Our new timetable has started this week and we now welcome Mr Higgins on a Monday morning. He is a PE teacher and will be extending our skills over the coming months. We will also have to get ready for Sports Day! It takes place in June, but it will soon be here!
Our amazing STEM Showcase took place last night. Mr Tyler and the STEM team put a huge amount of effort into planning it all. It was spectacular and hundreds of children and their parents. We visited the Street this morning to look at all the brilliant creations and STEM selfies.
We had actual Mars meteorites and Mars dust in class today. The meteorites were very, very old. It was amazing to hold things which had had been whizzing about in space which had fallen to Earth. Our P7 Science Lab technicians came along to tell us all about them.
We made helicopters today and they were so cool. We had to cut out the template and fold over the different parts. We then added a paper clip on to the bottom to give it weight. We flew them off the balcony and watched them spin as they flew. It was amazing to watch. We learned that the air helps to support the rotar blades and makes them spin.
We used our fine motor skills to cut out spirals. We looked at the properties of spirals and looked at different places that we can see them . Spirals are amazing!
We are as busy as ever in P1.3. Never a day goes by without us learning something new. ( We know that children always say they learned “ nothing” in school!). Miss O’Neil was busy working with children creating a map of the local environment; Mrs Arbuckle was busy helping with making structures in the Tuff Tray; some people were “making” tools with the giant meccano; some people were making pizza for deliveries in our Pizza Hut; some people were looking at Google maps, finding the local area. We have also been to Assembly and gone over our phonics. It’s all go!
We planted our tomato seeds today and hopefully they will grow into tomato plants in the coming months. We carefully put the soil into the paper pods and covered them up then watered them. We will take them home on Friday. Remember to let us know how well they grow!
We are excited to participate in more STEM activities this week. This morning we had a visit from a dentist. She spoke to us about why our teeth are so important and showed us the different equipment she uses. She explained that we should be brushing our teeth twice a day and we have to try not to eat too much sugar ! The dentist also showed us lots of different food and drink and we had to vote whether we thought these were good for our teeth or bad. Did you know; Frijj banana milk has more sugar in it than a can of Coca Cola!😲
We had been inside a lot this week because of the heavy rain, so we took the chance to go outside and enjoy the sunshine for a little while. We had lots of things to play with and we were able to share with each other. It was quite windy and lots of things kept blowing away!
Rachel Crawford from Highland Spring Water came along to visit us today to talk about her job. She is a lab technician and has to check if the bottled water is safe to drink. She showed us lots of pictures about her job and we got to ask her lots of questions.
