P5/6/7

Every week we will upload some 'ask me' statements to help inspire conversations at home and in the community about what we have been learning. 

w/c 27th November 2025

We have had a spooktacular start to the term. Crunch'em Hall has been transformed into a haunted house.

This week, we have been learning about eerie idioms. Ask me to tell you what an idiom is and when we might use it in our writing.

In art, we used watercolour inks to paint bats. They look fantastic and even have glow-in-the-dark eyes! I wouldn't want to be the cleaner walking in when it's dark!

For maths this week, we consolidated different maths concepts to crack a code to find the punch line to a Halloween-themed joke. Ask me about the different Halloween jokes.

Today, we are attending a virtual Adobe Express workshop to a create spine-tingling digital treat. Ask me to show you what I designed. 

w/c 6th October 2025

The internet was up and running again for us to create an infographic poster about Scotland using Adobe Express. We learned how to adjust the opacity of photos and a magic trick, how to make pie charts, bar charts, and progress donuts with just the click of a button. Adobe even did the calculations for us! Ask me to show you what I designed - graphic designers in the making.

In PE, we learned a new dance in preparation for Halloween. Ask me to do a demonstration.

For reading and writing this week, we wrote a cartoon strip about the chapter 'The Weekly Test'. First, we had to think about the key events in the chapter, then translate them into a cartoon. Ask me about the cartoon I created. It was a lot trickier than we anticipated.

Wishing everyone a wonderful October holiday. Thank you for your positive attitudes and eagerness to learn. Looking forward already to our first week back, you all know I love autumn, so I have a few things up my sleeve. 

w/c 22nd September 2025

 This week, we used the First News printables and digital learning platform to enhance our reading comprehension and vocabulary skills. We completed different comprehension activities and puzzles linked to this week's headlines. Some of us also participated in a newspaper scavenger hunt.  Ask me about the different reading activities I completed, as well as one of the stories I read or watched. Believe it or not, sheep toothpaste is going to be hitting the shelves in 2027!

For maths, we participated in the Sumdog and Times Table Rocks Maths Week competitions. We also used a deck of cards to play 'Rounding Bingo'. Ask me how to play the game.

In writing, we wrote about the day we were sent to the dreaded Chokey. We had to imagine ourselves in the Chokey and describe our experience using all our senses. We will be recording our stories for our interactive Crunch 'em Hall display. Ask me to tell you what I saw, heard, felt, tasted, and smelled.

We got our Wellbeing Warrior heads together and planned our first Snack-tember campaign. Next week, we will have a snack station at second break to encourage everyone to eat a healthy snack. And guess what, it's free!  Ask me about the snacks we have decided to offer. 

w/c 15th September

This week, we explored the formidable character, Miss Trunchbull. Using a collaborative space on Teams, we collected words and phrases from the text to describe her. We then played Trunchbull Bingo with our own descriptions. Ask me for a word or phrase that describes Miss Trunchbull!

In math, we reinforced our understanding of how to round numbers. Ask me about the rule and the numbers I rounded.

Following on from our writing last week, we wrote a diary from Matilda's perspective. This week, our focus was to use adverbs to describe Miss Trunchbull's actions.​ Ask me to uplevel this sentence using an adverb - 'Miss Trunchbull walked into the classroom'.​

We also began exploring First News digital pages. We had a great time playing the various games that are updated weekly. The crossword was a firm favourite, as was the colour Sudoku and word search.  Ask me the game I enjoyed and whether I managed to complete the number Sudoku - it was tricky.

w/c 8th September

Our book club started this week! Each week, we will dedicate time to share the books we are reading at home and discuss various elements of the stories. Next week, we will focus on the main characters in our chosen books. Ask me to discuss the characters in the book I am reading in preparation for next week's book blether.

In maths, we continued to work on place value, exploring the power of 10 and did some quick-fire mental maths whilst reading Matilda. Ask me to calculate 14 x 19 is and see if I can calculate it as quickly as Matilda!

