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Weekly Update

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Good afternoon, this week we were leaning volume. We calculated the volume using cubic centimetres. We checked using cubes and some of us used the formula V = l x b x h.

On Tuesday we did a litter pick around some of Sorn. We tidied up behind the village hall and then down towards the entrance to the village. We plan to continue this next week with the whole school. We took part in a live lesson and learned how to write a poem about the environment and how to look after it. Have a look at some of our poems.

AJ Recycling is the main thing
HQ The environment
JE clean
JF Please keep it clean
KJ Keeping the outdoors clean
SM The outside is amazing

 

Weekly Update

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It’s been quite a science week for us.

We have been learning about extinction and endangered animals. This week we started making food chains and then looked at how the ecosystems are related. Then we made a food web using string to show how everything interacts in an ecosystem.

Then on Friday, we took part in a science live lesson, investigating the effects of water pollution on marine life. We used an experiment to see the effects of increased pollution. Our predictions were accurate.

Weekly Update

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In Primary 4-7, we have been learning to estimate the weight of objects. We used scales to check how accurate our estimations were.

On Thursday, we celebrated World Book Day. In the morning, we took part in a Footy Booky quiz with lots us of scoring high in the two rounds. Then we took part in a BBC Live Lesson where we finished with thousands of schools all reading simultaneously for 60 seconds. During that time we read our own choice of fiction, non-fiction or comics.

Then we took part in Mrs Mackay’s great book hunt. We each had to read clues to help find the title of the next book. Glen Logan were the scavenger hunt champions and also received bonus points for the best teamwork.

Weekly Update

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This week we have started learning about weight. We’ve been investigating equal balances and converting grams to kilograms. Some of us were writing weights in fractions and decimals.

At the start of the week, we looked at books that had been kindly donated to the school. We got the opportunity to take some home with us… there weren’t many left.

Finally, we rounded off our week with another donation, this time from the school to the community. We were lucky enough to get new football nets for our playground and decided rather than throwing our old ‘pre-loved’ ones away, we could donate them to the community. With the help of P4-7 and Mrs Connell, we carried them up to the field where we positioned and tested them. A member of the public said it was so nice to see us out having a kick about and thought leaving the goals was a brilliant idea.

World of Work Week

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This week we have been delighted to welcome many visitors to our school to talk about their jobs. We’ve had:

  • police
  • a minister
  • waste management officer
  • school nurse
  • secondary school geography teacher
  • STEM coordinator and science teacher
  • doctor
  • EA Council Housing officer/Clean Green Award organiser
  • journalist

We learned about their jobs and linked their roles to the skills and qualities we have been learning about. Also, we thought about our own skills and qualities and applied for our class jobs, learned about job stereotypes, note taking, creating questions and budgeting. Phew…

We finished off our week with a performance of The Wizard of Oz and got to see how the actors worked together to make the magic happen. They answered our questions about their jobs and we linked their roles to our transferable skills.





Weekly Update

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We started learning about area this week. By counting the squares or multiplying the length and breadth, we can find the area.

In science, we have been learning about the water cycle and how to filter water. We experimented with different materials to find which cleaned the water best.

  

Then we explored climate change and the effect that the rising temperatures have on our planet. We made chains to show the many effects that climate change is having.