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Category Archives: Primary 4/5
P4/5 Visit to Lime Tree Larder
Today we visited Lime Tree Larder and met with Alex and Jean Wilson the very lovely and welcoming owners.
We visited this  artisan chocolate factory as  a way to celebrate the finishing off our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory topic .
Jean shared with us how Lime Tree larder create their fantastic chocolates and she told us all about the different regions of the world that chocolate ( cocoa ) is grown.
Did you know that there are four types of chocolate?
There is Dark chocolate made with a high concentration of cocoa and very little sugar, Milk chocolate which is made with  a mixture of cocoa, sugar milk and cocoa butter, White chocolate which is cocoa butter (extracted from the cocoa bean ), sugar and milk and last but not least Rubi chocolate , made from a very special cocoa bean found in Venezuela ,milk and sugar. The Rubi chocolate is pink and we thought it tasted like strawberry!
We had so much fun and got to taste A LOT of tasty treats!
P5 Articulate trip to Lapwing Lodge
P5 had the amazing opportunity to visit Lapwing Lodge and take part in some fantastic outdoor learning experiences.
P3/4 Maths Week
Primary 3/4 have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes this week. They have been learning about the amount of corners, sides and even lines of symmetry. To show the knowledge we had been learning we went outside to find as many 2D shapes as we could.
We found:
Tyres and signs in the shape of circles.
We found triangles in our Tim Trail and made some out of sticks.
And we found lots of squares.
We even decided to make shapes out of our bodies:
We will continue to learn about shapes but this was a fun way for everyone to enjoy Maths Week Scotland!
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🌞Summer Trip🌞
We have all enjoyed a fabulous fun day at Heads of Ayr Farm Park today and are heading home tired, but with great memories together.
Thank you to our wonderful Parent Council for organising and funding this trip for our whole school and to everyone who has supported the Parent Council events throughout the year to make this possible.
Finally another thank you to our anonymous donor who made it possible for all the children to have an ice cream on the trip today as well – they were delighted!
St. David’s Family Picnic
We may not have had the glorious weather of last year however we had a fabulous day in the good old Scottish weather to celebrate the feast of our patron, Saint David of Scotland.
Our annual family picnic was well attended by all generations of the Saint David’s school community and our school value of happiness was evident in the faces of everyone in attendance.
A huge thank you goes to all of our pupils (especially our new P1s who will join us in August), families and staff for making this day so special and demonstrating our school values in action.
Being Photographers and Climbers at Muirshiel Country Park!
Primary 4/5 had a fantastic day at Clyde Muirshiel Country Park, being out in nature and exploring.
Firstly, we took a walk along the Old Mine Track and were being Professional Photographers. Our challenge was to take pictures of three different topics, wildlife, flowers and a landscape picture, thinking about what people would like to see and if we were to sell them people would buy. Just like a professional photographer would do.
After a short break to recover, we set out to climb Windy Hill and explore even more. I am proud to announce that everyone made it to the very top of Windy Hill, which is 316 metres high!
After having lunch with a view, we climbed back down the hill and done some final exploring (with some of splashing in our wellies) before it was time to get back on the bus home.
P4/5 Home Shared Learning – May 2019
Electricity with P4/5
Yesterday, P4/5 had a exciting day learning about electricity and energy, this was chosen by them as a follow-on to their recent topic on extreme weathers.
The groups quickly established three types of renewable energy they wanted to research: Wind Power, Solar Power and Hydroelectricity. Using non-fiction books from our school library and the computers to find out facts they were able to tell others in the class what they had learnt.
Following on from this, we began to explore different energies, what makes up electrical circuits and how circuits work. They were learning about the differences between series circuits and parallel circuits, along with the different symbols for electrical components: such as motors, cells and buzzers.
The class were very keen to create their own circuits using instructional diagrams and create their own diagrams using the electrical symbols.
We even got a special visit from Primary 2, who were that excited by our learning, that they wanted to find out about electricity also. So, P4/5 got the opportunity to be the teachers and teach the P2’s about some of the things they had been learning.
Primary 4/5 loved this opportunity to be the teacher:
“It was fun to talk to the P2’s and to help them learn about our topic.” Jack C
“It was tricky at the start, but by the end it was easier.” Keira
“It was quite hard to tell them something in an easier way.” Sienna
“It was a bit hard deciding what to teach the P2’s as we have learned lots.” Hannah
“They were all very good listeners.” Jennifer
Numeracy Outdoor Learning P4/5
On Wednesday, Primary 4/5 used their numeracy skills out in the forest. The class were learning about tally marks and how they could be used. They decided to explore and use the tally marks to count the amount and different types of rubbish found in the woods.
Through exploring, they managed to finds lots of different types of rubbish including an old carpet and half a bike!
When they finished exploring and counting all the items, they returned to class and were able to put all the information they had collected and present it in bar graphs.
The class found that the most common item of rubbish found was different types of wrappers!
