During the past couple of weeks we have had lots of fun designing, making and painting our shields as well our Roman Armour. Look out for them at Parent’s Evening.

P.E.

Our teacher always put us through a fast pace warm up which means we are tired out before the main part of the lesson.  We were practising shooting into the basketball net and some of us managed to score a basket unfortunately Mrs Sinclair didn’t.

World Book Day

As you can see from our photos we had lots of different characters in our class today.     Well done P3, you look amazing!

Everyone enjoyed visiting the C.D.T. department at James Young High School on Thursday 26^th February. We learned about the different types of saw- circular saw, jigsaw, band saw. We also learned about how a pillar drill and a belt sander worked. There are lots of different types of wood that you can work with- lime, oak, spruce, birch and pine. You can also work with M.D.F. which stands for medium density fibreboard. This isn’t wood but it is made from sawdust and other things and is mixed and glued together- a bit like mixing tablet. Thanks to Mr MacMillan and Mr Leishman for letting us have a look around the department. We were very lucky to get a souvenir from our visit. We actually watched the laser cutter cut out dinosaurs from a sheet of plastic and were lucky enough to get one each. Thank you very much. We are now looking forward to designing and making our model Viking boats.

Primary 1/2 have had a busy week.  We have been continuing with our castles topic and had a go at working in groups to build a castle using the different construction materials we had (Lego, cubes, wooden blocks etc.).  Once we had finished them we had to test how strong they were.  We decided we would throw a ball at them to see how strong they were, Mrs Thomson managed to knock down quite a few!!!  Our next step is to decide which materials were strongest and see if we can build some that will stand up to Mrs Thomson’s attack!