June 14, 2017
by Mr Fowler
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In P.2, we’ve been working hard to get ready for Sports Day. We’ve studied how we can use our arms to run faster. We’ve also been learning about the egg and spoon race. Get ready for some great performances on Sports Day!
June 11, 2017
by Mrs Carlin
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This week was a fabulous week for us as we had an amazing visit to the zoo. The weather was not great but we managed to stay dry and didn’t let the lack of sunshine damped our enthusiasm.
The birds we saw were very beautiful and well looked after.
There were a lot of surprises in the reptile house.
Can you spot this Ruffle-necked-lizard?
Shshshshsh! We don’t want this guy to waken up…he’s huge!
Look at this green lizard waving at us!
A bright and colourful parrot.
Two giant tortoises were fast asleep.
These crocodiles were so still they looked likes statues….but they weren’t!
Can you see this crocodiles eyes peeping up above the water?
At the petting zoo.
This reindeer was losing its warm winter coat.
This reindeer wasn’t too interest in us.
The rescued lions were amazing.
We couldn’t believe how huge they were.
The secret garden was beautiful.
We all loved this little pagoda.
A beautiful place filled with gorgeous plants.
This emu made us laugh.
Handling a milk snake with one of the zoo keepers.
Handling a cockroach…it was very tickly.
Everyone fell in love with this little spikey tenrec from Madagascar.
We all had an interesting and exciting time at the zoo and learned lots of new information and saw lots of new animals and plants. This will help us in our living things topic this term. Thank you to the people at the zoo and thank you to our parent helpers for helping us enjoy our day.
June 9, 2017
by Mrs MacFarlane
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We have been looking at the art work of Jennifer Thompson who is a Scottish artist.
We loved how her work is so bright and vibrant and we did a little research into her paintings. She likes to paint family days out. Visits to the beach, picnics and so on. Her work has a lovely happy feeling.
We loved her painting of the Forth Road Bridge. She has actually painted her own family into this.
We then began making our own umbrella pictures. We can’t wait to share our finished designs next week!
June 9, 2017
by Mrs MacFarlane
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We had another awesome week at the Stem Zone this week! Pr 5 have become very skilled at designing and making. This week we were super fast at following instructions to make models and we even had time to go and design and make our own ideas! What great fun!
June 9, 2017
by Ms Kiernan
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This has been another busy but exciting week in Primary 6/7.
We attended the Gaelic football tournament and all the. Hold R.E.M. Played well especially the girls, who got to the semi finals! Â well done girls.
We went on a school trip to the Science Centre and learned some amazing scientific facts🙂
June 2, 2017
by Mrs Carlin
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This week we had our last Stay and Read. Thank you to all of the parents and carers who came along over the sessions to read with us. We have loved it.
Also this week, we had a taster session of Komodo Karate. Look at the skills we learned and the fun we had.
In the computer room this week, we have been showing the teacher how much we know about the seasons and the weather before we move on to another topic next week.
We finished off our Weather topic by looking at hot and cold countries. We packed our suitcases for different climates and made a colourful map of the world showing the hot and cold areas.
We have been reading some very tricky books this term. We are definitely ready for primary 2!
Look at this super girl. She ran the Race for Life and raised a great deal of money for cancer research. We are very proud of you.
May 25, 2017
by Ms Kiernan
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It has been a very busy week for Primary 6/7 since coming back from York!
We all had a fabulous time at York and hope you tuned into twitter to see all of our photographs!
This week we were busy researching information on famous European tourist attractions and using the information to complete a fact file for our wall display.
We also participated in a Gaelic football tournament in St Ambrose. All the children played very well and we’re waiting to see if we have qualified for the finals! Here are some of the children in action!
 
May 21, 2017
by Mrs MacFarlane
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This week we have been learning about Mary. We have been looking at the mysteries of the Rosary. We started by looking at the joyful mysteries. We were looking at the joyful times in Mary’s life.
We then started to investigate Mary further. Did you know that it is exactly 100 years since Mary appeared to the children in Fatima? We were learning all about the story at Fatima and all the amazing things that happened. Later on in this month we will have our own celebration for the 100 years anniversary!
May 21, 2017
by Mrs MacFarlane
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Primary five have started a new science topic all about energy. We are looking at renewable and non renewable energy. We found out that if we keep using up all the fossil fuels there will be none left! Imagine!
So we began to investigate renewable power. We started with solar power.
When we were looking at solar power we realised that the sun can be used in two ways.
Thermal panels can take in the Suns heat to warm water and air.
Sun Light can be gathered and turned into electricity by photovoltaic cells! Wow!
We made up information posters about this and even wrote an explanation about it!
We then decided to carry out an experiment. We decided to melt chocolate in the sun!
We had a few variables to test out.
Which melts faster milk or white chocolate?
Which plate speeds up the melting? Paper or tinfoil?
Is shade or sun best?
We discussed our results. Put them into a graph and came to conclusion.
Milk chocolate melts quicker than white chocolate because the dark colour absorbs heat. Tinfoil plates warmed up quicker and melted the chocolate much sooner. The sun was warmer than the shade!
What a tasty experiment!
We wonder what will come next!
May 19, 2017
by Mrs Carlin
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We have been working very hard at maths time and now we can add up to 20! What superstars!
Also this week, we have been improving our thinking skills and problem solving skills by using the coding app for our class. It is great fun and some of us have earned three badges already. 
In the computer room, we can all log in to Glow and try out some of the activities on our class page.
I am practicing my sentence skills. 
I am practicing my common words.
I am also practicing my money skills.
At taught writing time this week, we all worked in trios to make sentences. We had to think about the three parts of a sentence and work together to come up with an interesting sentence. 
On Friday, we invited our parents and carers back to school for our next Stay and Read session – it is a fabulous start to a Friday.
Here are our STAR WRITERS this week – well done everyone! 
