Our Lady and St Patrick Primary School News Feed - P5MR

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Tue, 2 Dec 2025 14:32:40 GMT

Primary 5 have been exploring digital sound through the use of Garage Band. They experimented with texture and dynamics and created some rocking tunes.

They have also been mastering area and perimeter and really enjoyed plotting co-ordinates to create shapes to calculate their area and perimeter.

Through their topic of chocolate they made some delicious top hats which they took to sell in their successful bun sale. They also applied their baking skills to their procedural writing, detailing recipes for others to try.

Well done Primary 5 we can't wait to see what you learn

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The Best Thing About Me

Wed, 6 Nov 2024 18:07:55 GMT

Today we read a book called the best thing about me. We thought about the best part of us and wrote about it. These responses showcase the children’s individuality and what they cherish about themselves. They reflect creativity, kindness, curiosity, humour, and determination—qualities that many of us can relate to!

European Language Day

Wed, 6 Nov 2024 18:11:01 GMT

We celebrated European Language Day by dressing up like the country Italy. We also had great fun creating our Italian inspired Pizzas and even more fun eating them!

Rounding

Wed, 6 Nov 2024 17:55:31 GMT

P5 were learning how to round to the nearest 10/100. This is an important skill for children to learn as it helps them estimate and simplify numbers. Once the children understood the concept, they played a fun rounding game together. This helped to reinforce what they learnt in a fun and engaging way. Well done P5!

Place Value

Wed, 6 Nov 2024 17:58:02 GMT

We were learning all about place value. We had to race round the school yard to find numbers on cones and place these to make the biggest possible number and the smallest possible number. We had so much fun with some active learning and made some more sums of our own in class.

Picasso

Wed, 6 Nov 2024 17:49:29 GMT

In an inspiring art session by Mrs McKenna, P5 explored the vibrant and abstract style of Pablo Picasso, channelling their creativity to create self-portraits that reflected their unique identities. Using a variety of materials—such as colored paper and paint—they experimented with bold colors and geometric shapes, much like Picasso did in his masterpieces.

Each child began by discussing what symbols represented them personally. This reflection process allowed them to connect more deeply with their art. As they crafted their portraits, they incorporated these personal symbols into their designs, adding meaning to their work.

The room was filled with laughter and excitement as they shared stories about their symbols and the artistic choices they made.

Our Body

Wed, 6 Nov 2024 18:02:05 GMT

Our new topic is all about our body and organs. We enjoyed doing some active learning outside. We took chalks out and drew around our bodies. We then tried to place our bones in the correct place and write in their scientific names. As you can see from the photos this was great fun. We continued our Picasso inspired art by creating skeletons with their organs placed inside. This really helped to consolidate all our learning about our skeleton and organs.

P5 Make a Blood Model

Mon, 4 Nov 2024 18:24:15 GMT

P5 have been learning all about themselves and wanted to know more about their blood. After some exciting experiments to see how fast blood is being pumped around their body they decided to have a go at making blood models to show all the different parts. After careful research they choose materials to represent each part. The cheerios represented red blood cells, the white marshmallows they felt looked like white blood cells, they had brown foam for platelets and yellow paint for plasma. They then recorded their findings. Such clever scientists in Primary 5!

Circle of Life

Tue, 7 May 2024 15:48:14 GMT

Primary 5 have been working hard on their Circle of Life Topic planting seeds and creating Food Chains using Adobe Express. They really enjoyed working on the aesthetic of their poster and their finished pieces turned out beautiful. They have also been working with Pic Collage to create posters displaying Fish, Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles and Invertebrates. Well done Primary 5 😊

Water Topic

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:41:00 GMT

Primary 5 have been working so hard on their Digital Movie Making. They have been learning all about Underwater Sea Animals and have been using search engines to find out facts on their animal of interest. Using Apps like PicCollage, Movie Maker and Green Screen they made their brilliant Movies. We hope you all enjoy the movie 🎥📹📽

Egyptian Museum comes to Life

Wed, 17 May 2023 14:37:43 GMT

Primary 5 have been learning all about the Ancient Egyptians and their way of life. As part of their project work they were allowed to research any aspect of Egypt and bring it to life through their project. I think you will all agree each project has been planned, researched and developed magnificently. Well done Primary 5 😊

Dash Coding

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:47:20 GMT

P5's Excellent coding skills were in top gear while learning how to Code using Dash (our coding Robots) through Blockly. The children learned the basics of programming using the drag and drop language of Blockly. They were taught the fundamental programming concepts through interactive exercises without the need to write out programming syntax. This is an intuitive way to code which will help build the skills they need to get started in programming 💻 🤗

Block programming allowed the children to create scripts and programs by using visual blocks and also gave opportunities to debug programmes 🦠

Blockly includes everything you need for defining and rendering blocks in a drag-n-drop editor. Each block represents a chunk of code that can be easily stacked and translated into code.

The children really enjoyed coding Dash to respond to their clap and tell them a 'Knock Knock' joke 😆

Amazing work P5 👍🏻

Easter Art Baskets 🧺

Sun, 4 Jun 2023 11:45:48 GMT

We hope you all have a very Happy Restful Easter 🐣🐣 P5 really enjoyed Sinead McDermott's online Art Webinar. The art skills displayed were excellent and the children really engaged and listened well to produce wonderful Easter egg Baskets using oil pastels and paints 🥚 🪺 🥚🐣🙌🏻

Collective Nouns

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:12:17 GMT

Primary 5 have been busy learning all about collective Nouns. They explored games using ICT, they played memory games to match the noun pictures to their meaning and they even had time for a Jenga Game which asked them questions all about collective Nouns. Excellent work Primary 5 🙌🏻

Egyptian Jewellery Fact Finding

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:19:37 GMT

Primary 5 are finding out new and interesting facts on Egyptian Jewellery. Take a look at some of their fact finding posters which they created during ICT. They are so excited to now begin to create some fabulous Egyptian Jewellery themselves using the information they found 😊

Primary 5’s Mr Skip by Michael Morpurgo

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:31:11 GMT

Primary 5 are really enjoying their class novel, Mr Skip. They worked hard to make posters including interesting adjectives using Pic Collage and they wrote super descriptions all about him.

Enjoy looking through all this fabulous work they have produced throughout the weeks.

Keep up the hard work Primary 5.