Well Done to all the Children in the Nursery and in Primary 1/2 for making such fantastic Easter Bonnets. I am sure all the mums and dads loved seeing them at our Easter service. Here are some Pictures from Primary 1/2 We will be putting more pictures from our Easter Bonnet Parade tomorrow.
Well done to our P6/7 quiz team who represented the school at the Shotts Rotary school quiz on Friday! You guys were fab!
Room 1 have been completing a block of learning on Topical Science. We have been following Tim Peake and his mission on the International Space Station as well as learning about space. We researched a specific planet in our Solar System and created fact files on them. We then used paper mache to create a model of our solar system. We tried to make our models’ size to scale in
It is Fairtrade Fortnight and our Fair Trade Committee did some interesting research to find out what Fairtrade means. They went for a visit to the Local Co-op to find Fair Trade products. We realised that some of our favourite foods like bananas,chocolate and blueberries, can all be Fairtrade and that this means the farmers who have grown these will get a better price for their crop. The whole school got together
For World Book Day the whole school took part in shared reading. The Primary 6/7 children paired up with Primary 1/2 class and the Primary 3/4 paired up with Primary 4/5. The children shared their favourite books with each other and enjoyed reading part of their books to children from the other classes. Here are some pictures from Primary 3/4 and 4/5 reading to each other.
The Primary 4/5 class attended a most enjoyable day of Science Workshops at Alexander Peden Primary in Harthill. This was the culmination of our school involvement in the SSERC Primary Science and Technology programme. Children worked through 5 workshops extending their knowledge in Science. The workshops included:- Pandas Digestion Electricity Scottish Wildfire and Pond Dipping Here are some pictures from our Ponding Dipping workshop We all took turns trying to
Today in class we started our bridges topic, we looked at three different types of bridges: A beam bridge A truss bridge A suspension bridge We see making a beam bridge with the construction blocks. We used different materials to make our bridges. We found out what happens when the bridge is not stron enough or designed well.
Primary 1/2 have been doing a lot of outdoor learning, last week we decided to take our measuring sticks outside to measure the lengths of objects in the playground and also lengths of animals. This is the length of a giraffes neck. It is very long!!! I know how to use this equipment for measuring lengths We used information from our worksheet to measure out the length . The length
We had a fun show to watch on Tuesday afternoon from M & M Productions. The performance was called A Little Princess and reinforced the message of our school’s approach to anti-bullying.
Room 1 made the most of the snow! We took some time out of class to have fun and build a snowman. Have a peek at some of our pics! 🙂
