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Interney Safety, Newsletter, Rights Resecting Schools, Rights Rr, The Wider Community

Rights Respecting Schools Friday Assembly 1st December

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At Friday’s assembly we had our first visit from PC Sean McKenna, the new Grange Academy Campus Cop. He visited some classes and came to our Assembly to introduce himself and also to explain to us about the possible dangers of social media and accessing sites such as Facebook, Instagram or SnapChat. He reminded everyone that the minimum age to have an account for these sites is 13 years old.

Our Rights Respecting Schools Article of the month of December is:-        Article 17 –  Every child has the right to reliable information from the media. This should be information that children can understand. Governments must help protect children from materials that could harm them.

Rights Respecting Quiz – At the assembly on Friday, 15th December the Rights Respecting Schools group will give a prize to the person who can name the most Articles of the UNCRC. Get practising!!!

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Expressive Arts, Primary 7, The Wider Community

P7 at Kilmarnock District History Group

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A huge well done and thank you to the 17 Primary 7 children who gave a further performance of their WWII play in Ayrshire College at the Kilmarnock District History Group last night!

They quickly learned lines of classmates who could not manage along and arrived ready to deliver the extras.

Mrs Lawson, Mrs Mackie and the children all received such a warm welcome and it was lovely to then listen to the stories from the audience, sharing their memories with the P7s.

An enjoyable and rewarding visit!

Digital Learning, ECO, Numeracy and Mathematics, Sciences, Technologies, The Wider Community

P6/5 STEM fortnight

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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.

The Wider Community

Primary 6 STEM – Electric Cars

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We had a visit from Mrs Kennedy (Fraser’s mum),  telling us all about electric cars and climate change.   It was very interesting to hear about how electric cars work and how councils etc. are providing more places to charge cars.

We found out that Scotland wants to have no cars using fossil fuels by 2032.

Thank you Mrs Kennedy.

P4 Mrs Beveridge, P4 Mrs Marshall, P5a Miss Meechan, Parents, The Wider Community

Electric Cars Visit Gargieston

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We were so lucky today to receive a visit from Mrs Kennedy (Fraser Kennedy’s mum) who was happy to share with us lots of information from her ‘Scottish Electric Club’. Mrs Kennedy is the owner of a ZOE electric Renault car.

We found out lots of interesting facts about electric cars and learned that when many of our class are aged to drive it may be in an electric car! They are also much  more beneficial for our eco system.

We even had two electric cars in our playground! It was great fun to explore!

Thank you  Mrs Kennedy

P4 Mrs Beveridge, P4 Mrs Marshall, P5a Miss Meechan, Parents, Sciences, Technologies, The Wider Community

Flying with STEM!

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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!

 

Primary 7, Social Studies, The Wider Community

P7 – Kilmarnock District History Group

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Thank you to the P7 children who  have volunteered to redo scenes from our play at the Kilmarnock District History Group meeting on Tuesday 28th November.

I would appreciate it if the children could arrive at 7pm at Ayrshire College on Hill Street ready to set up. Also, the children should come dressed ready to start. Parents can simply drop the children off, but are equally welcome to come in and join the meeting. Visitors to the group pay £2 on the night.

The meeting should finish at approximately 8.45pm. All children should be picked up inside the college, as it will be very dark and the children may not know the car park area well enough to walk round.

Many thanks,

Mrs Lawson

 

Primary 7, Sciences, Technologies, The Wider Community

STEM – P7 visit to Woodward Aircraft Engine Systems

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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.

ECC Events, Parents, The Wider Community

Intergenerational Project

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Unfortunately our visit to Howard House Care Home had to be cancelled the last two weeks.  However we hope to be back again next Thursday.

Here are some photos from our last visit when Centrestage also attended, we had lots of fun.   We have also made the front cover of the CAPA newsletter, please click on the link below.

CAPA improvement programme update OCT 2017

Digital Learning, Learning for Sustainability, School Events, Technologies, The Wider Community

Visit by Microsoft to P6

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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