We learned why Remembrance is important and created our own poppy art using our creative meta-skills.   The art works, using oil pastels, are beautiful!

We are learning to explore core programming language concepts.   We created our own sequence of code and downloaded that onto micro-bits and created flashing hearts.  We used our curiosity and critical thinking meta skills. This was a popular activity and all the children succeeded in creating a code sequence.  We shall be re-visiting micro-bits soon.

As part of our Living Things topic work in Term 1, we planned a visit to a local burn to look for living creatures.  We enjoyed a ‘hock’ in  the burn today.  We found some creatures, including snails, caterpillars and tiny insects.  We found an eel on the banks of the burn, but couldn’t revive it, sadly.  We focused on our collaborating and curiosity meta skills.  We had fun!

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We welcomed the Glasgow Science Fair with their ‘Castles Rock’ activities.  We learned about life in a castle and did some C.S.I. as part of our groupwork.  We investigated various things including the identification of male and female skeletons, what the individuals ate, which weapons were used, what was their diet, where did they come from in the U.K as well as using our numeracy skills to calculate the height of the male and female we were investigating.  We focused on our collaborating, curiosity and sense-making meta skills.  We had a lot of fun! Thank you to Aileen and David for coming along to visit our school!

Following on from our recent trip to Taing House, the day-care service users have been making lovely crafted pumpkins for the P5 class as a thank you for visiting them.  What a lovely surprise!  We’re planning more visits in the future.

To celebrate Wool Week, we worked together to make our own friendship bracelets.  We used our collaborative and creative meta skills.  We had fun!

We’re studying 2D shape this term and took the opportunity to head outdoors to look for parallel lines in the school grounds.  We worked in groups, using our collaborative meta skills.  We found lots of things with parallel lines.

As part of our Living Things topic, we headed outdoors to the wildlife area to look for insects and different types of plants.  We used our curiosity and collaborating meta skills.  We found lots of living things, including  worms, spiders and moths.  It was fun!

We visited Taing House Day Care on Friday.  We were invited along to make garden ornaments with the service users.  We chose our equipment and created our own tin person.  We met new people and family members and enjoyed juice and biscuits too!  We focused on our communication and creativity meta skills.  It was fun!  As a thank you, we wrote letters to Mrs Friedlander and her team.  We’ve been invited back, hopefully leading up to Christmas time.  We’re looking forward to that.