This week was Def Week at Mearns Primary school. We would like to purchase a defibrillator for the school as part of our goal as a First Aid school and are currently fundraising to help us achieve this. Defib Week will help us raise money through a sponsored whole school Zumba class as well as educating the children, staff and their families in how to perform CPR.
The week kicked off with a visit from Jamie from St Andrews First Aid. He brought along his training mannequins to demonstrate how to administer CPR.
Next, Leon from the Red Cross came to our classroom to discuss general first aid techniques and how to offer first aid without a first aid kit.
The recovery position.
You can cool a burn with more than just water if its not available. Lucozade!
On Thursday, Lewis the First Responded brought in his defibrillator in with him and showed us how to make a 999 in an emergency.
Finally, the week was rounded up by a Zuma session in the Street to get our hearts pumping.
We attempted John Swinney’s maths problems this week as part of Maths Week Scotland 2019.
Well done Daniel for demonstrating your solution to problem 1.
Congratulations Aatish, Zaina, Grace, Lewis and Lucy for cracking problem 2 and explaining your solution to the whole class.
Why dont you give them ago at home?
Primary 6 and 7 pupils and families have be asked to donate resources to help Mearns Primary with their STEM plans for this years. We are in desperate need of resources for our Tinker Lab and for construction materials.
Tinker Lab
We need various electronic devices to allow the children to open them up and take them apart to see how they work. Understandably, anything donated cannot be returned as it will be destroyed in the process. Items required are
- mobile phones
- laptops
- desktop computers
- games consoles
- game controllers
Construction material
The items we require in this section are
These construction resources are highly beneficial for the children’s learning in our STEM lessons and clubs. We understand that these are high value items and therefore please only donated them if you are certain that you no longer want or need them.
We kicked off Maths week Scotland in ICT doing research on the famous mathematicians that our Math groups are named after: Pythagoras, Fibonacci and Lovelace (not technically a mathematician). We then took part in various mathematical activities to support what we are currently learning in class.
2D shape (2D shape drawings)
Equivalent fractions (fraction dominoes)
Whole number ( +, -, x and / board game).
Finally, we had an attempt at John Swinney’s first problem with one successful solution in class.
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