We are learning about magnetic forces.
This is what we said…
‘We learned that magnets pick things up. They connect together and push away the magnets that are the same.’
‘Did you know the world is a magnet? If only one side was magnetic we would fall.’
‘They can stick to each other. There’s a magnetic force if you use the same side.’
‘If you use two magnets the wrong way it doesn’t stick together.’
We sorted materials into ‘magnetic’ and ‘non-magnetic’ and were able to name the materials.
On Wednesday 11th March, P4 went to the National Museum of Scotland with P4/5. We travelled there on a big 70 seater coach. It was fun. When we got there, we started in the Roman section. We searched for different things, saw Roman coins, armour and we got to dress up like a Roman. After lunch, we spent time in the science section and got to try lots of different activities. We also spent time in the animal kingdom section where we saw a dinosaur skeleton, an elephant and an arctic fox. We had a brilliant time!
On Wednesday 11th March we visited the National museum in Edinburgh. We started off visiting the science zone where we had great fun exploring and experimenting. We then went to see the animals before having a break for lunch. In the afternoon we went to see the Roman artefacts and had a great time hunting for various objects including sandals, swords and some Roman coins.
We have been building circuits as part of our investigations into Electricity and we have learnt the different symbols for the components in the circuits we have made.
In P5 we have been learning about Light and Sound. This week we looked at what a light source was and what a reflector was. We also learned about natural and artificial light sources.
Every time we leave the school grounds we wear these Hi-vis bibs but did we ever really realise how effective they were? This photo shows what happens when the light from a vehicle shines on the reflective strips at night. We thought it was really cool!
We had a great day celebrating World Book Day and preparing our classroom door. Our theme was the picturebook Dragon Post, where a little boy finds a dragon and writes lots of letters asking for advice. Using the book as inspiration we wrote some fantastic letters asking how to look after our own dragon: to Edinburgh Zoo asking how to train it, to Forsyths asking for meat to feed it and to Mrs Wilson asking if we could keep it!
We also worked together to create a dragon, each person designing a scale to make a collage of its body.
We had lots of lovely comments and suggestions from visitors to our door, and had a great time visiting other classrooms to see their doors.
P1/2 enjoyed listening to ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell. We painted all of the animals from the story and decorated our classroom door for World Book Day. Visitors enjoyed lifting the flaps to reveal the pets!
P5A and B had a brilliant day at the National Museum of Scotland. We studied the world of Harald the Viking and loved seeing real Viking artefacts and evidence of their lifestyle.
We also had time to explore the rest of the Musuem from the Natural world and Technological advancements to the fabulous views from the rooftop terrace.
A HUGE thank you to all our fantastic adult helpers who gave up their whole day to come with us and lead a group – we couldn’t have done it without you!
Wow! Fantastic work boys and girls. Wellmdone everyone.
Danni Dodds
P4/5 had a fantastic time transforming the classroom door into the book Demon Dentist. We were especially excited to see that David Walliams had liked and shared the picture on his twitter feed!
