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CELEBRATING SUCCESS

Ms.Brunner

thank you for popping in! Before we start our new

MENTAL AGILITY

focus we were keen to show you how hard we worked on

across the school:

having fun with numbers to 5, 10 (and beyond)!

experimenting with Place Value arrow cards and partitioning numbers into

100s, 10s and 1s

Place Value arrow cards represent numbers in expanded notation. The cards overlap to form multi-digit numbers.

and consolidation with online games.

lots of practice with visualising and learning important principles of seeing patterns, anchoring numbers and enforce number bonds with the hands on teaching resource REKENREKS.

and Ten frames – to help develop a strong number sense! Ten frames are very useful in helping learners visualise numbers and build a good understanding of the relationships between numbers.

fun with board games and

using DIENES resources to represent 1,10,100 and 1000

allowing the learners to understand the relationship between the different columns on a place value grid:

using a variety of resources to identify, write and partition numbers up to 1 000 000 including Place value charts to help find the place value of each digit based on its position in a number.

using Place value discs including decimal numbers to tenths.

Place value disks help learners compare the value of each place, like that the tens place is ten times the ones place.

focusing on rounding to 2 decimal places.

We are excited to get started with Addition and subtraction next.
See you soon! 🙂

Primary 5 Blog

Christophe’s Story

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We have just finished reading Christophe’s Story as our first class novel study in Primary Five. We found out about Christophe, a boy who moves from Rwanda in Africa due to a civil war and how he settles into his new home and school in the UK.

Here is what some members of the class had to say about the book.

‘I liked the story of Christophe, especially when he stood up in front of the class and explained what happened to him and why he moved country. I would give it five stars’ Sariah

‘I really liked it when Christophe told his story to the class at the end of the book. He must have been much more confident to do that at the end.’ Rebecca

‘I would give Christophe’s story five stars, because the story made me really curious about the war. I wanted to find out more about Rwanda back then.’ Damian

‘I would give it four stars out of five. It was interesting and my favourite part was when they found out if Babi was alive or not.’ Angelos

Primary 5 Blog

Primary Five Learning so far…

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We have now been back to school for just over a month and the time has flown by! Below are some images of just some of the things Primary Five have been getting up to since coming back to school.

From visits to the National Museum of Scotland to see some ceramics from the Ancient Greek times, to our trip to the Edinburgh Book Festival and learning how to be ‘Tiger Warriors’ with Maisie Chan, we’ve certainly been busy!

Mr McPheely

Primary 5 Blog

Primary Five’s Class Charter

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At the start of term Primary Five discussed the universal rights of all children by researching the UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child). We discussed what that looks like in our lives and in particular at school.

We were able to come up with our own Class Charter based on the UNCRC. We have all agreed that we will stick to it and respect each other’s rights; adults and children.