As part of our ‘Wallace and Bruce’ topic, Primary 4 and Primary 4/3 have been learning why castles were so important back in the 13th century.
We became very interested in castles and researched and discussed the different parts.
We designed our own castles last week, and this week we made our designs a reality with cereal boxes and cardboard tubes.
We had a fantastic time, and enjoyed helping one another to complete them.
Our super stars this week for kindness and super learning. Well done.
Today was World Book Day and we were thinking of our favourite books and authors. Michael Morpurgo is an author who excites and inspires is to read more. We are very lucky to have lots of his novels in school and we have the opportunity to read them as part of our learning,
Primary 2 learned about the different people they could have been and jobs they could have had in the Roman Empire!
We had super fun at football training this morning with Clyde FC. We were learning to follow directions and control a football. We were super strikers and scored some great goals.
We are building the Antonine Wall which had a stone base and was finished off with turf. Watch this space for the finished product.
Primary 5 have been investigating water hardness and softness. We found that we have soft water in our taps, the water has between 0mg/L CaCO3 and 50mg/L of CaCO3.
We also investigated the Mpemba Effect. Our results have shown that in most cases the cold water froze faster than the warm water.
However one result showed that the warm water froze faster, this is because of a variation in liquid amounts.
We concluded that in science experiments you can get lots of different results, our predictions are not always correct. Mpemba noticed in 1963 that warm water froze faster than cold water, however many scientists argue with this conclusion. The question whether warm water or cold water freezes first is still being debated today.
It’s World Book Day! Here we are enjoying our books and learning new things.
Primary 6 finished their last session at St Maurice’s High School today as part of the Transition Programme. Over the past three weeks, they have been working hard with Mr McConnell from the Technical Department to make a ‘Maths Game’, filing down their plastic and marking out it correctly.
Mrs McLennan, Miss Robertson and Miss Wilson were not as adventurous or confident in their pancake making skills as the Nursery today so they brought in ‘shop bought’ pancakes for the children.
