Maker and Green Screen they made their brilliant Movies. We hope you all enjoy the movie 🎥📹📽
Primary 5 have been learning all about the Ancient Egyptians and their way of life. As part of their project work they were allowed to research any aspect of Egypt and bring it to life through their project. I think you will all agree each project has been planned, researched and developed magnificently. Well done Primary 5 😊
P5's Excellent coding skills were in top gear while learning how to Code using Dash (our coding Robots) through Blockly. The children learned the basics of programming using the drag and drop language of Blockly. They were taught the fundamental programming concepts through interactive exercises without the need to write out programming syntax. This is an intuitive way to code which will help build the skills they need to get started in programming 💻 🤗
Block programming allowed the children to create scripts and programs by using visual blocks and also gave opportunities to debug programmes 🦠
Blockly includes everything you need for defining and rendering blocks in a drag-n-drop editor. Each block represents a chunk of code that can be easily stacked and translated into code.
The children really enjoyed coding Dash to respond to their clap and tell them a 'Knock Knock' joke 😆
Amazing work P5 👍🏻
We hope you all have a very Happy Restful Easter 🐣🐣 P5 really enjoyed Sinead McDermott's online Art Webinar. The art skills displayed were excellent and the children really engaged and listened well to produce wonderful Easter egg Baskets using oil pastels and paints 🥚 🪺 🥚🐣🙌🏻