Primary 7a (and teachers) had a fantastic day today, in James Hamilton Heritage Park. What a wonderful job you did sailing, raft building and rafting!
Well done on your terrific teamwork boys and girls. We had fantastic fun!
Miss Gavin & Mrs Cumming
STEM WEEK:
As part of STEM week we had a visit from BAM. We learned about the jobs of Civil Engineers and worked in two teams to build a bridge that we would be able to walk over.
Marcus said: “I liked screwing in the different parts of the bridge”.
Rachel said: “I loved walking across it. It was really strong”.
Louise said: “I liked connecting all of the cables together”.
Emma said: “I liked when Miss Convery had to test if it was strong enough and walk over it first”.
Thank you to everyone who came in to speak to us during STEM week – we loved hearing about the wide variety of jobs in engineering and the different workshops inspired many engineers of the future.
Numeracy:
This week we have been focusing on Area and Perimeter. We worked in teams to create robots with each part of the robot a different area and perimeter.
Special Achievements:
Well done to these talented girls who all did amazingly well in the Eco competition. Rachel came in 1st place with the winning poster! Alice, Dana, Poppy and Rebekah were Runners Up. Nice work 🙂
The House Certificate for March was awarded to Marcus for his excellent effort and attitude! Well Done Marcus.
Hope everybody enjoys the holiday! 5A are looking forward to a well deserved rest!
A lovely celebration today for World Down Syndrome Day! 🙂 Well done P5d
What a treat P5 had today! Two very kind engineers came and helped us build a bridge. We worked as a team to figure out the quickest and safest way to build the bridge, walk over it and then dismantle it again.
Thank you very much for an amazing, hands on experience.
Yesterday we went on our class trip to Stirling Castle. What a magnificent day we had! When we arrived we were met by a very helpful tour guide who told us what our day was going to be like.
We then had some free time to roam around and explore the beautiful, historical castle. We visited the Grand hall, the kitchens, the fabulous gardens, the stunning views and walls. We also explored the King’s old building and the Palace. We got to watch a short video of Stirling Castle’s history.
By this time, we were pretty hungry! We had our packed lunch picnic outside in the gardens and thankfully it didn’t rain.
In the afternoon, we had a very special guided tour with a costumed character. He brought us back to the 1300’s and we travelled through history with him. He was very exciting and we really enjoyed this part.
“I liked when we went on the guided tour. It was really cool to see how the weapons were built and he also told us how many times Stirling Castle was knocked down.” Lucas
“I liked the classroom because of all the drama that happened there. He showed us some weapons and some volunteers got to recreate what happened for us.” Emaan
“I liked hearing about all of the defenses of the castle. I liked to know how they used to protect the castle with the drawbridge, towers, fences and all of the other ways of keeping people out.” Vincent
“My favourite part was the movie because it showed us about Stirling Castle and all of the old sculptures and statues. After the video, we went out to look at the statues.” Khayrah
“I loved feeling how heavy the chain mail armor was because it showed us how strong and fit and soldiers in the wars of independence must have been.” Matthew
“I liked when he told us about the dungeons. People that tried to get into the castle were thrown in the dungeons and forgotten about.” Mirin
“He told us that they used to eat their food off of plates made out of bread. I thought that was an interesting, funny fact.” Daniel E
“My favourite part was meeting the solider. He told us what happened people if they tried to attack Stirling Castle and he showed us lots of weapons.” Maya
“I liked the bit when he told us some of the old jobs people used to do around the castle. I liked the carpenter job because we saw the roof and floors that they used to work on.” Brodie
“I liked hearing about the kinds of foods they used to eat. They used to eat fish, chicken, lamb, vegetables and baked a lot of bread.” Shay
“I liked when we got to wander about and read all of the different bits of information and facts that were around the castle. I read some facts about coins they used to use.” Cara
“I liked looking in the Palace play area with all the different little rooms. There were musical instruments, costumes and games rooms.” Ethan
“I liked going into the great kitchens because it showed you what actually happened in the old days. There were statues of people baking bread in the big old fires. There were lots of food on big tables too.” Daouia
“The gift shop had lots of different toys, sweets and souvenirs of Stirling Castle.” George
What an amazing day we had! We were all very tired coming home. Well done P5d! You learned a lot and had a really great day 🙂
Primary 5d have been very busy this week. They were out to impress with lots of active learning. See what fun they got up to.
Maths & Problem Solving:
We had lots of fun using concrete materials to revisit our learning about equivalent fractions. We used pro bots to follow and create directions to enhance our learning about compass points and angles.
