Week beginning 25 February 2019 – updates

All Spelling homework has been added to Google classroom. Please ensure your child is completing this every night either in their jotter or using the Google docs facility.

Numeracy homework has been set using Education City – your child has their own log in details including password. This is monitored daily by class teachers. Please encourage your child to complete all the activities set.

We are continuing to look after our trout eggs, now alevin. The temperature was a little high this morning so we have worked hard all day to bring this down using frozen water bottles. Our alevin are now very active and we have noticed that the yolk sac they use for feeding has started to get smaller. It will not be long until they are released into the wild.

Fairtrade Fortnight

Fairtrade Fortnight begins on Monday 25th February and finished on March 10th.

All pupils have been provided a homework task for this week.

P1 – P3 have a Fairtrade Passport.

P4-5  are to design a Fairtrade chocolate bar.

P6-7 are to create a 3D Fairtrade chocolate box.

The Fairtrade Committee will be presenting at an assembly the following week.

Finally Primary 2 will be hosting a Fairtrade coffee morning on the 8th March at 10am. Everyone is welcome to attend and we would be very grateful for any baking on this date.

Thanks

Miss Mckay, P2 and the Fairtrade Committee

 

 

 

Fishy update

The children continue to monitor, record and care for the hatchery daily. All of our eggs have now developed into Alvins and the children are enjoying watching them grow.

They have created posters and fact files illustrating the importance of The River Clyde in the past and present. This is because the burn that we hope to release the fish into runs into The River Clyde.

P6a are also participating in Eco schools Scotland marine litter competition and have researched the effects of pollution on marine life and how it can end up in the sea from Barrhead.  They created powerpoints and AWAY’s that they will share with the school across the coming weeks to raise awareness of the problem.

Outdoor learning

P6a took full advantage of the beautiful, fresh, but cold weather to take their art lesson outdoors.

We have been learning to work with clay over the last few weeks so the children had to source natural materials to add to their clay to create a face. As it was so cold, snowy and icy they had to use their skills of observation to find and source effective materials.

They loved this task and we will repeat it later on in the year so that they can compare and contrast the experience in different environmental conditions.

Clyde in the Classroom 1.2.19

At 9am the temperature was 9.3C which is a perfect temperature. We added 2 bottles of ice.

At 11am the temperature had dropped to 6.0. We added 1 bottle.

At 1:30pm we added 2 bottles as it is a Friday and we have to get the temperature as low as possible.

A little update

Good morning

This term Primary 6a will be responsible for looking after over 100 trout eggs. For the past week we have been learning ways to keep our hatchery cool – using iced water bottles to lower temperatures. The children are working in small groups of 3 & 4, sharing these responsibilities. They are then sharing all of their gathered knowledge with their classmates and we evaluate what we can see happening.

Please talk to the children about this project as they are all very excited. We hope to share this excitement with you when our eggs arrive and we will be inviting you in to see all that we have done. Our eggs will be delivered on 31 January 2019. Please keep accessing our blog and the school website and twitter for regular updates.