What a great end to bike to school week. We saw 79 bikes parked outside our school today. Everyone enjoyed the first bike breakfast of this academic year before the start of our school day.

We wore bright clothes to school today to highlight how important it is to be seen when walking to and from school. The days are getting shorter and it is getting darker so we want drivers can see us.

On Friday 20th September P7 attended Dumfries High School to take part in Play in a Day.

They began the day by taking part in a variety of different drama games. The y then went on to learn a rap all about social media.

After that they were split into groups to create a role play based on the dangers of different social media apps.

A lunch time the Sports Leaders led a game of dodgeball for the children.

In the afternoon the children had a final rehearsal before welcoming the parents to watch their production.

Everyone had a fantastic day while developing different skills such as collaborating, communicating, adapting and creativity!

P4 have been learning all about the skeleton. Last week we made our own split pin skeletons and used stop motion on the iPad to label the different bones and create a short moving animation. We had to get very creative to make our animations look professional.

PE with Mr Sharp this week has been all about enhancing our skill set.

We also spoke about which META skills we use in PE.

Welcome to P7R!

We have had a very busy start to the term, learning lots of new things and getting to know each other.

We started off the term focusing on developing our Meta-Skills.  The first activity was making bridges using only spaghetti and mini marshmallows. We developed our curiosity by exploring different designs and features, sense making by thinking about where it would be sensible to place the marshmallows and how to strategically place the spaghetti, creativity by exploring the various designs they could use and create a bridge that stands out from everyone else and critical thinking in order to transfer the design into the real thing. They also had to  collaborate and communicate to ensure they were working as a team and everyone had a chance to express their views.

We started learning about Food Chains and microorganisms and as part of this we went outside on a scavenger hunt to find producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers and decomposers in the school grounds. We then made food chains from our findings. We played food chain tig and then created a food web which showed how many food chains are interlinked and found out that if one part of the food chain became endangered, it would have a detrimental effect on the other animals in the food web.

To make the most of the lovely weather, we took our learning of Fractions outside and found fractions of leaves and sticks. We used our previous knowledge of mixed fractions and improper fractions to do this.

It was lovely seeing so many family members at the open afternoon. Everyone enjoyed making stone families together.

FOOD AROUND THE WORLD   

We have been enjoy different tastes and textures when trying food from around the world at snack time this week 🙂

P6 children have started regularly coming over to nursery to work with the nursery children and support their digital technology learning. This will continue throughout the year and we are planning on being joined by some P7 children as well 🙂

We have been learning about food chains. We went on a hunt for different animals which are part of a food chain. We worked with a partner to identify producers and consumers. We also played food chain tig where we had to find animals that would eat us. We created a food web using string to show how all the food chains are connected. We used our adapting, curiosity and focussing skills.  It was exciting and challenging.