Month: March 2019

Mrs MacFarlane, a communications officer came in to tell us all about her job. Mrs MacFarlane began with an interesting fact – around one quarter of the worlds population can speak English. This made us think, what languages do the rest of the world speak? Well, we found out that there are lots and lots! Our research in the ICT suite today suggests that there are around 7000 languages spoken in the world today. We were amazed with this fact!

Mrs MacFarlane’s job consists of lots of writing and the stories she writes are published on newspapers, leaflets and on the internet.

At university, Mrs McFarlane learned russian. We sang the alphabet in russian and learned different words in russian too.

At the end, we were given a writsband and a sticker which said ‘talk to me’ in a different language.

A big thank you to Mrs McFarlane for taking your time out and sharing your knowledge with us. We learned lots!

This year for World Book Day we took part in a book swap at school 📚

 We thought this was a great way to recycle old books and read new ones. We were chuffed with our swaps.

We hope you found your £1 book token in homework folders yesterday. Please follow the link below for further details as to how to use it.

£1/€1.50 books

Happy reading 📖

This week our guests visitors were Dr O’Donnell and Dr Wyllie.

A huge thank you for sharing your world of work with P1.1 🌎

Most exciting of all, we were given the opportunity to look inside a doctor’s bag and investigate a few tools which doctors use.

We listened to each other’s hearts using a stethoscope.

We carried out water and urine (apple juice) ph level tests.

We looked inside each other’s ears using an otoscope and looked in each other’s eyes using an ophthalmoscope.

We checked one another’s pulse and reflexes.

We sneezed (glitter) into our hands and watched the germs spread.

Thank you once again to our visitors, it was an inspirational experience for the pupils of P1.1 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️