Primary 7 visited West Lothian College last week and had a great time visiting different departments and talking about higher education with the college students.
They visited the engineering, catering, hair and beauty, sports and mechanics departments and enjoyed taking part in a variety of activities.
Challenge Club restarted today with lots of new excited members!
Our first task was to make geodesic domes using only cocktail sticks and jelly tots! We worked hard to cut the cocktail sticks to size and start to build up our domes. We learnt that geodesic domes are really strong structures made up of interlocking triangles. The pictures show our progress so far!
Primary 7 have had many opportunities this term to learn in a variety of environments. Here are some of our highlights.
We took part in a Dragons’ Den project with West Lothian College. This involved us designing our own products, making prototypes and designing business plans. We also developed our teamwork and presentation skills.
We have also been learning lots of interesting facts about space and our solar system and having interesting debates about the moon landing and life on other planets. Primary 7 also put lots of effort into their homework projects. We had model rockets, planet factfiles, posters, stories and Angeline even made a planet-themed cake! We all really enjoyed eating it! We also had a fantastic trip to Dynamic Earth to learn more about the evolution of our planet.
Lots of P7s also had a fantastic week at camp. They learnt to be more independent and challenge themselves to take part in lots of activities! Some of their favourite activities included rock climbing, abseiling, archery, giant swing and trapeze. The children were very mature and behaved very well for the entire week. They enjoyed eating new foods and sharing rooms with their friends. It was a fantastic week.
Primary 7 have had a great term and we are looking forward to our final term after Easter! Have a lovely holiday!
The P7s had a wonderful time at camp. They took part in lots of exciting activities and really enjoyed working as a team.
Lots of updates to come – here’s a couple of photos to start!
Primary 3/4 and Primary 7 have been working together to develop skills of debating. As a group we all decided that the main skills that we are developing are listening, talking and respecting others ideas
and thoughts.
” We have been having great fun and we love to share our opinion with others.” Angeline said.
Ross said he loved designing and making the clothes for the washing line debate that we will be having next week.
We will keep you posted of how future debates go.
The Scotland Software Trainers, Bob and Marie, visited our class. They showed us how to make songs with Garageband on the Ipads. We have been asked to reconstruct a song from scratch and had to pick between Sam Smith’s ‘Stay With Me’ and Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake It Off’. We can’t wait to let you hear it once it is finished…although this will take us 10 weeks!!!!!
In Topic we have been learning about WW2. This week’s focus was on Hitler and his rise to power. We had to organise a timeline of events. This was quite easy as it had the dates but it was also very interesting.
In art we created imaginary flying insects for the Flower Show competition. They were all colourfully weird!
In science we tested the theory ‘People with longer arms have longer fingers’. We measured everybody in the class, our teachers and our cleaners and plotted our findings on a scatter graph. Our conclusions are different and we decided that we would need to include more people in our survey before we could decide.
