The weather finally allowed us to race our boats in Longcote Burn.  We have had a great time exploring different materials, drawing designs, labelling diagrams, testing out prototypes in the water tray and adapting our designs to make them better. We found out that objects that float and are waterproof were the best to use and sometimes found it hard to joins parts of our design together (we tried sellotape, glue and string). Some of us even investigated ballast and buoyancy!

(We also made thank you cards for the welly-wearing adult helpers 🙂 Thank you)

Primary 6/7 were given a homework challenge to make a NATURAL DISASTER (volcano, earthquake, tornado, wild fire etc.)  to show how much we have learned in our topic. Lots of people in our class took part in the challenge and here is what they created…

On Wednesday we had a blast in the morning doing heart start which was different scenarios of how to save people’s lives. We learned C.P.R, the recovery position and more.

We also did a 20 minute run around the netball court, we then added up all the laps that we did and our grand total was…        65 Miles!!!!

On Thursday we had P.E and did a triathlon, it was really fun. We did jumping, running and throwing. When it wasn’t our turn we kept active by running around the netball court.

We also had another lovely walk up the track.

This week was health week. The theme was the Commonwealth. We were split into 3 groups called, Canada, Brilliant Britain and Fiji. Then we made our own team badge and slogan. We have earned team points all week!!

Primary 4/5 (Snack Attack) have organised and ran tuck this week selling fruit, smoothies and other healthy snacks.

On Monday we all walked up the track and back before lunch. It was a lovely day so we got a great view of the school. In the afternoon we were visited by Pauline from Tesco. Pauline brought food from all around the Commonwealth. For example tea from Sri Lanka, noodles from Singapore and grapes from South Africa and many more. We then had music with Mrs Inglis learning songs from all over the Commonwealth.

On Tuesday we were back in our groups going round 3 stations – Aboriginal art-inspired printing with Miss Watt, Commonwealth flags with Mrs Taylor and Commonwealth Values with Mrs Harrison.  P1-4 also had a visit from Penicuik First Responders who taught them about first aid.

We have been miming golf, tennis, going to bed, saying hi to our Neighbours.Mime is drama and you do not speak . I liked doing the golf.

In block 4 maths we were learning graphs. We have learnt to make lots of graphs about food that p4\5 liked but first was drinks that p4\5 liked. but we also learnt about money.

In this block we set up a business called 4/5 Snack Attack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it sells healthy snacks yum! Our managing Directors are Ross and Thomas I am a advertiser.

This block we have done graphs it was very fun  and easy.

We done some graphs on food most of it was fruit .

And we done money  it was fun and easy i liked it

This block we have started a business for health week. We are selling lots of healthy stuff so we are earning about sixteen pounds a day I am managing director so I have to decide on what poster we should show also I need to make decisions. We have sold frozen yoghurts, bread ,sticks, fruit, different flavoured smoothies,

This Health week we have been working in groups to learn about the comonwealth  games which are in Australia this year. The groups were called Fiji, Canada and Brilliant Britan.  The groups where great and we all enjoyed it.

We made Australian pictures, we looked at the flags of the Comonwealth and the values of the comonwealth.