Category Archives: STEM

STEM

Happy New Year 🙂

Welcome back to Primary 1’s Blog – the first blog of 2018.

We may only have been back for 2 days but we are excited to share our STEM work.

Before Christmas the boys and girls made origami boats with Mrs McVey – today they were conducting an experiment to see if they would float.  They used their knowledge of forces to find out how to make the boat move without using their hands.  Once they had done that they investigated which objects would float like their boat and which would sink.

Charlotte found that the bag floated and thought that maybe there was helium in the bag – like they put in balloons to help them float in the sky!

Time for an update…P1

Sorry we have been so quiet recently – a lot has been happening over the last few weeks: we had visitors from Hillpark Secondary – asking us about our favourite toys and using that information to make toys for us.

2d shape

The boys and girls have been learning to name and identify 2d shapes.  They enjoyed copying shape pictures and using marshmallows and cocktail sticks to mKe their own 2d shapes – helping to understand the terms ‘corners’ and ‘sides’.

Road Safety Week

During road safety week the boys and girls learned where and how to cross the road safely.

Class Dojo

Lots of points being earned through our ‘Class Dojo’. Look at some of the children who have reached 50 points so far and received a certificate Home! Well done 😀

Maths & Literacy

STEM

During our science activities we have been learning about forces. This week we were making our own boats and will be using them to investigate floating and sinking but also finding different ways to make the boat move across the water.

Primary 1

Welcome to our Blog update this week, we hope you enjoy it 🙂

 

ICT

In ICT this week the children were much more confident at using their mouse to point and click.  With a partner they successfully opened up the internet page and selected a programme from the ‘favourites’ section.

STEM

In STEM this week we were learning all about different forces.  The children were becoming familiar with and confident with the words – push and pull and how to use them in the correct context.  They had great fun exploring how toys moved and how we use the forces of ‘push’ and ‘pull’ when playing games – tug of war, climbing the wall, basket ball and playing with a ball.

Maths

We started the week off by having a number hunt outside and the boys and girls were great number detectives and managed to hunt out the numbers 1-10 and they used their clipboard to record the numbers they found.

This week we were learning to add.  We explored the language of addition, familiarised ourselves with the symbols and came to the understanding that when we add we are creating a bigger number.  The children did this by counting to see how many objects there were ‘altogether’.

Language

This week the children were introduced to some words – some words we can sound out and some are tricky and we just need to try and learn them.

The Enchanted Forest

The boys and girls used the talking tub to decide what they wanted to learn about for their new topic – ‘The Enchanted Forest’.

The picked an item out of the box that interested them and told us what they knew already and what they wanted to learn about next.

P7’s Weekly Thoughts…

This week P7 have been learning…

Topic was fun this week #topic Callum

I enjoyed doing maths this week because I can find out the total of a budget #maths Emmalee

This week I enjoyed writing about World War Two! #Writing #WorldWarTwo ~Beth

This is our last week of school for 2 weeks #SuchWOW – Paige

I liked drinking mocktails. #Boozebusters ~Kathryn

 

P7 would like to wish everyone a very happy holiday!!

 

P7’s Weekly Thoughts…

This week P7 have been learning…

I enjoyed building the top of my car. Abbie k p7  #WW2 #cars

I enjoyed making the car with Beth. Jodi  p7 #crafting #fun

I enjoyed making my world war 2 model plane. Dylan p7 #itwasfun #worldwar2 #plane #model #allbymyself

I enjoyed building models for our topic world war. Parsa p7 #worldwar2

This week we did our car models #Armyjeep#spitfire#fun. Gary p7

 

 

P7’s Weekly Thoughts…

This week we have been learning…

This week I enjoyed doing the sawing. #Sawdust – Kian P7

This week on world book day I brought in my book jacket I made at home I was allowed to give it in .#Worldbookday – Jack P7

I like making the cars.#worldwarII – ChardonayP7

I really enjoyed trying to find Wally on world book day. #ReadmoreBooks – Holly P7

I enjoyed making the chassis. #Cars – Thomas P7

Table lamp designs by Primary 3

Primary 3 have been learning about electricity in science/STEM. They have been learning to connect up a circuit using the correct components and then used these skills to design a table lamp that lights up! Throughout this task the children developed problem solving and teamwork skills in order to assemble a lamp that works. Have a look at Primary 3 in action designing, creating and making their own lamps.

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