We are testing how much we love each other this Valentine’s Day with our Microbit love meters! Touch the love meter to see how much you love the other person.

P6 are taking part in a K’nex challenge. They have to build a bridge that satisfies the following criteria. It must:

be a stable structure.

span a 50cm gap.

hold a weight of at least a textbook.

The best team players will go on to represent Cross Arthurlie at the Barrhead High cluster competition. The winner of that competition will go onto a Glasgow wide and then a nation wide competition.

More gymnastic fun with P6. A little more adventurous with some children managing backflips!

We have been building more on our gymnastics moves as the children become more confident. This week we have used some apparatus to practise head stands and rolls, jumps and rolls as well as our climbing skills.

This week we are focusing on inversion (being upside down). We started off with a shoulder stand before going into a head stand! Super exciting! We had a lot of red faces!

This week we are starting with balances. We have be using our strength and coordination to succeed!

We learned about different volcanoes and their states; dormant, active, extinct. We also discussed the largest volcanoes and where we find the majority of them – the ring of fire!

We went onto paint our volcanoes in preparation for exploding them next week! Stay tuned to watch the result!

As part of our natural disasters and Earth materials topic, the children have been discussing how the Earth is made up and how minerals are formed. We made some volcanoes to explode next week. This also links back to our chemical reactions topic, but we will see that in next week.

Today we looked at minerals, otherwise known as rocks! The class found out some great facts about a range of minerals. Did you know that Muscovite mica is used on furnaces!

Ok well not that kind of fan, but children have been making fans from bottles as part of our sustainability topic. They understand that they can be attached to motors to produce electricity.