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!
We have been learning about keeping safe in the kitchen as part of our Health and Wellbeing lessons this term. We have learned about safe and hygienic food preparation, storage and cooking.
All three classes enjoyed a visit from Mrs MacIntyre who taught us about germs and the importance of keeping our hands clean. She used a special light that showed up the germs on our hands before and after washing them. She also brought her cuddly germ friend to tell us that not all germs are bad germs.
Thank you Mrs MacIntyre.
A huge well done to everyone who took part in the first heat of the Great Glen Bake Off. We were extremely impressed with the standard of cooking and the talented bakers we have in school! Well done to all the children in P1-3 who did a super job decorating cakes. Mrs Burke and the Captains tasted all the bakes and had the tough decision of choosing two bakes to put through to the final. Congratulations to Max and Leo who have made it through to the P4-7 final.
Primary 5 have had a busy time at school learning new things and taking part in different opportunities.
In maths, we have been learning about division. We made the most of the sunshine and practised our sums outside.
We have also been looking at the artist Piet Mondrian. We created some of our own paintings in the style of his work and we listened to swing music whilst we painted, just as Piet Mondrian did!
We really enjoyed cooking our fairtrade breakfast in the learning kitchen. We made blueberry and banana breakfast muffins and they were delicious! We used as many fairtrade products from the Co-Operative as we could.
The boys and girls in Primary 2 have been revising their knowledge of ‘o’clock’ and ‘half past.’ They used the SmartBoard to set the time of a big clock and used smaller clocks to test a friend on telling the time. Some children even tried a Time Bingo game!
Over the past few weeks, we have been learning all about time and how important it is to be able to tell the time . We also identified where we see and use time in our daily lives, such as class timetables, train and bus timetables, Sky TV guide, etc. We have been playing time games on the smart board, bingo games, using TV guides to work out how long our favourite TV programmes last and creating our own fantasy class timetables.
P1a used wotsits to learn about pollination and the part that bees play in it. They assured me that they didn’t eat any…. But I’m not too sure about that!
The children have started to write about the pollination process.
Primary six pupils have been learning about the properties and nets of 3D objects and 2D shape. We got active in the class room making solid models from 3D nets and skeleton models of 3D objects.
Primary six pupils were delighted to welcome parents and grandparents into our classroom on Friday morning. Pupils have been learning about the scientific understanding of the Earth’s evolution. As part of this topic we looked at natural disasters including volcanic eruptions. Pupils carried out a practical investigation to find out which elements would react together to re-create a volcanic eruption. We mixed bicarbonate of soda with vinegar (and a little red chalk to represent the colour of lava).
Today in homework club with p5 we were doing a lot of work. We were reading, practising our words and lots of other things with Miss Gillespie and Miss Riach. All of the other children are enjoying it to . We have 2 teachers that take the homework club. In maths we get to use ipads for our homework. We also use the ipads for probability fair online games .We have also been using the ipads to time each other with our times tables. In homework club we work very hard and are good at writing.
By Keira
