Thank you to everyone who came to see us in our Chanukah play!  We worked so hard together on the play and were delighted to show it to all of the school, staff and to you all in the audience.  Here are some pictures of our play and our dancing.

All week we have been taking part in the sumdog challenge. We are so proud that Arjun in our class completed all the questions and he finished in 22^nd place out of all the schools.  We would also like to say well done to  everyone in our school and other East Renfreshire schools for taking part.  We really enjoyed the competition,  we found the games really fun!

Last week we all walked to the library to pick out a book for the reading challenge. The librarians were very helpful and showed us exactly where to find the books we would like and gave us some recommendations. We are planning to read our books within this month and we will then return our books and get new ones.  We are enjoying our books so far!

We have been decorating our classroom with some times tables on wall paper. It was really fun and we all worked together as a team to make sure all times tables were written. Our classroom looks very colourful now!

Primary 3 are currently working on organising a mini-Olympic afternoon for the children of primary 4, as part of their Enterprise topic.

The children have split themselves into 6 groups and each group has been tasked with creating a sports event for the afternoon. Lots of things need to be taken into consideration to allow the event to run smoothly.

Each person in the group has been given the job of either: Promotions manager, Marketing manager or Team Logistics manager. Each group of managers have had team meetings to discuss the various tasks which need to be completed. Plans are now well under way for the mini-Olympics afternoon, due to take place on Wednesday 22nd June at 2pm.

Stay tuned to find out how Primary 3 get on…….

P3 have been learning about magnets as part of our Science topic. To begin with we took part in an experiment where we used magnets to find objects which were magnetic. Using a tub of water, we placed in paperclips, coins, steel balls, rubbers, pencils and other objects. We then used our magnets to see which of the objects were magnetic. In the end we discovered paperclips, coins and steel balls as well as spoons were all magnetic.

We played a game called north and south. This allowed us to understand the two different poles of a magnet (north and south). We were each given a label which said either north or south. The whole class moved around the classroom until Mr Fry would shout ‘attract’ or ‘repel’, we then needed to pair up with another person (north with south or south with north = attract) (north with north or south with south = repel). This was great fun!

We learnt Maglev trains use electromagnets to move. Using a magnetic field and electricity the train, which is used China, floats above the track and moves people around quickly from station to station. This is good for the environment as it is a quiet train and does not pollute the air.

We used our prediction skills to guess which objects around the classroom would be magnetic or non-magnetic. Working as a group, we used a horseshoe magnet to see if the object would be attracted to the magnet. Most of our predictions turned out be correct.

We’ve had great fun learning all about magnets in P3!!!

by Zac, Inaaya and Mr Fry.

Primary 3 have been working on their Gymnastic skills for the past 4 weeks during indoor P.E sessions with Mr Fry.

We’ve been working on performing different rolls (forward, teddy bear and log), different jumps, (quarter turn, half turn and star) and balances (one foot, two hands and shoulder)

This week we were asked to work as part of a group to make up our own routines. They had to include at least 2 rolls, 2 jumps and 2 balances. We needed to make sure we were all performing at the same time, on a mat, and all moving in different directions.

We found this quite challenging at first, but after a lot of communicating within our groups we were able to come up with a routine.

Afterwards, we were allowed to perform our routines in front of the other groups, who then gave us some useful feedback to help improve our performance next time.

by Haseeb Shah, Melanie Grossman and Mr Fry.

Primary 3 had a fantastic trip to Stirling Castle yesterday with the Primary 5 class. We were accompanied on the trip by Mr Fry, Mrs Gage, Mrs Graham and a student teacher from Primary 5.

We set off on our journey, by bus, to Stilring Castle at around 9.15am and arrived shortly after 10.00am.  Mr Fry and Mrs Gage checked the group in and received tickets to allow us access to the Castle. We firstly set off exploring different parts of the castle including; The Great Hall, The Powdering Magazines, The King and Queen’s Sleeping quarters and The Galler…..it was very interesting and a lot of fun!!!!

Next, after having a lovely lunch in ‘The Great Hall’ together, we were then treated to an afternoon of Scottish History by our very own guide ‘William Oliphant’-the first person to stay in Stirling Castle way back in 1304. William took us back through the history of the castle and how it changed hands many time through the ages (mainly between Scotland and England). He spoke to us about the different weaponry that was used when attacking a castle and the weapons used on the battlefield. (We even got to see and touch them!!)

Both Daniel(P5) and Inaaya from our class were asked to dress up as Edward I and a guard.  They acted out various scenes from the past…..it was very funny to watch!!!!

Just before it was time to go, we visited the shop where we were allowed to buy a few things to remind us of our time at Stirling Castle. Some people bought plastic swords and plastic duel sticks, whilst others bought postcards and fridge magnets.

We all had a fantastic time at Stirling Castle and can’t wait to visit again!!!

Primary 3 and Mr Fry.

This week, Primary 3 have been collecting cardboard, toilet rolls, tin foil, string and flags to help us build a castle. We have been put into groups of 4 or 5 to try and work together to design a castle using all of the resources above. Before joining our group, we each drew a design of what we thought our castle should look like. We then shared our ideas with the group and decided upon a design. Then we needed to work out who was going to bring in all the materials that would help build the castle.

This afternoon, we are going to start building our castles in our groups and if we need more time, we will finish them off tomorrow during topic time.

We all can’t wait until we go to Stirling Castle next Tuesday with the P5 class. We have learnt so much about castles during our topic of Scotland that we would all like to see and look around a real one!!

Look out for our report on our trip next week!!!!!

by Lila and Gracie