Primary 7 went to Dumfries High School to carry out some science activities. We were learning all about dissolving and the best temperatures for substances to dissolve. We used different chemicals and got to try different science equipment. We really enjoyed it and can’t wait to go back. We developed our collaborating, critical thinking and focussing skills.

Miss Tapner has been teaching us how to draw in the style of Mr Doodle. We doodled away and seen where our pencils took us.

As part of World Book Day P7 visited P1/2 to work together to create bookmarks. They had great fun developing their leadership and collaborating skills and there were some very creative bookmarks at the end!

On Wednesday 10th March Lauryn, Lawrence and Murray took part in the Primary Enterprising Maths Challenge. They had to create a poster sharing the history of money and then took part in a variety of maths challenges. They all did very well and came out as overall winners on the day! Congratulations to our champions! 🌟

On Monday 8th March PC Matthews visited us to discuss Internet Safety. She shared lots of helpful advice and encouraged us to think about ways to keep ourselves safe when accessing social media.

Primary 6/7 have been doing STEM challenges Our latest challenge was to design and create a bridge to hold maths textbooks. The winning team were the team that’s bridge held the most textbooks. Two teams bridges held 20 textbooks, others collapsed after one book book being placed on it.

We also worked on our META skills.

We created Viking brooches using clay. We choose the shape which we wanted and then we added detail to our brooch.  Once our brooch was dry we painted them.

We used our creativity, leadership and focussing skills.

Celebrating our successes today at Assembly. Pupil certificates, Teacher certificates and Star Writers as well as Lancaster as our House Points winners. Well done everyone!

Primary 6/7 has recently attended Dumfries High School for a science afternoon. We were studying whether substances were soluble or not? We got to use Bunsen Burners – which was great! We had a fun afternoon, plus learning all about being safe in a science lab. META skills we used were; communicating, adapting, leading, critical thinking, focusing, feeling and collaborating.

In Primary 7 we all created our own maths games.  We worked in groups and had to base our games on questions relating to fractions, decimals and percentages. We all came up with different themes and designs for our board games. Once we had finished our game we all played our own game and then we swapped games and played each others games.

The meta skills we developed were communication, creativity, collaborating, leadership and focussing.

We all enjoyed this because we worked together!