Bowmore Primary School

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  • Ath-chuairteachadh ♻️🗑️

    This morning we had our trip to Gartbrek recycling centre, or “the dump” as we know it as, and had a very interesting and enjoyable tour with Caitlin who manages the site. Caitlin told us what to recycle and what not to recycle, what happens with our recycling once it reaches the dump and showed us where the landfill is. We learnt that our landfill is nearly full so we need to be extra careful with what bins we put rubbish in. We also learnt that each bin lorry holds 26 tonnes which is the equivalent of 5 adult African elephants 🐘! There are cars buried UNDER THE GROUND at the landfill, but this doesn’t happen now as car batteries and fuel aren’t good for our environment ❌. Caitlin showed us all the areas of the refuse site and explained what happens with each category of recycling, did you know that concrete blocks and rubble are recycled at the site too, the dump have used them to create gravel for the road up to the landfill. 💡 We have decided we would like to make posters for our school and our community to encourage folk to recycle as often as they can to help reduce the rubbish in the landfill 🚮.

  • Comic Relief 2025

    Our Comic Relief bake sale was a huge success! P6 and P7 worked together to bake delicious treats like banana loaf and pancakes, and set up a bright, welcoming stall. Everyone took turns serving customers, handling money, and keeping the table tidy. It was great to see so many people supporting the cause and enjoying our baking. In the end, we raised an amazing amount of money to help children who need it most. This links to the UNCRC, especially Article 12, as we got to share our ideas and make decisions, and Article 27, because the money we raised will help children have a better standard of living. We’re so proud of what we achieved!

  • Our dino learning took us onto learning about habitats this week. We learned that habitat is the term for the place any organism lives. We learned that different habitats were suitable for different sorts of dinosaurs. For example, a diplodocus lived in the forest because it had a long neck suitable for reaching the tallest trees. We designed the habitat of our choice and learned about the features and climate.

  • Seachdain na Gàidhlig

    Today starts a very important week – Seachdain na Gàidhlig – World Gaelic Week! The whole school will have a busy, Gaelic filled week. Today every class took part in an online Gaelic workshop with children from schools across Scotland.

  • A series of lessons the children underwent about budgeting and Greek culture specifically food. To begin we worked through researching Greek dishes and snacks, we wrote a recipe for Spanakopita. Then the class visited the co-op in groups and worked out change and cost to stay within a budget to purchase the food. We then talked about food preparation, hygiene and they importance of trying new foods. What a fantastic lot of chefs in the class. The class were investigators, researchers, accountants, chefs and kids learning whilst having fun! It not only linked into out topic but also the UNCRC the rights to research article 13, article 17, article 24 and article 31.

  • Merry Cogmas!

    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

     

    Maths Week Scotland

    Primary 6 and 7 had a tricky case to solve during Maths Week Scotland. They applied various problem solving strategies to solve a murder mystery. Parents and Carers joined us to support out investigation, it was great to witness everyone enjoying maths together!

  • 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:

    BPS Improvement summary Summary 202223BPS Improvement summary Summary 202223

     

  • Seachdain Saidheans – Science Week

    Seachdain Saidheans 13 -17mh Am Màrt

    ’B e ceanglaichean an topaig a bh’ againn airson seachdain saidheans am bliadhna. Leis a sin, rinn sinne obair air oighreachd, a’ sgrùdadh mar a gheibh sinn diofar feartan bho ar pàrantan.  Thàinig pàrantan a-staigh dhan sgoil gus pàirt a ghabhail ann an gnìomhan oighreachd.  Leugh sinn an leabhar “Na Stocan agus Na Stùcan” airson ionnsachadh mu oighreachd agus rinn a’ chlann na caractaran a cleachdadh taois-chluiche. Bha tòrr spòrs againn agus tha sinn cho taingeil gun tàinig pàrantan a-staigh gus ionnsachadh còmhla rinn.

    Connections was the theme for this year’s Science Week.  We chose to learn about inheritance, learning about how characteristics are inherited from our parents.  We invited parents to join us for a fun afternoon to take part in inheritance activities. We read The Smeds and The Smoos to start off our afternoon and the children enjoyed making the characters using playdough. We had a lovely afternoon and would like to thank parents for coming in to help us to learn about inheritance.

  • Tuathanas gu Truinnsear/Farm to Fork

    Mar phàirt dhen phròiseact againn “Tuathanas gu Truinnsear”, chaidh sinn shìos dhan a’ bhùth gus faighinn a-mach cò as a tha ar biadh a’ tighinn. Choimhead sinn air lusan agus measan a bhios sinn fhèin ag ithe. Fhuair sinn a-mach gu bheil ar biadh a’ tighinn bho dhùthchannan eadar-dhealaichte air feadh an t-Saoghal. Coimheadaidh sinn a-nis air a’ mhapa a dh’fhaicinn dè an astar a tha aig gach lus mus tig iad dhan bhùth againne.

    As part of our Farm to Fork topic, we went down to the shop to find out where some of our food comes from. We looked at fruits and vegetables that we enjoy and we found out that they come from different countries all over the world. We will now look at where these countries are and how many miles our food has to travel before it arrives at the shop.

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