Welcome me to our weekly blog. This week it’s Kyle reporting. Author visit

On Monday the 30th of May we were very lucky that an author by the name of A.F Steadman came to visit our school and present her lovely new book, Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. The blurb is , just as Skandar’s dream is about to come true, things start to take a more dangerous turn than he could ever have imagined. A dark and twisted enemy has stolen the Island’s most powerful unicorn – and as the threat grows ever closer, Skandar discovers a secret that could blow apart his world forever. She spoke about the characters, her inspiration and helped us come up with imaginary characters ourselves before creating a special story using these characters which she read for us.

Show preparations

We have been building stars and painting posters about Mamma Mia and The Muppets Show. We have also been designing and making navigations for our school dance. The class has been full of glitter and paint and stampers and…well, it’s been a bit of a mess but we always manage to tidy it up again at the end of the day.

P4.13 Garden tour

The primary 4s have transformed the Eco Garden into the terrific Tranquility Garden. They have split the magnificent garden into 2, one the flower side and the other the fruit and veggie side! Did you know that daffodils come in different colours.

Pansies also come in different colours.

My personal favourite was the baby apple tree! Here are some photos of the vibrant and beautiful place they have created. Thank you to Miss Trouten and 4.13 for your incredible dedication and hard work.

Today we built a skeleton model of our sustainable city for our Mearns Masters we used Knex to build our models (Designers).

 

 

 

 

Six By Mearns

 7.28 created a restaurant called ‘Six By Mearns’. We had two groups, each with a genre of food they planned to make. 

We chose South East Asian, and Mexican food.

 

 

 

 

 

The Mexican group prepared Quesadillas, Nachos, Quorn chicken pasta, fruit salad, churros, and fried ice cream.

 

 

 

 

 

The South East Asians made moon dumpling and sushi, Herb prantha, Katsu curry, prantha, Ube Halaya and Bahulu.

 

 

WW2 Models

In December, our entire class made models of things we thought were interesting in World War Two (WW2).

Some of us made tanks…

Others Made Ships…

Some made Anderson shelters………

And the rest made planes and blimps!

We then displayed them to the rest of the school along with 7.27!

 

Christmas!

This Christmas, 7.28 have done lots of fun activities! One of our favourite was making origami snowflakes!

Underneath the snowflakes, are some balloons with string wrapped around them, stuck on with wallpaper adhesive. It may sound strange, but once it dries, you pop the balloon, and it makes a beautiful ornament!

We also made night lights by decorating tissue paper, and wrapping it around a jar. When you put a candle or light inside, it shines through the tissue paper.

 

Debating

Recently, we have been focusing on the topic of debating.

We were put into six groups, and each group was given a topic to debate with another team from 7.27.

The six topics were,

Vaccinations should be mandatory – 7.28

Eating animals is immoral – 7.27

Zoos should be banned – 7.28

The death penalty should be banned – 7.27

The use of mobile phones and personal internet devices should be banned for children under the age of 18. – 7.27

Petrol and diesel cars should be banned – 7.28

It was tied between the two classes, three each.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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   WW2 Solo Talks

Recently, we were tasked to create a solo talk on different subjects to do with World War Two (WW2) such as tanks, rationing, medals, planes and guns to name a few. We then presented them to the class and gave 2 stars and a Wish after.

Climate Change and COP26

With Cop26 happening in Glasgow, we have been doing lots of research on climate change. So, we decided to write letters to Boris Johnston about our concerns. We also decided to make leaves that show how the world is heating up, and wrote what we can do to stop climate change. 🌍🌦                                     Here are the leaves that we made!

Cooking!                    

For the last 2 weeks, we have been cooking in the kitchen! Mr Aitken split us into 2 groups, the southeast Asians, and the Mexicans. For the first week, we cooked carbonara, a pasta. But we have been planning dishes and making decorations to create our own restaurant for some of the teachers!

Here is our carbonara!

And our decorations!

 

Remembrance

Last week was remembrance week. We had a remembrance service with the ministers Pauline and Joe. We were put into groups of 5 and tasked to act out a poem called ‘In Flanders Fields’.

