Today P7 have been learning about the human skeleton.  They have learned what the skeleton does and what the bone names are.

We then went onto make our own X-ray!

P7 have started coding the microbits. They are coding. They have coded for games and a love heart! Bit late for Valentine’s Day though!

Children are using coding to make the Spheros draw a square! The beginning of robotics!

We have been learning about the respiratory system. One of the worst things you can do to your lungs is smoking. It stops Oxygen getting to your blood, creates a build up of tar and can cause cancer.

Look at our eye catching posters to warn people of the dangers.

Today the children were using their coding skills to program Spheros. Only the first day so we’ll be looking more into the scratch style coding next week! Today went wild with driving them around!

A wee Monday trip to the library to look at some books we can check out.

This week we’re making bridges using our previous knowledge of construction with Kinects and Lego. There is a twist thought! We are only given a limited amount of material and the material is quite brittle. You guessed it! We are using spaghetti.

Here’s how we did!

P7 have been looking at what renewable energies are available in todays world. While looking at how they work they have also been designing a school which is energy efficient by using these technologies.

P7s are out at the high school today. A great way to start transitions. We started off with a safety lesson in chemistry! We even got to write on the desks.

Then we looked at Bunsen burners. Very exciting!

And burned some magnesium!

Physics was fun too! We looked at how static electricity works using a Van de Graaf generator. We made hair stand, foil plates fly and shocked our friends.

We then used static electricity to bend water.

Great day all round!

Last years COP 26 was a special one for us in the Glasgow area. This year it’s taking place in Egypt but it is just as important globally. To raise awareness, the children are going to create up cycled crafts  to show that we can reuse things that people usually throw out. Some people can even make a living from this! Who knows if we have any budding entrepreneurs in the P7!

This week we are starting off with a poster and a chat about what creations we could make in the following weeks.  (ARTICLE 4 and 28)