Term 2 (1)

Primary 1 walked to the library and chose books to take home and read with a parent.

“There were lots of books to choose from.” – Luke

“I wanted a book all about sharks, Mrs. Woods showed me where the animal books were and I found one.” – Jaxon

“I’ve never seen so many books.” – Grace

Primary 1 have settled well into school life and were enjoying exploring our outside space.

“I like the trim trail, we have to be able to balance to go on it.” – Quinn

“There is lots of space in our playground.” – Abbie

As part of the Glasgow Science Centre Learning Lab we have been carrying out experiments related to Our Solar System.  We learned about signs of life, rocket launches and what is in our solar system.

Have a look at some photos in the link below!

P6 Science Experiments

On Wednesday the 19th of November P6, P6/7 and P7 travelled up to the Glasgow Science Centre.  We had time to visit each floor and we watched a 45 minute 3D film about rocket launches in the iMax cinema.  We all had a great time. Have a look at some photos in the link below!

Glasgow Science Centre

Term 2 (1)

P6 enjoyed a couple of sessions of football coaching from Queen of the South coaches.  They also took part in a question and answer session with Brennan Dickenson (one of the players).  Former pupil Nial Rogerson came into visit too, he is a current Queens player.

As part of our Space topic we did an experiment in class to find out how weight affected the launch of a rocket.  First of all we had to blow up a balloon and hold the end with a food clip.  We then had to add a 10cm piece of straw to the top of it.  This was thread through a 6 metre piece of string.  We then released the food clip and then had to measure how far the balloon travelled along the string.  After that we had to complete the same again, but this time we had to attach a piece of plasticine to the bottom of the rocket. Again we had to release the food clip to then measure how far the rocket launch.

This experiment was teaching us that rockets need to be as light as possible to travel furthest, however some of our results defied the odds!

It was lots of fun, and even Mr Laidlaw had to come out of his office to see what the hilarity was all about!

As a whole school we have been focussing on Zones of Regulation and understanding our emotions.  We use the language for each zone to help support us to discuss how we are feeling.  We have identified strategies that we can use to help us get to the green zone so we are ready to learn.  We have a class display for us to refer to.

Every Thursday the P7 young Digital Leaders have been coming into class to take out groups of pupils to code ‘Jingle Bells’ into the Micro:Bits.  It was lots of fun and we used lots of our META skills like; Collaborating, Communicating, Creativity, Sense-Making and Adapting.