P5 did a great job coding on Monday as part of the Hackathon.

First we found out a little more about the Micro:bits, opened the new Micro:bits and we coded a mood badge, a beating heart and a dice.

Then we learned a little more about using technology to help the planet and we coded lights for sea turtles. When baby sea turtles are born, they are confused by bright beach lighting. We looked at an invention where the Micro:bits were coded to use their low LED lighting when the light level drops, to help guide the hatchlings back to the sea and also to remind people that the turtles are there.

We then learned a little more about the Do your :bit Challenge and the UN’s Global Goals. The challenge is to use the Micro:bits to come up with a solution to help a global issue. This year the challenge is focusing on Global Goals number 3 and 13, Good Health and Wellbeing and Climate Action.

In groups we came up with some fantastic inventions to enter the challenge. Some groups thought about the impact of COVID and how isolated we’ve all been, creating games to play with neighbours, lights and music to help us sleep or an alarm to say when we’ve had too much screen time and should go outside and take a moment! Other groups focused on climate action, thinking about overfishing, collecting plastic in the seas, using the Micro:bits to help planting and also to reduce food wastage.

We finished off by coding animations of our day. It was a busy introduction to the Micro:bit but we all learned a little more about coding and how technology can be used to help solve world problems.

Well done Primary 5!

Well done to all boys and girls who took part in today’s Sports Day.

This is some of our completed countryside collages. We are very proud of them!

We have been looking at collage. We started a countryside landscape today  and we will finish next week. We are excited to share our results.

On Wednesday we made these INCREDIBLE cress heads reusing tights. We added soil and cress seeds and we made hilarious faces by pinching the tights to make noses  and sticking on Googly eyes. Some of us even made ears!! We’re excited  to watch them grow.

By Willow, Amber, Amber, Hughie, Jacob and John

We enjoyed wearing “funky” shoes to school today as part of Walk to School Week.

Our cress seeds grew quickly with plenty light and water. We are bringing them home this week to use in the kitchen. The yoghurt pots could then be re-used to grow something else or recycled. 🥬🥗

Please comment below to say two things you have enjoyed this week.

Mrs Brown and Mrs Smith

We have been learning about how to reduce our carbon footprint. We learned that growing your own food can do this so we planted our own cress seeds. We used old yoghurt pots to do this. We are looking forward to seeing the plants grow!