Many thanks to Mr Hull who visited the school to teacher the children about coding! We used the Spheros and the MicroBits. We have learned lots of new skills that we look forward to developing!

We progressed though all of the Generation Science design steps to reach the testing stage for our Speedy Sails! Within the class there were different kinds AND positioning of wheels and sails but it was Aaron S’s double sail design that won in the end! His Speedy Sail travelled the longest distance down the corridor. We then all spoke about what we would do differently next time and how we could reduce the friction or improve the direction of our inventions. Well done, everyone! Miss Mac.

P7a have worked really hard to design streamlined planes as part of the planning stage for the Speedy Sails challenge. Well done to Aaron whose plane travelled the longest distance due to the extra number of times he folded the paper, the sharp nose he created and its perfectly symmetrical design. We will take what we’ve learned into the next stage!

We really enoyed having another opportunnity to ask questions and find out more details about our upcoming transition to high school. Many thanks to Mr Toal and Mrs. McKenzie for beinging some St. Luke’s uniforms for us to try on.

We are nearing the point of launching our creative Enterprise businesses! They are all looking so professional. Look out for us!

Today we learned about the risks and benefits of using credit cards We hope to be responsible with money when we are older. Blog by Mia. We did simple interest calculations to find out how debt can go up and up quickly!

Congratulations to our digitil leaders and Lee H in particular for setting up a STEAM Podcast and intervewing a civil servant who has been helping solve Covid related problems in the country. That is such an intresting job! It was so professional and your voices were so high energy. Thank you digital leaders for working really hard on this. Looking forward to the next ep! Blog by ~ Mia

Just a wee reminder to Parents/Carers that I need any final P1/P7 contrast photos for the Year Book by the end of the week if possible. If there is any problem in finding a P1 photo then one from P2/P3 and a P7 will be fine. If these can’t be found don’t worry we’ll just take a P7 only shot in class.

Many thanks for your continued support! The Year Book is going to be fab! – Miss Mac

We spoke about Pope Francis’ open letter ‘Laudato Si’ ‘today thought about the following  question arising from it:

What kind of world do we want to leave for future generations?

We then had a class discussion about how we can help to contribute to this powerful outcome.