We identified sources of electricity in our homes then created electricity circuits using bulbs, switches and motors.
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P6/7 Energy
Carol Kane from Vattenfall, which is Swedish for waterfall, came in to talk to us about renewable energy and the new windfarm in Ayrshire. We learnt lots of facts about wind turbines which links to Global Goal 13-Climate Action and the work we have been doing in class on renewable energy sources. She told us about the huge range of jobs, skills and careers that are available in Green energy.
P6/7 Lord Provost visit
Today the Lord Provost Jim Todd came to share with us his experiences, stories, skills and role as the Lord Provost. He told us about his education, travels, jobs and how he helps people in the community.
P7 PE – Football
HWB: PE
Football
Our class focus for PE on a Friday is football. Mrs Hosie has been leading this block and has been excellent with the pupils, bringing in her excellent skill set with football as she used to coach the sport and currently referees the sport. Last Friday, our primary 7 pupils re-capped dribbling, learned different passing techniques and focused on accuracy when passing to the team. They put these skills into practice by finishing the lesson off with a competitive game of football.
P7 – Sanitary Samurais
HWB: Period Protection
Today Vicky from the EAC Health and Wellbeing team and Amy from EAC visited our school to see what we had in place to target period protection. Some of our Sanitary Samurai group spoke to them about how they ensure that there is sanitary provision within our school. Vicky and Amy were very pleased with our approach to period protection and were impressed with the Sanitary Samurais’ confidence in speaking about the subject.
P6/7 PE – Netball
HWB: PE
Netball
Our class focus for PE on a Monday at the moment is netball. The pupils have been learning a range of skills linked to the sport and transferring them into conditioned game situations. Today, we focused on passing the ball to team mates (chest, shoulder, over-head and bounce passes) and we practiced attacking movements to get free from a defender. We finished our lesson by playing a conditioned game involving passing and movement.
Global Goals p6/7
Today primary6/7 were learning about Global Goal 14, Life under water. They created HOTS questions about Life under water than carouselled around activities that allowed them to express their thoughts, opinions and knowledge; Article 13: Right to express thoughts.
Pupils identified ways to conserve our oceans by our actions and identified their next steps to make and contribute to this change.
Article 13 freedom of expression, article 17 access to information, article 24, right to a clean environment.
