This years STEM trip will be a whole school outing to
Dumfries House.
The trip will be spread over 4 days.
Friday 27th March – P1A, P2C, P4A & P6B
Monday 30th March – P2A, P3B, P5B & P6A
Tuesday 31st March – P1B, P3A, P5A & P7B
Wednesday 1st April – P1C, P2B, P4B & P7A
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Please visit Parent Pay to give permission for your child to attend.
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Make It Happen Club (SCIO) is a charity with the aim to inspire childrens digital learning. We are lucky to have been selected for their innovative and exciting App Design competition.
Your child may already have brought home their App design sheet and started to design. Entries are due in by Thursday 27th February and if their design is selected it will then be made in school and put onto the App store and Google Play for download. What an amazing thing to have a chance to win!
Good luck and h’app’y designing!
**Digital Learning**
P4B will visit Ayrshire College , Kilmarnock.
Tue 15th May 2018.
Leaving school at 9.00am / Return for 11.00am approx.***
Pupils should bring a small snack.
Full school uniform please.
Clothing should be suitable for the weather on the day – rain coat / comfortable shoes etc.
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If you are available to help on the day – please give your details below.
The college have also requested photographic permission from parents.
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
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.
What a good day we all had at the Science Centre. The children all enjoyed exploring and playing with all the activities. The Planetarium proved to be very popular with the children and they listened very well to find out new information about our solar system.
STEM
Base 4 are very lucky to have Mrs Cameron ( who works at Spirit) coming in over the next 2 weeks to work on a series of lessons based on flight . Yesterday we found out about drag, thrust, lift and weight and why they are all needed to make a plane fly. We made some tricky paper aeroplanes and had fun getting them to fly.
We are looking forward to Mrs Cameron returning on Thursday for more experiments.
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 *
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.
Children from Base 1 & 2 will visit the
Science Centre as part of STEM week.
Thursday 16th November 2017.
Leaving school at 9.15 am, travelling by coach and returning for 3pm.
School uniform.
Packed lunches.
Closing date for orders – Thursday 9 November.
The trip will cost £7.70 and has been added to ParentPay.
If you are available to help on the day, please leave feedback below.
