Grandtully
Active, Achieving, Determined, Creative
A wee school with BIG ideas
Loves learning and making
Always happy, enthusiastic and relaxed
Not afraid to face our fears
We have made many films, stories and hatched 14 chicks
Always looking for the next idea
Grandtully, a wee school in Highland Perthshire.
Author: C. Gibson
Feathers and Poo!
Today we weighed the chicks and the little one that wasn’t well is getting heavier. It is happy now. It was the first time we cleaned their poo we needed to scrub and scrub and pour water to clean it. We have to wear gloves and our lab coats. The chicks are now growing feathers. They are getting bigger.
By Jago and Karmen P2
Parent Council
Following the meeting on 26th May 2015 named office bearers were unanimously approved and are as follows
Chairperson: Patrick Steuart Fothringham
Treasurer: Iain Burnett
Secretary: Sharon Martin
Co-opted member: John Campbell
Jan – May 2015 BBC Ten Pieces
Grandtully Primary took part in the BBC Ten Pieces project, it was a fantastic was to express our creativity. We responded to 9 of the ten pieces and invited families to respond to the 10th piece. Two of our responses are on the BBC website and were shown at a concert in Dundee. Check out the links below.
Africa 2013-2014
In 2013 – 2014 session we went to see the Lion King Musical in Edinburgh and were inspired to learn more about Africa. We shared our learning by creating a film that was shown at The Birks cinema in Aberfeldy.
Check it out via the links below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUp-VlxBY9g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSacnFJVyI4
Profiles
This week we have been reflecting on our learning and putting together pupil profiles. These profiles share how we feel about our learning, discuss what skills we have developed and help us think about what we might want to do in the future. Our profiles will be sent home to share with our families along with our written reports and portfolios of learning at the end of June.
Bony Fred
P1 – 3 are learning about the human body and how it works. Today we looked at the skeleton. Everyone agreed that without a skeleton we wouldn’t be able to stand up and would just flop to the floor, it does a a very important job. It also protects our organs for example our lungs, heart and brain!
To help us learn how the human skeleton is put together and the names for all the bones we decided to make one! We thought he should be called Bony Fred, isn’t he great! We worked together to make all the bones, it was tricky at times but we kept at it and finished putting him together just before home time.
Our Eggs
On Wednesday Hester’s Dad came in and brought some eggs to show us. We cracked the eggs and he told us what the different parts were. We saw a white string bit which holds the yolk in place and a dot on the yolk, it is the bit that grows into the baby chick.
He also brought an incubator, it does what the mother hen would do, keeping the eggs warm and turning them. We put 20 eggs into the incubator, it takes 21 days for them to hatch. We think they will hatch on Wednesday 10th June. We used a special torch called a candler to see inside the egg. We couldn’t see anything yet but Patrick said that’s because it hasn’t h
ad a chance to grow. We are going to look inside again next week to see which eggs have chicks inside. If there are some without chicks inside we will take them out of the incubator.
We will write a blog about our eggs once a week.
By P1-3
The white bit holds the yolk in place
