We decided to open a café for our business topic called Café 5b.  We applied for jobs in the company and we all helped to organise the business.  We held the café on Wednesday in the school dining hall and lots of our parents and grandparents came along to support us.  We all chose jobs in the café and we were all very busy!  We raised the grand total of £167.41 which we are going to use to have a day out and to help some charities.  Thank you very much to everyone who came and who helped us on the day!

P2/1 What are gargoyles and why are they found on castle walls?

Thank you to Mrs Finnie for helping us to make these charcoal and chalk gargoyles and to Mrs Ryalls for putting them in this super castle display.

We had quite an adventure today as we walked on our trip to Neidpath castle.

Inside the castle we were amazed to find a deep well, a dungeon, a prison, a friendly skeleton and even a toilet in the wall !

The castle was so amazing and we were all very excited to see what it would really have been like to live in a castle. Tapestries kept the rooms cosy along with huge fireplaces.

Did anyone smell a rat?

• Thank you so much to all the parent helpers for supporting us on our castle tour – we could not have done it without you !

We went to Elm Bank printers to print our café logo.   First of all Ruth had to scan the logo and then she was able to shrink it and clean it up.  She then showed us 3 different letter layouts with our logo and the school address.  After that she sent the letters to Ian’s computer at the front of the shop and he printed them out on the big printer.  Ian printed two pages on one piece of paper and then used the chopper machine to cut them in half.

Wow! I am delighted with Joseph’s homework today. Joseph has made apple crumble for the Gardener’s café homework and has brought in a dish of it foe me to eat. It looks and smells very tasty and appetising. HUGE THANKS to Joseph and his family.

We have discovered a fun website to help us with our learning about Polar Animals.  As well as some facts it also has some games you can try at home.  Can you complete the picture slider faster than we did as a class?!

Go Wild Polar Games

We have been doing money maths . We have made our own money problems like…. If I had a £20 note and I used £14.30  out of it what would my change be?

By Emily and Benny

We conducted an insulation experiment to measure which insulating material would result in the least wasted heat energy. We put hot water in cups and insulated with different materials in a cardboard box. We used a thermometer to measure the temperature after 1 hour and 2 hours. Some results surprised us and others were predicted in our hypothesis. We only changed the insulation material to ensure there was only one variable and it was a fair test.

The best insulators in order were

1. Sawdust

2. Feathers

3. Tin Foil

4. Cotton wool

5.  Sponge

6. Fibreglass

7. Cotton scarf

8. Bubble wrap

9. Newspaper

P7 had a fantastic trip to Deep Sea World and to see the new bridge across the Forth called the Queensferry Crossing. It was a really fun things to do in our last few weeks of primary school.

We took part in a science workshop called ‘Ceilidh on the Brain’. We learnt about the different parts of the brain and the jobs that these parts do. We created dances to demonstrate the process of light travelling to the brain and sound vibrations travelling to the brain. If you have any questions for our brain scientists then please comment on this post and we can pass them on.