While the P7s were on their second John Muir day, the P6s had an afternoon of tree planting. Firstly we helped John to plant the Queen’s jubilee trees, then we took some willow cuttings and planted them and finally we potted up some sycamore seedlings to plant next year. Everyone worked very hard and we’re looking forward to seeing another area of woodland grow up
Learning about fractions
Yesterday we looked at equivalent fractions and what makes them equivalent. Today we learnt more about fractions and played fraction games.
Welcome back
It has been lovely to see everyone again. It has been great to have some nice weather too and to start out Enterprise project.Today the weather was so nice that we went outside for reading time and we started our fractions topic by drawing house fraction walls.
Easter chicks!
As an end of term treat, Ms Scanlan brought her newly hatched chicks into school today.
Everyone loved having a chance to hold them. We learnt how to hold them properly and to calm them down, so they were relaxed and their eyes were closing!
Tending the Light Festival of Care 2022
Last week Primary 6/7 took part in the Tending the Light festival of care.
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The class made beautiful lighthouse pictures and mini lighthouses and we had also made battery powered lighthouses.
Here are some photos of all the beautiful art and craft work.
Guitar Duo
For the last two weeks Leighton and Conor have been practising their guitars and they made up this tune. We hope you enjoy it.
LM and CG Guitar
Happy New Year cards from our French penpals
On Monday our new penpal letters arrived. It was very exciting to read them all.
The Winners of the Musical Instrument Contest are…
Today we finally had our musical instrument contest. The criteria was to make an instrument that was creative and could play a recognisable tune. The children have been working on this for a few weeks and there was a fantastic range of ideas.
After a lot of hard decision-making Ms Scanlan thought that Fearne had made an instrument that played the best tune and Fiona, Hannah and Eveline and Isla and Kathryn’s groups had included the most creative ideas. Mrs Henderson came in to see them all and we both thought that everyone had worked really well on the task.
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Term 3
This term we have been learning about Sound, doing lots of investigations and practical science and making instruments. Today we will be looking at all the amazing and creative musical instruments that have been made. Looking forward to hearing them all.
Last Friday we did the RSPB Schools Birdwatch, we had made fat balls and put birdseed out for several weeks. We didn’t see many species – mostly House Sparrows and Starlings, but all the P6/7s were fantastic at using the binoculars and identifying the species. They had also made superb identification posters about all our most common birds.
Welcome back and a Happy New Year
It has been lovely to see everyone back in school this year. Our topic for the first part of this term is Sound. After completing a formative assessment task, where we remembered what we already know about sound, we had a fun afternoon making string telephones and testing how well sound travels through different materials.