Can you guess who has been caught reading today?
Category: Primary 5 Blog
second level MENTAL AGILITY and multiplication and division

It was lovely to see so many families seeing our CPA approach at parent consultation and in action in the classrooms at ‘Sharing our learning’:




Welcome back to our Mental agility program and our new focus on violet and
MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION, FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, PERCENTAGES, PROPORTION and RATIO:

Please find attached activities we focus on in school.
Please can you support your child’s learning and practise these at home too:
Practising the connection between multiplication and division:


We are working hard on applying our learning by using word problems including multiplications and division:

Lots of practise to understand the link between fractions, decimals and percentages:

Many opportunities to use concrete resources when focusing on ratio and proportion:

Please also look out for games and home work tasks set on

A brilliant website, explaining many concepts we focus an in school and fantastic opportunities to consolidate learning!
We look forward to sharing some strategies and photos with you from school soon!
We will be working on lots of equal groups and equal shares until the holidays!
If you have any questions please come and see Ms.Brunner anytime.
Always happy to help! 🙂

Scottish Book Week. Guess Who I am?
Can you guess who has been caught reading today?
Home Learning Week Commencing 13th November 2023
Spelling- oi
Core words
avoid, toilet, voice, choice, spoil, noise
Mild Words
joint, point, spoilt, boil
Hot Words
android, ointment, disappoint, appointment
Learning Across the Curriculum
Have a look over the Book Week resources that have been posted on the blog and have a go at the character quiz.
Maths and Numeracy
| Practice | Apply | Correct | Extend |
| Write down times tables facts and write associated facts using multiples of ten. 3×4=12 30×4=120 | Practice answering two-digit by one-digit numbers. 34×4= 35×7= 23×4= 85×4= 98×3= 73×5= | Create your own correct and incorrect number sentences. | Create your own word problems using 2-digit by 1-digit multiplication. |
Scottish Book Week P5-7 Book Character Quiz
Can you guess the characters from the clues? Have a go there are 20 questions, you can fill out an answer grid that you can get from your class teacher. Once completed hand it back to your class teacher, you could be a winner!!