As part of our learning in Skills Academy about Body Systems we have been looking at the Digestive System.

First of all food enters the mouth and the process begins.  Our teeth and saliva break down our food into smaller chunks.

Our bowl was our mouth and the rolling pin/wooden spoon was our teeth.  We added water for saliva and a drink.

Next this travels down the oesophagus into the stomach.

We used a funnel for the oesophagus and a food bag as our stomach.

We then had to churn the food over in our stomach, this can happen for 6-12 hours in our body.

Then it went on to our intestines.  This is where all the vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates and protein is absorbed into our bloodstream to travel around the body to where they are needed.

We used tights for the intestine and had to squeeze as much of the liquid out as wee could.  This is all the goodness our body absorbs from our food.

Finally, it was time to go to the toilet!!!!  Any waste products is excreted as faeces.

Primary 5 were quite surprised about how much our body absorbs back in from the food we eat, but thought this activity was pretty disgusting!!

Primary 6 have been playing tough rugby with Mr Sharp. Here are some photos of us learning the game.

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To help Miss Anderson get to know everyone in the class, we created self-portraits, which we split in half.  Half of our face was a true likeness and the other half contained things that we like.  This helped Miss Anderson learn more about us.

As part of our work in Literacy Evolve, we have been reading ‘Christophe’s Story.’  A book about a boy who had to flee war in Rwanda and came to England.  We discussed the United Nations Conventions of the Rights of the Child and linked these to parts of the story.  We chose an article to look at and we identified where Christophe’s rights were or were not being met in the story.  This was very though-provoking in understanding that not all children across the glob have access to their rights.

During the open afternoon we planted a lot of plants big and small, all gifted by Tesco. We have been discussing what we need to do to take care of our plants and how that is similar to taking care of ourselves and others!

Whilst discussing how to become the best rights respecting ambassadors we can be, we decided that something important we need to work on is our resilience. We were given cups, rubber bands and string in our groups and we had to work together in our teams to stack the cups without touching them. This was a difficult task which we needed to use our resilience for and also help our teammates be resilient. We enjoyed smashing them down at the end and watching in slo-mo!

In P5/6, we created Newsround style dramas in groups based on our UNCRC rights! We had a lot of fun and enjoyed watching each others’ performances and guessing the right that they chose. We all especially enjoyed Connor, Seth and Eli’s performance, we think they will be film stars one day.

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