Royal teas

As were sure you know the royal wedding is happening on Saturday 19th. Unfortunately we could not attend so we decided to have our own royal tea party. We invited parents and dressed up fancy! More photos to follow.

by Finn, Eldars and Liam

 

Bird Calls and Worm Charming

Yesterday we had a visit from Natalie and Karen from the RSPB. we did some bird calling games where we heard the bird calls and ran to a corner and if we got it right we got a chocolate bird egg . The poor chocolate birds had their eggs stolen.

After our game we tried some worm charming copying a curlew. By patting the floor the worms would think its raining and come up. We only found half a worm and 2 beetles. We tried again in the field and with more luck we found lots more worms.

by Alisers, Megan and Alice

Rock pools

Yesterday we had a visit from Natalie and Karen from RSPB and we went rock pooling. We found crabs, starfish, and lots of  interesting things.

By Vanja, Eldars and Sophie

Food webs

 

It was RSPB day so we decided to go down to Bousta Beach. We made food webs to learn about the rockpool ecosystem and learned about the tide with a clay cookie, an orange and a pickled onion.

by Liam, Finn and Simone.

 

Westside Sports

Megan, Alisers, Eldars and Simone had great fun representing the school at the Westside Sports Day where they got to try lots of different events!

The Five Kingdoms

As part of our learning on plants, animals and ecosystems, yesterday we were learning about the five kingdoms! We found out that these are:

  • animals
  • plants
  • fungi
  • prokaryotes
  • protoctista.

Here are some things we found out:

Alisers – Fungi is the biggest in our ecosystem!

Liam – the prokaryote kingdom includes bacteria

Megan – Animals are one of the most complicated organisms

Sophie – Humans are included in the animal kingdom

Alice – Trees and plants make oxygen and feed themselves through photosynthesis

Vanja – The animal kingdom is full of different animal species

Eldars – Some animals help grass to grow by fertilising it

Finn – All the kingdoms make up an ecosystem

Simone – We went outside and around the school looking for organisims from the five kingdoms. We found plants, animals and fungi.

Can you guess which kingdom these are from??

Frogspawn fun!

A few weeks ago, Miss McIntyre woke up to find lots of frogs in her pond. They had laid lots of spawn which we have been enjoying having in class. We’ve been able to watch as the frogspawn has hatched into tadpoles and are looking forward to seeing them change into froglets!

Megan and Simone do Edinburgh!

Day 1 – Off the boat and Tesco Dundee, Blair Drummond and Toby’s Carvery before checking in to the hostel!

Day 2 – Scottish Parliament, Camera Obscura, Dynamic Earth, Mr Basrai’s for dinner and 10 pin bowling!

Day 3 – Butterfly and Insect World, Bannockburn and Cosmos, followed by Mary King’s Close

Day 4 – travelled back to Aberdeen via Discovery in Dundee and SHOPPING

 

by Megan and Simone

Last day of term!

What a super last day we have had! First, a visit from the Walls Brownies Up Helly Aa squad, our Easter Service and a visit from the Play Van!

Brilliant Bowls

For the past four weeks, P4-7 have enjoyed taking part in Bowls sessions with John and Jean Jarmson. On Wednesday the winning teams – Megan, Simon, Eldars and Vanja, went to Lerwick to take part in the Primary Schools Bowls Competition where they represented the school brilliantly!