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25 reasons P6 are thankful

We have enjoyed watching Kid President videos as part of our Civil Rights topic. This week it was 25 reasons to thankful so we decided to make our own list!

  1. Being alive
  2. Food
  3. Music
  4. Donuts – Krispy Kreme!
  5. School and teachers
  6. Football, football boots and Ronaldo
  7. Fifa 17
  8. Clean water
  9. Apple phones, Snap chat and Musical-ly
  10. Tacos
  11. The internet
  12. Pizza – especially two for two Tuesdays at Dominoes
  13. Education
  14. Imagination
  15. Shelter
  16. Having Miss Potter as a teacher
  17. Cake
  18. Animals – Especially unicorns
  19. The World!
  20. Pokemon Go
  21. Friends and Family
  22. Martin Luther King for helping to change Civil Rights!
  23. Emmeline Pankhurst and the suffragettes for fighting for equal rights for Women!
  24. Rosa Parks for sitting on a bus!
  25. Having the UNCRC to keep us all happy and safe!

P6 two stars and a wish

This week in P6 we have enjoyed learning more about Civil Rights and have even written our own I Have a Dream speeches. We have continued our art project with Mr Laughlin and have added instruments to our song practice. During Literacy Circles we had an amazing four purple cards given out to Jenna, Rory, Logan and Jake who all created amazing creations for their Creative Captain homework!

Star – Creating our French colourful rainbows.

Star – Writing our own I Have a Dream speeches.

Wish – We wish that next week we behave better and are a happier class with no lost golden time!

 

Two stars and a Civil Rights wish!

Star – We enjoyed our debate with Miss Potter about civil rights, especially when we were talking about the pay difference between female and male professional footballers – it was also interesting to find out that most of the top hair stylists in the world are men!

Star – We really enjoyed making our Votes For Women posters and learning about the Suffragettes.

Wish – We wish we could have met and interviewed Martin Luther King, Emily Pankhurst and Rosa Parks!

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Minecraft in class????

As part of Primary 5’s work on the Scottish Parliament, they took part in a heated debate.  There was a Proposing team, an Opposing team, a Chair person and an audience who voted.  Pupils researched both in school and at home evidence to back up their arguments.  The topic – should Minecraft be used in class?

After both teams had made fantastic, well informed points we went to a vote.  The results overwhelmingly showed that Minecraft should not be used in class.

Well done Primary 5

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P3/2 – Dinosaur Fossils

In Term 3 Primary 3/2 have been learning about dinosaurs.  This week we have been looking at dinosaur fossils, what they are and how they are made.  To develop our understanding of this we recreated how fossils can be made by layering slices of bread (to represent soil, sand, rocks, etc) one of top of the other and inserting a dinosaur shape. We then squashed down each layer as it was put on to show the pressure that layering of soil could do.  We carefully took off each slice and found our fossil shape at the bottom.

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People who help us by p1

For the last few weeks, primary 1 have been visited by a number of people talking about their jobs. First we met Mrs Hepburn who is a dental nurse and she told us all about how to look after our teeth and what her job involves. It was so interesting!IMG_3233 Mrs HepburnThe week after we had a visit from Chloe’s mum who is a paramedic. She and another paramedic showed us all the different tools they use, took some of our heart beats and let us try on some of their outfits. They even brought in an ambulance! It was so much fun and we found out loads!

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We were then lucky enough to have a visit from Oliver’s dad who is a policeman. He came in and told us about his job as part of the traffic police. It was amazing to hear about what he does and see the flashing lights on the car! IMG_3329

Last week we had a visit from Ethan’s mum who is a radiographer. It was so cool to see all the bones on some of the x-rays she brought along! It is so clever that a big camera can see through your skin and into your bones! We learned we have 206 bones in our body! WOW!

 

Thank you all so much for giving us some of your time! We really appreciate it! From P1a and p1b.