I can’t believe that we have just had our last full day of P5!

Thank you so much for being such a wonderful class! I have loved teaching each and every one of you! You have worked so hard and been great fun! Thank you so much for all the wonderful memories! It has been a tough year for you all but you have shown such great resilience and strength throughout. I am so proud of you all. 

I know that you will be great in P6!

For those of you staying with me, I am delighted to be teaching you again!

For those of you who are moving to Miss MacDonald’s class, you are in brilliant hands! I know that she will look after you all brilliantly!

-Keep working hard

-Keep your positive attitude

-Look after yourselves

-Be kind to each other

Remember that a little kindness can transform someone’s world!

I would also like to say a huge BIG thank you to your families at home. I cannot thank you all enough for the support you have provided throughout our period of online learning. You made sure the learning kept going at home which helped with a smooth transition back to the classroom. 

Tomorrow, to celebrate Lochardil achieving another Eco Green Flag, is a dress down day!

You can also bring in games if you want, so long as they are not electronic devices.

I am looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!

We have had so much fun learning cricket and playing corner football with Active Sports!

P5 have made a slideshow for you to share what they have learned this year with regards to their health and well-being. We have included some activities for you to take part in too! We hope you enjoy them!

The slideshow has been posted on our Google Classroom. Click on the following link to find it! You will be able to watch it any time that suits you. An exit poll will also be posted at 10 am and we would be very grateful if you would leave us feedback too.

https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQyNTExMTMxNzc5/p/MzYxMDMxNzk2MjM1/details

Thank you!

Love from P5 and Miss MacArthur

Just a reminder that all school photograph orders need to be returned to school by tomorrow. Thank you!

We have been learning about all the different food groups and what a balanced diet means!

We have completed our animals, adapted for survival! We are preparing and practising talks which describe our unique animals to present to the class!
We have created our own success criteria, so we know what will make a great talk!

I was not in last Friday, but Miss MacLeod very kindly sent me this lovely photo of Grace! She was our Star of the Week for her fabulous topic work and her great sportsmanship during Sports Day! Well done Grace!

Fraser was our Star of the Week this week for his fabulous team work! He is always so kind, helpful and supportive to others in his group!

Tomorrow we will be having a virtual open morning with a health and well-being focus!
We have created a Google Slideshow to share with you some of our learning with regards to our physical health, emotional well-being and mindfulness.
We have really enjoyed creating the PowerPoint for you and we hope you enjoy watching it and taking part in some of the activities too!

Our Virtual Open Morning Google Slideshow will be posted at 9am tomorrow on our Google Classroom. You will be able to see any time after that, at a time that suits you.

We had a visit from our Active School Coordinator this week and it was great fun!

Congratulations to Ava and Rohan! They have put so much hard work and effort into their work on equivalent fractions this week and they are both Stars of the Week! Well done to you both!

Please find attached our Curriculum Overview for Term 4. Please just ask if you have any questions and, as always, thank you so much for all your support!

Welcome back everyone!!! It has been so lovely to be back! We have had a great first week back. We are particularly proud of our work on fractions this week! Everyone has worked so hard and we are feeling so much more confident about identifying fractions and finding fractions of quantities.
Huge ‘Congratulations!’ to Isla! She is our ‘Star of the Week’ this week for her fabulous Literacy work. Her effort and enthusiasm for writing, reading and spelling tasks is consistently brilliant! Well done Isla!

We are very excited to have Miss Mcleod join us for 9 weeks. She is joining us from UHI and we are really enjoying having her with us!

Happy Easter everyone! I am really looking forward to seeing you all back on the 19th of April. We re being joined by Katie MacLeod, a student teacher from the UHI, who will be joining us for 7 weeks. I hope you all have a wonderful break! Happy Easter!

We had great fun creating our Outdoor Art! We used the outdoors as our inspiration for our nature inspired pictures.

We have had such a busy exciting time in P5! Tristan was our Star of the Week for his fabulous Literacy work. He has put in so much hard work and effort into his reading, writing and spelling. Well done Tristan! Rudi was nominated for a special award at our Virtual Easter Assembly. Rudi was nominated for being really hard working, being great at maths and for being a fabulous kind and caring friend. Well done Rudi!

We have been learning about our emotions with regards to Lockdown. We have made a display using words to describe our emotions, the effect our emotions had on our behaviour and the strategies that helped us to feel better.
We created Egyptian Good Luck charms out of clay too!

We had great fun transforming ourselves into Egyptian Pharaohs!

Please find attached our Learning Overview for P5 for this term. As always, please just get in touch if you have any questions and thanks again for all your support!

We have had great fun in PE this week! We have been learning about our heart and about exercises which can strengthen our muscles!

We have been learning that our spelling words are all adjectives and we have been creating fun sentences with our spelling words to help us remember what they all mean, and what they might be describing!

We have raised a fabulous £533 for Children in Need so far!!! Well done to all of P5 for organising such fun activities today! It was so lovely to see the whole school on our live virtual quiz too! I am so proud of the boys and girls who were such fabulous question masters! Well done everyone! You are all my Stars of the Week this week!!
Thank you to you all for you kind and generous donations!

We have been learning all about the work of Poppy Scotland this week. We had fun learning about the effect of light and colour while creating poppy artwork too!

Congratulations to Rebecca! She is our Star of the Week for her fabulous maths work! She is incredibly motivated and always challenges herself! Well done Rebecca!

We made Blythswood boxes in school for the Blythswood Appeal! We have learned that there are children (and adults too!) in Eastern Europe who do not have things that we would call necessary, so we wanted to help make Christmas special for them this year. We also made cards for the boys and girls who would be receiving our presents too.
Thank you to all of you who donated a shoebox for the appeal, and to all of you who donated gifts for the appeal too. It is much appreciated! Blythswood are coming to collect them all on Monday.

Happy Halloween everyone!

We had a fabulous dress down/dress up day today. Thank you so much to everyone who kindly donated to the foodbank. Your kind donations will be used to help and support families in our local community. We had a great time completing Halloween problem solving activities, multiplication problems, writing spooky Halloween poems (with impressive use of adjectives) and creating our own Halloween dances today! It was great fun!

Congratulations to Caitlin! She is our Star of the Week for her fabulous and speedy times tables work! Well done Caitlin! You always work so hard and we are very proud of you!

This week, we had a video phone call from Elma Mackay from Blythswood! We learned all about the work of the Blythswood shoebox appeal, the Foodbank and the Daniel Centre. We learned that Elma loves tennis, macaroni and Indian food too!