Category: Primary 5 Blog

I hope that you all had a lovely holiday and that you are all well rested for the packed term ahead. We will continue to have swimming for the next two weeks and then our session with Mr Cameron at Abbeyhill Primary School swimming pool will be finished.

This term will very busy with the further progression on our Social Enterprise Project, watch out for news from The Royal Mile Planters of their pop up launch event near the end of term. We have been busy starting to plant our basic soup vegetables and we will be moving to start planting at the front of the school this term. The class will also be undertaking their chosen topic for this term looking at Japan, its culture, environment, clothing, food, art and comparing life in Japan to that in Scotland.

This term home learning will include spelling, reading comprehension and maths. In spelling the pattern/words will be sent home with a mild, spicy and hot challenge, pick one of the challenges or try more than one to practice the pattern or words that are being taught to your spelling group. The challenge should be returned on Friday along with the other pieces of home learning that will be issued on Monday. Please remember to support your child and do not feel that all the challenges should be completed. Discussion and self -correction of home learning will take place on Friday.

It was lovely to see and share the learning and achievements of Primary 5 with parents last week. It was also a sad week in Primary 5 as Mr Humphreys finished his Placement with us and returned to University on Monday 27th March. The class and staff wish him all the best and thank him for his fabulous contribution to Primary 5 that he made in his time with us.

Swimming took place on Monday 27th March and we will have another session on Monday 17th April the day we return from our Easter Break. I will let you know if there are any further sessions after this but the class have demonstrated an improvement in their skills and are progressing well in the water.

This week is a busy week and we will be visiting the Science Festival at the City Art Centre Tuesday 28th March where we will be taking part in three active workshops. On Friday we will taking part in our Houses in the Parent Council’s Easter Egg Hunt. Friday 31st March will also see us start our April Holidays and I would like to wish every one in class a Happy Easter and a Happy Ramadan.

This week I will not be issuing Home Learning as we have a busy Friday of activities that will not allow us to do self correction and discussion. After the holidays Home Learning will consist of maths, reading comprehension and spelling. Spelling will be the patterns that the groups are learning during the week and the Home Learning will be a challenge that the class are familiar with. Once again thank you for all your support in making Home Learning a shared experience.

We had been very busy in P5 last week celebrating and undertaking experiments in class for Science Week. On Monday we looked at the Phases of the Moon, Tuesday we started to conduct our Mouldy Bread Experiment which we used to write instructions for and to predict what we thought would happen when using hard and liquid soaps to sanitise our hands before touching the bread. We will be returning to look at the results this week. We also investigated the connection between flowers and water by dying the water different colours and we have watched over the week the carnations slowly change colours. On Monday we had launch assembly for Science Week with Generation Science all about the body, heart, lungs, digestion, blood circulation and whole host of other areas of the body that help us function. In PE P5 have been learning Badminton skills with Mr Madine and Mr Humphreys.

This week we have swimming on Monday at Abbeyhill, please remember swimming hat, costume and towel and Ukulele with Malcolm on Monday morning. This will Mr Humphrey’s last week with us so we plan to pack lots of outdoor work and art into the week.

I have attached below a copy of the home learning for week beginning 20th March which will be sent home on Monday to be returned on Friday for self correction and discussion.