Category Archives: Art and Design

Art and Design, Eco, Expressive Arts, Global Citizenship, Listening & Talking, Problem Solving, Science, Technology

Innovative Inventors in Primary 2

SDC11620SDC11618Arlo Barsanti ” This is Roger the Rubbish Robot but he is not really rubbish!  The rubbish is sucked up the arms……………………. SDC11622Thalia Stewart ” This is a Bird and Bees B and B.   The solar panels catch the energy from the sun and warm up the earth so that worms and flowers can live. Then the birds and bees will have food to eat.  That is how it helps the environment”
SDC11610” I made a model and a poster” Daisy McLean SDC11611Daisy McLean ” It is called the Clean Clean Machine.  It sucks the bad and makes flowers………
SDC11625Sarah Sneddon ” I made a pollution Pump.  It takes polluted air and turns it into cheap electricity.  I helps the environment and poor people.” SDC11626“My machine recycles paper, plastic and glass and turns it into seeds for the birds.” Blair Mann
SDC11628Jamie McFarlane “This is Muncher the Environment Friendly Robot. He is solar powered and recycles bad air to make clean air. He recycles.” SDC11630Olivia Andrews “This is The Marvellous Bin. It sucks up the things and I was going to make a remote control too. It means you only need one bin and it helps the environment.”
SDC11631Ben Casey” This is Ben’s Bag for Life. I made it with an old top.  It has handles. I decorated it with bottle tops.  It helps the environment because you don’t have plastic bags.” SDC11634James Malcolm-Blyth “The Litter Fighting Machine goes round the streets picking up litter and switching off lights.  I made a model and a poster.”
SDC11635“The Tap Timer. Why not get one for your home? It helps the environment because it stops you wasting water.  You can turn it from 1 up to 5 and it stops the tap from running.” Lucy McAllister

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 SDC11638Sophia Barclay “I made a solar powered litter collector.  The balloons help it float. The water gets sucked up the pipe and the litter gets trapped.  I was going to make a remote control like Olivia’s to make it come back to be emptied.  It helps the environment because it helps the rivers, seas and oceans.”
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Achievements, Art and Design, Eco, Listening & Talking, Problem Solving, Science, Technology

Innovative Inventors Challenge

Primary 2 have been learning about important inventions and how they affect people and the environment.

We have been listening and watching for useful information.  We have taken notes and made books for the class library about John Logie Baird and Alexander Graham Bell.  We will be researching more inventors and their inventions………….

We have planned a trip to the Science Centre in April.

Primary 2 have accepted a challenge to invent something that will help fix an environmental problem.  All designs, presentations and patents are due on 10th March………………………………..
Art and Design, Collaborative, Community, Expressive Arts, Fun, Learning Across Stages

Keeping Safe in Winter P2, P3 & P4

IDL Blog 048Poster making to share important messages about travelling in bad weather conditions. IDL Blog 026Thalia from P2 and Anna from P3 working together to spread the word about staying warm with appropriate clothes for Winter weather.
IDL Blog 034Archie and Finlay MacDougall  working on a joint safety message to put up around the school. IDL Blog 036Amelia and Isabella reminding us all to look after pets and younger family members when there is salt on the ground……it is not for eating!!!!!!!!!!
IDL Blog 016Marvellous Makers group designed and made accessories to make children more visible during the dark winter days. IDL Blog 038Getting to grips with stitching with ‘high viz’ materials.
IDL Blog 035Amelia from P3 and Lexa from P2 making posters about the importance of staying away from frozen ponds. IDL Blog 020
IDL Blog 039P2,P3 and P4 acting out risky situations and teaching us how to deal with them responsively. IDL Blog 022Super Surveyors group went out into the community to gather information about ‘Keeping Safe in our local environment’.
IDL Blog 014Planning and designing safety accessories. IDL Blog 027First draft of a safety poster by Jacob Smith
Art and Design, Collaborative, Literacy, Problem Solving, Technology

Walk About Talk About………….Robots

SDC11005 cam nov 155‘I was learning how to cut and colour’. Sarah McKenzie

‘I was learning how to build stuff. I made a robot’

Joseph Ottolini
cam nov 154‘I was learning about robot. I made mine with construction’ Fraser Tweedlie cam nov 153Robot Mania!
cam nov 144‘ Well….that iwas a digger…..I made it with Ben….I used the instructions’ Jamie McFarlane cam nov 145‘ I was telling Zaid what my robot does’ James Malcolm- Blyth
cam nov 147‘I was  making a robot and he was telling me about he moved’ Kenzie McKinnon cam nov 139”I was doing walk about talk about. I was choosing my favourite robot picture’ Mia Lafferty
Art and Design, Fun, Problem Solving, Science, Social Studies, Technology

Innovative Inventors

SDC11012‘I invented a cool thing and I wanted to show it to Mrs Toman.  It has eight wheels. It is a transformer’. Logan Hart SDC11007‘ It was a shape thing that I made. I done tyres at the bottm.  It looks like it is flying. It shoots out hot dogs  to people’ Blair Mann
SDC11008‘I was making a car with big wheels at the back and little wheels at the bottom’ James Malcolm – Blyth SDC11009‘I was learning to build. I made a giant crane.’ Oliver Rissmann
SDC11006‘I builded a lego robber and he robbed the bank to get all the jewls and the money’ Finlay Macdonald SDC10997‘I was making a helicopter out of construction’. Jamie McFarlane
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Art and Design, Collaborative, Learning Across Stages, Science, Technology

Blether about the weather…………

BLOG OCT 255“We were learning what way the wind was blowing” Sienna Leitch”To see if the wind is blowing or not.  Sarah from P3 told us how to make a wind turbine” Siona Sircar BLOG OCT 247“Anna from P3 . She was showing me how to work the windmill.  I showed her my windsock and I showed her how to do it” Jessica Mackessy
BLOG OCT 246“Anna from P3 showed me that it goes fast that way if there is more wind” Millie Taggart BLOG OCT 251“Dylan is my brother and I was learning about wind” Daisy McLean
BLOG OCT 253” I was learning about when socks can go in the wind and they can break in very strong winds.  My one didn’t break” Logan Hart

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Heather and me were trying out each others windsock and wind turbine. Sophia Barclay
BLOG OCT 240“We were doing something working out which way the wind was going” Arlo Barsanti” I made it with long see through paper, glue and a tube.  I tied it with string. It moved to the East. Because that was the windiest way” Zaid Hadji BLOG OCT 237” I was wanting to tell which way the wind was going and I was hanging on the gate and the wind was blowing west” Jamie McFarlane
Art and Design, Numeracy, Problem Solving

Let me tell you a story…….a number story……

SDC10656“We were doing calculations and pictures. We were working in partners. We were doing the story of 10”  Blair & Finlay SDC10652” We were making a tower of ten and then we wrote the calculations” Jamie & Thalia
SDC10648“I was  colouring a rainbow of number facts to 10” Zaid SDC10651” I was learning about numbers.  Different ways to make  10″ James
SDC10653“I was doing my number rainbow. I had to colour them in to the other side. I as making 10” Cara SDC10650“I was colouring a rainbow.  Calculations about 10. I tried hard” Fraser
SDC10654” I was colouring a rainbow. I was learning up to 10″ Sienna SDC10649” I am learning to stay in the lines” Olivia Mason