We have been being busy like Cassie Communicator this week in P1h.  We have been learning about the life cycles of frog, butterfly and plants.   To learn the stages for each of the life cycles we watched a video.  We then in small groups decided on how we would display the main steps in the life cycle.  We all used our printing skills, that we have been practicing in art, and had to write the labels.

One group was sligthly different, in Health and Well being we are thinking about healthy eating.  We read the story of ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’.  This group started our display by showing what the caterpillar.

We would love to show our  families the displays at our Shared Start on 26.05.15.

We have had a very busy week learning more about the farm. On Monday we had a visit from Caitlin’s brother who works on a dairy farm. He brought down his huge tractor to show us. He told us about all the different parts of the tractor and what it is used for.

On Wednesday we went on a trip to Mill Farm. We had a fantastic day. We started off by looking round the visitors centre and we got to see what it would be like to go into a real mine and then we went to the machinery barn. There were lots of different farm machinery which they used to use on the farm. Afterwards we split into our three groups and we went around the farm. We went to see all the different animals. We saw goats, cows, donkeys, chickens and geese. We also seen a pig who was trying to lose weight. We had a talk in the wartime garden where a lady told us all about growing vegetables. We learned how to make compost and how important worms are for the soil.

After lunch we went to play in an indoor play barn which was great fun. Then we headed over to the outdoor play area where we got to play on the trampolines, the jelly belly, go-karts and dig for fossils!

Before we went home we got to go for a tractor ride around the farm.

We had a fantastic day!

Right to an education: Article 28

Awards:

Class Dojo: Mya

Pupil of the Week: Robbie

Another busy week in P5m…..

Here are some things we’ve been learning…

I’ve learned how to multiply by a single digit in decimals and how to play The German Tune on the double base. Lexis

I learned how to dribble with a hockey stick. Ella, Scott, Madeleine & Roan

I learned how to solve a decimal puzzle. Gemma B

I learned about fractions with Mrs Drummond. Ellie

I have learned what similes are. Cameron M

I learned how the world was created! Sarah

I learned my 7 times tables off by heart! Jane

I learned how to multiply single digit decimal numbers. Ben

I have learned how scientists believe the world began. Declan

We also learned about seed dispersal and the ‘Fight for Survival’.

Here are some photos from our dispersal experiment.

We used our knowledge of recording data to record the number of seeds on a tally chart and then displayed the information on a bar chart!

And some news from outside school…..

Kiera H’s guinea pig fell on his back and got a fright!! Oh no, poor piggie!

Annie learned how to do a back walkover on a beam in gymnastics! Wow!

Olivia learned how to do a cartwheel back tuck of the beam in gymnastics! Wow!

Have a great weekend! Remember 10 gem points for everyone who comments on the blog!!

We have had a busy week in 6H with lots of learning happening.

The week started with our Sports Elective at the Sports Centre.  We have seen our skills improve whatever sport we  chose, and are sad that there are only two weeks left. In Health & Wellbeing we started learning about how our bodies change in puberty and what that will mean for us.

In other news, Joe won our float design competition and is currently munching his way through his prize!

Joe – My heart was pounding and I was like YES!

Sophie B learned a lot of new skills in Art this week.

Sophie – I learned how to use different line and shading techniques.

Ava – I liked learning new drawing skills.

While Josh learned about negative numbers in maths.

Josh – It was fun figuring out the answers.

Jordan – I liked subtracting negative numbers – it’s like you are almost counting backwards in a weird way!

Lily – Learning about millilitres in maths helped me make my potion in science!

We have also been reading Harry Potter as our class novel and using this to help us learn right across the curriculum.

This has been a busy week in P5d.

We had the second of our rugby taster sessions and were invited along to the sports centre to learn how to play short tennis. Here are some of our comments and pictures….

Aaron – in our P.E. lessons with Mr Jeffries we have learned about quick reflexes and we had to use quick reflexes at the short tennis. We also had to use what we have learned about balance and agility to help us.

Viggo – I could see that the things I have learned with Mr Jeffries helped me to play short tennis.

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We have been learning about evolution, different species and habitats this week. We are creating a new species and building a habitat for it then we will take all this information and create a fact file about our new species. Pictures will follow over the next couple of weeks.

We are also watching caterpillars develop into butterflies. Our caterpillars are now at the chrysalis stage and will be transferred to their butterfly home on Monday to complete the change into a butterfly.

James – We have watched the caterpillars shed their exoskeletons …..it was very interesting to watch.

To help us with our next writing piece we have been learning about personification –

Aidan – The old boat crawled across the waves.

Emma – The sun glared down on me.

Daniel – The black car screamed along the road.

Brooke – The waves ate the boat.

Have a great weekend……5 weeks to go !!!

On Monday we had a visitor from the Health department of West Lothian Council who taught us about what’s in the drinks we drink:

Lauren C: “We learned that caffeine is a drug which takes calcium out of your bones and people think it makes you energetic but it just makes you hyper.”

Finlay: “Caffeine can be found in coffee and almost all types of sugary drinks. Out of Irn Bru, Coke and Pepsi, Irn Bru has the most caffeine. We learned that caffeine dehydrates your body as you need to go to the toilet more often.”

Jack: “I learned that energy drinks have lots of caffeine and some of them I didn’t know had that in them.”

William: “We learned there is lots of sugar in energy drinks and other fizzy juices.”

Paul: “There are 9 teaspoons of sugar in a 330ml can of Coke or Pepsi! It also costs a lot of money. A cheaper alternative is to drink water!”

Flyn: “Energy drinks like Relentless and Rockstar can have up to as much as sixteen teaspoons of sugar in them!”

Callum: “That much sugar is bad for you because it will rot your teeth and it isn’t the best type of energy because our body uses it too quickly. We get better energy from carbohydrates like potatoes and pasta which release sugar slowly.”

 On Wednesday we had the second visit from the Tobacco Education department. Here’s what we learned:

Chloe: “We learned that smoking can damage your lungs. We saw that it can turn your lungs black.”

Jay: “We did an experiment using a bottle with a little water in it to represent someone’s lungs. We attached a cigarette at the top of the bottle which symbolised the mouth…”

William: “We squeezed the bottle to symbolise the lungs smoking the cigarette. Afterwards we saw that the filter doesn’t filter very much…”

Olivia: “Because the water went all yellow because of the tar. The cotton bud went yellow as well and this symbolises the damage done to the cilia (little hairs on your tongue and nose) by the cigarette.”

Paul: “We looked at the chemicals inside a cigarette. There is trace amounts of poo, bleach, nail polish remover, fertiliser, formaldehyde, ammonia and over four thousand others!”

Who has impressed?

Finlay: “P2m impressed me by doing very well with their assembly this morning.”

Flyn: “I’m impressed with myself, Kendal and Harry for getting onto step 5 this week.”

Jay: “I’m impressed with my care class (p4m) because they are remembering to sign up for their lunches in the morning.”

Flyn: “I’m impressed with the football for being unbeaten at the football festival and having two wins and two draws.”

Antonia: “I’m impressed with Lauren K for getting 80 out of 80 in Big Maths Beat That.”

Harry: “Taylor impressed me by being one of the winners of the Frozen art competition. She drew a fabulous picture of Olaf.”

Mr Berginis: “I’m impressed with the high standard of debate the class had about a potential smoking ban when they were working with Mrs Waddell on Thursday. They wrote very detailed discursive essays which I enjoyed reading.”