April’s Post

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On Tuesday a robot from Dr Who came to the school. He was called Tal. Tal is a Dalek and his robot friends are not very nice. He asked us to design a robot friend for him. On Thursday we made his friends out of K-nex. We used the design cycle to plan our robot based on a criteria. The robot had to be a friend but also have a purpose like carrying or lifting something. It had to be at least 30cm tall and have a moving part.
We talked about what robots are and Mrs Connell taught us how to make pulleys with K-nex.

On Monday, we visited Maidsafe where we created circuits with a battery and working light. We learned how to make a complete circuit and saw a 3D printer in action.

Dolphin House Day 2 Highlights

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We have had a super busy day. We kick started our day with a trip to Maidens beach where we helped tidy up by litter picking. After lunch, we got kitted up ready for caving where we explored under the caves of Culzean Castle. Then we got out on the bikes to cycle some of the dirt tracks. In the evening, we had a great night playing hide and seek in the dark in the play park.

All in jammies and ready for bed. Goodnight all…

Residential Information

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Welcome back folks!
One more sleep before we head off for Dolphin House. Here’s a checklist as a reminder to make sure you have packed all the essentials.

  • toothbrush/toothpaste
  • towel
  • long socks (lots of spares)
  • hat and gloves
  • carrier bag/black bag for washing
  • packed lunch box
  • water bottle

Gentle reminder that no devices or expensive items are to come along with you. We are leaving at 9am sharp, so don’t forget your case. We are all excited for a week full of fun and outdoor activities.

If we are fortunate enough to have some signal/wifi, we will update the blog daily.

 

Kerr and Stuart’s Post

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This week in literacy we have been learning how to use speech marks and commas. We used a game about an ancient temple to write our stories. Click on the links below to read our writing.

Ancient temple of massacre by Jake
Temple of doom by Stuart
Ancient by Heidi
The hidden discovery of the ancient temple of Ra by Kerr
The discovery of the haunted pyramid by Isla

In maths we have learned how to use the written method for subtraction and we used the dienes blocks to help us exchange hundreds, tens and units.

In art we learned about perspective drawings and then drew the Polar Express. We used the vanishing point, horizon lines and guidelines to help us.

In PE we have been doing basketball and this week we were perfecting our passing and dribbling.

Weekly Update

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What a busy week we have had.

In maths, we’ve been practising our addition strategies and Mrs Connell was really pleased with our jotter layout.
In literacy, we have been learning how to use speech marks which we are going to use in our imaginative writing.

We have been learning how to use atlases to find different information. Mrs Connell challenged us to an atlas scavenger hunt, looking for rivers, mountains and capital cities.

Primary 7 went for their first visit to the Robert Burns Academy. Primary 6/7 attended a zoom conference on World Children’s Day to discuss climate change. Today, the whole school made lanterns for Make Cathrine Sparkle… phew!

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Jake and Heidi’ Blog Post

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We’ve been learning about breaking up numbers in math. Next week we are looking at written method. We made bar graphs on excel and after conducting a traffic survey in Sorn.

We are working on our clean green award and we did a zoom call. The activities were measuring temperature of water where one was in a bag and one was not. We made a spider web while thinking about food chains. we passed string to each other to show how animal and plants were connected.