P3/4

P3/4 Road Safety Day

March 31, 2015 Miss Campbell

Friday 27th March 2015 was Road Safety Day. The children in Primary 3/4 watched a video about Kerr, a young boy who was hit by a car and broke his leg. They discussed this scenario and the different emotions and difficulties around this situation. The children then took turns pretending to be Kerr in a drama activity. The rest of the class interviewed them and asked them about how they were feeling.

In another activity, the children created a story board about a road accident. They wrote about it and drew pictures to go along with the narrative.

They were also able to play a Road Safety game on the smart board. The game is similar to Snake and Ladders but the difference is, they had to answer questions about road safety correctly to be able to move around the board.

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Red Nose Day Dance-a-thon – Junior Area

March 29, 2015 User deactivated

The pupils in the Junior Area thoroughly enjoyed Red Nose Day and displayed some impressive dance moves during the course of the day 🙂

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Science Experiments – P3, P3/4 and P4

March 29, 2015 User deactivated

Some of the Primary 3-4 pupils have enjoyed carrying out Science Experiments during their Golden Time on a Friday afternoon. So far they have made Lava Lamps using oil, water and salt, created explosive volcanoes and removed egg shells without breaking the eggs!! The messier the experiment the better!!

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Road Safety Day – P4

March 29, 2015 User deactivated

Primary 4 completed a variety of activities during Road Safety Day, including online games, written tasks, watching video clips and partner work to remind them of road safety rules and the possible consequences of dangerous or careless behaviour.

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Living Eggs

March 20, 2015 User deactivated

The school were excited to get a special delivery of living eggs last week. We all loved watching the eggs in the incubator and some of us were lucky enough to see a chick hatch! Tom saw one hatch and said when it came out, it had goo all over it! The girls’ football team saw one hatch just as they were waiting for their coach. The chick didn’t come out straight away. It broke the egg and the egg rocked and moved for a while. Eventually 7 chicks hatched and we have loved going to see them and hold them. All our chicks leave us today and we’ll be sad to see them go!

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Solar Eclipse!

March 20, 2015 User deactivated

P6 had an amazing opportunity today to see the solar eclipse! We all went out with our special glasses on. It was really cloudy and we didn’t think we would see anything but we did see when the clouds cleared! Sophielee said the sun looked like a banana as the moon covered it! Keira said the sun we could see looked like a strip of fire. Kenzie thought it looked like a paper cut out with orange paper underneath and black paper on top. Lewis thought the sun looked like a smiley face. As the moon covered more of the sun it started to get dark then as the moon moved on, it got lighter again. P6 thought it was beautiful and overwhelming!

Watching the eclipse with our viewers on.

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Cracking News for Primary 3/4

March 18, 2015 Miss Campbell

The school received a special delivery on Monday 9th March with the arrival of 10 eggs. Two days later, 7 fluffy and healthy chicks were born. We have visited the chicks every day and were even able to hold them. Parents were invited to come along and visit our fluffy friends!

Dykehead 2014 049 — Living eggs hatching

Dykehead 2014 050 — Checking out the eggs.

Dykehead 2014 063 — Excitement about meeting the chicks.

Dykehead 2014 087 — Parents join us to meet the chicks.

Dykehead 2014 089 — Parents join us to meet the chicks.

Dykehead 2014 093 — Parents join us to meet the chicks.

Dykehead 2014 096 — Parents join us to meet the chicks.

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Primary 3/4 Health Week

March 18, 2015 Miss Campbell

The children in Primary 3/4 were very busy during our school’s Health Week. We were visited by a dental nurse who talked all about keeping our teeth and gums healthy. We also learned about the Eatwell plate from a visitor, Mrs Duncan, who taught us about the different food groups and why they are important. This is known as Food for Fitness. There was an opportunity to go on a smoothie bike and then drink the smoothie afterwards! As well as all this excitement, we had a visit from our friend Iain from Getting Better Together and we were able to perform the circus skills he taught us last term now that we are experts.