On Friday 3rd November Primary 6 visited the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh as a follow up to last week’s school visit. In groups, the children were taken on a very interesting guided tour of the Parliament building, saw where our MSPs go about their daily business and were allowed to visit the Debating Chamber!

Afterwards the children visited The National Museum of Scotland where they participated in a Jacobite workshop and visited the Bonnie Prince Charlie & the Jacobites exhibition. This exhibition had more than 300 spectacular objects including paintings, costumes, jewellery, documents and weapons from the Jacobite period. This gave the children a taster of what is to come next term! It was a fantastic day out. Thank you so much to our parents who gave up their time to accompany us!

Following on from our ‘Body Systems’ topic last term, P6G have been demonstrating their knowledge of different body parts and how they can be worked into a fitness programme. In groups, the children have designed their own fitness circuits and are taking it in turns to lead P.E. lessons. Some photos of today’s session follow!

Today Primary 6 were visited by Mrs Millar, an Education Officer for the Scottish Parliament.

We found out lots of useful information about the Scottish Parliament and how it works. We took part in voting, using Click-a-pads, participated in a mini-election that was won by the Schools Party, and debated the motion: Smoking should be banned. We learned lots and now we are ready for our visit to the Parliament next week!

Last month, Primary 6G took part in an afternoon of workshops along with P6T and P5/6S to improve their understanding of how the human body works. Mr Hill, Mr Munro and Mr Port visited us from the Science department at Dunblane High School, and allowed the children to take part in a range of activities on the digestive and respiratory systems, and the workings of the human eye. Everybody had great fun and learned lots!

This afternoon Primary 6G were visited by Tina Stewart who told them all about the workings of the human brain. The children were given the opportunity to work their way round several activities that showed them how the different parts of the brain are linked to our senses so we know what is going on in the world around us. It was great fun!