As part of Maths Week Scotland, we have been doing problem solving and puzzles. We really had to think about known strategies to solve the problems. We worked in twos’ which helped us ‘bounce’ ideas off one another. Have a look at some of our puzzles.

On Monday 3rd October P7 visited Dumfries High School to take part in Play In  A Day!

The topic we were learning about was social media and what could go wrong on social media. – Iona

At Play In A Day we developed our drama skills by scripting and acting out a play about the dangers of social media.- Reuben

Some of the pupils at DHS took little groups to help us make up a dance for the rap which we learned. _ Lacey

We used our acting skills to create a play in little groups.- Kacey.

We each got to go in a little group and act out situations which could happen on an online platform. – Aila

We all got to act the play out in front of some of our parents. We all really enjoyed it!- Moaz

At Play In A Day I thought it was really fun when we were acting it out but it was also a little nerve-wracking. _ Ella

We participated in lots of fun games such as Eastenders and Zip Zap.- Jaiden

Before lunch we went outside to play some sports with the Sports Ambassadors. We played rounders and ultimate frizbee. – Wilson

At the end of the day we were all pleased with ourselves for performing in front of our parents. – Skye

As part of Maths Week Scotland we had a visit from the Maths Roadshow. We visited different stations around the room solving different kinds of maths puzzles. – Lucy

We had to use our problem solving skills to put the puzzles together and work them out with a partner. – Sonny

I thought it was a great opportunity to be able to take part in this and most people really enjoyed it. _ Lyla

It was a fantastic experience. Some of the puzzles were really challenging and some of them were easier to solve. – Corey

It was really fun and we got to develop lots of different problem solving strategies.- Corrie

In PE with Mr Sharp, we have been learning skills in basketball. We worked in groups to learn new skills. Leah took some photos during the lesson. Here are some photographs to share with you.

Last week, we had a visit from Andrew Hay, one of our local Community Safety Officers.  He talked to us about playing our part to keep the community tidy and safe.   This involves recycling our rubbish, picking up our dog’s poo, not dropping litter and being respectful to each other within the community.

We also had a visit from Laura, the Gull Officer.  She told us about the 5 different breeds of gulls and that we should never feed them.

Primary 6 have been learning to work within a budget. Pupils were split into groups and given a budget of £5.00. Within their group, they had to work out if anyone had food intolerances and dislikes. They then had to use websites to price the best option for fruit to make a fruit kebab.

Have a look at us hard at work.

Primary 6 pupils have been curling at the Icebowl. We had fun during our  taster sessions. Here are some photographs of use hard at work learning the ropes to the sport curling.

During the past two weeks the P7 class have enjoyed developing new skills in the game of hockey.

P5 have enjoyed our ‘Code Along Live’ session this morning where we were using code to create an ’emotions’ badge.  We thought about how our face changed when our emotions change and designed these faces on our Micro:bit simulator. We were able to add more than one emotion and also music to our code.

Next week we will be carrying on, and creating a different badge.  

Primary 6 have been looking at food labelling in Skills Academy. We have been studying the traffic light system.

We put food packaging out on tables, we had to move around the classroom filling in our sheet on food labels. We then had to decide whether they were a healthy food choice or not. We had to give reasons for our answers.