For writing, we wrote a diary extract from Miss Honey's point of view. Our learning intention was to use emotive language and adverbs to open our sentences. Ask me to complete this sentence. Astonishingly....

For reading, we discussed what makes books magical. Ask me to tell you the example I shared - Books are magical because...

Please remember PE kits on a Wednesday and Friday, thank you.

w/c 1st September

This week, we completed our impressive book tower, inspired by the front cover of Matilda. The tower is composed of our favourite books, along with the blurbs we wrote last week. Ask me to share my blurb.

In maths, we consolidated our understanding of place value. We applied our mathematical knowledge and skills when the 'tattie holidays' arrived early at Skene! Ask me how many tatties we managed to dig up and how much they weighed.

We also explored profit and loss using Mr Wormwood's sales figures!

For reading, we compared the characters Matilda and Mr Wormwood. Ask me to share their personality traits and the WOW words we used to describe Mr Wormwood. Next week, we will be exploring the characters in the book we are reading for enjoyment.

We also wrote Wanted posters to catch Matilda after she played 'appalling' pranks on her family. Ask me about the descriptive phrases and humorous language I used.

w/c 25th August 

The summer holidays are now a distant memory, and the learning in P567 is full steam ahead!

This week, we have been learning how to summarise after reading and how to write an effective blurb. We will be using our blurbs to create a book tower for Matilda. Ask me to tell you the features of a blurb and to summarise the chapter, ‘Mr Wormwood the Great Car Dealer’.

In maths, we have been consolidating the properties of 2D shapes. We have also been learning about the different types of triangles. Ask me if a triangle can ever have two right angles and why/why not.

Our focus this term is to foster a love of reading. We have all visited the library to choose a book, which will be our reading homework for this term.  The children will complete comprehension activities in class using their chosen book or a book they are enjoying at home. Ask me to share the next chapter of my book with you and to summarise it.

The children have worked wonders in the school garden! There might be a little treat in store for them today. 

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Monday 15th – Tuesday 23rd April, reported by Blair

We had a busy start back to school as there was a big leak in the port-a-cabin so we now have our classroom in the gym hall.  I quite like it there because we can play games if we need a brain break.

In Science, we were learning about wind power.  We had to make our own our windmills and used a hair drier for the wind.  We were testing how fast it can go.

In Maths, we are learning about coordinates.  We have been playing four in a row – we have to say where we are putting the cone using coordinates.  Whoever got four in a row first was the winner.  We played a game in pairs where we had to create the coordinates to spell a certain word; I did it for Harry Kane, my third favourite footballer.  We also played Battleships and used the Beebots.

We have been writing about Chapter 11 of How to Train your Dragon.  We also used this for comprehension and we had to write in sentences.

Wednesday 6th March – Tuesday 12th March, reported by Ursula 

We have been writing stories about Hiccup when Toothless woke up, inspired by our class novel, How to Train Your Dragon.  In my story, Toothless wanted fish and he wanted to eat the cat which is called Fiddlesticks! They took Toothless into the Vast Room where there were mice so he could eat them!

In computing science we have been using the Microbits.  On Thursday, we used code to make our own ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ game.  You can play against others – you have to shake the Microbit and it decides rock, paper or scissors.  It was great fun!

In Science we had to make a fan spin – we had to make a circuit and then attach it to the fan.

In Maths, my group are learning to subtract from near thousands using the written method.

Wednesday 28th February – Tuesday 5th March, reported by Grace

We have been making Wellbeing Warrior posters to remind everyone about Healthy Tuck Shop and our current mission, Eat them to Defeat them.

In Science, we have been exploring electricity.  We made our own ‘buzzer’ games but with a light.  You needed a steady hand to make sure that the hook did not touch the wire otherwise the light would go on.

In Maths, we have been enjoying some SAMSON mental maths and this week the focus has been taking away.

On Monday, we were learning about Norse language and the Runic alphabet. Can you guess who is behind the name?

