Well done to my stars of P5C. You were all amazing tonight and I could not be more proud of each and every one of you.
You all worked hard and rose to the challenge.
Enjoy your snow day. See you all on Thursday.
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School closed: Have fun in the snow and the cold.
SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS/SNOW SCULPTURES
Looking for something to do in the cold weather and snow?
Creating a frozen bubble:
Find an area that is sheltered from the wind. Even the slightest breeze will carry your bubble.
Blow the bubbles high in the air so that as they float to the ground they have time to freeze.
Depending on your temperature/weather ~ it can take anywhere from a few seconds to a few moments for the bubbles to freeze and start forming crystalline patterns.
Try blowing bubbles early in the morning or in the evening. This is the colder part of the day and will help your bubbles stay frozen.
Wave your wand instead of blowing into the wand to make bubbles. The warm air from your lungs causes the bubble to take longer to freeze.
Keep trying and see how it goes!
Snow Volcano Science
Snow Volcano
Materials
A cup or plastic bottle
Baking soda
Vinegar
Food colouring (if colour is desired)
Method
To make a snow volcano you will first need snow. Take a plastic cup and set it on the ground in the snow. Then, pile snow up and around the cup to form “the volcano”.
Once the volcano is formed add baking soda and food colouring to the cup which is now acting as the volcanoes core.Now, it is time to make it erupt! Pour in vinegar and then step back.
Or make some Disney snow sculptures for fun……….
Take a photograph to record your attempts!
The Latest in P4/5K
Over the past week the class have continued their Health and Wellbeing investigations on heart rate. By attaching their finger to a sensor machine, built by Mr Grant, and viewing the results on a computer screen the children could see what their resting heart rate was. This sensor reading eliminates the errors that can occur when trying to take your own or another person’s pulse.
Our topic lessons saw the children working in their groups to design a logo, a company name and a poster to advertise their forthcoming short animation films. Filming shall begin this week as the scripts are now complete and the role each member shall play allocated.
Think Dance Rehearsal.
Just to let you all know that the children will be going to the MacRobert Theatre on Tuesday for a dress rehearsal.
We should be back in school in time for lunch. However, there is a chance we may be late back.
Could you please make sure your child has a packed lunch on Tuesday. If they are a school dinner I will ensure we provide a packed lunch for them.
Thank you.
Mrs Calway
P5C – Think Dance
Just a wee reminder to let you know our Think Dance performance is on Tuesday 27th February at the MacRobert Theatre.
The children have to be at the MacRobert for 6.30pm where they will be met by a member of Active Stirling. I will also be at the theatre.
I have a parent who has 4 extra tickets for anyone who may have been too late to purchase any. Please let me know if you are interested in the tickets.
The children have been working very hard on their performance and are really looking forward to sharing it with you.
Mrs Calway
Cross Country Results
Congratulations again to all who participated in the races on Tuesday 6th February.
Here are your race times:
P7 Girls Time
634 Kara O Neill St Mary’s (RC) 9.53
633 Sophie Murphy St Mary’s (RC) 10.44
635 Aliyah Rashid St Mary’s (RC) 11.56
P7Boys
490 David Goodbrand St Mary’s (RC) 6.56
491 Charlie Gray St Mary’s (RC) 6.57
489 Zak Abernethy St Mary’s (RC) 7.35
661 Ian Fletcher St Mary’s (RC) 7.55
492 Lewis McLuskey St Mary’s (RC) 8.21
493 Shaun Menzies St Mary’s (RC) 11.31
P6 Girls
295 Bailey Cooper St Mary’s (RC) 8.16
297 Carmen McKeown St Mary’s (RC) 8.44
296 Lara McIntosh St Mary’s (RC) 9.11
P6 Boys
659 Ruairaidh Docherty St Mary’s (RC) 6.5
145 Connell O Hare St Mary’s (RC) 10.12
What’s been happening in P5C?
We had fun making our Thaumatropes as part of our Disney & Animation Topic.
We designed and created Disney Fact Files for our display.
We enjoy our active comprehension lessons using working collaboratively and co-operatively with our group.
We are really enjoying the new songs with actions we are learning with Mr Orr and Mrs Barratt.
We had fun using the i-Pads during our active maths lesson. We played halving games and decimal games. 
Mollie and Matthew were our recent Stars of the Week.
Well done to both of you. 
The tickets for Think Dance are now on sale and can be purchased from the MacRobert Arts Centre.
Enjoy your February break!
Cross Country February 2018
14 children from P6 and P7 participated in the Cross Country School Championships that were held at Bannockburn High on Tuesday 6th February.
We are currently awaiting the results. Watch this space….
SCLINGOSHORTS
Over the next 10 weeks P7H will be taking part in a very exciting project called SCLINGOSHORTS. This project will help the pupils to develop their understanding of French language and culture in a very interesting and unique way. The pupils will work on creating their own French animation and also designing a pupils friendly website which will help other pupils with their language learning.
On Friday, the pupils were joined by Rory, Miriam and Naomi for their first session. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed this session where they worked on sound and recording with Rory, animation with Miriam and experienced story telling with Naomi. The pupils also worked to evaluate an existing language website to help them to generate ideas for their own webpage.
They are already very excited for the next session.
Pope Francis Group Leading the Way
This morning, the Pope Francis Group took their ‘wee buddies’ from P2R along to Mass. During the sermon, Canon Mike linked the responsibilities the Pope Francis children have in a likeness to God. These children are leading the way and protecting others around them, just as God does with us.
Well done Pope Francis children!
