P5/6 have been keeping fit running our daily mile as a Pilgrimage every week.
P5/6 Specialist Music Lessons
P5/6A have been extremely lucky to be involved in some super music lessons where they will learn to play an instrument in an up and coming concert.
This week some of us tried out the trombone. Each week a different group will try out a different instrument.
Great photos Charley, our photographer this week.
Titanic Cake
P6M were given a rather interesting treat made by Findlay yesterday. The Titanic cake was delicious! Thanks Findlay!
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!
Teamwork
P2R/D working co-operatively to complete a rainforest jigsaw.
Will it sink or will it float?
This week at Science Club we were learning about why some objects sink in water and why other objects float. As a starter, we watched a SGI version of the Titanic ship sinking and why one side of the ship started sinking first . We carried out a class experiment and made predictions if the objects would float or sink.
The children then had to work in teams or individually to create their own floating device. Here you can see the children hard at work!
We had lots of fun finding if our creation could float! We all made predictions first and we all enjoyed being right.
The Science Club members were very proud of their creations and wanted you see them too!
I hope everyone enjoys the holiday and we will start back for more fun on Tuesday 20th February.
Miss Farley
Pneumatic and Hydraulic Workshop In P5/6
P5/6 had a fantastic Science workshop led by Mrs Sherard from SERC.
We learned about pneumatic and hydraulics in a practical, fun way. It taught us a lot more about solids, liquids and gases.
We tested compressing solids, liquids and gasses.
Then we made an tested a simple pneumatic system.
We added water to our system to make a hydraulic system which we had to bleed and test.
Mrs Sherard showed us a model bat whose mouth opened and closed with a simple pneumatic system.
We each got our own materials to design and make our own models.
These are Mrs Sherard’s examples we will post ours when they are fully designed.
P5/6 Fantastic Homework!
P5/6 have produced some amazing homework based on their Titanic topic.
Bailey and Ryan had a quick draw Titanic lesson to win a prize.
Orla prepared the most amazing Iceberg cupcakes to decorate in class.
Mrs Abraham really enjoyed eating her cake!
We had to put cream icing on top of a lovely homemade cake.
Then we shaped and placed blue icing on top for the sea.
We then used a tool to cut white icing into an iceberg shape to place on top of the sea.
Lovely!!!
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….
