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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!

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!

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.

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!

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 🎥📹📽

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 👍🏻