A few weeks ago Mrs Chalmers set us a challenge to build an Eco school with lots of Eco features. We have all been very creative with our designs and none of them look the same! As you can see, they were all different shapes and sizes but all still lovely. Most of them included solar panels, wind turbines and many more Eco features.

We have based our ideas on the new building for Gartcosh Primary and have added lots of features that will make it Eco friendly. Some have gone as far as to add real grass/astroturf. Many of our models are made of objects that would otherwise get thrown out. We hope you like our Eco models!

Written by our weekly bloggers: Eva and Eva

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On Monday we were having fun with our leading the learning activities. One of these activities was scanning a reflection QR code. The QR code is a piece of paper that you scan on the iPad to reflect your learning. It then generates a question link to our learning for us to discuss and reflect upon. These questions include:

• What have you learned?
• What could you have improved on?
• What grade would you give yourself?

….and many more. We also had lots of other tasks to choose from such as create a new character for our novel, write a newspaper report, and design a new home for the main characters. We enjoy working with the teacher to create new tasks linked to our novel studies, Natasha’s Will, The Borrower’s and The Invisible Dog.

On Tuesday it was an exciting day because Walter came to our class for a visit. We were playing tennis and as a treat Mrs Chalmers brought Walter in for a visit! Walter was so cute everyone was crowding round him. Most of us got to hug Walter and hold his lead. Then we brought him into our class for a while and Miss McCool & her P7s got to meet Walter too. When it was time for Walter to leave everyone was sad. We had a great time with Walter and we hope he enjoyed his visit too.

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During our Health & Wellbeing topic, Ross, our Active School’s Coach came in to teach us First Aid and CPR. We started off with CPR and Ross taught us an acronym: DR ABC. D stands for danger, R stands for response, A stands for airways, B stands for breathing and C stands for CPR (circulation). He also taught us how to look after burns, bleeds and how to tie a sling. Ross also said that there are three main songs to do CPR in tune with: 500 Miles, Nelly the Elephant & Stayin Alive. We did CPR on dummies and learned that we first complete 30 presses, listen to them breathing to see if they are breathing again; if not, do 30 more. We learned many important facts about First Aid and CPR and enjoyed practising it. We now feel a lot more confident with delivering First Aid.

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