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Dear Primary 5 families,

I hope you had a lovely weekend.

This week the spelling patterns are: ear and ee. There are 4 spelling tasks on the page, please choose one to complete in the homework jotter.

Ivory Group: 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.

Blue Group: There are 10 spelling words to practise and 3 Common Words. These will change each week.

Maths: This week, we are revising lines of symmetry. 

Mental Maths: We are moving onto our next mental maths topic: Sequencing and Ordering, Number Lines and Equivalences. This week we are ordering whole numbers. This can be done orally or recorded in the jotter. 

 If anything is not clear or there are any concerns, please do let me know.

I hope you all have a lovely week.

Kind regards,

Mrs Harrison

*Please note: As homework was not issued on Monday, it is now due on Friday, 28th of January.

Dear Primary 5 families, 

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. 

This week our spelling patterns are: au  or ee.

au : 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. ee: 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. Numeracy: We are learning and practising the 8 times tables this week. There is a practise sheet in each folder.   If anything is not clear or there are any concerns, please do let me know. I hope you all have a lovely week. Kind regards, Mrs Harrison

Dear Primary 5 families,

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful and restful break.

This week the spelling pattern for both groups is: oi/oy. There are 4 spelling tasks on the page, please choose one to complete in the homework jotter.

Ivory Group: 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.

Blue Group: There are 10 spelling words to practise and 3 Common Words. These will change each week.

Numeracy: We have been working out the area and perimeter of regular shapes. If you are struggling with this, please just ask me. 

Remember:

Area = the space covered = length x breadth

Perimeter = the distance around the edge = Add all sides together

Area of a triangle = ½ the base x height

Mental Maths: We are finishing our last part of Number Recognition-this week we are all practising recognising money coins and notes. Taking opportunities to use money in small transactions or handling coins and notes at home would be really helpful to reinforce this. 

 If anything is not clear or there are any concerns, please do let me know.

I hope you all have a lovely week.

Kind regards,

Mrs Harrison

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!