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It has been another busy week in 5c! We have been working hard in all areas of the curriculum to develop our skills. This week our blog is focused on STEM.

Robyn, April and Emily overcame a design challenge to create a Teepee out of natural materials. At first, they used sticks and grass to tie it together then decided it needed to be stronger so, using their knowledge of properties of materials, they substituted grass for string.

Daniel used a range of materials to create a Zip Flyer in our classroom STEM cupboard. He chose materials that could be joined together such as pipe cleaners and lollipop sticks. Daniel chose to join the lollipop sticks with sellotape and, joined the pipe cleaners to the lollipop sticks with paper clip. A great invention Daniel!

Rhys and Ali used our class camera to photograph 3D shapes around our outdoor classroom. They found hemispheres, cylinders and cuboids. Have a look!

We could not forget how Patrick wowed us with his accordion playing!

 

Daniel used our STEM creativity room to design and construct glasses from various materials. He used lollipop sticks, paper clips and pipe cleaners. Daniel joined these together using a range of methods to strengthen his design. For example, he used sellotape and paper clips to strengthen the legs of the glasses.

Emily, Valentina and Zara used their artistic talents to create our Class Charter as our wall display. As we are a Rights Respecting School, we chose a few rights and responsibilities from the United Nations Children’s Charter (UNCRC). The girls selected ideas from their own designs and merged them to create a final product. They combined lettering and graphics which resulted in an engaging poster.

 

 

 

On Wednesday Primary 4 had a FANTASTIC time visiting the Science Centre.  We spent the day travelling around all of the exciting challenges and experiments that the centre had to offer.
Some of our favourite parts were:

Building our very own Battery operated cars and racing them against each other to see whose could go the fastest.  We had to use recycled materials, pasta, hot glue and a TURBO wheel to create a vehicle that worked with the wind to go as fast as possible.

We also got to see how different effects were used to make things appear to be very different and unusual. Like heads sitting on tables, and rooms where some of us were giants – and some of us became tiny!

Another fun test was when we went inside the WIND GENERATOR and were blown away by different gale force winds! For some of us this was a real favourite.

All in all, we all agreed it was an absolutely superb trip – and one that we wouldn’t mind going on all over again!

Sometimes, reading a book is all about sitting back and relaxing with some biscuits and juice.  Last Friday we all met up during lunch and had a mid-day feast using cups and plates borrowed from the Canteen.  Some of us read using kindles, and some with their hard cover books – but EVERYONE agreed that this was an idea that we’d like to give a go again!

         

         

 

Each week we have met and learned more the different books and authors that are out there for us to read!

On our Yammer page – we saw some children from our Cluster school’s creating pictures in their school library.  This gave us the idea to go and visit OUR school library and read our books there.

On our way, we popped in to our Reading Cafe and had a go at creating insane and funny stories using the Puppet Show stage we found there.  We made the story up as we went along – and the characters too. It was a lot of fun, and pretty hard to stop laughing… especially when giant chickens suddenly appeared on the scene!

Then we stopped off at OLM’s ‘First Minister’s Reading Challenge’ wall. When we got there we noticed some cool David Walliams story outfits and decided it’d be fun to come back and maybe try them on later!

Finally, we arrived at the library! It was time to settle in for some quiet reading… with a few top trump challenges thrown in for the competitive ones.

All in all – it was quite the Reading Journey. We’ve decided that in future we’ll maybe go to a different place each time!

Many of our Primary 4 pupils were blessed to celebrate their Sacraments of Reconciliation and First Holy Communion this year.  We spent a fantastic afternoon having ‘Fun in the Sun’, celebrating these occasions together.

Many thanks to the PSA who provided delicious cake and Capri-suns for all our pupils.  The church services in Holy Name, St Vincent’s and St Joseph’s were very special and memorable for all involved!

Primary 4c have been learning about electrical circuits and understand that it is made up of a continuous loop of conducting materials. They combined simple
components to create their own circuits. They had to work as a team to find materials which were conductors to get their light bulbs to light up.