Woodwork

March 11, 2016 User deactivated Leave a comment

On Friday afternoons Primary 5 do masterclasses. Right now we are doing woodwork. We are making bird boxes. Last week we made our designs for our bird boxes. Some people designed pillar boxes and some people designed boxes shaped liked houses. Today we were sawing the wood and measuring it. Jenna had to only do 3 15cm bits of wood because her design was a piller box and everyone else needed seven pieces. Most people still need to cut 4 more pieces. These are the steps of cutting the wood. First you need to measure the wood (we needed to cut them into 15cm blocks.) Next you need to sand down the wood so that you don’t get any splinters. Then you need to saw the wood. We had to work with a partner and the wood was stuck in a vice so that it didn’t move around. We are looking forward to finishing our boxes next week!

Louis and Zidane sanding down the wood, using gloves to avoid splinters!

Ksenia sawing out one of her sections of wood.

Faizan and Daniel carefully measuring out each section of wood.

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Mandarin Lessons

February 26, 2016 User deactivated Leave a comment

This week we had Mandarin lessons with a teacher called Mrs Qin and she taught us how to have a conversation in Mandarin by saying things like hello, good morning, how are you, goodbye, good and thank you. Then she let us listen to some Mandarin songs that had all the words we had learned and she showed us a video of four people having a conversation in Mandarin.

Here is what we learned if you would like to practise at home!

Ni hao – Hello

Zao shang hao – Good morning

Ni hao ma? – How are you?

Wo hen hao, xie xie ni ne? – I’m very well thanks, and you?

Wo ye hen hao, zai jian! – I’m also very well, good bye!

By Jenna and Harrison

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Stirling Castle Trip

February 19, 2016 User deactivated Leave a comment

On 16.02.2016 P.5 & P.3 went to Stirling to explore & learn about Scottish Wars of Independence and Castles. We split up in to groups and explored the castle, both inside and outside. It was huge! After lunch we met with a man dressed up as ! He taught us about all the great feasts, showed us the great hall and some of the weapons used. Daniel got to dress up as King Edward of England and William told us the story of the Scottish Wars of Independence. It was a really fun day and we enjoyed everything a lot…apart from rain and wind.

By Flora and Zipporah

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Scottish wars of independence update

January 29, 2016 User deactivated Leave a comment

Since our last post we’ve learned a lot more about the Scottish Wars of Independence. We learned that King Edward of England came to Scotland to decide who would be king. There were 13 competitors. The two main men to be considered were John Balliol and Robert the Bruce. King Edward chose John Balliol to be the King of Scotland but he bullied him into doing all of the things that he wanted for Scotland. The Scots were mad at Balliol for not having their best interests at heart and they called him Tomb Tabord which means empty coat.

by Ava and Louis

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Swimming

January 22, 2016 User deactivated Leave a comment

On Thursday the primary 5 class went swimming to Eastwood swimming baths. There were two groups, one group in the little pool and another group in the big pool. We all did different strokes in the pool like froggy legs, dolphin kicks, front stroke , back stroke, breast stroke and back crawl. In the end the people in the little pool did a star. This is when you float like a star.

We had a great time and can’t wait to go back next week!

By Daniel and Zak

Literacy

Debate

December 23, 2015 User deactivated Leave a comment

On the 22.12.15 we had a class debate about having phones in school. It was quite fun. There was a ‘For’ team and an ‘Against’ team. The ‘Against’ team won because they had the best arguments. We want to do another debate in our class. Maybe next time it could be about whether we should have homework?

by Zipporah and Zaynah

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BRING AND BUY SALE!!!!!!!

December 4, 2015 User deactivated Leave a comment

On Thursday 26th of November P5 collected some toys and books from other children in this school and this class. During the day, different classes including the nursery came to our classroom for the bring and buy sale. It was really difficult to serve everybody and it was really busy, hot and noisy.

We raised over £100 and it has all gone to Yorkhill. It’s for saving children from diseases and illnesses. Daniel in our class chose to raise money for Yorkhill.

He wanted to raise money for Yorkhill because his brother had brain cancer when he was little and he was in hospital for 2 years! 🙁

Science

Water Filters

November 27, 2015 User deactivated Leave a comment

On Tuesday we made water filters. A water filter is when you get dirty water and clean it. Here are the steps.

First you get a plastic bottle and cut off the bottom. Secondly, you jam a little bit of cotton wool into the bottle neck. Next you fill the bottle half full with sand. After that you put clean gravel on top of the sand. Then you place a beaker underneath the bottle and pour dirty water into the bottle. As the water passes through the filter it comes out much cleaner.

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Microscopes

November 25, 2015 User deactivated Leave a comment

On Tuesday we went outside and got some water samples as part of our science topic. We went to the park and got pond water and dirty water and then came back to school and labelled them. Afterwards we went to the I.C.T suite. We used special microscopes to look carefully at the water to see if there was anything in the dirty water or the pond water. Amazingly, Zak and Ben found a micro organism in their dirty water which was amazing for us to all look at. They also did a video of their micro organism moving around the dirty water. Our teacher told us that we could take photos and then save them on a file which I made for us. It was really fun using the microscopes and it was really interesting.

By Daniel and Fiazan