P5B Week Beginning 3rd March

Hello P5B families!

Here are our learning highlights this week according to the Red Table:

Ella has been enjoying The Big Lent Walk.  Each day, each class aims to walk at least 1KM over the course of Lent.  Collectively as a school, we hope to cover enough distance (2000KM) that it will be the same distance to Rome!

Scott loved Pancake Tuesday.  We used this as an opportunity to introduce fractions.  The children have been learning about division.  Due to starting with dividing by 2 and then 4 (in P5 we divide 4 digit numbers) we cut them into halves and quarters.  They enjoyed the various spreads.  We had lime, apricot, honey and raspberry jam.

Moeez thought that our division maths work was the highlight of the week.  We looked at the chimney and bus stop method.  Our division sums involved remainders.  The children made Times Tables posters and brought them home to get tested in the hope to have quick mental recall.  Next week we will look at committing the 4 Times Tables to memory and dividing 4 digit numbers by the number 4.

Olek loved our outdoor learning.  The children practised the skills needed for an activity they will do with their parents next week at our Outdoor Learning Event (invite sent home this week) only the locations and recordings will  different on the actual day than the ones they had/made during their practise.

Matthias and Jayden thought the highlight of their week was World Book Day when we worked with our reading buddy class, P3/2 to plan a story that we are going to write and illustrate together over the coming weeks.  The children were very patient and supportive of our younger friends.  I was very proud of them.  Good teamwork everyone!

Kacper and Cohen loved PE with Mrs Lafferty this week.  They played Dodgeball, one of their favourite sports.

The highlight of my week was our Ash Wednesday service where the sacramental children attended a service at St Peter’s Church.  We look forward to our feast day mass this coming Monday (in school) to celebrate the life of St John Ogilvie, our school’s namesake.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner for this week, Flynn and a big thank you to Georgia for putting together the photographs below for this week’s blog.

I hope you have a super weekend and I look forward to seeing you at our P5 Outdoor Learning Event next Friday, 14th March at 9am sharp.  Remember to dress for wet weather conditions.

Mrs Brown