4 people were killed by sharks last year and over 2000 people we killed by chairs!
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Facinating body facts
1. Most of us have about 100,000 hairs on our scalp.
2. Each red blood cell travels round the body 172,000 times before it dies after about four months.
3. The fastest human muscle can make our eyelids blink at about five times a second.
4. More than half an adult person is water! For a man that’s about 40 litres enough to fill four pairs of large wellington boots.
5. The nails on the right handof a right handed person grow faster than nails on the left hand , and vice versa.
Maths- Doubles
In maths this week we have been learning about doubles.
One of the questions we found tricky, we were to work out the seating of 4 sets of twins. We first started by using blocks to represent the twins but we soon got confused. It was then decided we would use real people to work it out. Name tags were put on the 4 sets of twins and Mrs Duncan read out the instructions and between the 8 of us we had to work together as a team and check our results, it took us about 10 minutes to reach our conclusion.
We used lots of different skills doing this such as Logical thinking , Giving reasons or explaining, Putting things in order, Thinking of ideas and Making links.
The Living Machine W/C 15th April
Last week Mrs Lawson and Mrs Ferguson introduced frog spawn to the living tank. There was also plants which were put on a sort of raft to float above the frog spawn . The plants were forget me knots, King Cup, Moss, Bitter Cress, Monkey Flower, Mint and Yellow Saxifrage.
The pump was also installed by Mrs Ferguson. The tube went down in to the filtration system and then pushes it to the solar panel which heats it up , and pushes it to the other end of the living machine where the frog spawn are. The water then makes it ‘s way back through and starts all over again.
On Friday when we looked at the tank some of the frog spawn had hatched.
Written by
Fraser Macdonald P4
Fact of the week 19th April
A giraffi has the same amount of bones in their neck as a human.
Science Term 4
The topic for this term is learning about your body and how to keep it healthy.
Update: Dates for Diary
April
Mon 15th Back to School
Fri 19th Parent Council Quiz Night
Tue 23rd Edinburgh Trippers leave
May
Fr 3rd Reports Out
Mon 6th May Day Holiday
Tue 14th Parent Council Meeting
Thu 16th Inservice
Fri 17th Inservice
Thu 30th Hopscotch Theatre Company
June
Mon 3rd Local Holiday
Mon 17th P7 visit Speyside High
Thu 20th P7 visit Speyside High
Fri 21st Parent Council BBQ
July
Thur 4th Leavers Assembly
Fri 5th Last day of term
March 2013 part2
March 2013
Dear Parents and Children,
As I stared writing this newsletter I looked back on what I had written last year and the contrast in weather conditions could not be more stark as we were all in tee shirts and shorts and enjoying a grand spell of sunshine. Little did we know that that was to be our summer so maybe this wintry weather will herald good things to come in the next few months.
Parents Evening
Many thanks to all of you who managed to come along to have a chat with Mrs Mailer. Everything seemed to go very well on the night and everyone seems very happy with what we are trying to achieve for the children at Inveravon. For those of you who couldn’t make it you are more than welcome to arrange another date and time. Just get in touch with myself or Mrs Mailer and we will happily fit you in.
Mrs Mailer is now taking lots of time to chat with the children individually about their learning and they are all in the process of writing their own reports again. We hope to be able to send these home early in May.
Climate Week
Mrs Ferguson organised a super week of activities for this and the children got stuck in with enthusiasm. They created a “pizza” which demonstrated the amount of recycling done on a national level. I think the children got quite a surprise at some of the figures and this is displayed on the wall in the hall if you would like to come in and see it for yourselves.
The “Living Tank” has been set up again which over the next few months will demonstrate the filtering process involved in recycling water. The children were really excited when they set this up and it was great to hear them noticing things about it that they had missed last time we did it. Well done Mrs Ferguson and thank you.
Science and Engineering Week
The children had a great week of inventing and discovering and we extend our thanks to all the visitors and parents who gave up their time and came in to work with the children. They all have a much greater awareness now.
Off to pastures new
Last week we bade farewell to William in P2 who has gone off to live in Tomintoul. We will all miss his charming ways and wish him well in his new school.
Wishing you all a happy springtime and I look forward to seeing you all soon. I have attached a Dates for the Diary.
Kind Regards
Head Teacher
