P5B 2023/24

Please, if you have not yet signed up for a slot for our Titanic Escape Room Experience, please sign up here or get in touch with Mrs McQuigg, who can help you book a slot.

Please have a look at this term's Curriculum Overview.

Please just ask if you have any questions and  thank you so much for all your support throughout the year. 26/04/24

Congratulations to Jessica! She is our Star of the Week for her improved writing. Jessica is a very enthusiastic writer and has great imagination and creativity. Her self assessment was great too. Well done Jessica! We are very proud of you! 26/04/24

We had a fabulous time with Scottish Ballet! We completed their Swan Lake workshop. 26/04/24

Well done Lotte! Lotte is our Star of the Week for her fabulous improvement in maths. Great work Lotte! We are very proud of you and the hard work that you have put in. 19/04/24

Welcome back to our new term! It has been a great week and lovely to see everyone back again.

We are very proud of Lotte and Hope, who played at our end of term assembly in Easter.

Well done girls. You played really well and displayed a lot of confidence. 

We created Easter cards this week. Have a great holiday and Happy Easter everyone!

Looking forward to seeing you all back when you return. 28/03/24

Wow! We brought in decorated eggs for our Easter competition and they were amazing! Thank you to everyone who took part. Choosing winners seemed like an impossible job. Well done everyone!

A special congratulations to Reuben, who got first prize for his fabulous Titanic inspired egg design. What a lot of detail you put into the design of it Reuben. Well done!

Second prize went to Louis, for his fabulous farm animals inspired design. Well done Louis!

It was so difficult to choose winners, we had three fabulous third place prizes. 

Well done to Martha, Lexie and Betsy. Your designs were creative and fabulous!

28/03/24

It was Epilipsy Awareness Day this week. P6 pupils organised a special assembly to help us learn more about it. Thank you very much! Your assembly was fabulous P6.  28/03/24

Congratulations to Skylah,  Sarah and Louisa.

They achieved third place in the Girls P4/5 category at the McRobert cup. You represented your school fabulously and demonstrated fabulous sportsmanship while you were there too.

Well done girls! We are very proud of you!

You are all Mr Garden's Star Pupils this month too. Congratulations to all of you!

Congratulations to Jamie and Emma! They are our Star pupils!

Jamie is our Star pupil for her fabulous maths work and increased confidence in maths. It is wonderful to see. 

 Emma is our Star Pupil for her fabulous attitude to learning. You always work hard in every curricular area and you are a great role model to others. 

Well done girls, we are very proud of you both.  22/03/24

We have had a great time preparing our own special Titanic themed project. 22/03/24

We have been exploring perspective in art. We have been experimenting with the medium of pastel too. We are very proud of the finished results! We created artwork of the Titanic leaving Southhampton.  22/03/24

Thank you so much to everyone who managed to join us for our Open Morning on Wednesday. It was fabulous to see you all. We hope that you all enjoyed yourself as much as we did. 22/03/24

As part of RSHP, we were discussing equality and fairness this week. As it was World Poetry Day, we created our own poem to the celebrate positive changes we believe would make the work a better place. 

Well done to Freyja, Reuben, Betsy and Felix who read out our poem at assembly. It takes a lot of confidence to do that and you all read it fabulously. We are proud of you all.  22/03/24

Congratulation Reuben.

Reuben is our Star of the Week for his fabulous effort, hard work and concentration in maths. Well done Reuben. We are all very proud of you. 15/03/24

We had a fabulous day raising money for Comic Relief today. Thank you so much to everyone for your kind donations. We will post the final total on the main blog. 15/03/24

Calvin is our Star of the Week this week for his fabulous maths. Well done Calvin! We are very proud of you. 08.03.24

Emma took in fabulous resources from home, all about the Titanic. The resources were from the Titanic Museum in Belfast. We loved seeing them. Thank you so much Emma! They will be very useful to look throughout our Topic. 08.03.24

We had a great time solving the mystery of Humpty Dumpty. We solved the clues to  solve the mystery and find the password to escape our Escape Room! All groups managed to escape within 45 minutes. They did really well! 08/03/24

Well done Stanley and Skylah. They are our Star Pupil!

Stanley is our Star Pupil for his fabulous maths skills. 

Skylah is our Star pupil for her fabulous imagination, creativity and enthusiasm.

Well done to you both. We are very proud of you!

