We have used the emotion works cogs to explore the emotions we experience during Christmas. 
Staying Safe Online
✨P1-3 have been learning about how to stay safe online. We watched some videos called The Adventures of Karen, Winston and the SMART Crew. Then we made an infographic of our learning.
Balancing Screen Time
✨P1-3 have been learning about balancing screen time. We played on an iPad for 20 minutes without stopping or talking to our friends. After 20 minutes we talked about how we felt. These are some of the things we felt. 👣We will now think of all the fun activities we can do without using a screen.
Beach Clean!
These three pupils have shown that they are excellent eco warriors by taking part in their own beach clean over the weekend. Well done for helping our environment girls!
Hanukkah
⭐We are learning to describe key features of religious celebrations. Today we experienced how people celebrate Hanukkah. We made latkes, cards and created menorahs using lose parts
Green, Green Christmas
P6/7 have been learning to investigate the environmental impact of human activity and make changes to help our environment. We have been exploring eco friendly options that can be used to reduce waste and single plastic use over Christmas. We have made homemade Christmas crackers, decorations and wrapping paper.
The Orange Cog
✨As part of Our Children Their Nurturing Education journey Mrs Morris works with the boys and girls at a whole school assembly and introduces them to the emotion works cogs. The first cog they learnt about was the orange cog- emotion words. The boys and girls come back to class to do a follow up activity on emotion words! We could remember lots of emotion words and with some help from the teacher put them in a word art emoji. 🐾 Now we are going to learn about what body sensations we feel when we experience different emotions.
Recreating The Titanic
Primary 4 and 5 have been learning about the Titanic and they worked as a team to recreate the Titanic, the children went inside it, got into character and had lots of fun!
Murder Mystery
Our Class Charter
This week the P6&7 class have been learning about the UNCRC Rights of the Child and revisiting the SHANARRI wellbeing wheel. We have been using this information to discuss and agree on our Class Charter Rules, voting for the rights and responsibilities most important to us. Next week they will create their Class Charter display in the classroom.
Everyone Reading in Class
Primary 4&5 have been very engaged with their reading. Each day, we have some quiet time dedicated to personal reading and the children show great focus on reading their books.
Every classroom in Bowmore Primary School has a reading area where children can enjoy reading in a comfortable and quiet environment.
Weather Instruments
✨Primary 1-3 have been very busy learning about the weather and climate. They have been learning about the different instruments used to measure the weather and so decided to make their own wind sock! P2 and 3 learnt about the compass points and we tested our wind socks to see which direction the wind was coming from! 🐾 Next Steps – Measure and record the weather.
School Improvement Plan Summary
Please find a summary of our School Improvement Plan below:
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Orienteering
Orienteering in our playground
Robotics
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World Book Day 2021
Lots of learning and fun took place as we celebrated World Book Day in lots of different ways.
Primary 1 and 2 made their own ‘tattie characters’, these were inspired by characters from our favourite books. This supported us in talking about different aspects of characterisation.
G1-2 and P1 and 2 had fun completing the World Book Day scavenger hunts, this was a great chance for us to explore a wide range of books and talk about books that are familiar to us.
Primary 3, and 4 used the AR MAKR app to make a story map for World Book Day! They had great fun exploring the app for the first time and loved getting outdoors too!
Share a Story
Our home learners in P5,6 and 7 engaged in World Book Day by reading a story to the P1/2 class using Google Meet, this was a great way to say hello and to enjoy some of our favourite stories!
Maths Inside Competition
Congratulations to Lola Mackenzie who was awarded the first level prize for the oot an’ aboot category in the Inside Competition. When out on a bear hunt, Lola noted that the grass was so tall, it was taller than her!
We investigated maths in the world around us as we took part in the Maths Inside Competition. We spotted lots of examples of maths in the world around us and we photographed and talked about these examples. Bowmore Primary was commended for it’s high level of participation in the competition.
Eco School Award
In March 2020, just at the start of the first Lockdown, we received the fantastic news that we had retained our Green Flag status! Our chosen topics, identified after our Environmental Review, were Litter, School Grounds and Global Citizenship. Our Eco Change Maker group were the drivers behind our Eco journey but it was our whole school approach that was highlighted as being extremely impressive. Eco-Schools Scotland said that it had been a real pleasure to go through our application and to learn about all the fantastic work that had been taking place during the past years in Bowmore Primary School. It was said that we were a very active and involved school which showed a great example of what being an Eco-School really means.
Outdoor Resources
We want to thank the parent council for all of our new outdoor learning resources. The parent council have supported the provision of outdoor learning by purchasing a range of outdoor learning equipment, these have included loose parts, a new water station for ELC, new waterproofs for the upper school, den building equipment and many open ended resources. We look forward to having fun in the outdoors.
STEM Nation Award
We are extremely proud to announce that we have been award the full STEM Nation Award from Education Scotland. After submitting a detailed portfolio and taking part in interviews, we were awarded all five categories:
We were recognised for ‘the inspiring breadth and depth of learning covering all aspects of STEM’ , this helps to create ‘rich, engaging and varied experiences of STEM for learners.’ The school has developed ‘strong and diverse partnerships on the island and beyond, to support STEM activities and learning.’
We are passionate about STEM in Bowmore Primary School, we are very proud to have achieved this award and we look forward to continuing out STEM journey.
