We had a great time at the Easter raffle today. Happy Easter everyone and have a good holiday!

During Lent we have been walking daily to cover the distance of the Blue Nile for SCIAF -approximately 900 miles. Amazingly we have walked more than 973 miles!!! We would appreciate any donations as we plan on creating a coin trail tomorrow (Wednesday 1st April).

We have been learning about World of Work and the skills required to do different jobs. We have been architects and built our own playgrounds, interviewed as journalists, created and budgeted menus as chefs and planned holidays as travel agents.

A little change… P5 will have PE with Mr McDonald tomorrow in place of today. PE kits may be worn again tomorrow (12.03.26)🏃‍♂️

We had a super World Book Day in P5H. Our highlights were participating in an Author’s Live, solving some tricky emoji riddles and creating our own characters using Padlet, all in the comfort of our cosy Pjs! 📚

Can we kindly request that all children bring an indoor pair of shoes to wear in class. We would like to protect the P5 classroom carpet which was replaced last year. Thank you for your continued support.

Finally we explored colour changing reactions and reactions with a catalyst 🥼

Some super scientists investigating reactions and analysing results in our experiments 🧪

We are investigating chemical reactions 🥼🧪🧫

We are investigating the ph levels of different solids and liquids! We identified how acidic each substance is!

What a fantastic surprise for P5 this morning. We have transformed into scientists and are taking part in a science workshop with Edinburgh Generation Science 🔬🧬🥼

Spelling words for this week P5H. Remember to bring in your favourite book tomorrow 😊📚

We have been exploring how to find scripture in The Bible. We can use the contents page to find a book, chapter and verse and together we read all about The Temptation of Jesus 📔

A super hard worker taking pride in his work!

Next week, we will be celebrating World Book Day (5th March 2026.) Please can P5H pupils bring their favourite book to school on Monday 2nd March, to share in class as a reading task. 📚

We have been learning all about micro-organisms in science. We worked hard to research and take notes and are busy creating posters to share facts on these tiny living things!

P5H - here are your spelling words for this week.

This week primary 5 have been learning about Lent. We have explored the importance of prayer, fasting and almsgiving and have created our own promises to help us to be close to Jesus at this time. 🙏🧎‍♀️‍➡️🤲

Last week we enjoyed an Author Live event in celebration of Reading Schools Week #Readingschoolsweek @mrsb-stp.bsky.social

We have been learning all about Romero Britto and created our own neo pop art!

Silence and complete focus from everyone on multiplication work this morning. P5 are working so hard #achieveing

Tin whistle 2026

Usual atlases and iPads to research cities, lochs and famous places to label our maps of Scotland.

Spelling - Week beginning 12th January 2026

More party fun!!!! 🧑‍🎄 Christmas 🎄

Christmas Party 🥳 fun!!

Friday morning tin whistle time! 🤗

We have had some great discussions about what life was like for children during the Industrial Revolution. Today we looked at primary sources (photos) and used the See, Think , Wonder routine which provoked many thoughts and ideas 💭 #makingthinkingvisible

Spelling words for this week.

Primary 5 being super competitive this week using #blooket to help learn our times tables.

We have enjoyed working on our Meta Skills through learning Spanish #primary3f #spanish #metaskills #focusingfergus and #collaboratingcate

P5 spelling words for this week.

Thank you to all the parents and grandparents that attended our open morning. The children really enjoyed having you there to see their learning! 😁 #talkforwriting

Halloween and first tin whistle lesson ever! What a combination!!! 😁😉😜

Deep focus and concentration while planning our cold piece. I can’t wait to read these portal stories #talkforwriting

Working collaboratively on our Maths challenge today ☺️

Cantando los nűmeros en español

Data Handling today for maths.

More #teambuilding for PE this week.

Such focus during numeracy time today #placevalue

Acting out our new model text #talk4writing #theoldwarehouse