Generation Science March 4, 2008
Posted by Miss Boyd in : P5 , add a commentPoor Freddie Firefly’s tail wassn’t working any more! The P5s had to help him find an efficient, safe and renewable way to light his tail. We tried lots of different light sources and had fun experimenting to see which was the best and had happy faces next to all the criteria.
Christmas is coming… December 6, 2007
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The Middle Area pupils are all getting excited in the run up to Christmas. In P5, we’ve been writing stories called ‘Waiting for Santa’. We read a few stories and poems about the anticipation of Christmas and decided to write our own!
Here is 5Bs classroom. Doesn’t it look festive?!
The children put up this display of their fancy stockings and decorated the tree all by themselves! Can you spot the children all warm for the winter? We added shiny material to make sure they could be seen in the dark. We have been talking about reflective materials in our Light and Sound topic.
I hope the tree stays up this time!
We added strips of old black sugar paper on the window to make it look like an old fashioned window. We then added special spray to add an illusion of fallen snow! Do you like it?
Shadows and reflection December 4, 2007
Posted by Miss Boyd in : 2007-08, P5 , add a commentPrimary 5C have been designing and creating shadow puppets. They used cardboard, paper fasteners, canes and scissors to create them. They will be testing them out soon to see how effective they’ve been. The rest of the P5s cannot wait to see them!
All the Primary 5s have been looking at light as part of their Light and Sound science topic. P5C have been looking at reflective materials. P5B have been dressing up a child for winter using different materials, as well as reflective/shiny material so that they ‘glow in the dark’! They’ve also been learning about shadow formation. Here’s some photos of the children researching shadows with the laptops and some of them used lamps and an object to investigate shadow formation.
“‘Twas the night before Christmas…” December 4, 2007
Posted by Miss Boyd in : 2007-08, P5 , add a comment“…when all through the house,
not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;”
One of the most famous Christmas poems in the world written by a New Yorker called Clement Clarke Moore.
P5B have been looking at the poem today and have really enjoyed it. Some of us even recognised it as it has been used many times in cartoons, songs and films since it was written on Christmas Eve in 1822. Moore read the poem to his wife and his 6 children on the night that he wrote it. Little did he know that it would become world famous, being translated into numerous languages. A family friend liked it so much they gave it to a New York newspaper ‘The Sentinel’ in 1823 and it was published! It did not have his name attached to it so it said that it was by an ‘anonymous’ poet.
P5B have been looking at this poem as they will be writing about the build up to Christmas when they write a story entitled ‘Waiting for Santa’. They have already got ideas from this famous poem to help them. Have you heard of the poem? Do you have a copy of it? If you have comments please let us know. Please follow the link above (’looking at the poem’) if you’d like to see the poem.
A ‘Rubbish’ assembly from 5A December 4, 2007
Posted by Miss Boyd in : 2007-08, P5 , 5commentsIt was a rubbish assembly! Well…not really but it was all about how we need to be careful with our litter as well as how to be eco-friendly in and out of school. We learned all about the amazing things Law Primary have been doing in school to gain our Silver Award (which should hopefully arrive before Christmas, all things well) Thank you so much to P5A for their fantastic assembly. Even the P1s, P2s and P3s got to see it this Monday!
P5A’s Assembly November 20, 2007
Posted by Miss Boyd in : 2007-08, P5 , add a commentMiss Beaton and her class are getting ready to show us their assembly on Friday 30th November. They are going to tell us about how to keep our school and town clean and tidy. Watch this space for more… (Check out the Eco-Committee part of the weblog too!)
Read all about it! November 14, 2007
Posted by Miss Boyd in : P5 , add a commentIn Primary 5, we have been learning about how to write a good newspaper article. Some of us get the First News when it comes out so we can learn about what is going on in the world. It is aimed towards children so we find it easier to read…and much more interesting! There are copies in the school for us to read in our silent reading times but we’ve also been looking at them to see what we like about the way they are written. We can also get ideas for our own articles.
If you get the chance to read any kind of newspaper article that is interesting and appropriate for children then I would read it because we learned so much from them.
We gave it welly!!! November 6, 2007
Posted by Miss Boyd in : 2007-08, P4, P5 , 1 comment so farWell done to the children in the Middle Area! You raised £382 for FARM-Africa! Together, the P4s and P5s raised this huge amount…with their wellies!!
The p4s had a Welly Day and took part in all sorts of fun and educational activities to raise money for the charity. Some of them decorated wellies and cut them out. They then stuck them onto a big piece of yellow paper to spell out the word Africa. Mr Barnes liked it so much he used in the Whole School Assembly today!
The p5s had a ten minute sponsored welly dance last Friday and managed to raise a lot of money thanks to kind sponsorship from their families.
At the Whole School Assembly today, Mr Barnes asked all the Pupil Councillors from P1-P7 to speak into the microphone at the Sports Centre to tell all the boys and girls what they’d done to help raise money for FARM-Africa in an enterprising way.
As they told him what they’d done, Mrs Clark from the school office told us the running total after each year stage. Mr Barnes had predicted that we’d raise over £450. He used coloured welly boots pegged to a badminton net to show all the children how much we’d raised at each stage. By the time he’d gotten to P5 he’d realised that the target had been met already!!! WOW!! Have a look at the photo below to see the total money raised by the children and their families.
They raised a staggering £2326.42 !! And the best news is there is still some money being counted as I type! Well done for all your hard work and all the teachers for their support. FARM-Africa will be over the moon.
Even Mrs Ford brought her wellies!
Welly Dance and lots more fun! November 2, 2007
Posted by Miss Boyd in : P5 , add a commentPrimary 5 have raised a huge amount of money for FARM-Africa today! The final count is on Monday but our estimates are already at over £500! Well done and thank you to everyone who kindly donated money for the Sponsored Welly Dance. The children had a lot of fun dancing to The Proclaimers, Queen and even Aretha Franklin!
P5B put Miss Boyd’s wellies in paint and printed two giant wellies! They then cut them out and stapled some of their sponsor sheets to it to show the other boys and girls at the Whole School Assembly.
P5A decorated an old welly with coins!
P5C had a welly race in their wellies BUT the wellies had MUD in them!! Yuck!!
Well done to the P5s!
Welly Dance! October 30, 2007
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Primary 5 are taking part in a Sponsored Welly Dance!!
During Golden Time on Friday 2nd November, the P5s are going to put on their wellies and have a ten minute dance to raise money for FARM-Africa They are an organisation who help farmers and herders in East and South Africa to grow their crops and look after their animals so that they can look after themselves.
To raise money for Farm Africa, the P5s need sponsorship from their families. They need a minimum of one sponsor and a maximum of 5 sponsors per child. There is no set amount so please sponsor the amount you feel is correct for this event. There will be other events on during the Friday but you do not need to provide your child with any more money than the sponsored amount.
Your child should wear their wellies (if they have any…if not, walking boots will do) and their normal school uniform. Get practising your dance moves, P5!
The money raised must be handed into the school with your child by Friday 2nd November at the latest.