We are very proud of our models, depicting what first, second and third class cabins found in the Titanic looked like. 01/03/24

Congratulations to Emma! Emma is our Star of the Week this Week. Emma is our Star this week because of her conscientiousness. She consistently concentrates and gives of her best, doing more than is asked of her. Well done Emma. We are very proud of you. 16/02/24

Pancake Day! We learned about Shrove Tuesday and Lent and celebrated Pancake Day by eating pancakes! 16/02/24

One of our school values is Love. We celebrated Valentine's Day by creating messages of support to Refugees. 16/02/24

We are having a great time creating models of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd class cabins in the Titanic. We learned about the decoration, materials, patterns and fabrics they used.  16/02/24

Congratulations Zander! Zander is our Star of the Week for improved concentration. Your focus has been great this week! Well done Zander! We are all very proud of you. 09/02/24

We created doodle art for Mental Health Week 09/02/24

We had fun expressing ourselves today! 09/02/24

We created self portraits, displaying our outward appearance and our inner self, for Mental Health Week. 09/02/24

We gave Mindfulness a go for Mental Health Week 09.02.24

It has been Mental Health week this week. We spoke about the fact we are all very precious and unique and we wrote thank you letters to someone who helped remind us that we matter. We spoke about how important is is to treat each other with kindness and respect. 09.02.24

Congratulations to Rory, Katie, Willow and Phoenix. They are our Star Pupils!

Rory was nominated for his fabulous basketball skills

Katie was nominated for her fabulous story-writing skills, consistent hard work and effort.

Willow was nominated for her fabulous phonics work and improved maths skills.

Phoenix was nominated for his increased confidence and fabulous contributions to group discussions. 

We have been learning about the importance of friendships and what qualities make a good friend. We identified these qualities in each other. 02.02.24

We celebrated the birthday of the famous poet Robert Burns by having a recital of Burn's poerty and having party food!  We had a great afternoon. We learned about the history of our famous bard and ended the day with a sing along of, 'Auld Lang Syne.' 26/01/24

Well done Willow!

Willow is our Star of the Week for her fabulous phonics work, hard work and effort. Great work Willow! We are very proud of you! 26/01/24

We investigated how shape affects an objects ability to float. We created shapes out of clay, to see how long they float for. We learned that flatter shapes would float for longer, as the weight was more spread out. 26/01/24

Well done Freyja! 

Freyja is our Star of the Week for her fabulous maths work. Her hard work and concentratio is excellent. Well done Freyja! We are every proud of you! 

We have been learning all about the Titanic. We explored materials which float and sink. We learned that different materials will float and some will sink. We learned that some objects, made from the same material, may float or sink depending on their surface area. 

Please find attached the Curriculum Overview for the fabulous class that is P5B.

Please just ask if you have any questions and, as always, thank you very much to all of you for your support.

Mrs McQuigg

Sarah is our Star of the Week for her fabulous enthusiasm in class. Well done Sarah! We are very proud of you. 

Freya made a fabulous project all about hedgehogs, which she shared with the class. Well done Freya! 18/01/24

Fun in the snow! 18/01/24

Happy New Year everyone!

It has been lovely being back and seeing everyone again after the holidays. 

We learned how to register a charity in Scotland this week and we developed our own charities.

 The children decided who their charity was going to help, what their charity would do to help and the resources that they would need. They decided on a name and location for their charity and they designed a logo for their charity too. They discussed how they would raise money for their charity too. They did a great job! 12/01/24

Congratulations to Emily! Emily is our Star Pupil because she demonstrates our school values so well. She always treats others with kindness and respect. Well done Emily, we are very proud of you!

We sang Christmas songs on stage at Assembly this week. Mrs Prentice and I were very proud of you all! 

Thank you so much to everyone who came to support us as we sang in Eastgate Shopping Centre today. We made an incredible £127.44 for MFR Cash for Kids and the Highland Hospice. The money will be split equally between the two charities. Thank you so much to everyone for your generosity too. We hope all of you who were able to come along enjoyed it. 

P5, we are very very proud of you all. You all did so well!

What a brilliant Christmas party we had! Thank you so much to everyone who provided food. There was more than enough for everyone so thank you so much for your generosity. We will be enjoying some of the left overs next week in class too.

Well done Betsy!

Betsy is our Star of the Week for her fabulous descriptive writing. Well done Betsy! We are very proud of you! 01.12.23

We are getting into the festive spirit. We decorated our Christmas tree today and opened up Day 1 of our advent calendar. 1/12/23

Congratulations Martha!

