Category Archives: Numeracy

Rock Cakes with P5-7

On the Tuesday 12th February 2019 we made WW2 rock cake recipe. We used apple puree instead of eggs as they did not have them in WW2 because they were rationed. We did it because we were learning about rationing.

Rock cakes recipe

8 oz plain flour
3 oz lard or dairy free margarine
1tsp baking powder
1tsp lemon extract/vanilla extract or a pinch of cinnamon
3 oz raisins
2 oz light brown sugar
3 tsp apple puree and 1 and a half teaspoons of baking powder ( to Replace the egg)
pinch salt
milk to mix dough
preheat oven to 170c

mix till bread crumb consistency.

Then add milk.

Dollop on to grease proof paper.

Bake for 12-15 till golden and lovely and enjoy!

By Alisers, Alice, Finn & Megan

We Love Experiments

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Primary 5-7 have enjoyed taking part in lots of different experiments over the past couple of weeks as part of our Human Body topic. We have been learning to write lab reports at the same time and have found ourselves to be excellent scientists!

We took part in the BBC Terrific Scientific Taste experiment to find out about taste buds. We found that everyone has a different number of taste buds which determines whether we are tasters, non-tasters or supertasters!

We also did another experiment to find out about how exercise affects our heart rate. We had to come up with a hypothesis before testing it out to see what happens. The more vigorous the exercise, the higher our heart rate. Some of us found it quite tricky to keep up with how fast our hearts were going!

Times Table Challenge

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We all enjoyed learning a new times table game this week – using arrays. We worked well with our partners – maths is fun!

Healthy Baking

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We all did some healthy baking with Mrs Holden and Miss McIntyre. Everyone enjoyed it. One group did raspberry cupcakes.The other group did parsnip and pistachio nuts.(It was meant to be pecans instead of pistachio nuts)

by Alice, Liam and Sophie

Measuring the playground

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We’ve been learning about measurement in numeracy. To finish off the topic, we worked out the perimeter of the multicourt and playground – it was lots of fun. We also worked out that we would need to walk around the grounds 6 times to complete a mile!