Yesterday Primary 1 & 2 had a visit from the Generation Science Team who presented the topic, “Ready, Teddy, Go”, where the children found out all about forces from the bears, Isaac and Newton.
The children participated in activities where they demonstrated pushing and pulling, gravity, floating and sinking and friction. They were engaged in experiments where they were encouraged to predict the results just like real scientists!!
In the run up to World Book Day ASD1 have been looking at the story of “Alice in Wonderland”. This book was written in Victorian times, which fits in beautifully with our IDL context. This week we have used ICT to research the book and its author, made a Mad Hatter style hat and coloured in characters from the book for our door display.
On Friday we joined a “Where’s Wally?” search with Miss Cleland and other pupils from various classes before coming back to class to make sandwiches, complete some Alice themed activity sheets and decorated cup cakes all ready for our Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.
This was fun! We put on our hats (or ears) and then enjoyed all the food we had made – there wasn’t any to take home!
Pupils from Primary 3 and ASD1 enjoyed a visit from Generation Science on 28th February.
The title of our workshop was “Get Fizzy” and we were using a combination of liquids (“Sloshy liquids”) and solids (“Tough Solids”) to make a gas (“Gas that goes everywhere”).
First of all we learned how to identify a solid, a liquid and a gas and then we tried to decide which category familiar objects fit into.
Then we were shown the equipment we would use and our safety equipment – the pupils all wore a protective apron and goggles to protect their eyes. The pupils worked in pairs and took turns at measuring out different liquids or solids and mixing these in different combinations to see which had the best chemical reaction – the BEST FIZZ! Once we had discovered the best combination we were allowed to try the experiment again on a bigger scale, which made a bigger fizz.
Finally the people from Generation Science made the biggest fizz of all using some special chemicals – we could only watch this and they used a safety screen to stop the class from getting messy. This was a fun start to our day and we can’t wait to carry out more experiments soon.
Here are a selection of pictures from the Burns assembly. I am sure you will agree each class did amazing with their performances. We would like to say a huge congratulations once again to all our poetry recital competition winners. You all did a fantastic job.
Primary 1 enjoyed their first Smiley Miler session today where their fitness was tested by undertaking a variety of physical activities.
All children received their workbooks and pedometers and are now encouraged to engage in sport and activity which will help to improve their fitness and general health and well being.
We are extremely lucky to have been given this opportunity and we look forward to reaping the benefits!!
Today the children in Primary 3/4 enjoyed a visit from the National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCOS) who came in to take a singing games workshop. The children were learning through the songs and games all about beat, rhythm and pitch. Here are some pictures of us having fun!
The children in Primary 1 completed their second term in school by impressing their parents and carers with a very successful Nativity performance of, “Jesus’ Christmas Party”, which was enjoyed by all. The pupils in Primaries 1 and 2 had lots of fun at their Christmas party where there was dancing, games, party treats and a very special visitor!
After working hard all week I am sure you will all agree that the children did a fantastic job with helping to create today’s presentation. From the voice recordings to the amazing display it all looked wonderful. I feel that the John Muir experience has really impacted on the children in a really positive way and I hope it will be something that they can look back on with fond memories. I have had to take the video files out of the power point as it was too large to upload.
Pupils from P3/4, ASD1 and ASD2 performed some Christmas songs during the Nativity Concert on Tuesday 13th December. This Christmas Choir was also videoed for the West Lothian YouTube channel that morning so please check out the enthusiastic singing of the pupils on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJeCBrWSNcs
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
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