When learning about the Ancient Egyptians p6 showed a keen interest in mummification. We decided to explore this further and have done an experiment to mummify a tomato! We will be recording the results.
Listen Up! Anti-Bullying Week – P3a
For our health and well-being lessons we have been focusing on anti-bullying. The children discussed what bullying meant to them and we explored different bullying scenarios and ways to resolve these. The children worked in small groups using drama to improvise the different scenarios. We then created freeze frames for each of our scenes to explore the story and resolutions. The children did a fantastic job using drama to explore this issue.
‘The Great Storm Whale’ illustrations – P3a
We had a whale of a time becoming illustrators last week during our live lesson with Benji Davies, take a look at some of our work.
Layers of the ocean P4b
P4b have enjoyed learning about the ocean as part of their topic.
Today we learnt all about the 5 layers of the ocean and thought about what sea creatures live in in each part.
Christmas Community Events – December 2023
Dear Families,
We know that Christmas is a busy time and we are trying to condense our information sharing for you all as much as possible. However we have been made aware of few local events that may be of interest to you and your family over the festive season.
We have been contacted by a community member who organises the ‘Santa Stop Visits’ in the Robroyston area. This year it is planned for Friday the 15th of December. Unfortunately it could not go head last year due to a lack of volunteers. The team are looking for volunteers to help this year. If you are able to help out please contact the school by replying to this email and we will pass your details on to the organisers. They team are also looking for donations of selection boxes to ensure every child gets one during the community event. If you are able to help out in any way, please contact us at the school.
On Saturday the 2nd of December from 1-4pm, Robroyston Church (34 Saughs Drive, G33 1HG) are hosting their Christmas Table Top Sale & Café. A range of items will be on sale including crafts, home-baking and new & preloved items. Admission cost for adults is £3.50 and 50p for a child. This includes tea and coffee and home- baking.
The Wallacewell Community Fellowship are also running a ‘Breakfast with Santa’ event on Saturday the 16th of December. To book your place, please click on the link below –
Thank you for your continued support.
Sincerely
Miss Davidson
Head Teacher
Our School Eco Code
This week our Eco committee got together to write our Eco Code which is a reminder to us all about the steps we are need to take to help improve our school environment. This was all their own work and I think their acrostic poem is a fantastic representation of our plans.
P5b We’ve had a busy week
This week we have been look at one point perspective art. We started by drawing a horizon line and a vanishing point and then used these to help us complete our city landscapes.
In Science we have been working on friction. We started by testing how different surfaces can change the speed of something then discussed what friction is and how friction can sometimes be helpful.
We then looked at air resistance and how the size of objects can be affected by the air. We had lots of fun testing out our helicopters to see which one would fall quickest.
We have also had time to be creative with the blocks and lego and shown a steady hand to create a tower.
Library Visit P5b
P5b had a fun visit to the library this week as part of Book week Scotland. We got the chance to borrow some books and look at some of the reference books related to our Natural Disaster topic as well as take part in some topic based activities.
Boat building in P4a
Last week we started our new topic Oceans.
The children enjoyed using the STEM straws in the playroom where they were set the task of designing and building a boat.
Authors Live BBC Scotland – P3a
Today the children took part in a live lesson with author and illustrator Benji Davies. The lesson was run through Scottish Book Trust in partnership with BBC Scotland. The children listened to Benji Davies read his much loved book ‘The Great Storm Whale’. He then asked the children to become illustrators and showed us how to draw some of his well known characters. I think we might have some future illustrators in our class!
