St Andrew's Primary School Blog
"A COMMUNITY OF FAITH AND LEARNING THAT VALUES EVERYONE FOR WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY BRING."
As part of our healthy lifestyle topic this term, Primary 5 were paid a special visit by Dr Nassar! We were learning all about how to keep our teeth and gums clean and healthy. We were able to look at a tooth that had been left in Coca Cola overnight, and compare it with a healthy tooth. We looked at tooth implants and dentures, and were able to taste different sweets alternatives. Thank you for visiting our class! “
Today we held a special assembly to celebrate the work we have all been doing connected to the Scots language. All classes have been busy looking at this and we decided it would be nice to share with everyone.
We had Scottish songs and poems and our Nursery children even gave us a bit of exercise as we all joined in with ‘Heids, shooders, knees and taes!”
Primary 5 have kept their special performance of a Scottish dance for Mr Valentine at tomorrow’s assembly.
It was great fun and a lovely celebration of the country we are all part of.
It has been a while since we last posted some of our learning displays to look at. Robert Burns is one theme that tends to come up at this time of the year.
Today P2 had their Celebration of Learning. Parents and Grandparents came in to see what we have been learning and how. P2 entertained their audience with a French days of the week song and a Scots poem. Everyone took part in the Go Noodle brain break too. We had lots of activities to show how we learn in different areas of the curriculum.
In P5, our focus for P.E for January is Scottish Ceilidh dancing! Here are some pictures of us enjoying ourselves learning “The Flying Scotsman” on Wednesday afternoon. 
In Primary 7 we are learning about shape this term. We worked cooperatively measuring carefully to make 3D shapes such as triangular prisms, cubes and cuboids. The play dough shows up the vertices nicely and it helped us to see the properties of shapes. We worked on our mental maths calculating the exact length of straw used to make each shape too. Great work P7!
This week the secondary science department will be launching the Science Fair. A competition at St Joseph’s for P7 and S1 children to take part in. More information will follow soon. Meanwhile, P7 have been creating their own blood this week (of a messy kitchen kind!) We used marshmallows, yellow and red colouring, cheerios and oats to represent the red blood cells, plasma, white bloods cells and platelets. No children were harmed in this experiment!!
P7 enjoyed their opportunity to try Curling again at the Ice Bowl last week. Many of them picked up new skills quickly and had a natural ability at the sport. It was a fun experience that hopefully some of them will try again. The curling club are keen for some new members and would welcome them back I’m sure.
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Primary 1 decided on one thing they were going to try to do more of in 2017.
Examples included; ‘Eat more vegetables,’ ‘Read more Biff an Chip books,’ ‘Go on my bike’ and ‘Get more sleep!’
We created a display of these outside our classroom, next time you are passing please take a look.
Our Maths in Motion club has morphed into our STEM club with a choice of activities available. Those attending have been working with Maths in Motion, Rasberry Pi and Microbit computers, Scratch programming and Knex
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