Primary 2-7 have been entered into the Maths Week Scotland Sumdog Contest. It runs from the 25th September until 1st October. Lets try and see Gargieston on the Leader Board! Good Luck!
Category Archives: Numeracy and Mathematics
Sumdog Competition 19th -25th June
East Ayrshire Council is running a Sumdog competition until 25th June. Please try to take part. Good luck!
P7 Maths Transition
P7 had a great time at Maths Transition last Tuesday. They had to work with pupils from other schools and together use their numeracy skills to solve clues.
STEM Champions
Last week at our STEM group for COGS we…..
Discussed about what we like about STEM and what it meant to us. We also discussed what we would like to do in the future with our STEM group.
Last week we also…….
we got our photo taken all together for the wall beside the lunch hall/cafeteria.
by Lauren Houston and Isla Nokes
Learning Wall ECC
Have a look at our learning wall in the cloakroom to see what we are learning about in each area and what is on the menu for snack.
P5A Measuring Length
Primary 7 studying C = πD
Primary 7 children have been learning all about the circumference of a circle and the formula:
C = πD
Then they had a challenge to see who could list pi to the most numbers after the decimal point. Well done to Emily Robinson who took it to 17 places after the point! Wow!
Here’s Emily with her gold card and her 10 colours of Hama beads representing each figure in the sequence.
Parents Getting Involved in Numeracy Afternoon
More fun, games and active learning at our second Numeracy games afternoon.
Please click on the title and leave a comment if you joined us for ‘Getting Involved in Numeracy’ .
Here are a few photographs from our first whole school Numeracy games session where we invited parents to join in the fun.
A Digital Sundial!
Mr Stewart helped us to understand more about time and light. He printed a 3D sundial in base 4 and let us test it out in the playground. The results were amazing. The sundial projected a digital time onto the ground!!
by P6/5
Assembly Certificate Winners 26/1/18
Here are this week’s Starwriters and Maths Award winners. The P 1-3 Maths awards went to Aeson Allardyce, Liam Kelly, Emily Hyslop, Andrew Phillips, Katy Tickner and Charlie Scullion. The P4-7 Starwriters were Matthew Bradley, Martha McClean, Callum MacDonald, Nathan Hope, Katie Newlands and Jayden Collins. Well done to all!!
