Glow Blogs – Dumfries and Galloway

This term, Primary 4-7 have been learning about renewable energy sources and ways we can save energy and make eco-friendly choices! After the October break, we will be learning about Sustainability and what we can do day-to-day for a better future! To make this big topics seem relevant to us in little Leswalt we had asked to visit the new housing development to find out how they make sustainable choices in their new land development. 🏘 This morning, we buddied up with our friends from Kirkcolm as well as site manager Ross and his colleague Sophie from McTaggart Construction and

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Fruity Fondue* Friday! This term, the Primary 4-7 class have been working hard to save up their “class cash”. This week the managed to secure £1000 in savings and decided the only logical thing to  do would be spend in on having a “Fondue Party!🤑 We enjoyed a selection of fruit and chocolatey goodies dipped into some delicious melted chocolate🍫. A super end to a super term! Well done Team P4-7! 😋

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Dear Parent/Carer What a busy couple of weeks we have had in the run up to the October holidays. Within school book activities, children introducing at Book Festival, Lighthouse Music, P7 transition day and whole school apple pressing activities with MAC CAN. The children have enjoyed a full range of activities to widen and develop their skills for learning life and work. Our assembly focus has been on our committee activities with plans for Children in Need, Hallowe’en activity day , Fairtrade and playground tidies we are taking our lead from the children and planning for next term too. Today’s

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Nursery – All For being curious about the magnets and investigating what would stick to them. P1/4 – Mirren For showing superb focus on her handwriting. P5/7 – Harris For staying focused while others around are getting distracted and trying his best.

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Over the past two weeks we have been learning  about 2D and 3D shape. We have had fun sorting and matching new shapes, creating patterns on the lightboards and drawing round shapes to make people, houses and vehicles.  We also investigated which shapes can tile and created some pretty impressive tessellations.  P.3/4 tried their hand at creating 3D shapes from nets – which was easier said than done! Much easier to use the magnetic frames and polydron than card cut-outs!

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P.5-7 have been learning about the water cycle and how the water evaporates into the air and then condenses in the sky and then when it falls it’s called precipitation so the three steps are 1.evaporation 2.condensation 3.precipitation. We also have been doing experiments on friction and we got a Lego car and pushed it down a ramp and the ramp had different materials to see which one would make the car go the furthest. We had to make PowerPoints on either friction or the water cycle. We found all of this and the experiment very interesting messy and fun.

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