On 27th of November P5-P7 went to Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. It was a very early start needing to be at school for 7.45am. There were so many people that they needed to take 3 buses. It was a long way and took over 2 hours but singing kept them happy!

When they got there they had their snack. P7 and P5 were rushed off to watch a show on super volcanoes while P6 went on a tour. They all really enjoyed the show and P6 enjoyed the tour.  P7 then went on the tour and P6 and P5 went to the workshop.

On the tour they learnt about different types of rocks (geology), ice age, global warming, volcanoes, earthquakes, under the sea and rain forests. At the workshops they learnt about earthquakes, tsunami, volcanoes, tornadoes and different materials like iron and steel by doing different activities. For the earthquakes they needed to make a building that could survive the floor shaking. For the tsunami they got to play a game on the internet and try and save all the people. For the volcanoes they needed to draw a volcano with the different types of lava. For the different types of rocks they needed to tell if they were meteors or not. And for the tornadoes they learnt to make tornados out of 2 plastic bottles and tape.

After their first 2 activities they had lunch. After lunch P7 went to the workshops , P5 went on the tour and P6 went to watch the film about super volcanoes. They all had a very good time at dynamic earth and all got home safely.
 

The house and vice captains decided they wanted to have a competition for everyone in the whole school. The decided on an under the sea theme. They wanted to promote the awareness of plastic pollution so they wanted to do a junk modelling competition. They had approximately 100 entries. Each entry got 25 house points for entering, the finalist got 75 and the winners got 150.They all had a very tough time deciding  who would go forward to the final. The finalist were: Rory  from P2 and Cameron  from P6 from Hurricane, Evan from P2 and Chloe  from P5/6 from Lancaster, Libby from P1 and Sophie  from P5 from Wellington and from Spitfire was Harvey-Shek in P3 and Beth from P5. Then the community  council came in and decided who should be the overall winner. For the lower school the winner was…………

Evan from Lancaster

and the upper school winner was………..

Sophie from Wellington

They both received a £15 gift voucher and 150 house points.

The house points for each house were

Spitfire: 575

Wellington: 650

Lancaster: 700

Hurricane: 725

Well done to everyone who took part and we all hope you now recycle a little more!

On the 8th  of November P7 walked to the Aviation Museum to go to the Remembrance service. Before the 2 minutes silence they learnt about an aircraft pilot that crashed far way from home. Then they did a 2 minutes silence to show respect to the soldiers that fought for us during war.

After the silence Lucy, Eva, Harley, Grace, Talan and Jessica laid a wreath. Then they went to see the spitfire. The spitfire was named after the place it crashed, Loch Doon.

We went to the museum where we looked into bombing planes and life back in the war.

We then went to see a top secret American Glider which is extremely rare and is not open to the public yet.

Primary seven were very honored  to be invited. 

Recently Primary 1 have been learning all about their senses. They have been learning which part of the body links to each sense with the help of Mr Potato Head. They also had a go at writing the different senses and drawing pictures. Here are some pictures:

Names

Lately Primary 1 have been learning how to write their names. They have been given a written copy and then wrote their names out. They have been now been writing their names on all of their work.

First Piece Of Writing

Primary 1 have been learning about sounds. Miss Douglas asked them to write about anything that they wanted using their sounds that they have learned about. They all really enjoyed it.