We enjoyed listening to everyone’s family homework and were amazed at the different inventions that people designed to solve a variety of problems. We look forward to sharing this with you next week at our Showcase. Here is a little sneak peak.

This week, P6/5 had many fun opportunities and visitors based around STEAM week.

P5 took part in a paper chromatography experiment. They made a prediction about what they would happen and r corded their results. Within this experiment, the children could see what components were most soluble within ink from a sharpie and felt tip pen, food colouring and the dye from a skittle.

P6 had a fun and exciting trip to Edinburgh. They visited Dynamic Earth and enjoyed touching a real iceberg, travelling through a time machine which crash landed at a volcano and enjoyed entering a spaceship which took them to space.

The children researched facts about the Channel Tunnel and have designed a board game to share the interesting facts that they found out.

Today P5 had visitors from the NHS. They told us about their job and how they use engineering by creating and designing wheelchairs and prosthetics.

We looked at the different types of prosthetics and we were able to measure each other to see the size of wheelchair  we could fit into. We also saw a beanbag that was used to customise wheelchairs and some of us managed to use the wheelchair.

What we enjoyed today:

‘I enjoyed creating a comic strip based on the Auld Alliance.’ Zoe

‘I enjoyed going out for ‘Beat the Street’ as it helps keep me active and it’s fun.’Alex

‘I enjoyed coding using scratch.’  Ana