Reminders for the whole school:

• On Tuesday evening we have our Christmas Celebration at the Parish church.  Further details are attached.

• Christmas Lunch is on Wednesday.

• On Friday, we have our Christmas Jumper day, in aid of Save the Children.

 

Primary 1

This week we have been making some tree decorations and we linked them to some 2D shaped triangles. We used different things to decorate them.

Patrick said, “I liked the glitter and pom poms.”

Anya said, “I liked the feathers and glitter. We made them triangle shapes.”

 

Primary 2

In science we have been exploring sound. We have used instruments to experience vibrations and pitch. Mabel H’s mum came to visit, talking about her job and explaining how a cello produces sound. We made instruments – a spin drum and jam jar lid guitar to explore and create pitch and vibrations by singing and plucking. It was great fun!

“You can use horse hair to pluck strings on a cello to make a sound.” – Mabel H

“If it’s a quiet sound it doesn’t travel far.” – Lydia

“When you pluck or strike, it vibrates and makes a sound.” – Demi

“The sound waves travel everywhere!” – Chris

Reminders for next week  – If you haven’t already done so, please send a scarf to school.

 

 

Primary 2/3

In class we have been decorating candle holders for selling at next week’s church presentation.

Also, we were making Christmas decorations while following the instructions. We were using A LOT of glitter and had so much fun!

Brooke – “I liked making the candles!”

KJ – “It was lots of fun using glitter.”

Anna – “I enjoyed collecting the jars.”

 

Primary 5

This week we made golden tickets from our class novel, “Charlie and the Chocolate factory”. The golden tickets are a ticket to get into Mr Wonka’s famous factory. We enjoyed making the tickets out of paper and then painting them with shiny gold paint.

We also decorated our class Christmas tree with wonderful bright coloured baubles. We enjoy looking at the twinkly lights hanging from the tree with tinsel around them.

As well as decorating the Christmas tree, we learned about the water cycle.

Molly said, “Making the Golden Tickets was fun.”

Gary said, “It was cool to learn how we have rain.”

 

Primary 5/6

We have started our learning of some popular Scottish Ceilidh dances, including the ‘Gay Gordon’s’.

Our current book study is ‘The Borrower’s’. We have been learning about the qualities of different materials as we will soon start our Borrower home construction.

We carried out some tower building, looking at structure and strength of materials.

“We all had a big smiles whilst we danced.” – Elle

“On Tuesday we described the qualities of materials” – Ollie

Reminders for next week  – Can all P5/6 pupils please make sure they have a water bottle in class.

 

Primary 6

This week we have been using Microsoft Sway. We have been creating a Sway all about what we have learned in P6. We are learning how to do new things including recording audio.

Every Friday, we go to the P2 classroom and look over their writing with them. We look through their checklist to find: capital letters, full stops, finger spaces, neat writing and to see if it makes sense.

Every day we all run or walk “The Daily Mile.”  We run or walk for fifteen minutes a day. Four laps of our playground is roughly a mile. We record our laps and transfer them to miles. So far we have travelled 1331.75 miles, which means we have reached Barcelona. Our target for the end of term is Morocco.

Anelle said, “This week I learned how to set out co-ordinates into four quadrants to make pictures.”

Stuart said, “I learned how to add backgrounds in Microsoft Sway.”

Murray said, “I learned how to use persuasive language in a letter.”

 

Primary 7

We investigated how Titanic sent distress signals. We created our own circuits and designed switches to send Morse code messages.

We investigated how the distress rocket from Titanic got so high in the sky. We designed and created our own rockets and tested them out. Sean, Yasin and Mahsun’s rocket went the highest. You can see videos of our experiments on our class Twitter feed (P7andMissG).

We visited the town library and learned about the Dewey book categorisation system.

Ruby – “I learned that the larger the force, the higher the rocket went.”

Sophie – “We used paper fasteners and card to make a switch and the touched our switch on and off to send an S.O.S signal.”

Freddie-“I learned about streamlining to make my rocket go higher.”

Reminders for next week  –  Chosen homework task due in class by Thursday 12th December.