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JRSO

Junior Road Safety Officers

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Our new primary 6 pupils have taken on the role of Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSO)

Today our JRSO’s took primary 1-4 for a walk to discuss road safety.  We split them into 3 groups so that 2 JRSOs could go with them and we spoke to them about what was going to happen and what they needed to do before getting their jackets and high viz vests on.

After this they learnt a song:

‘Stop, look, listen and think before you cross the street. Use your ears and use your eyes before you use your feet. Stop, look, listen and think before you cross the road. Use your eyes and use your ears and use your green cross code.’

And then they were presented with a certificate!

 

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Coin experiment

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Primary 1-4 experimented with coins last term, we used old coins that Miss Nicholson brought in and put them into different liquids to see which would clean the coins the best.

We had water, fairy liquid, fairy liquid with water, orange juice, lemon juice, coke, vinegar, vinegar and salt, baking powder and water, bicarbonate of soda and water. The vinegar made our classroom stink but it really cleaned the coins, a little too much as it stripped the colour from the coins. The water didn’t really do anything to the coin, the fairy liquid with and without water cleaned it a little but not too much, the coin in the orange juice was surprisingly clean! The lemon juice worked a little, the coke worked really well! We wondered what it does to your insides when you drink it if it could cleaned really dirty coins that well! The baking powder and bicarbonate of soda worked a little too. After a unanimous vote we decided that coke is the best thing to use when cleaning coke so we used this for cleaning the rest of the coins.

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Achievements

Tig Tags sale day

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Well what a brilliant day we had! On Thursday the 8th of December Tig Tag had a big sale day and we sold ALL of our Christmas gift tags that we made!

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We were very busy in the morning trying to set up our stall so that it looked nice.

We sold a lot within the first 15 minutes and thought we weren’t going to have enough at one point but thankfully we had just the right amount! We made roughly 350 gift tags however some of the gift tags had 3 tied together so we think we actually made between 400-500 gift tags in total which showed how hard we worked over the last few weeks! (We thought some of the tags were too small or too thin to go by itself so we put ones together to make quality gift tags) We put 6 gift tags in a penny mix bag – this way you could see how good they were without having to open the packet. We should make a special mention to R.S. Hendersons for donating the penny mix bags for us to use. We made labels with our logo on them to put on the front of the bag so that people could see that we made them.

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We had 57 packets to sell – 3 of these were hanging on a lovely tree.

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We decorated an old branch from a tree so that we could display our lovely gift tags. We painted it with glue then sprinkled glitter all over it, it looked so good that people offered to buy it and we sold it at the end for £20!!

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1 packet of 6 gift tags cost £1. Everyone took a turn of selling the gift tags and did a great job. We were very polite and worked well as a team.

When we took our float out and paid our expenses then we were left with an amazing £86.52 profit!

Primary 3 and 4 were able to put what they were learning in Numeracy about money to good use when counting and double counting their money.

We decided as a group that we would like to donate the money we raised to Cancer Research.

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We would like to say a big thank you to everyone that came to support us on the day, bought gift tags/the tree and gave a donation. Your support is greatly appreciated!! We would also like to thank primary 5-7 for their help towards the end.

Again, from everyone involved with Tig Tag we would like to say THANK YOU!

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P1-4 Enterprise

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Primary 1-4 have created their own enterprise business and want to tell you about it.

First of all we looked at what enterprise was, what a business was and thought about businesses that we know of.

We then had to think of what we wanted to do for our enterprise project/our own business. We all thought of different ideas and took a vote. We decided to make gift tags. Once we decided what we were making we had to think of a name for our business. We all thought of a good name and wrote these on the board. Once we shared all our ideas we took a vote on which one we thought would be the best name for our business. Our winning name was Tig Tag.

After this we  looked at logos and how people can identify companies just from their logo – Miss Nicholson created a quiz for us with well known logos. It was great fun and we did really well at identifying them. Then it was our turn to create our own logo for Tig Tag. We all drew our ideas on a paper and had a vote using pom poms.

Monica’s design won.

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This week we began making our gift tags, we had different jobs to do. P1 were stamping out little Christmas designs for us to stick onto our gift tags, P2/3 were drawing Christmas tags – we have stars, baubles, Christmas trees, scalloped edged tags and regular rectangle tags. P3/4 were cutting these out. Next week we hope to begin decorating these tags.