On Friday the 10th of February, Primary 3 visited Nesting Primary school to see their Up Helly Aa day. We had the chance to listen to the Jarl Squad sing their songs, and even got to try on their shields and helmets! After that we got to go outside to see the galley. We were even allowed to go for a ride in it! After all that Primary 3 had a chance to play in the school grounds. We all had lots of fun and Primary 3 voted it a 10/10 visit!
On Tuesday P6/7 and S3 went to Bonhoga Gallery and saw the Vivian Ross Smith exhibition. She focused on making her art w
ork about Shetland islands and the sea. We all really enjoyed the art work, it reminded me of Shetland and old corrugated iron and rubble or ruins. We also drew in charcoal stop motion animation with tracing paper, the exhibition we made a bit of was what things and people from the year 2317. By Finn and Eva
This week we met Karen and she helped us look for birds and worms. The teams that we had were picked out of a bag. The Merlins made a poster of a robin. We studied soil from the mound which had lots of roots but no objects. It was called ‘silty loam’. There were 11 worms. Marley identified a Lumbrielais terrestris, the lob worm and 1 maggot.
By Amelie and Holly
Have you ever heard of supertasters? This week, pupils in primary 4,5,6 & 7 were investigating.
Supertasters experience bitter tastes more strongly than other people because they have a higher number of taste receptors within their fungiform papillae – the big pink bumps on your tongue which contain your taste buds.
By counting the number of fungiform papillae on a tongue, you can determine whether someone is a supertaster, a taster or a non-taster.
We did an experiment to find out.
Our results:
We discover that 20% of pupils were ‘non-tasters’, 54% were ‘tasters’ and 26% were ‘supertasters’.
We can’t wait to try the next experiment with…
This week p4,5,6,and 7 made dumplings with Wen Ting. We all really enjoyed it. How we did it was we got different kinds of dumplings in packages with all different kinds of flavours like egg and chives and last but not least we boiled them. It was really quick and easy to do . We really enjoyed making them (and eating them).
新年快乐
(Happy New Year)
by Yelena and Amelie
Each week secondary 1 pupils and primary 1 & 2 pupils meet up to share and discuss a new reading book and enjoy the accompanying activities. Both secondary and primary pupils find this a very worthwhile and enjoyable experience.
On Wednesday Primary 1 thought about the months of the year and could show which months their birthdays are in, discussed special events which happen throughout the year, the 4 seasons and how 12 months makes one whole year.
We are thinking about time this term and decided to make a calendar.
Primary 2 made the grid part of the calendar and had to think about the year, month names, days of the week and the number of days in each month. They worked really hard together to complete all 12 months for our calendar.
Primary 1 thought about months, seasons, weather and special events then designed a picture for each month.
We now have a calendar in the P1/2 and P2/3 classroom to look at and use.
