P5B Week Beginning 30th September 2024

Hello families of P5B!

Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Yellow table:

Michael and Daniel both report that the football session on Friday with Lothian Football Academy was the highlight of their week.

Moeez and Ksawery have continued to enjoy designing their shields and justifying their choice of colours and symbols used.  Both boys have incorporated symbols from the country where they or their family were born.  Fantastic, well thought out work boys!

Kacper and Aayush have then enjoyed making their 3D shields now that their designs are finished.  The children can use paint or a medium of their choice to transfer their design across.

Ellie-May and Vinayakarthik have been excited to continue our learning about what happened next in history for The Scottish Wars of Independence.  They learned that now John Balliol has been stripped of his title, a man called William Wallace has now risen up, gathered supporters and continued the fight for independence.  Two main battles took place, The Battle of Stirling Bridge (England defeated) and The Battle of Falkirk (Scotland defeated).  Next week we will learn about the tactics employed by both sides that lead to their victory.

Ella has absolutely loved the escape rooms tasks this week as part of the celebration of Maths Week Scotland.  Each day the children got in to their groups and had to work together to solve clues that helped them escape from rooms in Lochdonia Manor!  It was a race against time!  Once a group won, the rooms where locked and the competition could not progress.  A big well done to the daily winners.  The teams that won were the ones who were focused, helped one another out and concentrated well.  It was so much fun!  Thank you to Mr Pentland and the Numeracy team at SJO who helped create and source such engaging tasks for the pupils!

My highlight was the escape rooms.  The children persevered and creatively worked through the challenges.  Their enthusiasm was infectious!

Congratulations to Ksawery who was our hot chocolate award winner.

I am looking forward to the opportunity to meet you next week at Parents Evening and discuss your special children.  I hope to see you then.  Have a great weekend!

Mrs Brown