Primary 7 celebrated Sports Relief by taking part in lots of fun sporting challenges throughout the day. We stared by learning all about Robert MacIntyre a successful Scottish golfer. We used Canva to create online posters to share our research and information about him.
We also took part in the House Golf Challenge, lead by our House Captains.
Our Vice and Sports Captains were busy all day leading challenges across the school and ECC.
To end the day primary 7 cheered on their peers in the P6/p7 v Staff netball game.
What a fun day we had as a whole school. Thankyou to the Sports Committee for organising this for us all to enjoy.
We have been learning all about the design process in art with Miss Wales. Working in groups, we have been given a task to design a pair of trainers for different teachers in school. We read over the design brief for each teacher and then created mood boards on the laptops.
Today we used materials to design a dress inspired by our mood boards. We learned that creating and evaluating were part of this design process. The class was a calm, creative space today and we loved sharing our finished pieces of work with our peers. We even had lots of staff come in for a look at our work.
Primary 7 were absolutely delighted when, after the lesson, we learned that our fabulous student teacher , Miss Wales, had passed her placement and we celebrated with the arrival of our new leavers hoodies!
Friday was filled with sunshine and a day for learning outdoors!
We went to the garden to read and really enjoyed using our new outdoor library. Everyone took time to relax and read for pleasure for 20 minutes. Mrs Ross showed us the birds that had been singing in the garden while we were reading.
We then put our books down and played hide and seek together which we all agreed was a favourite part of our day – even the huge spider in the storage boxes that everyone hid in didn’t stop our enthusiasm.
Next we decided to take our P.E outside and try out the cricket skills that we have been developing with Miss Wales. After practising our batting and bowling we had a fun mini game. We definitely have some budding cricketers in P7! We used Significant Aspects of Learning (SALs) to identify skills that we could see while we were watching games from the side-lines.
We are hoping this sunshine lasts when we visit Dalguise next week!
Howard Pitman, a Park Ranger from Dean Castle Country Park came to talk to us all about his job and how to identify wildlife in our gardens. He taught us how to use footprint tunnels and night cameras.
Our favourite part of the visit was holding the different skulls and meeting Fiona Fox (who was an example of taxidermy- not real, so don’t worry)!
Today we enjoyed a visit from Derek, Craig and Adam from. Scottish Power Renewables. They told us all about their jobs and shared their knowledge of renewable energy with us. We enjoyed playing the fossil fuel or renewables game. We even got to try on some of the equipment.
Today we had a visit from Carol Kane from Vattenfall who came to talk to us about climate change.
We learned about the impact fossils fuels are having on our climate and what we can do to reduce our carbon footprint. Carol shared what Vattenfall are doing by expanding wind and solar power projects across Europe.
We enjoyed using the VR headset to explore inside a wind turbine and learn how it works.
Today, as part of their topic about Australia, Miss Wales taught the class all about the Sydney Harbour Bridge and compared the construction to the Forth Road Bridge. We learned about suspension bridges and steel arched bridges.
Miss Wales then gave each group a set of instructions with the requirements for their group bridge along with a ‘helpful tips’ handout.
Points were awarded after their time constrained construction for design, strength and teamwork.
Miss Wales was very impressed by our teamwork skills and by the strength of some of our bridges.
