As part of British Science Week 2022, primary 5-7 became engineers for the afternoon and took part in their very own engineering challenge! Before the challenge began, we watched a short video clip about Isambard Kingdom Brunel, helping us to understand what engineering is and how his work shaped the way we live today. For the challenge, pupils were put into groups of 3 and tasked with creating their own
This morning, Leswalt and Kirkcolm upper classes were lucky enough to enjoy a hands-on session with the marvellous Kathryn Purchase of History Alive! Both classes have covered the Scottish Wars of Independence as their Social Studies topic for this term – and Kathryn was the very person to help bring this historical period to life for them with her fact-busting whizz through the years in question, answering any questions pupils
