This afternoon we have been learning about the pastimes of the ancient Egyptians. We played the board game senet.

P5 have thoroughly enjoyed their water safety lessons at GHS. Thank you to @graemehighschool.bsky.social and Mrs Stronach and Miss Hurst for making this possible.

P5 will have PE on Monday next week instead of Wednesday. This is a one-off timetable change.

We did the live lesson for Earth Day today.

Congratulations to these pupils who walked to school every day last week.

A sneak peek at our preparations for our assembly. We can’t thank Cameron from YMI enough for helping us with this particular part. We can’t wait to show you next week. @mrsclarkhps.bsky.social

Congratulations to this pupil who won a medal at his Judo competition and is moving up a belt!

We have been exploring symmetry on the iPads. We even transferred our topic learning to create symmetrical ankh and pyramid designs.

Well done P5C! Your pebble party which will take place tomorrow afternoon. Pupils requested an electronics and PJs party. School iPads will be available and pupils will have access to their phones at this time. Other electronics brought in at pupil’s own risk. A change of comfy clothes is optional.

In P5C we have ‘pharaohed’ ourselves! Don’t we look fantastic?

P5 enjoyed reading with Mrs Manning on Monday

Congratulations to this pupil who did a fantastic job representing our class at the Whole School Scottish Assembly. Despite feeling quite shy, she did a fabulous job of reciting our class poem The Clype by Shane Strachan to the whole school in a loud, clear voice.

We finished up our Water topic by looking at the journey of water. We took notes on a video we watched and then produced these fabulous flow diagrams to show what happens at each stage.

More P5 Christmas Party fun - congas, breakdancing, snowball fights and a Mexican wave! @mrsraehps.bsky.social

P5 smashed their party this morning. Fabulous dancing, great participation and such lovely sportsmanship during the games. Well done everyone ❤️ @mrsclarkhps.bsky.social

Remember it’s your Christmas party tomorrow P5. Can’t wait to learn some dance moves from you and to see the dances you’ve been learning in PE this month. @mrsclarkhps.bsky.social @mrsstronachhps.bsky.social

P5C created these lovely Christmas tree tessellations.

Merry Grinchmas from P5C!

Children in P5 can wear their Christmas jumpers/accessories on Wednesday, 10.12.25. The P5 classes are looking forward to sharing their singing, glockenspiel playing and ringing the sleigh bells with the other children in the school. @mrsclarkhps.bsky.social

Well done to this pupil who designed the best Pudsey in our class!

We have been learning about Buoyancy this week.Today we learned about the Archimedes Principle and then we designed boats.

This week we continued our Water topic. In this experiment, we were demonstrating how clouds become saturated with water, causing precipitation.

This pupil completed our first Autumn Street Safari challenge by finding a red leaf. @hallglenprimaryeco.bsky.social

Happy Hallowe’en from a scary P5C! 👻🎃🧙‍♀️

These pupils completed our next Autumn Street Safari challenge by hugging a tree. @hallglenprimaryeco.bsky.social

This pupil completed our first Autumn Street Safari challenge by finding a pretty feather. @hallglenprimaryeco.bsky.social

For our Water Topic we have been learning about the water cycle. Ask us about evaporation, condensation and precipitation.

Our Climate Action Week grass heads are needing a hair cut!

For the final day of Climate Action Week, we planted these fun grass heads.we can’t wait to give them their first hair cut!

As part of Climate Action Week we have been learning about Sustainable Development Goal: Climate Action. We watched a video about how we could make a difference and then made our own pledges.

This week in Maths we have been learning about 3D shapes.

Today we have been researching the job of an archaeologist and then we drew the list city from our class novel.

This week, we met with P5R to gather all of our ideas for our Water topic. We looked at the learning we had to achieve and the children had some great ideas for experiments and STEM activities. Mrs Rae and I are excited to plan these lessons!

In P.E., P5C have been measuring their progress in fitness. We learned how to measure our heart rate and set personal targets 🫀💪 @mrsclarkhps.bsky.social

Just a reminder that children who wish to take part in Basketball trials after school tomorrow must have their online form completed. Children who are not registered will be sent home as normal at 3pm.

This week we continued to read our class novel and we have been researching the animals of the rainforest. Today we created a factfile about the red eyes tree frog.

It’s forecast to be another hot and sunny day. Please remember sunscreen, a hat and a water bottle @hallglenps.bsky.social ☀️

We continued our mini rainforest topic this week. We have learned about the water cycle, where rainforests are located and about the different layers of the rainforest. We then created these wonderful oil pastel rainforest snakes.

Our PE days for P5C are Tuesday and Wednesday. Please ensure that children come to school with suitable clothing and shoes on these days. Many thanks for your continued support.

It was lovely to see the children all back and looking so smart in their uniforms.

We are so proud of the hard work that the children have put into their Titanic books. Thank you for coming along to support them. They loved sharing their learning with you. @mrsraehps.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who came to the P5 &P4/5 Titanic event today. We hope you enjoyed the sharing of our learning from this term. I am beyond proud of how much our classes have embraced this topic and hope you are proud of the hard work they shared with you today. @mrsclarkhps.bsky.social

Thank you to Captain Sean for a lovely day of Titanic. @mrsraehps.bsky.social

Captain Sean visited us today for a full day of everything Titanic. It was such a fun filled day with too many photos to share. They will be on display at the P5/4 and P5R parent event on Monday, 16.06.25 from 1.30pm. We look forward to telling you all about it then. @mrsclarkhps.bsky.social

We had a lovely time today with S3 GHS STEM. We learned about animal adaptations, looked at the skulls of herbivores, carnivores and omnivores and then tried different types of pincer grip tools to see how different beak shapes are useful for different diets.

More Light Lab fun