Primary 3 have been working hard to prepare for the Platinum Jubilee picnic later this week. So far they have decorated their cupcakes and have created their own individualised bunting.
They have also made and decorated crowns for the medal parade. They can’t wait to wear them!
Today our challenge was to design and build a sleigh for Santa to deliver his presents in.
There were some criteria for our design:
1. The sleigh must not be sitting on the floor or table
It must be supported by sleigh rails/ runners.
2. The sleigh must be able to fit and hold the weight
of Santa’s sack.
3. Santa must have a seat in the sleigh.
4. The sleigh must have something to attach it to the
reindeer.
5. The sleigh must be able to move along the floor.
Primary 6 looked at our designs and tried them out in the corridor, then they voted for the best design based on the criteria above.
The winners of the challenge were Fern, Abbie, Poppy and Carrie.
Runners up were Chloe, Tyree and Oscar.
Well done to everyone for working so hard and creating such super designs!
The Challenge- to design and create at least 8 gift tags using only one piece of card!
“We had to create gift tags to put on presents that we give. We had to make at least 8 and up to 12 and plan it out to make sure they were all equal in size.” By Evan.
“In this challenge we made gift tags to put on gifts to take home and put on presents for our family. First we used our planning jotters to make rough outlines of them, we used a ruler to make sure they were the exact same size. Then we designed them in our jotters and we cut them out on pieces of card. After that we put on decorations such as pipe cleaners, googly eyes, pompoms and much more….” By Alex L
Please have a look at our designs…………….
As part of our Democracy topic we created our own Political Parties in class. They were called:
We had a vote in class and the School Striders won by a narrow margin. They then took part in an upper school election……and won!! Congratulations to the School Striders Party.
The School Striders party then had a meeting with Mrs McLean and the Pupil Council to try and implement some of their policies. 
Primary 5/6 had a wonderful time visiting Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh as part of their Natural Disasters context. They took part in a workshop to learn more about Natural Disasters, learning lots about volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. They also enjoyed the tour of Dynamic Earth, especially the moving floor in the volcano!
