Welcome to our P4/P5 Class Page!

We are so looking forward to making new friends, playing and learning together this year. Keep an eye on our page to see all the fun things we are getting up to!

Our lovely 2025/2026 class of Primary 5. 

We are loving getting together every afternoon and for PE with Mr Hardy!

Fantastic Flying  Angels Procedure writing 

We have been learning about procedural writing. We created amazing flying angels and used our knowledge of the features of procedural writing to write our own clear instructions so others can make the angel too! We recorded them so we could generate a QR code for our display... now everyone can listen to our instructions :)

Ditch The Dark Day

On Tuesday we were delighted to have Dave from Sustrans come into our school again to talk about the importance of Road Safety and how we can choose more 'active' options when it comes to transport. We discussed how we can try to walk more, bike, scoot and even park and stride to help protect our environment, and also how it can keep our bodies and minds healthier. We discussed the importance of being accompanied by an adult if we are ever actively travelling somewhere. We chatted about the do's and don'ts when it comes to being safe on the road, and we discussed the importance of wearing brightly coloured clothing when out and about in the darker evenings of Autumn and Winter. Also - if you are ever out biking, always wear your helmet and remember Dave's 2 finger rule of where it should sit on your head! 

Anti-Bullying Week 2025

We started this year's week with our 'Odd sock's Day' and don't we look fabulous!! Our theme this year is 'Power for Good'... we discussed how we all hold the power for good! Standing up for what is right and always remembering to be kind!

Christmas is here.... not quite!

Mrs Sloan got us in the festive spirit super early this week with our tessellation-themed instructional writing (is it ever too early!?) We had  been working on tessellation in our 2D shape work with Miss Rooney so we linked this to a lovely Christmas tree craft. We did some excellent shared writing on the instructions needed to be able to create a tessellation Christmas tree (complete with lights). The first part was whole class shared writing and then we split into groups to finish the instructions. We then heard each group's text and gave some peer feedback on what features were included really well and those which could make the instructions clearer! Excellent Working with others on this task!!

Right Angle Finding 

In our shape and space learning this week, we have been looking at 'right angles.' We now know that a right angle has 90° ad we can find angles inside shapes, in our classroom, outside and pretty much anywhere! We used our Pac-Man angle finders to search for right angles inside and outside our school. Look at how many we found!! 

3D Shapes & Shape Bingo

We had great fun this week learning about 3D shape. We looked at lots of 3D shapes and discussed their properties. To finish off the lesson, we played Shape Bingo. We had to listen out carefully, as sometimes Miss Rooney either called out the names of the shapes, or, she called out the properties of the shapes which made it a little trickier to look out for. We loved playing Bingo and there were lots of hearts for our jar won and lots of stickers earned too! 

Woolly Hat Day 2025

How good do we look in our woolly hats to support our local charity, Mourne Stimulus! We love taking part in Woolly Hat day each year! 

PSNI visit 

We had Neil and Marie from our local policing team into school on Thursday. They talked to us about road safety, especially in the current dark conditions and they spoke about the dangers of gaming and being online, although most of us don't use online apps just yet. They were so impressed by the knowledge we had on how to keep ourselves safe and shared some really good stories with us!

P5 Fire Safety talk 

We had Mervin and Dave in from Kilkeel Fire station this week to talk to us about Fire safety in the home. It was so interesting to hear how things can happen and what we should do in certain circumstances or if there was a fire emergency in our homes or school. We especially noted the importance of testing our smoke alarms at home and having an 'escape plan' should something ever happen. Although it was very interesting, what we definitely enjoyed most was trying on the fire men uniforms... they are so HEAVY! 

Halloween Fun in P4 & 5

Check out our AMAZING Halloween costumes! Such a fabulous effort made by everyone and what fun we had with our Halloween art, spooky movie and party! 

Prehistoric World.

In our WAU topic we have been learning all about the Prehistoric World. We have especially been focusing on the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. Last week we took a look at Prehistoric Animals. This was very interesting! We could see how some of the animals in todays world are very similar to ones from thousands of years ago! We created some amazing artwork based on this lesson for our class display. Take a look at our amazing work and us in the process of creating it! 

Patterns and relationships problems

This week P4 were working on a patterns problem involving an item getting bigger by a set amount each day... we decided models would make this easier to solve and used unifix cubes, choosing a different colour for each day to help us visualise the solution... we discussed how we could equally use a diagram to help us, but the blocks were fun!

Eco Survey

This week our school Eco team asked that we participate in a survey, run by Stormont, to get our views on how we can help support the environment and what things really matter to us. Some great ideas were shared as part of the online survey which we were able to access using a QR code. 

Working on symmetry!

We had great fun exploring reflective symmetry using mirrors. We looked at the concept of symmetry and worked in pairs to create symmetrical images. We can apply this learning to our 2D shapes to decide if they have symmetry... or not!! 

A fantastic day on our Sponsored walk... we definitely had tired legs afterwards!

Fact or Opinion?

Tessellation 

Today we had great fun in our active numeracy lesson. We learned that tessellation is a pattern made of shapes that fit together perfectly without any gaps or overlaps, covering a surface completely. We used our TSPC skills and decision making when completing this numeracy task to make sure our patterns had no gaps and didn't overlap. Take a look at us below! 

Place Value... What value is the digit? 

We were learning about how our number system works and have discovered all the ways we can represent numbers. We can write in words, in digits, on a spike abacus and as expanded notation using partitioning!! This week we looked at larger numbers and developed our understanding of the value of the digit in a given place. We had great fun using a spike abacus to represent the value and playing 'Wipe out' for numbers up to 4 digits long!!

Tangrams 

This week in our numeracy we were looking at Tangrams. Tangrams are an ancient Chinese puzzle which consist of 7 shapes. With these shapes you can create different pictures. Today we had a go at solving some Tangrams .. it was harder than it looked!! Even Miss Rooney was getting confused! After lots of determination we managed to solve a few. We even had a go at creating our own. 

Dinosaur Challenge

P5 had a self-management challenge for our TSPC focus this week... they had to make the tallest brachiosuarus possible out of only paper and tape... AND it had to stand! It was great fun, but really tested their time-management skills and problem solving!

Using Adobe Express!

In World around us we were introduced to our new topic ‘Prehistoric world’. We did our topic planning noting what we know and what we want to find out. We then explored what exactly was meant by the term ‘Prehistoric’, which really defines a huge chunk of history which occurred before written records. We looked at the methods archaeologists and historians used to discover facts about the prehistoric world. In our ICT time, we explored ADOBE Express to create our own Topic cover page for our books. We learned how to create backgrounds using media, add text and elements. I think you will agree they are amazing!

Summer Scavenger Hunt

We had lots of fun finding out about what everyone got up to this summer... it was a great way to get to know some of our new classmates too!

Sharing our favourite summer memories, through our eyes!

We had great fun creating our first class display of the year! We thought about our favourite memory of the summer and shared this with our class mates. We then drew it in the reflection of our sun glasses to make our funky display.... looking cool!!