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Eco – Schools At Home

We have received a communication from Keep Scotland Beautiful who are developing some resources for working at home.  They have asked us to share with you two resources currently available on their website.  Further details below:

The Pop-up Pocket Garden is a gardening project that can be done at home in a small space outdoors, or indoors on a windowsill.  It provides a great opportunity for children and young people aged 3 – 18 years to design and grow a small garden. There are themes to inspire you and a design brief to guide practical building and growing. They are looking for exciting and unusual designs that use edible plants, plants that attract wildlife and will reuse something which would otherwise have been thrown away.  The best Pop-up Pocket Gardens will be featured on the Keep Scotland Beautiful website to celebrate your ideas and skills and inspire others.

For children aged 8-25 years old, Young Reporters Scotland is a perfect opportunity to investigate and report on an environmental or sustainability issue which matters to you. The competition is designed to give young people a platform to express their opinions and solutions for environmental issues in addition to providing an opportunity to develop their own journalistic skills.
Please follow the links in the body of the text for further information.

STEM Stars

Mrs Drummond has loved visitors this week showing off their fabulous creativity.  We have had a butterfly house, complete with pretty butterflies, a vending machine with options as well as a lovely dog house complete with dogs.  Wow! Well done everyone.

 

Using Glow on an Ipad

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We are aware that many of our pupils will use Glow on an iPad instead of a pc or laptop and how information is displayed is slightly different to what would be seen if opened on a pc.

In order to assist you we have taken some pictures and attached them to this post to help you change the display so that you have the full functionality of Glow that would be displayed on a pc.

 

 

Eco Committee

The Eco Committee met to discuss the areas we feel need attention to ensure our school remains an Eco friendly place.  The agenda was busy but we got through it all and left with lots of action points.

Our next project is to encourage as many pupils as possible to ensure they take home their lunch boxes as currently far too many are left behind which means they start to smell and make our school look untidy.  We think we may give a prize to the class with the least on the trolly at the end of the day.

 

 

Eco Committee Repair Fairy Garden

It was great to get outside today and spend some time repairing our fairy garden which had sadly been affected by the bad weather.  We washed our decorative items and laid out a new pathway ready to encourage people to check out our bug hotel.  We checked things out and saw lots of big worms, slugs oh

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and a massive spider!

Scottish Primary Engineering Awards

Mrs Drummond has been looking through our entries for the Scottish Primary Engineering Awards and is delighted at our inventions.  She has loved all the visitors to her class showing off their fabulous drawings and prototypes.  It’s probably just as well Mrs Drummond doesn’t have to buy all these fabulous ideas.  She has signed up for the torch that goes around the corner and the silent hairdryer for dogs.  Wow! Just look at this fabulous homework project. Keep up the  creativity boys and girls. 

British Science Week

This week in P7 we have been learning about Electrical circuits. We got to play with materials to create our own circuits and worked out how to install a switch or make the bulb shine brighter.

We also identified conductors and insulators through manipulating different materials. We can’t wait to try new experiments next week.

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