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

Primary 6/5 and Primary 6 had a visit from The British Red Cross. They discussed the skills required to work at The British Red Cross and explained the different types of roles involved within their charity. We discussed what to do in an emergency and Mark demonstrated the steps that we should take if we found someone unconscious.

We looked at the work from Scottish illustrator, Johanna Basford. Inspired by her technique, we sketched our own animals and used zentangle art to finish off our sketches. 

Have a read through some of our own versions of ‘The Broons’.

Scottish Literature week launched today. We arrived into class this morning and discovered a tartan box. Inside the box, we found a variety of Scottish items. We were excited to read some stories from ‘The Broons’. In pairs, we noted down Scottish words and their meanings. We then decided to create our own stories based on ‘The Broons’ with Scottish language being our focus. We will post some of our stories in a few days.

Last week, the  children chose their own groups and then planned their  very own factory room. They then decided on what junk materials to use in order to bring their plan to life.

Today, the children made a start at constructing their very own chocolate factories!

Here is a sneak peak of some of our creations so far.

Our class agreed and voted for our class charter focus to be designed around a volcano. We looked at the well-being indicators and discussed what, we as class, had to do to meet each indicator, and linked these to our rights from the UNCRC.

You will have the chance to see our class charter at the “Meet the Staff” event on Wednesday  4th September.