Monthly Archives: March 2013

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Time Project

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On Monday morning we were given a challenge – build the fastest K-Nex Car! We spent the morning building cars in groups and then we had to find out the fastest. We had to think about how to work out the speed. We eventually worked out that we needed to know the distance something has travelled and how long it took to go that distance. We could then work out the speed. Speed = distance/time.

We watched a video of how the police use this to work out if cars are speeding. You can watch the video here.

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Mosaic

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We have all been creating a mosaic tile this week with Peebles artist Deborah Campbell. You can visit her website here!

Each person in the school has designed a mosaic tile based on the natural world around us. We had to choose from loads of different tiles to create our designs, carefully cutting some of the tiles to shape. They are going to form a display in our new school.

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Youth Music Initiative Showcase

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We attended the Youth Music Initiative Showcase event in the Volunteer Hall, Galashiels on Wednesday. Our band – ‘Shakalaka West Linton’ shared with the audience the different instruments we were using and what we had learned through all of the drumming sessions that we have had. We also gave an amazing drumming performance which rocked!

The audience were amazed at our performance.

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Go Animate

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Today we made animations on the website Go Animate. We all found it fun to create funny animations. There were different animations like a wildlife one or a spce one(which looked like Halo). We are hoping to some more animation next term – so this website was good to help us learn about what is involved in making an animation.

You can check out the website here.

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Dancing at P.E

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We are looking at ‘Inventions’ for our topic. So, at P.E we are creating a special inventions dance, which includes- the clock, the radio and the television. We dance to these songs,- Hung up, radio Gaga and television. These songs were written by Madonna, Queen and Hard- Fi.The targets included jumping, movement, imagination amd concentration. We have had to work together to create our dances and we will be performing them to the school during the last week of term.