Welcome to our Class Blog. Our teachers are Miss Flynn & Mr Tyler :)
We have been learning all about the reign of John Balliol and his contribution to the Scottish Wars of Independence. We set up some discussion stations and worked in groups to share our thoughts and opinions. We then went outside and created some colourful mindmaps detailing everything we learned about him.
Have a look at our termly overview to see what we are learning in class.
In groups, we made 3 parachutes of different sizes. We measured using a ruler on black bin bags and cut them out. Then we attached the same length of wool to all of them and 3 cubes.
Next we made predictions. Which parachute has the most/least air resistance?
Then we went to the atrium and tested our parachutes. We had a lot of fun doing this!
We returned to class and discussed our findings. We worked out the average time for each parachute.
Parents/Carers: Ask your child to tell you about the experiment and our findings.
We have been learning about the Spanish artist Salvador Dali. We particularly enjoyed his painting called ‘The Elephants’ and we thought we would try to recreate it.
First of all we used chalk to create a sunset background.
We then drew two elephants, we used a youtube draw-a-long to help with this!
Finally, we decorated our elephants, cut them out and added them to our backgrounds. Here are some of the finished masterpieces!
They will be displayed in the gym hall for the month of May, we hope you like them 🙂
This morning we had our first Mandarin lesson. Our teacher is called Chao. We learned how to say hello, goodbye and the names for members of our family. It was lots of fun and we can’t wait for our next lesson .
Well done to P5 for putting on a fabulous show this morning!
We hope our morning audience enjoyed themselves and we are looking forward to doing all again this evening for more family and friends.
P5b have made some lovely Easter baskets to bring home today.
Due to the holiday weekend and our show performances we have no homework for the next 2 weeks 🙂
However, for those keen beans out there here is an (optional) exciting task that can be completed if you wish!
Food and Drink Federation (FDF) Scotland are delighted to work with Brakes Scotland to launch the 2019 Braw Lunch Brake Challenge with partners, Royal Highland Education Trust, ASSIST FM, Education Scotland, Skills Development Scotland and Developing Young Workforce.
This competition is open to all P5, 6 and 7 pupils across Scotland. FDF are looking for the industry stars of the future.
Your Task
We would like pupils to develop an innovative, healthy dish that includes local Scottish produce that would appeal to them and their fellow pupils?Â
The winning entrant from each stage will then be asked to prepare their healthy dish and serve it to the Leadership Team on Wednesday 8 May 2019. The winning dish will then be submitted to the national competition.
Why are we participating in this competition?
By participating in this activity food education in school will be enhanced through:
And it may spark an interest for their future career.
For further information, please click on the link below
http://www.fdfscotland.org.uk/sfdf/the-braw-lunch-brake-challenge.aspx
What happens once the winning entry from Kirkhill Primary has been decided?
Friday 10th May
Initial dish ideas from each team/school to be submitted. A team of judges from the partner organisations will then select ‘the best 6’ healthy dish ideas to go onto a grand final at City of Glasgow College.
Friday 17th May
Schools will be contacted no later than Friday 17th May on whether they have made the final.
Thursday 6th June 2019
It’s finals day! Shortlisted teams will be asked to:
Primary 5b were delighted to help clear some space for our new Science Garden.
Sarah, Isabella, Dylan and Holly were looking for bulbs.
Samantha and Euan were clearing some mud.
Ryaan, Gordon, Sean and Tarun were making this area flat helped by Euan and Samantha.
Hannah and Zaydan enjoyed using the spades to clear an area.
Lily, Molly, Beth, Imogen and Alexis are clearing waste into the dump and dancing as they work!
Inaya and Murray were busy tidying the outdoor classroom.
Another group of busy children including Jenson, Ayaan, Darcey, Tomo and Hassan who had fun sharing the gardening tools.
The children were keen to find the remains of their goldfish called Finlay which was buried in this area in Primary 1. Thankfully Finlay wasn’t found!!!
This is a little sneak peek at the gym hall set up for Diversity Week.
P5b can’t wait for their turn tomorrow to see what’s going on.
We have heard that there are crafts to make and food from all around the world to sample. Luca from P5a made some delicious sweetcorn and coconut cake.
Thank you to Imogen’s mum and Abigail’s mum (P7a) for allowing us to take this lovely picture of them. We will find out all about their little friend tomorrow.
