As part of our social studies topic ‘ The Vikings’, Primary 4b decided that they wanted to make Viking helmets. Once we had all our materials, balloons, old newspaper cut into tiny pieces and wallpaper paste, we were ready to go! Mrs Dowling showed us how to apply the newspaper onto the balloons. We had lots of fun doing this messy activity and we can’t wait to paint our helmets and wear them!

Primary 4d have been learning how to cook some Viking meals.  We enjoyed making Viking porridge, mushroom soup and beancakes.  Here are some photos of us making the yummy beancakes.

At the recent Provost’s Debate, Primary 7c debated the motion: ‘This house believes that age restrictions should be placed on the cover of every book’ At the end of the debate and after many very valid points being put forward, 20 people voted to propose the motion and 11 voted against! Well done 7c

Primary 7a presented the motion: ‘This house believes that children over the age of 13 should be allowed to use social media sites’ This relevant and interesting motion sparked much discussion and debate! Well done P7a!

Primary 7b debated the motion: ‘This house believes that homework should be abolished’. As you can imagine some very interesting points were made!

In Science, we have enjoyed learning about the importance of safety in the Science lab.  We were able to identify the various hazards in an unsafe lab.

We had a great time using different methods of measurement to investigate dimension, temperature, mass, volume and time.

We used measuring cylinders to measure out specific volumes of dried peas.  It is important to come down to eye level when taking the measurement.

By using metre sticks and rulers, we measured the length of the side of a desk, length of a jotter, our hand span and our height.

We used thermometers to measure the temperature of room water, tap water and ice water. 

We had fun timing each other to say the alphabet, tie our shoe laces and tie our school tie.  We estimated in minutes and seconds how long we thought it would take us, before using a digital stop clock to time the actions.

We recorded our results in tables.

The pupils of Primary 3a have had fun learning more about symmetry since they started back school. They enjoyed playing a “symmetry copycat game” with a partner to create lovely symmetrical pictures using 2d shapes.

Primary 2c used their knowledge of  2D  and 3D shapes to identify shapes and objects in the environment.

We used cubes to work out the story of 11 and 12.

We love using Education City to reinforce our learning.

We are developing our mental maths skills using number fans.

Primary 4b has been learning all about place value and love playing on the interactive whitebaord to help us learn.

As part of our Social Studies topic on the Vikings, we made Viking oatcakes. We then did an instructional piece of writing on how to make the Viking oatcakes in our writing jotters.

Primary 5a has been enjoying football during their cages time.

Celebrations all round as their team scored a goal!

Here we are practising our passing skills.

Can he score the goal…

Yes! He did it… well done!

    Here are P3b athletes learning to conquer the activity trail as part of our Health and Wellbeing programme.

These are the excellent singers from P3b practising hymns to Our Lady for our special birthday celebration.

The P3b mathematicians are using mirrors to reflect patterns which helps to teach us about symmetry.

We can “score goals” in our writing when we have good ideas or WOW words.

Here are some children from P3b making our mummy as part of our Social Subjects project on Ancient Egypt.

P3b enjoying their “5 – a – day” as part of a healthy lifestyle.