As part of our topic of Scotland we were asked to design a castle. Our castle had to include: a barbican, 4 turrets, a drawbridge, at least 4 rooms and a unique feature. After completing the design brief we shared our designs within our group before voting on the person we thought had the best design. Hulk’s group voted for Naomi and Batgirl’s group voted for Sheer.

We then began to bring in our cardboard materials, string and tin foil to use to help build our castles. Everyone got into their groups and gathered materials they needed to build their castle. It took us about 4 periods to complete our castles. Our parents then had the opportunity to see our completed castles at parent’s night as they were on display in the classroom.

We used our talking and listening skills to help write, draw and select the design brief. After deciding this we then used our creative skills (designing, cutting and sticking) to help build our castle at our group. We very much enjoyed designing and making our castles.

Mr Fry, Chloe and Noah

During Science lessons this term we have been learning about magnets with Mrs Grubb. We’ve learned about the south and the north poles of a magnet and how if you put a north pole with a south pole they attract. However, if you try to put 2 north poles or 2 south poles together they do the opposite (repel).

We’ve also learned the core of the earth is made up of iron and is surrounded by a magnetic field. We looked at an experiment with iron shavings sitting on a piece of card and placed a magnet underneath the paper. We found by placing the magnet underneath the iron shavings it made different patterns around the magnet poles.

Primary 3 also looked at ‘floating magnets’, this proved to us that north and south poles attract and the same poles repel.

We’ve really enjoyed taking part in science experiments this term and have learnt lots of information about magnets!

by Aviv, Sheer and Mr Fry.