In energy and sustainability Mr Ross discussed with the pupils about renewable energy and sustainability. They made models of energy sources such as wind turbines and solar panels out of junk.

In Mrs Sims Skills Academy group we were learning all about renewable energy sources and how to be sustainable. We made 3D models of sustainable buildings. We also explored how to make circuits.

Recently P7 along with P6/7 have been Completing STEM activities. STEM stands for Science Technology Engineering and  Maths. While completing the STEM activities the pupils were challenged by problems that they had to work around. For example P7 had to make a spaghetti tower with Play-Doh and they had to make sure that they didn’t put too much Play-Doh so it didn’t collapse or break the spaghetti.

So far P7 have completed eight different STEM activities.

These activities were Marble Maze and Spaghetti Towers, Seed Poppers and Non-Newtonian Fluid, Lego Bridge and Cargo Boats and our most recent task Dominancy and Shadows.

After they completed these tasks they have to write about them on their personal blog page. Ask your child for a look at their Blog!

The upper school are currently working on the context ‘Democracy’. We have been creating our own parties  in our different classes and devising policies which we think are important to us.

On Wednesday 25th of September Mrs Mackechnie  from the Scottish parliament came to visit P5 – P7. She shared how our election system works in Scotland and the UK. We got a chance to vote on different things and also held a mini debate. Everyone learned lots!

I liked the visit because it was a great experience getting to know the answers to questions I did not know –  Morven P7

I thought that it very interesting to learn more about parliament and the laws that we live under. – Lewis P6/7

On Monday 30th September we had a special visit from some of our MSPs. Oliver Mundell (Conservative), Joan Mcalpine (SNP) and Colin Smyth (Labour) came to the school. We were able to ask them lots of questions about issues which were important to us. It was a very interesting session.

I liked how all the MSPs were very honest and took forward our ideas – Skye P7

I thought it was fascinating to find out their opinions on lots of different things in parliament.

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Recently Primary 1 have been learning all about their senses. They have been learning which part of the body links to each sense with the help of Mr Potato Head. They also had a go at writing the different senses and drawing pictures. Here are some pictures: