P5/P6

Amy Funnell from Sustrans came out to teach us all about the history of the bicycle 

We all recently enjoyed our shared education Healthy Kidz session down in the Moy Presbyterian church hall with P5 from St John’s

Ordering Angles
P5 worked together to order these angles by their size to show the progression of smallest to biggest.

P6 pupils enjoyed using this Active Maths Gameboard to identify and name the different types of angles.

We learned about general homophone words. They sound the same, but have different spellings and meanings. We found the homophone words which matched our meanings cards. Then we found the matching pairs of these examples and made a set.

We all went on a ‘Welly Walk Adventure’ around our school grounds and forest area. It was fun to go exploring out in the fresh air and play games in our forest. The Popcorn game and Thirteen are two of our favourites.

Types of Angles

We learned about the names and properties of the different types of angles. We looked for examples of angles in our surroundings and were able to form examples of these angles using our angle makers. We used art straws to make an angles poster and sorted angles we were given to create groups. A great job on this learning everyone! Well done!

The Amazing Journey

KS2 were joined today by the brilliant team from The Amazing  Journey. We enjoyed meeting the interesting characters from bible times and hearing their wonderful stories. It was great fun to dress up in the  colourful costumes and we enjoyed getting to sample some of the foods typical of this time. The olives and pineapple were delicious!

Forest Homophones

We had fun in our forest area where we were learning about homophone words. 
We searched the forest floor for matching homophone word leaves to make a pair. We searched for homophones in our Literacy text and recorded these along with other matching homophone words. We found so many! 
Using our text words, we formed matching homophone word groups by hanging word cards beside these examples already displayed on our ‘homophones tree’. It was interesting to think about these word groups and talk about their different spellings and meanings. Fantastic working on this activity everyone! 

Thank you to Gordon Stewart from Dungannon Fire Station, who came out to give a Fire Safety talk 

Dress up day fun

Movie day treats 

S’mores and campfire story fun 

Pupils did a great job of making their own chocolate  apples for Halloween

Halloween Fireworks in Oil Pastel

Well done Holly and Katie, who were our class winners of the Parent Support Group colouring competition 

Well done James, who received an accelerated reader certificate and prize for reading 100,000 words

Forest Mandala Patterns
To celebrate the joys of autumn, we used leaves from the autumn forest floor to create these interesting repeat mandala patterns. The range of colours, shapes and textures you can see is just amazing! Beautiful work everyone!

The Autumn Hedgerow
We used drawing pencils to sketch some items from the autumn hedgerow. We took time to really look at the details and tried to capture these shapes.  Super drawings everyone!

Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs
Following our learning in the forest about different types of words, we paired up and used stickers to label these types of words within sentences strips taken from our Literacy text. 

As part of our Forest Schools Learning, we had brilliant fun using our forest area to learn about types of words which make up our speech, including nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. We were able to use our surroundings to generate so many great examples of interesting language. Well done everyone! 

Peaceplayers weeks 3 and 4 with St John’s PS P5 class, at the Torrent Complex in Donaghmore

Peaceplayers weeks 1 and 2 with St John’s PS P5 class, at the Torrent Complex in Donaghmore

We worked together to make fractions cards to show the different ways we can represent a fraction

Parallel,Perpendicular and Intersecting Lines

P6 pupils have been learning about different types of lines.
We also explored 2D shapes which include these types of lines within their edges.

Maud from Peaceplayers came out to see us to introduce us to the Peaceplayers programme

Some Numeracy games we have played together

We have been learning about putting word lists into alphabetical order at various levels.

Oliver enjoys showing us how he can play his cornet in class. He is coming on so well! Go Oliver!

We enjoy using a variety of fun numeracy materials and game boards to develop our understanding of the mental maths concepts. 

We learned about the 2D shape names and examined their properties. It was fun working in pairs to sort and display the 2D shapes based on the properties indicated at the top of the various sorting diagrams.

Some of the activities that we completed to learn about when capital letters should be used in our writing. We sorted word cards taken from our Literacy text to show those that do / do not need a capital and sorted general word cards into categories within the grid. In groups, we played the capitals categories game where we had to suggest examples of words belonging to that category which need a capital letter. For example, seas, lakes and rivers : Atlantic Ocean.

At Moy Regional, we value the voice of our children and take children’s mental health and well-being very seriously! Pupils have access to a variety of tools which they can use to help them think about and articulate how they are feeling and have knowledge of strategies to help them manage their emotions.