P7s new topic in science is dissolving and recently we have done some experimenting.

Our experiment was to see what is soluble and what is insoluble. We experimented using:

• Rice
• Sand
• Flour
• Sweetener powder
• Salt
• Coffee powder
• Cold water (100m l)
• Spoon
• Ruler

We thought of a hypothesis and everyone agreed that the sand and rice weren’t going to dissolve. You need to add water to rice when cooking it and there’s sand at the bottom of the sea. We knew that coffee was going to dissolve because that’s how you make coffee. The rest of the solids we weren’t sure of but we found out in the experiment that sweetener dissolved, the flour didn’t and for the salt there was a variety of results.

By Lana & Pippa

This week on Friday we read some stories that we wrote and illustrated to the p1’s. The criteria for our books were to make them child friendly. We each got a p1 from downstairs and some people took them back up to the class and the others read to them in their classroom. I think that all of the p1’s enjoyed our stories and also our illustrations.  It took us about a week to make, illustrate and write our books. Soon we will be reading our books to the p2s and p3s and hopefully they will enjoy it as much as the p1s did.

By Oliver and Daniel.S

This week we were learning about World War II and how it started. At first there was a global depression which affected Germany badly and there was little money and hardly any employment. Hitler was a German who was in the Nazi political party, he promised to make Germany great again. After becoming ruler of Germany he invaded Poland, Britain and France came to fight him as they were friends of Poland. This was the start of the world war. The year 1940 was a good year for Germany as they invaded France, Belgium, Holland, Norway and Denmark. Another important event of the war was D Day on the 6^th of June 1944 and the Blitz which was a bombing of Britain and Germany for 70 whole nights!

On the week beginning 28^th November the entire school brought in toothbrushes, toothpastes, toys, soap and shampoo and clothes. There was a daily theme. On Monday people brought in toothbrush and toothpaste, Tuesday – stationary, Wednesday- toys, Thursday- soap and shampoo and Friday- hate, gloves and scarves.

On the Friday morning once we had finished collecting the Mitzvah day objects, Primary 7 packed them up in shoeboxes and gift bags. Most people had decorated the boxes at home using wrapping paper or paint. Refuweegee (a charity organisation) collected the donations on Monday morning. They spoke to us about their organisation explaining that their aim is to provide refugees with a welcome pack.

By Leah and Izzy

As you may know, a couple of weeks ago was Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, is a memorial day which takes place every year so that countries in the Commonwealth can remember members of the armed forces who have lost their lives serving their country.

Remembrance Day is always 11th November (11/11). It was on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

The poppy was one of the first flowers to bloom on the battlefields of Flanders during World War 1. Their bright red colour symbolised the hope of new life, and the poppy became the symbol of Remembrance Day.   The Remembrance Poppy has been used as a symbol since 1920. Today, poppies are worn on clothing in the days leading up to Remembrance Day, and poppy wreaths are placed on war memorials during the parade on Remembrance Sunday. This is why Remembrance Day is often known as Poppy Day.

In the UK, poppies can be bought from The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. The money raised goes to help veterans of the armed services.

Primary seven have made poppy pictures in art that you can see hung on the wall of one of the staircases.

Every Wednesday morning, for the past three weeks, we have been going to Judo lessons with Primary 6. We have been learning lots of very sore and hard moves with a man who we call Sensei. We learned a move called “DE ASHI HARAI.” This move is when you take your opponent by the shirt, hold his hand and put your foot over their leg and then you trip them over so that they fall under you.

Before we started our session we always had to bow and say Ree to Sensei. As a warm up at the beginning of the class the Sensei would tell us to run on the spot, do star jumps and we would play a quick game of Monkey Tig. You play this by crawling on your knees and you have to try and catch as many people as you can.

To teach us a new move, the Sensei would chose a child from Primary 6 or 7 to help demonstrate. Usually at the end of each lesson, we play a game to test our reflexes called “Land and Sea” and in this game the Sensei will shout either land or sea. If he shouts land then we have to jump on to the mat and if we hesitate or make a wrong move then we are out. However, if he shouts sea then we have to jump off the mat onto the floor and the same rules apply.

By Daniel and Oliver.