Dalrymple Primary 6/7 2022/2023

And just like that we reach the end of Term 3! See below for an overview of our final term.

Primary 6/7 have been learning all about the government and what is involved in a political campaign. Today, each party had to write a short persuasive speech convincing the class to vote for them. Each pupil then went into the polling station and voted for the party they thought would be best.

Primary 6/7 joined with P1 to read with them this afternoon to read with them.

Primary 7’s were very pleased to receive their hoodies today!

Today, the other half of the class made BBQ quesadillas.

They also looked at their sugar crystals from the experiment 2 weeks ago to see how much they had developed.

Well done to all the winners today.

Art winners; Flori Martin, Rein Gatt and Callum Barr.

Poem Winners; 1st place Rein Gatt 2nd place Kaitlyn Auld and 3rd place Layla McCurdie.

Hayden and Abigail

Today we made sugar crystals! Here is how you make them;

Step 1. You get boiling water and then you pour it into a bowl,

Step 2. Then you have to get 3 full cups of sugar and pour in into the bowl. (stir)

Step 3. Get a different cup and pour it in with or without a funnel.

Step 4. Tie a piece of string and tie it to a pencil or a stick and put a paper clip on the bottom of the string.

Step 5. Place your pencil into the water and get something to push it down (if it floats up).

Step 6. Wait for around a couple of days or weeks!

You are now done! Happy science!

Layla and Kaitlyn

On Tuesday morning, Kilmarnock football came in and took primary 6/7’S PE slot. This week we started shooting into the goals. Before any shooting games, we warmed up by playing never ending tag and hospital tag. Never ending tag is played by tagging someone and playing rock paper scissors then if you lose you sit down until the person that you lost to is defeated. Hospital tag is quite simple. If the catcher tigs you, you lose a limb and then, if you are tagged 4 times, you are out (each time losing another). We then played a game where you have to dribble through the cones pass to the person at the white cone then they pass back and you shoot into the goal.

Rex and Kymberly

Friday Science 03/02/23

In science P6/7 made Sugar Crystals.

Here is how to make them.

You will need:

1 cup of boiling water

3 cups of sugar

Food colouring

Skewer

String

Paper Clip

Tall Plastic Container

Step 1: Pour boiling water into container.

Step 2: Add 3 cups of sugar and stir in between each cup.

Step 3: Tie your string to your skewer and tie your paper clip to the string.

Step 4: Put string in water.

Step 5: Wait 1-14 days for your crystal to grow.

Step 6: Enjoy your crystal as snack or decoration.

Kelsie and Flori

Burns Supper

On Wednesday, we celebrated our Burns Supper! We started out with Flori Martin, our chairman, introducing this spectacular event! Then followed on by Kymberly Colville preforming the “Selkirk Grace”

“Some hae meat and canna eat

And some wad eat that want it:

But we hae meat and we can eat,

And sae the Lord be thankit.”

Then after that Jenna Steele preformed “Address To A Haggis”

Following after, the haggis was brought through the hall behind the Piper.

Then food was served! (Haggis, Neaps and Tatties)

Then we received “The Immortal Memory” performed by Rex Brown.

Then our whole class sang “The Jeely Piece Song”.

After, Aidan Murphy was honoured to do “The Toast To The Lassies”

And Mollie White to “Reply To The Lassies”

At the end of the day we done some Ceilidh Dancing!

That was our Burn Supper!!!

Rein and Jenna

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

In class, Primary 6/7 have been doing fractions & percentages in maths.

The Circles and Triangles have been doing the Heinmann 8 textbook page 120. They have been working on percentages that are not friendly numbers E.G 27% instead of 20%. The Squares, meanwhile, were simplifying fractions.

Liam and Aidan

Science

Today(Friday), in science, we were learning how to separate mixtures. First, we done salt and rice. We used a sieve to split the rice and the salt. The next mixture we had to separate was oil and water. To get the water and oil in different bowls, we slowly poured out the oil (decanting). Then we had to separate sand and water. We used filter paper and a funnel and we slowly decanted the water into the filter paper. The filter paper caught the sand and separated it from the water.

Well done to our Scottish art winners Rein, Callum and Flori! Their work will be on display in the gym hall.

Primary 6/7 were very pleased with the turn out for their Burns Supper. The pupils have worked very hard over the last week and were just as excellent yesterday!