We enjoyed ‘Break the Rules Day’ on 29th February – everybody loved the bouncy castle in the gym hall.  My favourite rules to break were the bouncy castle and not wearing school uniform for the day. 

Monday 19th – Tuesday 27th February, reported by Nell

We have started our Bible Alive sessions and yesterday we had one with Callum and Pauline.  We explored 2 stories from the Old Testament, one that included 3 women called Ruth, Naomi and Esther.

In Maths, we have been sorting out the popularity of sports.  9 people liked football.  We then used the Chromebooks and Just2data to record our findings.

In Technology sessions we have been using Microbits. We made a pedometer with it and recorded our steps.

Linking to our topic, we have designed and created our own dragons this week.

My mum has been making dragon eggs with my class – we got to choose if we had a secret opening at the bottom or not.  We made a pattern using different tools.  It was good to have my  mum in school :). 

On Monday 19th February we continued our intergenerational work with a visit to Pitcairn Lodge. We entertained the residents with some Just Dance and played a variety of interactive games with them too.  We have volunteered to help the staff and residents with their garden in the coming weeks and months. 

w/c Monday 8th January 2024, reported by Bailey and Dillon

Happy New Year from P4/5!

Our new topic is the Vikings.  This week we have been making dragon eggs from Paper Mache – it was messy but fun!! We started reading How to train your Dragon and we read Hiccups note.

Look at some of the fantastic WOW words we came up with for our writing!!! 

On Thursday afternoon we were coding using Microbits.

• “I made a bigger heart and a smaller heart and made it flash between the two.”  Dillon.

• “Matilda and I made an M and a B for the first letters of our names.” Bailey

In Maths, we were playing Education City to practise our skills.

w/c Monday 27th November, reported by Murray

On Monday afternoon we visited Pitcairn Lodge and sang 3 songs to the residents – Donald fars your troosers, Northern Lights of Auld Aberdeen and Scotland the Brave.  Afterwards we played games with the old people.  I played Balloon Tennis, Air Hockey and Four in a Row.  I also had a chat with an old lady called Maureen, she was very nice and said that she once visited the Queen!

On Wednesday, we planted 500 bulbs by the fence where the field is.  We had help from the Garioch Ranger to do this.  We are excited for Spring to see the bulbs flowering.

We were playing games on Just 2 Easy which was great fun!  One of the games was like coding and we had to get the spaceship to visit all of the planets and then return to the moon.

In PE, we played Ghost Busters and Musical Arms.  Since it was St Andrews Day, we also had 500 miles playing.

w/c Monday 20th November, reported by Grayson

Over the last two days we have been writing stories about James and the Giant Peace – the peace has even gone into New York!  Next, we are going to write newspaper reports to share that the peace has landed on top of the Empire State Building!!!

In Maths, we have been learning about multiplication sums to do calculations such as 74 x 3.  Some are quite hard and others less so, we are getting the hang of it!

In Science, we have been zooming in on mosquito carcases with the microscopes.

On Thursday morning, we arrived in a whirlwind due to the weather.  We were chasing greenhouses, hunting for missing plant pots and using bamboo sticks/litter pickers to get pots out from under the ramp.  What an adventure!

We finished the week with a fun Kahoot quiz!

w/c Monday 6th November, reported by Cody

On Monday, we were completing our Daily Maths workout which makes us think as it has a little bit of everything in it!

We took part in the Great Bat Flying STEM Challenge – we had to make the wings move without touching them.  I put string on both wings and some in the middle so that I could pull the string and that made the wings flap.

In writing, we had to write four facts about our type of spider, my one was a fishing spider.  One of my facts is: the fishing spiders hairy legs can repel water so that it doesn’t get wet!

We created spider webs out of three sticks.  We had to make a structure and then wrap/weave the string around it by going over then under, over then under and on to the next one – this was to make the silk.  We hung the finished webs at the top of the ramp – they look great!