Today was our last day of coding. We had some visitors from                     R-CADE who came into our class to look at our games and they brought us some of there  80’s and 90’s vintage technology. All the games that they brought to show us were very old but it still worked really well. They came in and told us all about coding, and how and were they worked in coding. There were so many different types of games, like, Pac-Man, A small motor ran tennis game, Two vintage VR’s, with one showing tanks, and the other showing race cars. We really enjoyed our coding block overall, and we hope we could do it again in the future.

by Kai, Yusuf and Paul

This week we have been continuing with the coding pathway in Mearns Masters where the class are creating an adventure game using Scratch.

As well as coding our adventure games, some children have been exploring robotics and using their coding skills with the Lego Spike!

We have now started our coding pathway in Mearns Masters. P7.25 will be coding an adventure game in pairs over the next few weeks so we have done some planning and designing what we want our games to look like, what characters we want and how each level will look!

6.21 came into our class to share on how they have made there reusable and recyclable  Halloween costumes out of things around there house or things that people don’t use/want anymore.They taught us how to make there costumes and how to recycle them when they were done.

by Oliver and Ajit

Our first Mearns Masters pathway in Primary 7 is The Campaigners! Our campaign is to try and make children and adults more aware of the dangers that smoking cigarettes and e-cigarettes can have on our bodies so we can live a healthy life.

We started off by exploring and researching the effects that smoking has on the body. We also looked into the types of first aid we can use if something more fatal happens as a result of smoking i.e. heart attack or stroke.

In groups we showcased our learning  through creating our own videos!                                                     

Today we hosted our Mexican Fiesta showcase in the library which we transformed into a restaurant!

The class was split into groups with each making either tacos, enchiladas or Mocktails.

We used the skills that we have developed over the 6 weeks to cook our food and worked together to present our finished dishes.

We had a great time trying the food, hosting our special guests, listening to Mexican music and wearing our moustaches 🎉

Today our whole class went up to the kitchen to create our very own Mexican inspired mocktails.

We used lime cordial, soda water, ice, syrup, orange juice, sugar and salt to make our drinks 🍋

We then blended our mixture together to create a slush like texture and used lime to line our glasses and mixed the top of the glass in sugar and salt to make the garnish 🧂

Cheers 🍹

Today Group 2 of our Gastronomers made our vegetarian enchiladas in the kitchen. We enjoyed preparing the vegetables, packing up our mixture in tortilla parcels and baking them in the oven with cheese!

Next week our whole class will be making some Mexican themed Mocktails – we can’t wait!