“I enjoyed using the pro bots because it was challenging to get the hang of them but that was fun. It helped us make shapes, straight lines and follow directions.” Lyle
We got very creative and came up with three different strategies to solve a problem. We chose to draw it out, use concrete materials and to use the interactive whiteboard. After we had tested these strategies out we reflected on which strategy we thought worked the best and why.
“I thought that drawing it out was the best strategy because you could rub it out and try again if you had done something wrong.” Lucy A
“I thought the concrete materials was the best way because you could stick them together and also I could see and touch them to know if I had the right combination or not.” Ethan
STEM:
We have been learning about types of forces. This week we explored and investigated what air resistance is. We did three different activities to help us investigate the factors that affect air resistance
Movie Makers:
We have been working in groups to write, plan and film a drama scenario. We chose a HWB topic that we have learned about and used that to help us create some super drama performances. Watch this space for the videos 🙂 
Well done P5d, you have been working very hard. Keep up the great work. 🙂
Primary 5 enjoyed wearing their Brownies and Cubs uniforms today.
P5a
“What I like about Cubs is we are allowed to do games and also do some challenges. Sometimes we go to places cutting thorns and other outdoor activities. I love being part of Cubs because we learn really important life skills.” Marcus
“I like Brownies because we get lots of badges if we complete certain activities. Some of my friends from school go too and I like seeing them outside of school. My favourite part about the club is the arts and crafts.” Louise
P5b
“I like playing games with all my Brownie friends. I love clock in the tower because sometimes if no one has a partner they can go into the middle. My favourite part of Brownies was doing the Halloween challenges.” Scarlett
“I like going to cubs because we do fun activities like jumping over ropes and things like that. Sometimes we do a jumble sale and the cubs post leaflets around about it. We sell things like old games consoles and things like that.” Ethan
P5c
“I like going to cubs because we do activities that we wouldn’t do anywhere else. I like playing diamond football and the port and starboard game.” Paul
“I like being a part of the Brownies club because we have a lot of fun. We do arts and crafts. I also like drawing.” April
P5d
“I like Cubs because we play fun games and activities. We play games in the park. I like rounders and football.” Lucas
“I love Brownies because we get to do arts and crafts. At Christmas we made elves and sewed them. We also get to play games.” Isla
Brownies
Cubs
You looked great Primary 5! Well done 🙂
Knex Christmas Challenge
Today we worked in groups to create a Christmas themed model from Knex. We discussed in our teams what parts of each model we would make and then put them together! Have a look below:
Eilish created Santa’s sleigh!
Niamh, Andrew, Rachel and Joshua created Santa’s boot getting stuck down a chimney!
Emma and Cameron created a Christmas tree!
Well done Primary 5A!
Clay Ornaments
We created our own clay ornaments shaped into different Christmas shapes. We created Christmas trees, snowmen, stockings and candy canes. We then pained and decorated them.
A friendly reminder that tomorrow is Christmas party day so remember to wear your party clothes! Christmas Jumper day will be on Friday! Merry Christmas to everyone!!
Design Technologies:
This afternoon, we have been very busy constructing models using a variety of recyclable materials. Yesterday, we spent some time researching and planning out what we wanted to construct. We considered the materials we could use, their properties, the time it would take and how we wanted it to turn out.
Today, we brought cardboard, paper and some boxes to school from home. All of these materials are recyclable and we enjoyed putting them together.
We had great fun! We created shields, swords, daggers and more. Have a look at what we made!
Well done P5d, you worked really hard on these. Fantastic results 🙂
Breaking News!
We have been really enjoying getting our hands on newspapers and reading about current events. First News and Newsround have been keeping us up to date with local and national news.
Christmas prep:
We designed and painted small Christmas tree pots. These look really fantastic displayed in the corridor in school.
Very creative P5 🙂 They look really cool, Well done.
5c braved the rain to visit Bannockburn Visitor Centre to learn about the Scottish Wars of Independence.
We got to watch videos about the Battle of Bannockburn giving both sides of the argument – that of the Scottish and that of the English. This meant we got to hear a balanced argument.
Then we got to venture into the 3D battle scene where we dodged arrows and witnessed the gruesome battle scenes.
Next up, we used the various activities within the visitor centre to learn about how to fight in battle. We used this when we became Scottish and Enlgish soldiers and went into battle.
Here we are organising our Battle of Bannockburn. The Scottish soldiers were victorious today!
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