Stepps Primary School

In class, we have transformed the classroom in to Space! We have an alien called Ian who is green and is being beamed up to his spaceship in the middle of the room. We also have black walls with lights at the top and asteroid lights. We each made a planet at home and brought them into class to show them off! Outside the class we have tinfoil around our partition with signs saying ‘Caution’ and when people walk past it makes a rattl-ey sound – very spacey! we also have a little space table with lots of books and reading about space. We are all really enjoying our topic!

-Sarah Heggie

On the 17th of February, some of the Stepps Primary boys and girls went to Ravenswood to race against other schools in the Cross Country heats. Christopher, Keir and I went to represent P7. Everyone in our school all did really well with great results! I came first in my race! We all had an amazing time and can’t wait for the finals.

-Joshua McNairn

Primary 3 are busy preparing for their class assembly on the 24th February.  They have enjoyed carrying out research, creating fact files, making jewellery and learning songs.  We hope to see as many parents and carers there on the day.  You might even get a cup of tea!!

Miss Taylor

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As part of our Health and Wellbeing topic, Primary 1 have been learning how to make fruit kebabs. The children used the claw and bridge cutting techniques and put the prepared fruit onto the skewer. They all found them yummy!

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Our new topic has landed with a BANG! So far in class we have orbited around the classroom to find out and record new information about the different planets in our Solar System. Swapping and exchanging ideas and information with each other. We have worked together to create and paint large planets to hang in our classroom, helping us to transport our classroom into a different universe! Keep a look out for a picture of the finished result.

We really enjoy our weekly art sessions on a Friday afternoon, where we get to create some beautiful pieces that would be fit for any gallery wall.  Our recent pictures have been completed over several stages and we think that they really have been worth it as the enjoyment and artistic flair has been shown by everyone.

Owls at Night – these pictures were created in two stages, firstly drawing and colouring a very detailed owl using either pens, chalk pastels or colouring pencils.  The second stage was to create a night sky with stars and the moon and then the owls were positioned onto the backgrounds to produce fabulous pictures.  Every single owl and background was different.

Taj Mahal Art – These pictures took a few hours to complete.  The children learned about bleeding tissue paper with water so that the coloured ink would transfer onto the cartridge paper.  This was another multi stage process.  Firstly the children had to draw an outline of the Taj Mahal with pencil, freehand and add in details of towers, windows, doorways etc then outline it with a permanent marker so that the ink would not run.  Then the children had to choose either warm or cold colours for their Taj Mahal and they used water to wet the tissue paper and stick it on top of the picture.  The background also involved bleeding tissue paper; though the colours had to be the opposite of their Taj Mahal.  After the bleeding was complete and dry, the Taj Mahal was cut out with a small edge around it and then was glued on top of the coloured backgrounds.  We really loved the end results as every set of colours and schemes were completely different.

Our current art project involves the amazing artist Ted Harrison.

Last week P7 were very busy cooking up a storm in the classroom. The children worked in small groups to make spring rolls, fresh pizza and delicious chocolate surprises. Along with cooking up delicious food the children all demonstrated great knife skills, with the ‘bridge’ and ‘claw’ grip. Fabulous cooking P7!