Today we had our second Pupil Council Meeting. Our main focus was on how to keep the cloakroom areas tidy. We then set about making posters that will go up in the cloakrooms and will share this information with our classes tomorrow. We are going to award Golden Tokens to the tidiest cloakrooms when we do spot checks. It is important to keep our cloakrooms tidy to keep everyone safe, to help us not lose our belongings and to keep our school looking great.
Greenrigg Reporter’s Club met this week and updated the news wall outside the dining hall. Please take a peep and catch up with all the weekly news in Greenrigg Primary School.
As part of their work on Armistice Day, Â pupils in P7/6 wrote poems about remembering. Here is Adam’s very powerful poem which he shared at their assembly.
Primary 6/7 enjoyed our first of four collaboration days with Stoneyburn. We are learning about energy and energy sources. We completed two STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) challenges. We had great fun creating puff cars to race and then pin windmills. Both of these we found out use wind energy.
well done Primary 6/7 on your remembrance assembly. We were all very proud of you. You carried out your service with great respect and sang so beautifully.
Today we took part in a stem challenge to design and build a building that could survive an earthquake.
We were only allowed to use:
Our buildings had to be at least a ruler tall.
We had 20 minutes to plan our design and talk about what we would like to do I n our teams of 3.
Once we had planned, we started building our earthquake proof buildings.
We worked really hard to make sure our buildings would survive.
“We had to think of a way to join it to the cardboard. We used pins to secure it” – Â Bryoni
” We joined the straws together using paper clips ” – Jayden
Some of our buildings didn’t meet the criteria so we couldn’t see if they would survive an earthquake.
The winning building that survived the earthquake, which was Miss Cooke, was Rebecca, Jamie and Ryan.
Today Primary 6 from Greenrigg went to Stoneyburn Primary to work with the Primary 6s. Our transition topic this year is “Bridges”.
First of all we researched the 3 bridges that cross the Firth of Forth.
They are:
We discussed what we would like to find out about each bridge.
We formed groups of 3 and got started using the Internet to find out the answers.
We produced a poster to share our information with others.
In the afternoon we took part in a stem challenge. We had to design a bridge which was at least the length of a ruler and could hold the weight of a hole punch. We could only use art straws and elastic bands.
We all had different designs and different ways to make sure the hole punch could be held on the bridge. Some of our bridges were successful and some were not.
We debriefed the challenge at the end and came up with our next steps for our bridge building challenge.
We can’t wait until the next transition day after Christmas.
Miss Tuke gave P2 a challenge to build the highest tower using cups. We had fun working together in groups to build the tallest tower we could. Lily-Ann came up with the idea of using two cups on the bottom level to give more support. Well done Lily-Ann!
