March 21, 2024
by Mrs Rae
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Homework

Primary 2 will not be sending home any more formal homework between now and the Easter break. Please just continue to catch up on any assigned Mathletics activities and rehearse your solo talk in preparation for presenting it to the class week beginning 25th March. Thank you again for your continued support with home learning this term, it is greatly appreciated. Please remember to bring in your decorated egg for the competition too. On Friday 22nd March, you should come to school in PE clothes for a fun obstacle course activity.

March 21, 2024
by Mr Dalling
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Room 13 Blog – 21st March 2024

Good morning,

Room 13 have been planning to write a letter to Mrs Calder or Mrs Meechan to try and persuade them to make some changes in the school. Among the the chosen subjects were homework, extra play time, more school trips and not having to wear school uniform. Children were asked to give three reasons to support their opinions and I’ll share some of our letters in next week’s blog.

We started a whole class novel called the Hodgeheg recently as we model reading skinny novels and what the questions might look like from these types of reading book. We’ve loved thinking about how a hedgehog can safely cross the road and coming up with our own solutions to this problem.

In Numeracy, we have started time durations for one hour or half an hour before or after on analogue clocks. We have been listing coins that make certain amounts and will start working out change shortly. We have also been recapping adding and subtracting by 10 and 100.

Last week was British Science Week and we enjoyed a visit from the STEM leaders in the school to teach us about electricity. We also have been learning about the different parts of our eyes and ears during our senses topic.

Just a reminder that any decorated Easter Eggs are to be returned by tomorrow in their bags with the name label so we know whose it is. There is also the obstacle course event tomorrow that will take place in the gym hall if pupils who have completed sponsorship forms can bring them in.

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Mr Dalling.

March 19, 2024
by Mrs Rae
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Science Week🔬⚛️🎈

Room 6 have been busy getting our scientist caps on over the past week in celebration of British Science Week. We had fun exploring different science experiments relating to the topics of materials, forces and STEM.

On Wednesday, we were very lucky to have some STEM ambassadors visit our classroom. They taught us about properties and how we can use the sense of touch to work out different items from their texture. We participated in an experiment using ‘Mystery boxes’, where objects were put in a box and we had to use out hands to guess the item without looking. We were very good at this and our guesses were quite accurate.

On Thursday afternoon we looked at the topic of forces, concentrating on static electricity. We watched a video highlighting what static electricity is before completing an experiment using balloons. We used these to create static electricity by rubbing the balloon against our hair. We found that the electricity created made our hair stand up! We also tried to create this electricity by rubbing the balloon against our jumpers and sticking it to the wall but we weren’t as successful in this experiment. We learned that it is okay if some experiments don’t work out though because that is what science is all about.

On Friday we had another fun lesson focusing on a STEM challenge. This challenge involved two parts. The first was to create a maze using any materials we could find in the classroom that a ball could travel through. We worked well together using our imaginations to build many different successful mazes. We even built some with a variety of difficulty levels. When building the mazes, we all also got a shot of Brian the Beebot, where we had to use our direction knowledge and coding skills to get him from one point of the map to the other. We really enjoyed these tasks and have asked to do them again really soon!

Here are some comments about this week’s learning:

QJO, HG, IR – I 1 million % loved doing everything.

ND, RF – I really, really loved doing all of the science because I love science.

BrM – I loved doing everything.

IW – I absolutely loved doing the skittle experiment a few weeks ago.

HW – I really, really liked doing the skittles experiment because it was really satisfying to watch.

NG, SG – I loved using Brian the Beebot.

LT – I 100% liked doing the balloons experiment because it was funny when everyone’s hair flew up.

BlM – I liked doing the maze with my friends.

HH, RF – I liked building the maze with my friends.

OM – I loved doing the mazes.

Room 6 and Mrs Rae 😊

Last week was extremely busy for Room 5. We had our class trip and celebrated British Science Week 2024.

On Monday, we went on our class trip to the National Museum of Rural Life in East Kilbride. It was so much fun and we were very thankful that it stayed dry for us. We got to explore the museum and look at lots of old farming machinery. We then took a short tractor ride up to the farm to see some of the animals. We saw cows, sheep, horses and hens to name a few. We enjoyed the fresh air whilst taking a walk through the fields. To end the day, we got a little play at the park with all of our friends from Room 6. It was a fantastic trip and one we will remember for a very long time.

We marked British Science Week by completing lots of Science based activities in class last week. We really enjoyed learning about static electricity. We used balloons to show static electricity and particularly enjoyed sticking up our hair and trying to get our balloons to stick to the wall. We ended the week by sharing some of our Science learning at assembly.

March 15, 2024
by Miss O'Brien
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Room 7

This will be the last week of formal homework to allow the children to focus on preparing their solo talks. The children will deliver their talks the week beginning 25th March.

Remember to decorate your eggs and return them before the 22nd of March.

Have a lovely weekend!

March 15, 2024
by Mrs Norton
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Room 4’s trip to Amazonia

We had a brilliant day in Amazonia today! Have a look at some of the brilliant pictures from our trip.

RP – I holded a snake

YS – I holded a tarantula

BS – I holded a tarantula

Aria – I holded a snake

Chloe – I holded a snake and a spider

AM – There was fruit bats

Sophie – I holded a stick insect and a snake.

HL – I touched a snake.

HM – I saw the parrots

Z – I saw the ants crawling up the rope.

CM – I saw a duck on a stick.

SM – I saw an ant climbing up the rope.

JC – I touched a snake and saw a tortoise

KE – I holded a snake.

JB – I saw a snake.

HLA – I high fived a tarantula

AR – I holded a tarantula

March 15, 2024
by Ms Tighe
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Science Week in Room 18

**Blog Post by Brodie & John**

This week was science week and in room 18 we did a fun experiment. We were studying effervescent reactions. We put a berocca tablet in a cup of water and it fizzed up this was an effervescent reaction . because an effervescent reaction is where you put something in a cup of water and it fizzes up or turns into a gas. We also put sugar into tea and it was not a effervescent reaction and we ended up making a normal cup of tea. Also we put baking powder in a cup of vinegar and it overflowed and it was an effervescent reaction because it fizzed up.

March 15, 2024
by Miss Higgins
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Room 27

Thank you to Brody, Calum and Murray for this week’s post.

An update from Room 27.

This week is British Science week so we did science from Monday to Thursday.

On Monday we blew up a balloon and attached a bit of paper and put it on a piece of string and pushed it as hard as we could and the farthest we got was halfway there.

On Tuesday we had a load of materials and the materials were sugar, salt, water, coffee and other stuff. When we put the materials in the cup we would mix it and see if it was soluble or insoluble.

On Wednesday we learned about Ramadan and we made our own lanterns.

Have a lovely weekend.

March 15, 2024
by Mrs Kelly
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Room 3 Visit Amazonia

This week in Room 3, we visited Amazonia. We were so lucky to see so many different creatures! We even held a snake, a cockroach and a lizard. Have a look at our pictures.

March 15, 2024
by Miss Campbell
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Room 11

Hello Everyone!

Apologies we have not posted in a while, we have been very busy in Room 11.

Recently, we visited the Science Centre in Glasgow. It was a fantastic day where we were able to learn lots of new and exciting information, as well as, explore the Planetarium to gain a greater insight into space. As The Waverley is docked there, we were even able to get an up close glimpse of the boat! (Our topic)

On Thursday, we had a visit from the STEM (P7) Ambassadors who helped us learn even more about space!

We have also been working very hard on further developing our writing skills.

Hope you have a lovely weekend!