October 9, 2018
by Bobby
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On Friday we had a coffee morning we made some scones and shortbread. Every class baked for it. We were raising money for mind your head and the NSPCC. Our parents came in. First we had coffee and cake then we showed them our classroom. We raised just under £300.00.
October 9, 2018
by Arrianne
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A few weeks ago an author called Andy Stanton, who is the author of the Mr Gum books, came in to visit our school .He talked about how he came up with the idea Mr gum. He was incredibly funny and he made us all laugh. After he had spoken to us for a little while, we were then allowed to buy his books and some children got them signed as well.
October 9, 2018
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In the past few weeks we have been doing some exciting things with the primary 1s in buddying.
One of the activities we did was building a marble run with Lego . The p1s had to think about making a stable structure and making a run that the marble could travel through.
They all made brilliant marble runs that worked really well.
This week was a crafty week. Each P1 had there own piece of A3 paper. They could paint, stick, or draw things on the piece of paper with there P7 buddies. All the P1s made their piece unique and every one of them made a brilliant picture.
By Holly and Josh.
October 9, 2018
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We have been learning about growth mindset and fixed mindset. It is not good to have a fixed mindset because that means you think you can’t do it. But it’s very good to have a growth mind set so you think you can do something. We have made growth mindset heroes with our own quotes. We also made a big learning pit showing how you can succeed. We baked for the whole school coffee morning to raise money for mental health.
By Jack and Lewis
October 9, 2018
by Ava Tait
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Last Monday a lady called Heather from the NSPCC to talk to us about the different types of abuse. There was 5 of abuse. She had a mascot called Buddy and he was in the shape of a speech bubble because his message is speak out and stay safe. We had an assembly with the P5/6 class in their classroom then we went into our classroom and did some activities. The first one was that there were 4 pictures on the board when Heather tapped on them, then a question would pop up and the groups would discuss it then we would put there thumbs up, down or in the middle.   I think everyone loved the visit from Heather and she spread the message to all of us. Thank you Heather and the NSPCC!
October 3, 2018
by Bobby
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My Friend Selma is a one person preformance. It is set in Bosnia Hergzovina. Selma’s sister is sick there is war on Selma and her family come to the UK to get help. They stay in a huge building and Selma makes friends with the owner of the buildings daughter. Selma’s sister gets better and Selma makes friends.
The twist at the end was that it was a true story and the lady that was acting was the owner of the buildings daughter.
September 26, 2018
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The children were given an optional homework task over the past couple of weeks. They used their creativity skills to create something associated with flight. It was very open ended and they were encouraged to work with others at home to help them. I am amazed at what they have achieved. From hot air balloons to dragons, drones to bats, birds and bees, planes to dragonflies, each one very unique and individual. Lots of hard work, great ideas and imagination! Well done Primary 6/7!
September 21, 2018
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Today 12 pupils from Whiteness P6/7 went to the STEM event in the Museum! We put together a little presentation to present to the judges. Before the judging we did some activities to do with STEM. We had five minutes at each activity. On one of tables was a pile of cards and we had to make jumping frogs and some people found this one difficult. On another table was a bag of blocks and we had to make a bridge. After the fun activities we had lunch followed by a talk from a man called Andrew Murdoch who works at the gas plant. Afterwards they presented the awards. Whiteness came first for the presentations and Cunningsburgh came first for the activities!! In total there were 11 teams. We received a trophy and £100 to spend on STEM supplies for the school. We all very proud.
By Kaysha
September 17, 2018
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Today we cut out some strips of paper that had dots and numbers on them as guidelines. Soon after we followed the video on the Murderous Maths website to make a Triflexagon.
A lot of people during the task became a bit frustrated because it was quite hard and fiddly. Even though the task was really hard we realised we had to have a growth mindset. Some people were saying “I give up”, “this is impossible”, “I can’t do this”. But in the end every single person managed to finish it.
Written by a mixture of people from P6/7
“I felt helpful because I managed it and could help others.” Imogen
“I felt successful because I finally got it after lots of tries.” Bobby
“I felt really proud when I finally got it and then I realised that I can’t always get things straight away.” Holly
“I felt like I had just come out of the learning pit!” Ava
September 13, 2018
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This week we were celebrating maths week with our buddies. We were doing different activities about maths with them. The different activities were log counting, this is were we had logs with dots on them and then they would tell us how many were on each one.
Another activity was were we 3D shapes and we would ask them what the the shapes were a lot of them just said squares and circles but some of them surprised us.
We also were counting out objects with them and putting them to the number.
On another table we had picture frames were they got outdoor things such as sticks, stones and sea glass and then we ask them how much they had on there picture frame.
On another table we had chess boards where they put counters on and also counted the squares and on the next table we had boards with the number 1-100 on it then we got counters with numbers on and they had to match the counter to the number on the board. As well on that table there was cars where they could count how many hearts or spades they are on them.
The last activity was units and tens blocks and what we had to do was we would take a hand full of units and tens and they would count as much of them as they could and then tell us the number. We all enjoyed it lots even though we were doing maths it was still fun.
We loved having the some of the children from Early Years in too.
By Sophie
  
