APS P5 2017-18

This week Primary 5 took part in various activities as part of our STEM focus week. Our activities consisted of building the tallest, free-standing tower out of paper.  We were limited to the amount of paper we were allowed to use and the amount of tape. We found the challenge particularly difficult because we did not ration our materials.  It was a great learning experience.  Mrs Scott gave us a second chance at the activity, however, this time we had greater success. Not only did we learn about the importance of the structure, the design and base of the tower but we also learned about team effort, equal participation and positive encouragement to our peers. We all absolutely loved the task. Our second task was designing a structure that would hold an egg (which hadn't been boiled...eek!) The structure was made from only two materials; spaghetti and marshmallows.  We all originally thought this task was going to be easy.  However, it was the complete opposite.  We learned

What an eventful Respect Me Week we had. We had many visitors to our class during this week who helped us to learn about; Respecting ourselves, Respecting Others and Respecting our Environment. We spent the entire week getting to know/playing with people that we wouldn't normally play with.  We also had an amazing afternoon playing with people from other classes. Our highlight of the week was a visit from Corinne from Finding Your Feet.  She taught us that we can achieve if we put our mind to it and that although we may look different we are all equal.

This term we have been learning about Space.  Our maths has been taught through the topic, which we have loved. We have been learning about;  angles, compass points, directions, coordinate points on grids, 2D and 3D shape and numbers beyond 1000. We all loved learning our maths through the context of Space .

We have blown Mrs Scott away with our outstanding skills at gymnastics.  We have been working on; balancing, rolls and using a variety of apparatus to improve our strength and flexibility.