 

For the past two weeks we have been doing solo talks on World War 2. We got to pick a topic of our choice and worked hard on them at home! Here’s a few pictures of some of us doing our solo talks:

Continue reading “Solo Talks”

Dome Building

This week we have been building domes using straws and tape. We had to follow picture instructions and pay attention to detail. 1 group managed to complete their dome, while the others are almost finished. We spoke about the importance of triangles in building strong structures.

Job advertising

We have been doing lots of maths due to maths week. We have been looking at jobs relating to maths, and researched our job of choice. We then made a job advertisement and began creating a poster with information on our chosen jobs!

Visit from Morgan Stanley

We have had a special visit from John and Carla who work for Morgan Stanley. There were talking to us about cyber security. By showing us how to recover a file if even if you deleted it and how hackers hack files. There are coming back on Monday the 4th of October to teach us in robotics and we are looking forward to it.

 

Ian Stewart

As it is maths week we have been given mathematician, Ian Stewart to research. We have learned about the golden angle( 137.5 Degrees) and where we find it in nature. We watched a video of Ian Stewart about the golden angle and found out that the seeds grow one after the other at an angle of 137.5 degrees. We also learnt about Fibonacci spirals and attempted to draw them.

 

 

 

 

 

Each week, the teacher chooses 1 or 2 pupils to become writer(s) of the week. This is given to the person or people who creates the most fantastic piece of writing. Our writers of the week last week were Bilal and Zain. This week it is Suhaana.

The Highland Games

This week our class has competed In a house challenge called the Highland games. The activities included; The Caber Toss, where you had to through a pole and try to land it in a twelve o’clock position, An Obstacle Course with hurdles, a ladder and hoops, Discus when you have to throw a disc as far as you can, and the Shot Put when you push a small heavy ball as far as you can. The winning house was Oak, followed by Beech, Cedar, Maple then Poplar.

Leadership Roles

Over the past few weeks we have been looking at leadership roles in P7. We had 14 people sign up for prefects and 4 for house captain. We have been lucky to have 2 house captains and 4 prefects in our class. Other leadership roles specific to p7 like giglet gurus, peer mediators, lab technicians, digital leaders and STEM embassiders are yet to be announced but everyone is looking forward to hearing the results.

Space Circles

This week we have been looking at diameter, circumference , radius and area. Our task was to pick a planet out of the solar system and find out the diameter, circumference, radius and area (if the planet was chopped in half). If you scroll to the top you will see some pictures of the planets.

 

 

 

 

This week we have been doing creative art and coding. We have made Lego Spike robots and have coded them for fun. Take a look! We have also been making our own adventure games during Mearns Masters! We have been split into 6 groups. And in the next 3 weeks we will have created 6 adventure games which we wills be presenting to ‘publishers’!

We have been learning about and creating 1 point and 2 point perspective. We have been learning shading and creating our own pieces of art using our names!
During the past 3 weeks we have been writing our own killer stories, using adjectives, verbs, nouns, adverbs, similes and metaphors. We have been doing lots of planning and now we are writing it on Google Docs.

 

 Written by Roma and Noor.

This week groups of pupils from 6.24  have worked together to create and deliver their own lessons on a subject of their choice.

Today pupils from 6.24 delivered the following fabulous lessons:

Close-Up Animal Art – Taught by Mr Thomson

History of Pandemics – Taught by Miss McDonald, Miss Mogal, Miss Roy and Miss Watson

Football Skills – Mr Ali,  Mr Campbell-Finnie, Mr Douglas, and Mr Sandher

All of the pupils did an amazing job and their lessons were very well organised and delivered, a huge well done to all of you!

 

In P6 we have been learning about democracy and the Scottish Parliament. We have created our own Political Parties and decided what our priorities are for our Election Campaign. For our campaign we have created: leaflets, posters, speeches, broadcasts, rosettes and even websites.

We hope to share all of our work with our parents, families and friends at home who will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite political party!