With our topic being Australia, we created some Aboriginal art. We used stencils to draw round animals like a kangaroo, emu, snake, turtle or platypus. Then we used the end of our paintbrushes to dot around our animal to create bold art. We think they turned out great!

Some of our other art this week was creating habitat displays. We used a massive piece of paper and everybody had to draw or make their own animals in their Australian habitat. These habitats were the Great Barrier Reef, the Outback, grasslands and rainforests. We could use anything we liked to create the displays, so long as we worked well together to create them.

We’ve been doing discursive writing and the discussions in class have been interesting because everything thinks different things. This week we had two questions to choose from to write about:

• Should you be allowed to reserve sun loungers on holiday?
• Should children be made to do chores around the house?

Most of us chose to write about the sun loungers! We all had very different opinions on this but around half of us agreed you should be able to reserve them, and the other half thought you shouldn’t!

Today we’ll be rounding off a great week with the sponsored fun run at 10:00! We can’t wait!

By Rocco and Brody

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Australia Topic – For our topic we were researching animals from different Australian habitats like grass. We had to choose an animal and note down facts about them, and then research what type of landscape is found in that habitat. We’ll be drawing these animals and adding them to a big display outside our class that will show all the different habitats.

First Aid – This week, we rotated round 4 different stations that taught us about burns and scalds. Station 1: Adding instructions to our first aid booklets. Station 2: Using cold water to treat a burn or scald. Station 3: How to dress a burn. Station 4: ‘Spot the Burns Hazard’ task.

Maths – We started our information handling learning by watching a timelapse video of the most popular websites from 1993 – 2025. We had to compare the difference between the number of users a website started with, and the number it ended with in 2025. Some of the websites had something like 74 BILLION users in 2025!

Writing – We continued our discursive writing this week by choosing one of these 2 questions to write about: Should the school summer holidays be shortened? or Should zoos be closed? We had to think about arguments for and against each subject and link it with evidence, statistics and quotes we were given. We’ll be writing in this way again next week with two different questions to choose from.

By Charlie & Luke

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Recently, the Scottish Ambulance Service delivered CPR training to Rooms 23, 24, 26 & 27. This was such a valuable experience, learning a skill that can help save lives. Here’s what some of the pupils had to say, along with a selection of photos:

“We learned the correct hand position for performing CPR and that you have to push down about 5-6cm deep for it to help keep oxygen flowing around the body. You might even break some of the ribs doing it properly.” – Lily 

“You should perform 100 – 120 compressions every minute for the CPR to be effective.” – Eva L

“For every minute a person isn’t getting CPR performed, their chance of survival drops by 10%” – Brody C

“Without CPR, the brain begins to deteriorate after 3 mins.” – Carrie

“It’s called a code purple when you phone 999. Ambulances aim to get to the patient in under 8 minutes.” – Holly G

“We learned that out of 70 people in a week who might have a cardiac arrest, only 4 of them will survive. If we all know how to do CPR, we can help to change that number and give people the best chance of survival.” – Aaron C

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This week, we finished our WW2 bunting for the classroom. We think it looks great!

Today (Thursday) we got to make War Time Honey Biscuits using rationed food items. We were so busy making them, and scoffing the lot, that we forgot to take pictures! They tasted really nice though and some of us chose to add cinnamon and ginger to our dough.

We also got our leavers hoodies today! We’re buzzing that the excitement of term 3 is nearly here. We’ve got high school visits, the colour run and our leavers assembly to look forward to!

We hope everyone has a great Easter/Spring Break!

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Last week in science, we tested our knowledge of air resistance and connected it in an interactive way to our World War 2 topic. We were given a toy soldier, some string, a bin bag liner and had to make a paratrooper that would fall gently from the top of the stairwell. We could cut the string and bag to any size or shape we wanted, then test them out. Some of us were more successful than others  as some paratroopers started to spin, break or fell too fast. All in all, we had fun and learnt new skills.

We learnt about V.E Day (Victory in Europe) and how they celebrated the end of WW2 in Europe. Linking it to our make do and mend learning, we’ve started to make bunting out of old curtain material and fabric. So far, we’ve folded over the bunting flap and sewn it into place, and we’ve cut out our first initials using different fabrics. We can’t wait to share the finished result with you!

Eva & Chloe

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PE – On Monday, we did a teamwork/reaction time game where 2 people had to hold a ball between them with just one hand, while trying to knock the ball out of others’ hands. It was tricky to try and keep your ball from getting knocked out and trying to talk with your partner so you went in the same direction! On Tuesday, We did more WWII drills with Miss O’Brien. We got in groups with our houses and got led by two platoon leaders. They got us to do drills and running. This was to work on communication and teamwork, and if your house worked hard enough we got house points.

