Hello everyone,

It’s been a while since our last blog post! We are all delighted to be back in school again and waving goodbye to online learning.

There has been lots happening over the last 2 weeks of school. We have been enjoying some lovely weather, which meant we have been able to go outside and take part in some drama, tennis skills and rounders. Everyone has settled back in to school life quickly and have been working very hard.

Last term the children had been learning all about biodiversity and the classification of living things. They were very excited be able to showcase their efforts this week, in the form of their very own museum exhibits. On Wednesday afternoon we opened the doors to the Primary 5 Museum of Biodiversity and welcomed our 2 VIP guests – Mrs McRobb and Mr Weir.

We had 5 exhibits for our guests to explore – Mammals, Reptiles, Fish, Amphibians and Birds. Each exhibit had a mixture of interactive activities for visitors to explore, including quizzes, games, models and informative posters.

Well done Primary 5 – you did a fantastic job!

Freya, Niko, Megan, Jack and Ethan with their egg-cellent Birds exhibit.

Jack, Kayla, Callum, Witold, Poppy and Olivia caused a splash with their Fish exhibit!

Cassie, Noah, Max and Holly showing off their amazing Mammals exhibit.

George, Alfie, Reece, Imogen and Anise and some slippery friends displaying their ssssssuper Reptile exhibit.

Another fantastic ex-rrribbit! Emilio, Lewis, Zak, Saskia and Fionn with Amphibians.

It’s the last week of term and the children have been enjoying lots of fun, including winter and Christmas themed maths mysteries, winter landscape art, PE, films and their Christmas party this afternoon!

Tomorrow, we have our live Cinderella pantomime to look forward to in the morning…

Are we excited? Oh yes we are!

We couldn’t believe our eyes on Friday morning when we came in to school and saw the state of the classroom! The pesky Grinch had sneaked in during the night and caused all this mess!

Hi everyone,

For the last few weeks, the class have been learning about Biodiversity as part of their Science block. We have particularly enjoyed learning about different living creatures, and how they are classified according to their physical features. The children have been showing off their knowledge about various animals by creating their own classification keys and by matching animal photographs and descriptions  to their correct categories.

This week,  the children were very excited to start working on their very own ‘museum’ exhibits’! Each group has been assigned a category of vertebrate to focus their exhibit on – mammals, fish, amphibians, birds or reptiles. As we are sadly unable to invite you all to visit our exhibits this year, we plan to document the process on our blog and on the school twitter to keep you in the loop.

As you know, we will be in December next week. We are looking forward to lots of exciting winter fun over the next few weeks!

Watch this space! 

Busby experienced some volcanic eruptions this morning thanks to P5b!

We experimented with mixing white vinegar, Fairy Liquid, food colouring together with either baking powder or bicarbonate of soda. We found that bicarbonate of soda resulted in an instant eruption which only lasted a couple of seconds, whereas the baking powder was more of a slow burner!

Check out our pictures and videos below 🙂

The children had great fun participating in different activities for Maths Week 2020.

On Monday, we took part in an outdoor maths treasure trail, as well as using natural resources to create shapes and demonstrate what 2m social distancing looks like!

Congratulations to Freya, Jack C and Skye for being voted the winners of our class competition to design an outdoor maths game for the playground! Their game was a maths version of Snakes and Ladders, which they called Pencils and Rulers. The children worked in groups to create their own maths games, and the winners from each class will be competing for the chance to have their game printed in the school playground. We will all keep our fingers crossed that Pencils and Rulers comes out on top!

On Wednesday afternoon, we began our first step in creating our own erupting volcanoes!

The children worked in groups to form the structure of the volcano using recycled bottles, cups and newspapers.

Everyone loved getting stuck in and did a fantastic job of painting the volcanoes on Friday afternoon, with some very realistic lava effects!

We are all excited to make our own volcanic eruptions on Monday.  More pictures and videos to follow!

Here are our groups proudly showing off their efforts.

Hello everyone!

Welcome to our very first blog post of the year, we look forward to sharing more with you over the coming weeks. The class have have all settled in to the new term and are adjusting to all the changes to school life!

On Wednesday, as part of our new IDL topic, the children enjoyed creating their own natural disaster pictures using a range of art media.

Here are some photos of everyone working hard:

The class used photographs of real-life natural disasters as a stimulus for their own work!

They managed to produce some wonderful pictures of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, bush fires, tsunamis and floods.