We were lucky enough to go to the science centre to hear a presentation from NASA astronauts (Suni Williams and Mike Baker) and NASA engineer. What a once in a lifetime experience to hear first hand accounts of life in Space.

We also explored the science mall.

We have been learning about natural disasters and their impact on the landscape and people.
We designed our own volcanoes and then used chemicals to show an eruption.

Primary 6 have been very busy again this month!

We all worked so hard for our school show Aladdin Trouble. We had so much fun performing it on the day.

Primary have been learning lots of exciting things in Science. We have been working in groups to create our very zip line. It had to connect to a table and a chair so we had to use our problem solving skills we have been working on to complete the task.

We have been working our way through Bikeability and have spent the last 2 weeks on our local roads.

Our potato plants are really coming on and we have rehomed them outside now. We have had to work extra hard to keep them watered in all the lovely sunshine.

And lastly we are published authors! We were very excited to see our stories printed within “The Adventures of…” book.

We all decorated hard boiled eggs as part of our Easter activities. We thought about themes and designs and Mrs Gauld picked a top 3 and we voted for a winner.

Well done Creed on his winning design.

It was wonderful to welcome so many visitors to our classroom to share our learning and help us with our science experiment on The Water Cycle.

Primary 6.2 have had a very busy month again. We have had lots of celebrations this month from Valentine’s Day, Internet Safety Day, Ash Wednesday. We also had a great afternoon celebrating all of the talents of Cross Arthurlie at XA factor. We were very lucky  as we got to cheer on 4 people from our class this year!

In PE we have been exploring our coordinations skills and learning lots of new tricks and balances in our gymnastics block. I have loved seeing how supportive you all are as a class and how you have helped each other to develop your gymnastic skills further.

We took part in a BBC live lesson for Internet Safety Day were we learnt about why you need to be a certain age to play certain games. We were then able to create our own safe place online where we could game and talk to our friends in a safe way.

We have been using Literacy Circles to help upskill our Literacy skills. We have started with a selection of David Williams books.

We have been learning about chemical and physical reactions. We know a physical reaction is reversible (this means you can change it back), A chemical reaction is irreversible (this means that you can’t change it back). 

We have completed a number of experiments to investigate the effects of mixing different chemicals.

If there is a chemical reaction we know one of the following will happen: changing colour, temperature, fizzing showing a gas has been released and a smell been given off.

We made bath bombs.

We made lava lamps .

In Science,  we have been learning about the properties of light and how it can be used in a creative ways.

We explored opaque, translucent and transparent materials and completed experiments with torches to see how light is reflected and  refracted in different ways.

We explored how shadows can shrink and grow depending where the light source is placed.

Finally we made our own shadow puppets and performed our show to the class.

Shadow Puppet Show

Wow Primary 6 have had a very busy month of December!

We had a trip to St Andrews Church we got to take part in fun games and different creative workshops.

We then had a visit from Santa’s Reindeers.

We also got to see the Primary 1 and 2 Nativity and the Primary 3 , 4 and 5’s Christmas show. We have been working hard in class creating our very own Christmas inspired Rap. We also helped out our friend the Grinch with creating a how to steal Christmas guide. We have been busy designing our very own Christmas Jumpers and we even presented these designs to our class.
Our Christmas party was a huge success and it was lovely to see all the amazing dance moves.

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and a very Happy New Year!

I look forward to seeing you all in 2026!

Miss Fergus and Primary 6!

Primary 6 enjoyed learning all about the 1960s as we celebrated our school’s birthday this month. We watched a family go back in time and learnt all about how the 1960s was a huge time of change. It was good to listen to lots of different music from the 1960s and we also learnt a new dance.