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!!
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Category Archives: Technologies
P6/5 STEM fortnight
Here are a small selection of snaps from the many interesting and exciting activities we took part in over the last couple of weeks. We’ve learned so much!
Aircraft of the Future, Mr Burns–Flight, Maths Roadshow, Electric Vehicles.
Flying with STEM!
A huge thank you to Mr Wilson (Jack Wilson’s dad) who joined Base 3 yesterday to teach us about the STEM behind flying. His presentation included video footage of the important procedures before flight. It was also very nice to see Jack making an appearance in the clips.
It was very exciting to watch Jack and his dad take off into the sky. What a brilliant hobby to have. Base 3 now has some keen flying enthusiasts.
Thank you again, Mr Wilson!
STEM – P7 visit to Woodward Aircraft Engine Systems
Primary 7 enjoyed an excellent visit to Woodward as part of their STEM fortnight activities on Flight.
After an interesting talk on what the company does, the children broke into groups for a tour of the site. This was followed by a break for water and snacks they provided and 4 activities based on what they had seen and told about.
It really was a fantastic visit and huge thanks go to all the staff at Woodward for making us so welcome!
The final photo is Ben’s skin magnified x220! This tool is used when working with hairline cracks on an aircraft part.
STEM challenge P6/5
Our brief yesterday was to design and construct a spaghetti bridge, strong enough to support a weight of 250g.
To build the bridge we only could use pasta, tape and rubber bands. My bridge held 600 grams but the winners held 725 grams so we came 2nd. by Cameron McG
Bridges were very hard to make but most of them could hold two dictionaries for an example ours me, Eve, Cameron and Chiara. by Josh
P7 Pupils to Woodward Aircraft
P7A STEM trip to Woodward Aircraft in Prestwick.
Wednesday 15th November 2017
Leaving school at 9.05 am and returning for lunch time.
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School Uniform.
Please visit ParentPay to pay for trip and give permission for your child to attend.
If you are available to help on the day ,
please send a note into Mrs Lawson.
*Many thanks *
Visit by Microsoft to P6
On Tuesday straight after lunch P6 were given a visit by Microsoft to teach us all about Microbits and coding. We were given a USB cable, a battery pack and a microbit chip. We went onto a website called Microsoft Make Code and clicked on the first option which was Microbit. On the simulator we were taught how to code pictures onto our microbit and if we plugged in the USB it appeared on the chip. First we learnt how to code a heart shape that flashed in the centre as a basic of code. Then we were allowed to create our own pictures on the simulator. And for a challenge we had to code a game of rock paper scissors on our chips. After that we could make as many pictures on the microbits we wanted for the last couple of minutes. All of P6 would like to give a huge thanks for Microsoft and the teachers from St Mungo’s High School and all the people at Microsoft. We really enjoyed playing with the microbits.
By Isabelle and Calum S
Primary 7 Transition / Photography
Primary 7 walked up to Grange Art & Design Department to meet Miss Sharpe for her to share some top tips on capturing that perfect photograph. She talked about perspective, focal points and the rule of thirds.
Then they took those tips out into the town centre taking lots of great photos. Everyone will soon choose their favourite photo to enter the national My Place Photography run by The Scottish Civic Trust.
Base 3 Ayrshire College STEM Visit
The children in base 3 have been given the opportunity
to visit the engineering departments at
Ayrshire College
on the afternoon of
Wednesday 15th November.
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P4B and P5A will walk from school to the event
and
P4A will walk from the cinema.
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Packed lunches ONLY for all pupils on the day please.
Full school uniform and suitable outdoor clothing for walking.
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Pupils will not be back to Gargieston until approx 3.30pm
where they will be dismissed from class through the upper end doors.
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Please give permission below for your child to attend
and if you are available to help on the day.
ECC October Home Learning Task
For our home learning this October, we would like to encourage you to put a post on your child’s e-portfolio. It can be something that you and your child did over the holiday that they would like to share with us in the ECC.
Thank you
This is an optional task.
