A fabulous afternoon was had in P3b on Monday. We were able to make our own easy peasy pitta pizza.
We were even able to have a taste and if we do say so ourselves they were fantastic!
Easy Peasy Pitta Pizza P3b
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P6 ‘STEAM’ Challenge
There’s great excitement in P6 today as they have been called upon to sort out the chaos in the North Pole!The elves have lost their magic dust and the reindeer can’t fly!
P6 have been challenged to use balloons to power the reindeer and examine the forces that will push their reindeers to their destinations as explained by Sir Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion.
After looking at the design brief we have drawn annotated diagrams and created a shopping list of item’s we’ll need. Next week we will
begin to build a prototype to test and improve.
Don’t worry though, we’ll be following all the ‘elf’ and safety rules!
Primary 1 Activities
The children have enjoyed using the Outdoor Numicon pieces when ordering and counting.
They’ve been busy counting, ordering and measuring indoors too!
Science- Will salt, sugar or water melt the ice-cube quickest?
Beautiful “Great Fire of London” collages.
Teeth and Eating Experiment
The children are conducting an experiment to find out what happens to each egg.The eggs have been placed in a variety of drinks with different levels of sugar.
Kites!
Technology
Last week one of our sounds was “k” so we decided to make kites. We had also been looking at weather veins we can see from the playground and discussing the wind as part of our weather topic (more pictures to follow).
All of the children managed to cut their own dowel with a hacksaw and followed the kite-making instructions really well to complete the task.
Hopefully the rain goes off soon and we can get outside to test them out.
The children are also now “partner spelling” 2 days per week and are enjoying working in pairs to read and write their spelling words.
Dunlop House System – House Captains and House Vice Captains
When new pupils arrive at Dunlop Primary, their transition is supported by entry into a caring and supportive environment.
Each new pupil becomes a valued member of a small ‘family unit’ within Dunlop and are allocated a House. Pupils stay within their house until they leave in P7, additionally we place siblings together within a house.
At Dunlop Primary, we have three house: Clerkland, Glazert and Lugton. These are named after local areas. Each house is represented by a different colour and we encourage pupils to wear their house colours on days throughout the year.
Clerkalnd = Blue
Glazert = Yellow
Lugton = Red
House Captains
At the beginning of the school year, a P7 is elected House Captain and takes on the responsibility for the leadership and organisation of their house for the forthcoming year and they are supported by a P6 Vice Captain. The House Captains and Vice Captains work tirelessly to ensure their house members are working together to earn House Points through living and demonstrating our School Values of being happy, kind, honest and respectful.
House points are also awarded at House Events, although this year we will need to be creative with how we organise these to ensure we don’t mix bubbles!. At the end of the year, house points are added together and the house with the most points wins the overall house competition and they life the much coveted House Cup.
Recently, the P7 and P6 pupils prepared and presented an election speech to their peers and each house then chose their captains and vice captains. A huge congratulations to our House Captains and Vice Captains and also a huge thank you to all the children who worked hard to prepare and deliver their election speeches. We were delighted to see so many children keen to take on leadership roles with in our school.
House Captains and Vice Captains for 2020/2021 are (and for the very first time, we have a joint captaincy)
with warmest regards, Mrs Nouillan
Primary 5 – Photosynthesis
We have been learning about photosynthesis. We have created these photosynthesis flowers and have written explanation texts describing the process from start to finish.
Primary Two Spelling Activities
Primary 2 Termly Targets
P3b Active Literacy
It has been fantastic to get to know all of the children in P3b over the last few weeks.
In primary 3b we have been working hard every week using our active literacy programme to help with our weekly sounds.
