Our new Eco Mascot

We would like to introduce Wally our new Wallacewell Eco Mascot who was designed by one of our fabulous P4s.

Our Eco committee ran a whole school competition to find a mascot and received some amazing entries making choosing one really difficult. They eventually narrowed it down to these 6 before all voting on their favourite.

           

It was a close result but Wally was our winner. I thought it was a great choice of name as not is it connected to the school but he shares his name with Wall-E the earth cleaning robot from the Disney Pixar movie.

A proud moment

I would like to take this opportunity to say how proud I am of everyone in the class for their efforts and hard work this term. In language we have written reports linked to Natural Disasters Then they used the facts as a basis for their personal presentations. Everyone took part and rose to the challenge.

This term the class tackled fractions and money, trying to manage a budget, not easy concepts.
Thank you for the Christmas gifts , I am very grateful.

After this welcome break I will be excited to start teaching your child again in the third term. They are a group of children who like to learn.

Have a wonderful two weeks.

Mrs. Jodah

 

JRSO update

This term we having been trying to get everyone thinking about wearing clothes that can seen when it is dark outside. Two children in P5a have updated our posters about wearing reflective clothes, Ollie and  Mannat.                                     .

We have been noticing that there are a  lot of cars parked around the school, especially at 3:00pm. This makes it difficult for children to walk home.
We asked Miss Davidson if the car park could be made bigger. She said that was up to the council.

Then we asked Miss Davidson what she thought of the traffic. Miss Davidson thought that the traffic was very bad. We will keep you informed of any new information. Next term we are going to write to the council about the parking problems around Wallacewell Primary School.

P5b Presentations

As we are now at the end of our topic the children have been sharing their knowledge with their classmates.  This term we have been learning how to write information reports, so we started by everyone writing a report on volcanoes. They then researched their own volcano to allow them to add in some extra facts. After discussing how to create a good presentation on the iPad they used their reports to help them do this.  Finally they have been presenting these to the class.  The children have been fantastic at giving their talks and have also been supportive audience members so I’m very proud of them all.

 

P5b STEM

Last week we began making our paper mache volcanoes which we are going to paint and then make them erupt which everyone is very excited about.

             

We also had a go at being able to create an electrical circuit.  We will be looking at this in detail next term.

   

 

Roman Mosaics

P6 have enjoyed learning about our Ancient Worlds this term, when finding out about life in Ancient Rome the children were inspired to create their own pictures and designs using the ancient Roman mosaic style.

STEM Afternoon

Primary 2 had on their engineering heads at the STEM afternoon when they had to design and build their own freestanding Christmas tree. Lots of planning and team work when on in the classroom.

It has been a busy term for primary 2 and we would like to share some of our learning with you.

We looked at the life of the Egyptians and made jewellery.

We also write our names in hieroglyphics.

 

Friction and Fractions in 5b

Our focus recently in maths has been fractions and decimals. We have been learning how to find a fraction of a quantity and being able to identify equivalent fractions. We used the Lego blocks to show different fractions.

 

We are now looking at decimals and money.

It was nice to be able to share some of our science knowledge during our open afternoon. We were continuing on with our friction topic by looking at air and water resistance and how we can reduce friction by streamlining.