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Today year 5/6 had a visit from Lynn Greer, an environmentalist who works with the Pushkin Trust. She talked to us about soil which she called “green gold”.

We learned how precious soil is because only 3% of the world has soil which we can use to grow things. She told us that there are about 12 different types of soil in Ireland.

We had a go at making soil. We added sand, clay, water, small fragments of rock, leaves, air and salt for the minerals. We learned about different vegetables and whether they grow above or below the ground. We also learned about animals which we have in Northern Ireland and whether they live above or below the ground.

Mrs Doherty held a meeting for parents to explain the PIN project which is taking place with Year 2 and Year 5 children within our school. The children will be playing Maths games for 6 weeks in place of written homework. For parents who were unable to attend, please view the presentation to familiarise yourself with the project. Happy gaming!

We have started our buddy reading system in school where Miss Hicks' class read to the children in Mrs Kane's class. The year 4 children have been considering the level of books to choose and will now begin to choose books the children are interested in and will enjoy.

In year 5/6 we are learning about 3D shapes. We have been learning about their properties including how many faces, edges and vertices different shapes have.  We have been completing a challenge to see how many different nets of cubes and pentominoes we can find.  Year 6 have also been constructing nets of shapes such as square based pyramids, pentagonal prisms and tetrahedrons.  Have a look at our learning!

We have been collecting different items from around our classroom and sorting them by their materials using Venn Diagrams to help us.

Kenzie from Action Cancer came to read us a story about Genevieve hand the farmyard animals. The animals had to train for sports day, she made sure to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables everyday. We then played a game where we voted on certain foods deciding if they are good, okay, or bad for us. We talked about some activities we might do after school, watching t.v., playing games on the PlayStation and riding our bike. The children were surprised to find out that watching t.v. and gaming is not a healthy choice. 

Parents  of pupils in Years 2 and 5 are invited to come along on Monday 29th January at 3.15pm to find out about an exciting new project involving all pupils, parents and teachers in Years 2 and 5. Pupils and parents will get to play maths games instead of some written homework for 6 weeks!

NSPCC Numeracy Day is on Friday 2nd February! To celebrate all pupils in Artigarvan will be playing maths games! A super fun maths day for a really good cause!

Try some of watching some of the demonstrations, games and activities on the attached word document. Just click on the hyperlinks!

Our new topic for this term is Come & Join the Celebration.  We have talking about different celebrations that we are familiar with such as: birthdays and weddings.  We have also been learning about the Chinese New Year.  The boys and girls have enjoyed watching a video to explain why we celebrate Chinese New Year and also they have been busy making lanterns and tasting noodles.  With the help of Yvonne we made a great attempt at using chopsticks.  It was very difficult but we tried our best.