Today Primary 3 enjoyed a visit to Emergency One. This was an opportunity for us to extend our STEM knowledge and learn about how vehicles are really made. We got to see the production line for ourselves, including the shell and the chassis of the fire engines. Elliot, our guide, showed us all around the factory and we were even able to sit in a fire engine. We are now going to take this learning forward as we continue to construct our own model vehicles.
As part of our STEM learning, Primary 3 enjoyed a visit from a local engineer called Mr Burns. Mr Burns came to class to help support the pupils to construct the chassis of their shoebox models. This involved lots of estimating, measuring, using tools and perseverance. Thank you to Mr Burns for coming to help us to learn.
On Thursday 22nd November, SLC3 travelled up to Glasgow to visit the Cocoa Bean Factory as part of their topic on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The pupils had a brilliant time and were able to make lots of different types of chocolate to take home. They learned how to make chocolate in different shaped moulds, decorated chocolate bars and made marshmallow men!
Later, the pupils learned about where chocolate comes from and got to touch and grind real cocoa beans.
SLC2 have been investigating the seasonal changes through Autumn into Winter. On Tuesday 21st November, they visited Dumfries House to explore the seasonal garden. They explored fresh vegetables using sight, touch and smell. They then went out into the garden to spot these vegetables growing and helped dig up a carrot! SLC2 then planted their own beans to take home and watch grow. They will need to remember to water them! . In order to help the birds during the winter months SLC2 made their own bird feeders with bagels and seeds. They took these home to hang in their gardens.
Over the past term, two pupils from SLC 3 have been working with pupils from Hillside school and Drake music on a project which finished with a performance at Cumnock Academy on Friday 29th September. The two boys thoroughly enjoyed their time learning how to use the different musical technology and taking part in the performance. They really did their school proud!
