Primary 5Mac and Primary 5N have been taking part in a filming project – The Great Tuck Shop Robbery. Have a look at their comments to see what they think about it!
Waste Minimisation
This term primary 5N and primary 6 are responsible for waste minimisation in our school. This was the old 3 R Warriors responsibility.
WHY should we recycle?
– All the plastic bottles you put into the normal rubbish bin end up going to the tip. At the tip the rubbish is either burned or buried in the ground. Many plastics don’t break down very easily when put into the ground and so will stay around for years.
– If we recycle our bottles by putting them into the blue recycling bins around the school we are making sure those bottles and cans are destined for a brighter future!
We can’t keep burying and burning rubbish forever!
Remember to –
* Take the lid off your bottle before you put it in the recycling bin.
* The lid can be recycled too!
* If you can, try to rinse the bottles out before putting them into the bin. The bins might get a bit sticky if we don’t!
* Please empty any juice you don’t want into a sink.
* Reuse the bottle if you can. You might fill it up again with water or take it home and make it into something.
Endless Ocean News Reports
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Breaking News from Primary 5N!
This week Primary5N have been learning how to write news paper reports. We wrote about a discovery that our Endless Ocean diver had made. Some reports were about the discovery of a golden shark, an underwater army base and a new creature, a hotdog rainbow pig face fish! We then turned our news paper reports into TV reports and used the Flip cameras to film these. We dressed up as different characters and played different parts like the TV presenter, interviewer and eye witnesses. We watched all the TV reports on Friday and had an awards ceremony. It has been a fantastic week!
Health Week
Today, the school had a day full of sports. Primary 4 took part in tennis, taekwondo and boccia, which is a sport from the Paralympics. At taekwondo we got a chance punch and kick the pads, but the instructor tried to get us back, so we had to run away fast! In boccia, we have to fling a heavy ball to try and hit the white jack ball. At tennis, we got to play tennis with a professional tennis player, who had beaten Andy Murray (a long time ago!).
Primary 5N Science
We have been learning about plants in science and we carried out an experiment with cress seeds. We had different conditions to grow our seeds and we made predictions about what we thought would happen. The cress which was in the dark cupboard did not grow very well. We knew this would happen because we have learned plants need light and warmth. The cress at the window in the glass jars grew really well but the seeds in the sandwich bags at the window did not grow very well. We think they had too much water! Have a look at some of our results.
Ocean Worlds
Macmillan Coffee Morning
The children in The Rainbow and Wheel Room are delighted with their efforts for the Macmillan coffee morning appeal on Friday 30th September. The children served coffee and cakes to staff, parents and friends of the school. Pupils donated by wearing green, designing coffee mugs and buying goodies. The sum of £363 was raised. A big thank you to everyone who contributed.
P4 Get a Certificate
Primary 4 got a certificate because we did a presentation on being healthy.
We gave advice on healthy snacks. You could just take a small chocolate bar instead of a big bag of sweets.
You could bring fruit or vege as a place piece instead of sweets, they’d be better for you.
You could make use of the healthy tuck shop for a snack too.
Shannyn and Paige did a presentation about healthy eating. They did a survey of which classes had the healthiest snacks.
P5N Endless Ocean Topic Homework
On Wednesday 5th October, Miss Nichol gave us topic homework to design an underwater scene. It was very weird as that very same day, Kian brought in an underwater scene that he had made the night before! It had a diver swimming, lots of sea creatures and real sand at the bottom! Our homework is due on Wednesday 12th October and hopefully there will be many creative designs!
