All posts by Jacqueline Shaw
STEM – World of Work at Ayrshire College
P4B and P5 visited Ayrshire College to learn all about the world of work in different engineering trades. They learn all about a variety of trades including mechanics, joinery, welding and much more. They has fun revving an engine, taking off a tyre, building a model house and experiencing the welding environment. Take a peek at our pictures.
STEM IN P4B
P4B have had great fun during the first week of STEM Fortnight taking part in a maths challenge, carrying out an experiment extracting DNA from strawberries, working in teams to complete a K’nex challenge building a bridge, visiting Ayrshire College to learn about engineering and construction and learning STEM spelling words.
Health and Wellbeing Group – Anti-bullying at Assembly
The Health and Wellbeing group shared their thoughts and tips about anti-bullying. They also shared a video from the Respectme website. Look at our photophraphs below to see our tips.
By Evan and Callan
Anti-Bullying and Dyslexia Awareness Day
WEAR SOMETHING BLUE DAY
To show support for Dyslexia Awareness Week and Anti-Bullying Week, we will be having a ‘wear something blue’ day on Friday 10th November. The whole school are invited to wear a blue accessory such as a wig, hat, socks, ribbons along with their normal school uniform.
This will be the focus of the assembly and pupils will be invited to complete a survey about anti-bullying. Also, pupils will learn more about dyslexia and anti-bullying in class.
Halloween Disco Fun!
A huge thank you to the GFG and all the parent helpers who organised and carried out fantastic Halloween discos last night.
P4 Outdoor Day
We were inspired to enjoy the outdoors through our class novel ‘The Wilderness War’ by Julia Green. We had an amazing day at Caprington Woods building dens, making weapons, playing games, finding leaves, getting very muddy and having a ball!
” My best bit was being able to stomp in the mud” said Lewis.
“It was the best trip ever!” said Louie.
“I like how we worked as a team to build our den” said Archie.
“I loved making a bow and arrow” said Carrie.
STEM FORTNIGHT 2017
We are excited to announce that our annual STEM Fortnight will be taking place week beginning 13th November!
This will be a fantastic opportunity to engage our pupils with a variety of activities to convey the importance of (STEM) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in their daily lives.
Are you a parent, grand parent, auntie, friend of the school? Do you work or have an interest in any of the STEM areas? Are you an engineer or do you have links to the engineering industry? If the answer is YES, then we would be delighted to have your help and support during our STEM Fortnight.
For instance, we would be delighted to hear from a range of occupations including:
doctor, nurse, air traffic controller, pilot, graphic designer, accountant, architect, mechanic etc
Could you please leave your details below and Mrs Beveridge will contact you.
Maths Week Scotland 2017
Pupils have been engaged in a variety of maths activities this week. To celebrate this, we have introduced a weekly class ‘Maths Award’.
Well done to the first pupils to receive this:
Fraser Allison, Ross Keachie, Charlie Neilson, Chloe Meechan, Zak Holt, Leo McPherson, Logan Montgomery, Stuart Phillips, Matthew Hannah, Libby Ewart, Charley Allan and Oscar Dudgeon.
Digital Schools Award Scotland
Last week Mr McDowell, Mr Stewart, Olivia Neilson and Ben Wallace were invited along to the Digital Schools Award ceremony in Clydebank. They were amongst 22 other schools who have also achieved this fantastic accomplishment making us one of only 43 schools within Scotland who can be proud to display this award.
The awards were presented by Elizabeth Morrison, Strategic Director of Education Scotland, David Hogg, Head of Education for Hewlett Packard Europe, Middle East and Africa and Steven Grier, Scotland Country Manager for Microsoft.
We are extremely proud of our achievement! A huge well done to our pupils, staff and parents for all their hard word and continued efforts towards making our school a digital learning environment.