Science – We learned more about bacteria on our hands by doing a handwashing experiment. We talked about where germ hotspots might be on our hands and then we put sanitiser on our hands. What didn’t know was that Miss Napier had put UV powder in the sanitiser and then she showed us all the ‘germs’ still on our hands with a blue light! Each group of tables had to wash their hands differently. Some had to wash just with water for 5 seconds, another group washed without soap for 10 seconds, and the last group used soap and washed their hands for 20 seconds. Miss Napier checked our hands again to see how effective each group’s handwashing was at removing the ‘germs.’ Using soap and water for 20 seconds is definitely the better option! We also did a sneezing experiment with a spray bottle to see how far a sneeze might travel when you put your hand over it, a tissue over it, or just nothing! Did you know a high force sneeze could travel up to 7.6 metres, if it’s not caught in a tissue or in your elbow?! Insane! We made some green slime too, which we pretended were bogies, and we had to catch all the bacteria (glitter) with it.

By Alexander, Jude & Miss Napier

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Easter Code

On Tuesday last week, the chaplaincy team came in for us to take part in the Easter Code workshop, alongside Room 23. We found out about some of the traditions that Christians take part in and also what Jewish people celebrate at this time of year.  Some of the traditions might be that when you go to someone’s house they may greet you with washing your feet or they might serve you traditional food and drinks. It was a fun morning!

World Book Day

For World Book Day, we could come in wearing comfy clothes, pyjamas or we could dress up as our favourite book characters. We started the day off with a live ‘Footy and Booky Quiz’ where the questions were read out by authors and some famous footballers! We got to do some social DEAR time with our friends and Miss Napier brought in some biscuits for us to munch!

WW2

On Friday last week, we learned about the people who cracked Germany’s secret codes and messages during WW2 using a machine called Enigma. Winston Churchill wanted the cleverest people on the team trying to crack the code, but it wasn’t just people who were mathematicians and engineers. It was people who were good at solving puzzles like crosswords. For maths, we tried to solve Sudoku puzzles. They’re number puzzles linked to problem solving, so we’d be thinking like the code crackers! We started with a 6×6 puzzle and then tried a 9×9 puzzle if we managed it.

It’s the anniversary of the Clydebank Blitz today (13th March). We’ve learned a bit about the different Blitz locations this week and why they were targeted. We also started some artwork that we’ll finish next week.

British Science Week

We had Poppy from our class, and some other STEM leaders, do a lesson for us on Monday. We did balloon rockets and talked about actions, reactions and forces.

by Olivia and Marni

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Writing and IDL – For our topic (IDL), we’re studying World War 2. We learnt about how the war started and then we started thinking about the parts of the war we were most interested in. Individually, we researched facts and put these into information reports during writing. Some of our classmates have been bringing in war memorabilia which has been cool to look at! Charlie brought in medals and photos, Chloe brought in photos and a WW1 ‘death penny’ medal, Amelia brought in a soldier’s helmet and canteen (metal water bottle) and Jude brought in his dad’s army uniform for us to compare against the WW2 uniform he brought in last week. We even got to try on his gas mask! This week we learned about the evacuation at Dunkirk and worked in groups of land, sea and air rescue teams. We had to consider what would be the most important things to consider while trying to rescue the 400,000 soldiers stranded on the beach.

Safer Internet Day – We watched along with the BBC live event about AI chatbots. It talked about what information you shouldn’t give to a chatbot and that sometimes the information it gives isn’t always correct.

Art – A few weeks ago, we were given a homework task to take a photo of some objects that represent us as individual people, we didn’t know what for though! We could arrange the items in any way we wanted and then had to send them to our teacher. We found out this week that it’s for still life drawings in class! Miss Napier printed our photos out over a grid layout and we’re trying to draw the photos square by square to create realistic drawings. Fingers crossed!

Maths – Lately, we’ve been studying angles, perimeter, area and volume. We drew lots of rectangles to create robots and then calculated the area of them, used lots of rectangles and then calculated  the area, we made robots by doing this. We have also been doing volume which is the amount of space inside a 3D object. We measured the length, width and height of objects around the class to work out their volume.

Crazy Hair Day – Today we had crazy hair day and everyone came in with crazy hairstyles. We saw that someone had even attached a huge balloon in their head! Well done to Lily in our class for her Easter treat themed hair!

Drama – For drama we wrote diary entries on certain scenarios that would have happened to children during WWII.

Curling – We were inspired by the Winter Olympics and tried a new sport in PE this week… Curling! We changed the rules a bit and did boys v girls teams. The girls won!

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