Category: Primary 5 Blog

Primary 5 have had a busy week!

We used our knowledge of 3D shapes to assemble different nets using red, green, silver and gold card. We used ribbon and glitter to jazz them up and create our own decorations for our class Christmas tree. 

On Tuesday, we invited our parents and carers in to hear us sing ‘Mary’s Boy Child’ in the outdoor classroom. For this occasion, we baked gingerbread biscuits and cupcakes, which we decorated with the utmost care and flair to share with our guests and enjoy with a nice hot chocolate. We hope you enjoyed our singing and the goodies that hopefully made it home to you if you couldn’t make it! 

On Wednesday, we went on a HUGE walk to see the P5 Winter Windows Winner on display on Willowbrae Road. P5 did extremely well and walked 4 miles in 100 minutes! 

 

Dear Primary 5 families, 

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. This is our last week of homework before the holidays. 

This week our spelling patterns are: Soft g  or –sh at the end of the word.

Soft g : There are 10 spelling words to practise, however if your child already knows several, they can choose to practise the three challenge words in place of 3 they already know.

Sh: There are 10 spelling words to practise and 3 Common Words. These will change each week. There are 4 spelling tasks on the page, please choose one to complete on either the blank paper or in the homework jotter.

In place of written maths homework this week, your child will have the words to ‘Mary’s Boy Child’ by Jester Hairston on the back of their spelling sheet. Please take time to learn the words by heart. 

In the blue jotter, you will find a mental agility sheet. This week, at home and in class, we are recognising numbers as both digits and words. e.g. 563 = five hundred and sixty three. Your child will have highlighted the option they wish to practise this week. This can be done as a discussion and recording in jotters is optional. 

 

Primary 5 have been working on their letter writing this month. We wrote a thank you letter to someone we know, then a collaborative persuasive letter to our local MSP to tell them what Eco initiatives we would like to see in the area, our own letter explaining Eco initiatives in school and finally an imaginative letter as a character in Harry Potter. 

We entered an art competition, the Winter Window’s Display where the theme this year was Connection and Kindness. You can see all the wonderful P5 contributions below! 

For Robert Louis Stevenson Day on 13^th November we read two poems from his famous 1885 book ‘A Child’s Garden of Verses’ : ‘The Moon’ and ‘The Lamplighter’ created some drawings to illustrate these poems. 

Primary 3 to Primary 7 took part in the Edinburgh Christmas Schools Competition.  The art reps voted on all the entries and the staff voted for their favourite to enter as well.

Our very talented P5 Art Rep created one of the winning designs for the Winter Windows Competition!

This amazing giraffe was chosen to be part of the Nativity Scene Art Installation at St Andrew’s Square!

I wanted to say a huge well done to everyone who took part and fantastic three school finalists below!