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Volcanic Eruptions

We conducted an experiment to create a chemical reaction that would erupt inside a bottle and look like a volcanic eruption.

Watch our videos to see some of our experiments in action. They will only play on a computer.

We used washing up liquid, water, bicarbonate of soda, vinegar and some red food colouring.

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When those were combined all groups managed to get a reaction that caused our previously made volcanoes to “erupt”.

As you can hear, we thought the whole experience was AWESOME!!!!!

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Outdoor Learning

Edinburgh School Trip

We are very excited about our school trip to Edinburgh tomorrow! In the morning we are looking forward to visiting Greyfriars Bobby and in the afternoon we will be going on a spooky tour of Mary King’s Close! We learned lots about these places during our Edinburgh topic and now we cannot wait to visit them in real life!

The forecast is looking good for tomorrow and the sun is expected to be shining so please put on some sun cream before you come to school.

Please remember to bring a packed lunch in a disposable bag so it can be thrown away when you are finished.

Hopefully, there will be an opportunity to visit the gift shop at Mary King’s Close so if you wish to buy something please bring some money – no more than £5.

You can come to school dressed down for the trip. We will be doing a lot of walking so please come wearing some comfortable footwear.

Finally, we are hoping to return to school at 3pm, traffic allowing! However, if we expect to be late we will contact the school as soon as we can and parents will receive a text message with an approximate return time.

Check out our blog throughout the day tomorrow! We will be keeping you updated with our visit to Edinburgh and uploading lots of pictures!

Dig In Day

Primary 4 have taken on the responsibility of the school Nature Garden, along with Primary 5. So far we have been out in the garden and come up with ideas of what we would like to see there. We are very lucky to have such an area in our school and are able to use it to help with our learning. We met with a Countryside Ranger from Drumpellier Country Park and Pallacerigg Country Park to help us enhance what we already have. We know exactly what we want to achieve and Colin is the man to help us with this! helpwant[1]

The Dig In Day tomorrow will help us to get started on the plans we have made. We can’t wait to get started. If you can help in anyway we will be in the school grounds from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. We would really appreciate any help you can provide, and any time you could spend with us would be wonderful! Colin will be there with another Ranger and he will bring tools and resources we can use to cut back some trees, create clearer pathways, and clear the full garden to create specific areas. We will even be making bird boxes and unveiling the new name and sign of the garden. It’s an opportunity not to be missed!

We hope to see you all there!

Remember kids, you need to come with an adult.

We have been learning all about trees and how they help humans and animals breathe. Kai

I have learned how trees spread seeds to allow other trees to grow. Declan

We had homework aksing us to explore the street to find leaves and match them on our Leaf Bingo. It was good! Jay

If a tree is living and you want to find the age of it you can use an increment borer to tell it’s age. Kayleigh

I know the life cycle of a tree. Emma

Today we were talking about how seeds spread in wind and water or animals can carry them on their fur, then when they land a new tree will grow. Faith

If a tree is not living, you can tell how old it is by counting the rings inside the trunk. Taylor

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30

Today we were investigators and were given the challenge of finding who had stolen the recipe for ‘Fudge Mallow Delight’ from Willy Wonka’s Factory.

We had to use our thinking skills, communicating skills and compare and contrast the evidence we were given.

We had four different pieces of evidence: a letter from Willy Wonka, staff fingerprints, a torn I.D. Badge, a police witness interview and a grid that showed where the evidence had been found.

We all decided on the same outcome, and that the culprit was the oompa-loompa Jonathan Jumblebum!

It was amazing!!

Primary 4 have chosen to create personalised Christmas baubles to sell at the Christmas Fayre this coming Saturday.

We voted for the business name ‘Bibbidi Baubili Boo’, created by Sian S, and decided on the teams that would make it successful.

There is the Design Team, The Sales Team, The Media Team and the Manufacturing Team.

We will all be in the Manufacturing Team but had to apply for jobs in the other team of our choice.

Today we met with our managers to complete tasks we put in our business plan on Thursday.

The Sales Team successfully sourced the cheapest baubles to buy to help us make a profit, the Design Team have given lots of ideas to their manager but have still to decide how the baubles will look and the Media Team concentrated on making posters to advertise our Enterprise.

We can’t wait to get started on the baubles!

We used iPads to research the type of natural disaster we wanted to find out more about then we created a fact file