Over several weeks now the p5-7 class have been completing several experiments and activities with the end goal of creating their own environmentally friendly school.  In preparation for this build they have experimented with solar panels, wind and water turbines, created their own working batteries, studied the properties and benefits of wood, filtered water and…

On Thursday and Friday this week P7’s had their Bikeability training with Jemma and Caroline.  The children worked hard on their safety skills when riding on the roads.  Well done P7s!

This week in Stemovators, the children found out about how to filter dirty water to make it cleaner.  the made their own filtration bottles and watched as the large stones, smaller stones, gravel and sand filtered out all the dirt to produce much cleaner water!

The P5’s enjoyed their second visit to the salmon fish hatchery today.  This time they met the eggs that had hatched into small sparlings (baby salmon fish).  They had a talk about what happens next once they are released in the river, including their survival chances and what the dangers that lie ahead are.  The…

At the Easter Church service this week the P7’s were presented with their leavers hoodies.  The children chose their design and colour and Mrs Andrews and Reverend Boyle handed them out at the end of the Easter service.  The P7’s were over the moon with their hoodies and wore them with pride!

This week was A.I (Artificial Intelligence) Week.  P5-7 have enjoyed a series of online workshops including AI and Sustainability and Coding with Scratch to build a language translator and also train a Pokemon figure! The children found out today in the AI and Sustainability workshop how many jobs there are in technology linked to sustainability. …

P5-7 enjoyed a trip to Dickie Woods with Carys  from Carbon Centre for a Biodiversity Workshop.  The children went on both a plant and bug hunt using identification cards and found a great amount of living things in Dickie woods.  Carys explained how the living things found show that the Dickie Woods is doing really…

P5-7 enjoyed a talk today by the Fisheries Trust all about the Non native invasive species that are found in Dumfries and Galloway.  In the build up to this visit the class had been learning all about Native Scottish plants and animals, so this was really interesting for the class.  They found out about Japanese…

Primary 5/6/7 led the school during a remembrance service at the church on the 11th.  Pupils laid a wreath on behalf of the school and read some poetry to mark the occasion.