Hello, my name is Magnus and this week has been very busy in P5/6/7.

Wellness, connection and support. This week we have had different guest speakers in linked to our unit on wellness, connection and support. On Monday, we had Freya’s mum Kate, who is a dietician. She was telling us about the different food groups and what we should eat and eat less of. On Wednesday, we had people in to talk about digital wellbeing and living a balanced life. Both visitors were very interesting.

Writing – Wild Isles. We started a block of writing all about note taking. We had to watch ‘Wild Isles’ and take notes about the Killer Whale, Badger and Dormouse. We then used our notes to make posters. Here are some of our posters. They are all great!

The Drive to Move. On Thursday, we were learning about magnetism and static electricity. First, we had to make mazes and try to move a ball through them by using magnetism. Then we did two experiments to see if we could use static electiricy to move things without touching them. We had to do ‘air bending’ and move paper and ‘water bending’ and move a stream of water.

SMUHA . We had a super morning celebrating SMUHA. We also created Viking oil pastel pictures with Mrs A.

Hello everybody! I am Megan and I can’t wait to share with you what we have been doing in P5/6/7 this week.

STEM DAY – Lego Robots. On Monday, a lady called Eleanor came in and taught us about the circumference of a circle. We also got to program Lego robots which was lots of fun.

The Choice to Defy – Gravity and Air Resistance. For our Big Question this week, we were learning about gravity and air resistance. To do this, Mrs A set us the challenge to make a working parachute for a toy figure. Everyone did very well making their parachutes but a big well done to Joe, Campbell, Eilidh R and Eilidh S for their winning designs.

World Book Day. For World Book day, we got to make lots of cool stuff, like wooden bookmarks and gift token designs. Mrs A also set us a competition challenge to design a cover for a book with the title ‘Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast’. The winner will be announced on Monday.

Playleaders with P2. Every Friday morning, the P6s lead playleaders for the P2 pupils. This involves planning games and running the sessions. It also allows the P2s to develop listening skills and being a good sport. We’ve all now had 1 shot at leading and will all have one more before the end of term.

Dogs against drugs. On Friday, Megan from Dogs against Drugs came in to speak to us about her work and keeping safe. We played a game to learn about different situations and what we should do, learned how to do the recovery position and the best bit, got to meet Bravo! He was so cute and playful.

P5 reading buddies. Every Friday, the P5s go to P1 and lead activities linked to reading. Miss Hunter cannot praise them enough and is so impressed with their planning and running of each weekly session. Today they got to go early for lunch with P1/2 as requested by the class.

Thank you for reading and have a nice weekend.

Megan 😊