Martha is our Star of the Week this week for the fabulous description in her writing.
Well done Martha! We are very proud of you!

24/11/23

We had our last session with Feis Rois this week. 

A special thank you to Hope, Myla and Skylah for performing the violin for us. We are very proud of you girls! Well done!

24/11/23

Congratulations to Irem!

Irem is our Star Pupil for his fabulous first week in Lochardil. We are so pleased to have him as part of our Lochardil family.

He has settled in so well!  Well done Irem!

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped us raise an amazing £589.67 for Children in Need.

Whether you provided baking,  donated money, donated your time and got involved, we would like to say a massive thank you to all.

We had a fabulous day and we hope you enjoy seeing photos from our stalls on Friday!

Congratulations to Myla! Myla is Mrs McQuigg's Star of the Week for the fabulous description in her writing. Well done Myla! We are all very proud of you! 10/11/23

A massive thank you to everyone who donated a shoebox for this year's Blythswood Shoebox Appeal. We collected 49 all together. Thank you for making this Christmas an extra special one for those in need. 10/11/23

We have been learning about the work of Poppy Scotland in the lead up to Remembrance Day. We have started to create poppy artwork. We were concentrating on our observation skills, how to hold a pencil and creating areas of light and dark. 10/11/23

We are running a Children in Need fundraiser for the school next Thursday and Friday. We are really looking forward to it! We have been working in groups to plan, prepare and lead fun activities for the whole school to take part in - all for a great cause! 10/11/23

Please find attached below our Learning overview for Term 2.

Please just ask if you have any questions and thank you so much to you all for your continued support.

Congratulations Lexie! Lexie is our Star of the Week for her fabulous reading work.  She has been working so hard and her confidence has grown so much, it is lovely to see. Well done Lexie! We are all very proud of you! 03/11/23

We created our own Blythswood shoeboxes for the Blythswood Shoebox Appeal. We learned that some boys and girls in Eastern Europe are in need of essential items including soap, toothbrush and toothpaste and underwear. It can be cold in Eastern Europe, so we added hats, scarves and gloves for them too. We enjoyed making our boxes and have created special pictures for the children who will be receiving our gifts. We want them to know that we are thinking of them. 

We made our own human piano during Feis Rois. It was great fun! 03/11/23

We had a visit from My World of Work this week.  We developed our coding skills and learned how to correctly programme our lego robots to move. 03/11/23

We are helping to organise this years Blythswood Shoebox appeal in school. We woudl like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has donated so far.

Please remember that they are due in next Friday, 03/11/23

Congratulations James! He is our Star of the Week for his fabulous effort and work in maths this week. Great work James! We are very proud of you!

We have been learning about the work of Poppy Scotland and Remembrance Day. We have been studying the poem 'In Flanders Field' By John McCrae

This week we were creating our own compositions! We created our own 8 beat rhythms with Feis Rois!

Happy holidays everyone! 

It's been a great term. Have a great rest and I am looking forward to seeing you all back soon!

Lots of love,

from Mrs McQuigg and Georgia

Congratulations Hope! Hope is our Pupil of the Month for her fabulous creativity. Her imaginative stores are fabulous and she is creating an amazing theatre out of cardboard in her free time at school. Well done Hope! We are all very proud of you!

We made popcorn! We used a mixture of different spices and herbs to create our own flavours of popcorn. Cinnamon and nutmeg were popular choices. Some of us love spicy flavours and tried chilli flakes, paprika and cumin too!

This week's news:

We were delighted by Hope's story telling skills. She always leaves the story on a very exciting cliffhanger and we can't wait to hear more!

James went on a bat walk and was delighted to spot lots of bats! Well done James! He got a special badge as a reward.

Louis was delighted to find a very special clover in our school garden!  06/10/23

We had a fabulous session with Feis Rois on Tuesday. We learned all about dynamics. We composed our own music, deciding when the music will get louder and quieter.

We have been focusing on the sound 'ble' on our spelling this week.  

We are very proud of Reuben and Emma's achievements this week!

Reuben made a fabulous wind chime using natural materials at home and Emma has received her National Indoor Climbing Award Scheme Level 1. Well done to you both!

Thank you so much to Sitakumari and P7a, who put on a fabulous dance performance for us today, based on the Heartstone Odyssey. 29/09/23