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

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.

I cannot believe how the year has flown by and what a wonderful year with Primary 5 I have had. We have been to Ancient Egypt, Japan and looked at the Water Cycle. However for me the most impressive outcome for this year has been the leadership of each child in the class for our Social Enterprise project. From creating a business with a logo, The Royal Planters, to winning Dragon’s Den then last week receiving one of the Scottish Start up Awards at the Social Enterprise Academy Awards’ Day at the Assembly Rooms. I know I speak for all the staff in the school to say how proud we are of their achievements this year. It takes a great team effort, lots of communication, compromise and resilience to exceed in running a business as a group and P5 have achieved this.

The project will continue on into next year as our vegetables are still growing and in Primary 6 they will have a chance to develop the business into the wider school once again demonstrating their great leadership skills.

Last Week Primary 5 enjoyed their trip to Leith Links for a picnic and rounders, then on to Wonder World where they had most of the soft play to themselves. At the start of last week they made sushi when Aron’s Dad came to show us how to make it. We had fun rolling the sushi, cutting it and then every one had a taste. We are very grateful to Aron’s dad for taking the time to visit us and bring all the wonderful ingredients to make vegetable sushi. The previous week we had made Carrot soup to launch our enterprise project and P5 invited their parents and P3 and P4 to taste the results at their pop up café and share their enterprise adventure so far.

I always find this time of year hard when change is happening and the class is moving on but I know that this class is a credit to their parents, the school and themselves in the achievements they have made this year. I want to thank the parents for the support and encouragement they have given the class and myself this year. I want to wish all of Primary 5 a wonderful and restful summer and I will be watching them closely from my new class to see them achieve even more wonderful things in Primary 6. Regards Mrs Leslie.