Today, we began our Human Body topic with some very effective Day of the Dead skull artwork.
Category Archives: Sciences
P2 at Dynamic Earth
We all had a great time at our school trip to Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh today. Here are some of P2’s highlights! 🌍
Moving Toys
P1a enjoyed exploring the force of pushing to make wheeled toys move. The children realised that wheeled toys move faster and further when pushed down a hill.
P2 Bug Hotel Signs
Some of the boys and girls created colourful signs to go around the Bug Hotel while others looked for bug guests to go into the hotel! Almost there!
P2 Bug Hotel in Progress
Primary 2 were excited when the pallets to create their Bug Hotel finally arrived today.
They started filling each layer of the Bug Hotel with their mini pots and all the resources that people donated as well as the materials that they scavenged from the school grounds.
We still have alot of work to do to encourage creatures to come to our hotel. We can’t wait to finish it!
Outdoor Learning in P5
Primary 5 have been learning about angles in the school garden. They enjoyed looking for right angles, acute angles, obtuse angles and reflex angles.
We also loved working with Hidden Gardens to help develop our school gardens this week. We learnt about crop rotation and how to sow seeds. Hopefully our courgette, squash, french beans and runner beans will grow soon!
P2 Bug Hotel Planning!
As part of their garden topic, Primary 2 have began researching and planning the creation of a “Minibeast Sanctuary” in the school Sensory Garden. They know that encouraging insects and other small animals to the garden is good for the environment.
So far, the children have used the Internet to investigate different Bug Hotel designs and read about the sorts of materials that could be used for encouraging a range of wildlife. They have also drawn diagrams of how they would like the minibeast hide to look.
The boys and girls will scavenge for natural resources to make cosy crevices for the wildlife, although we would also appreciate donations of any of the resources listed below to help in the creation of the Bug Hotel.
Small plant pots, bamboo canes, clean bottles, some old building materials e.g bricks and drainage pipes. If you have any of these lying around your garden and would like to help us out, they would be much appreciated! 
Volcano Experiment
Today in P5 we were erupting our volcanoes that we made. We used diet coke and mentos in our science experiment to create an eruption. It was interesting to find out that diet irn bru worked better at making a big eruption rather than the diet coke. We had so much fun!
Written by Erin and Keira
Classes of Rainforest Animals
Primary 3 are learning about classes of animals. The children had fun grouping different animals into reptiles, mammals, birds, amphibians, insects and fish. They worked so well together and used their previous knowledge to help them. Well done!
Fun Volcano Afternoon
Today we were outside drawing volcanoes and we did an experiment to watch how a volcano erupts. These are the steps to make one erupt- a tablespoon of baking soda, 1/4 a cup of vinegar, 4-5 drops red food coloring and washing up liquid. Directions- 1. make sure the volcano is in a clear tray before performing the eruption. 2. Addthe baking soad to the lava tube 3. Mix the vinegar,food colouring and dish soap together thoroughly. 4. Add the liquid solution to the lava tube. 5. Stand back and watch the lava ERUPT. We started making our own volcanoes in class. We have covered a bottle with newspaper and made it look like a volcano. We are going to make our volcanoes erupt when they are finished and painted.
Written by Lewis and Taylor
