We carried out lots of practical science activities with Mr Rose today. We made timers work by using lemon power – the acid in individual lemons gave up to almost 1 volt. We powered LEDs and clocks and it was really interesting to make up different circuits. Some of us joined up lemons 🍋 to make the circuits more powerful.
We have been building up to SMUHA for a couple of weeks, with lots of time spent on maakin, preparing props, making up sketches and practising songs.
Friday was a perfect day and the Norse gods made sure we had perfect weather for the procession. Our guiser jarl Truncherface AKA Calum Mackay, and his fantastic Trowie squad led the procession well and all the other bairns sang and roared impressively! John and the galley boys had made another excellent galley and the burning was great to watch.
Back in the hall after break, we were treated to some very funny acts and finally the squad came in to sing their songs.
In the afternoon we were treated to some drumming with Joy and Emily playing her fiddle. The jarl squad looked fantastic when they arrived and it was great to go into the playground to see their galley.
It was a really super day in school and we hope that you had fun in the evening.
On Monday we had fun looking at ‘electric eels’ and finding out about electric charges.
The Primary 6/7s were enjoying the new carpet that we came back to, after the long weekend. The girls wanted to do our lessons on the floor😄
Primary 6 have had a super morning visiting Quendale Farm. We spent an hour in the lambing shed, learning about the Suffolk ewes and their lambs. There were also five calves in a pen too.
We learnt about the whole lambing year. We can recognise a ewe that is about to lamb and we had a go using the simulator to help a birth a lamb.
A big thank you 😊 to Hillary and her staff for a really interesting trip.
Today we had another really interesting visit from the SSPCA. We took part in an interactive whiteboard quiz all about helping and rescuing animals and what we could do if we saw any animals in trouble. We played a game of snakes and ladders with lots of interesting questions to answer. It was a great way to learn about helping animals.
These are our posters to tell Mrs Williamson all about us, what we like to do and about our school. They are now up and displayed in the P6/7 activity area. They look great and show what a range of interests and skills we have. They all show how proud we are of our Eco-flags and the work we do in school.
In class we have been looking at phones and how the technology has changed over time. We have been making posters to demonstrate this.
We have also sent home questionnaires to find out what our parents and families think about mobile phone technology. The answers we have received back have been great to discuss and will feed into our planned debate later in the week. We have also researched various arguments for and against mobile phones in preparation for our debate.
We are finding out about the pros and cons of children using mobile phones. Tomorrow we will be putting these ideas together to have debates, it will be interesting to hear what everyone thinks.
On Monday 20 th February, Mr Rose came in to start the science topic about Electricity and Magnetism.
We revised magnetism facts and used magnets to learn about attraction and repulsion and the Earth’s magnetic field. Mr Rose showed us what magnetic fields look like by using iron filings.
