Primary 7 loved visiting the Science department at Barrhead High.  Starting in physics they created their own electrical charges, 🧲followed by chemistry where they were able to analyse and breakdown different tissues.🍏🥔🥩

Primary 7 have been learning about being a refugee during WW2 and used their drama skills to act out how they might feel being a refugee and leaving for the country.

Incredible work from P7, designing and creating amazing Anderson Shelters as a homework project. P5 were so impressed when they  came to visit our class👏👍🤩

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P7 are getting right into the spirit of saving the planet in the light of this year’s COP27. This week we are planning our upcycling project in preparation for making it next week. Perhaps an early Christmas present?

UNCRC Article 29

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)

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Over the past few weeks we have been looking at light and it’s properties. We are rounding up the topic with two activities.

1. Making a periscope. These were critical pieces of kit back in WW1 and WW2 to look over the trenches at the enemy. They use reflection to bounce the light to a level which keeps soldiers safe. The children used two mirrors and a cut out to create their own.

2. Making a UV light. The children created a UV light using blue/purple pen to cover their phone light. They then created patterns with highlighters and used their UV lights to make them glow in the dark. This shows that there are still wavelengths of light that are visible in UV light. Which highlighter colour glows the brightest?  (ARTICLE 28)

It’s Halloween and Primary 7 have been creating fabulous monster portraits using wax crayons and lots of imagination!  (ARTICLE 28)

Primary 7 have been learning about the Battle of Britain during World War 2. They have also created effective Paul Nash inspired watercolour paintings using wax resist techniques.  (ARTICLE 28 and 31)

No it’s not quite Halloween yet but the children have been investigating shadows and why they are formed. We learned that it’s the absence of light due the source being blocked. We also learned that what we see is just the light bouncing of the item and into our eyes. We see colours as these are the wavelengths of light that are bouncing off the item and the rest is absorbed. The black card absorbs almost all the wavelengths of light.  (ARTICLE 28)

It’s the Battle of Britain!

Not really,  it’s just a Friday in Cross Arthurlie. The children were making spitfires by researching the colours of the planes and building them from green card.  (ARTICLE 28)