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Primary 2, Primary 3, School News

Our week in P3 and P3/2

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Another busy week in P3 and P3/2. Read all about it below.

In numeracy, we have been learning about length.  We have been measuring different objects and lines.  We know that you measure in millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres.  We know that millimetres is the smallest unit of measurement. We measured lots of art straws and tried to create a picture with them.

In literacy, we have been continuing to learn about writing narrative pieces of writing.  This week we wrote about a Pharaoh in a desert. We have also continued to learn about speech marks and when to use them.  We have also been spotting the silly word this week in a passage.

This is health week for us and we have been trying to do the daily mile. We also had a taster session of Judo which was great fun. This week we also thought about things that we are grateful for. Then we worked together to create a poster about what is most important to us in St Nicholas.

In Fun Start Fitness, we were learning about the importance of Water.  We know we need to drink 2 litres a day and that it is the most important resource on earth. We enjoyed playing team games and encouraging each other.

In RERC, we have been learning about the importance of Mary and other names that she is called.

In our Egyptian topic, we started to find out about some of the Egyptian Gods.  We also presented our group posters about the Egyptians to our class.

We are looking forward to our Monday holiday. Thank you for reading our post.

 

Primary 6

Election Week in Primary 6.

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A short week but a busy week in Primary 6 as we completed the final stages of our topic on the government. We finalised our manifestos through some internet research to choose our top three priorities for the future of Scotland. We then prepared our debates and took turns sharing our thoughts under the guidance of our presiding officer who ensured everyone was respectful and did not go over time in their debate.  After the debates everyone in class had the chance to put their vote in the ballot box and the presiding officer counted the votes. With 30% of the votes our new First Minister was from the Conservative party.

We had our second group of children sharing their personal presentations on a topic of their own choice. This week we heard about Concorde, Dolly the Sheep, Marine Animals, Art and the movie Tangled. It was lovely to hear that the Concorde presentation inspired another member of the class to make a visit to the Museum of Flight this weekend.

This week pupils took over the role of leading the Number Talks and encouraging their friends to participate. It is not as easy as it looks!

Primary 6

P6 Final Week Online Learning

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As we look forward to being back in the classrooms on Monday we have continued to develop our skills across the curriculum.

P6 researched and created their own weapons for the Battle of Falkirk. We are feeling more confident about handling emergency situations and discussing colours in Spanish.

We thank Father Jeremy for taking time to send us his presentation on the Stations of the Cross and ended the week think about our wonderful mums in preparation for Mother’s Day on Sunday.

 

Primary 6

Bannockburn and Stirling Castle

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Primary 6 went on an AMAZING trip to Bannockburn and Stirling Castle yesterday.  At Bannockburn there was a lot of really cool things to do : you could explore the battle by looking at the 3D giant screens, we could touch the weapons and armour, and we could interact with digital people who were part of the battle. The Chiltern spears were 12 -15 feet tall. The chain mail was really heavy. We then went into the battle room where we split into the Scottish army and the English army. We then plotted the battle on an interactive map. On this occasion, England won the battle through the use of our strategic commanders. It was named the Battle of the Bowling Club, as that is the building on that piece of land now. The map could change from present day to the landscape of 1314. We also took a walk to the Rotunda and saw the famous statue of Robert the Bruce.

A short journey away and we arrived at Stirling Castle where we spotted another statue of Robert the Bruce and we could see the Wallace Monument in the distance. We were amazed at how narrow the River Forth is at Stirling. We explored a room with a Scottish history timeline and recognised many events from our studies. We then explored the chapel where Mary, Queen of Scots had her coronation as a baby. Next stop was to the Great Hall where we sat on thrones which also incorporated a potty !! We then popped into the Palace and admired the famous Stirling Heads before spending time in the Queen’s Bed Chamber. The Palace staff told us about the history of the Castle and were really funny.

We enjoyed this trip and would highly recommend it to other primary schools.

 

Primary 5, School News

P5

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Since returning from the summer holidays we have been very busy. We have been learning about shale mining in Broxburn and we looked at the Burngrange mining disaster.

Max – the Burngrange disaster happened 71 years ago.

Lucas – the disaster happened in West Calder

Mirin – 15 men lost their lives.

Daniel – one of the men died at the exit to the mine.

Connor – 2 of the men were brothers.

Paula – a giant explosion and fire caused the disaster and parts of the mine to collapse.

We have learned lots of information and created art work, job adverts, PowerPoints, mind maps and newspaper reports all about shale mining and the disaster.

We are now going to be learning about natural disaster.  We can’t wait!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Primary 5, School News

Adventures in Primary 5

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My goodness P5 have had a busy few weeks ! We have been looking at historical aspects of the curriculum through a number of events. We participated in an ‘archaeological dig’ where we discovered various parts of a skeleton and then had to re-construct the formation of the body and complete a tricky calculation to work out the height of the person.

We took a trip to Edinburgh where we saw the various locations that we had been studying in class and even went back in time to meet Mary, Queen of Scots. She provided us with costumes from 1566 so that we could attend the christening of King James VI of Scotland who also became King James I of England. He was the King that Guy Fawkes tried to blow up at the Houses of Parliament on the 5th November. Mary taught us the ‘Dance of the Washerwoman’ and we also examined the food that would be served at a Royal banquet and used oranges and cloves to make pomanders. There were some unpleasant odours around in the 1500’s ! On our journey we explored the Royal Apartments in the Palace of Holyroodhouse and saw the spot where David Rizzio was murdered by Lord Darnley. We walked up the Royal Mile passed The Museum of Edinburgh where the collar and bowl of Greyfriars Bobby are kept. We spotted the distinctive Tolbooth building that served as jail in the days of Old Edinburgh. We passed John Knox’s house and admired the architecture and spoke about the window tax which resulted in the ‘wee windaes’. Further along the High Street we saw the Mercat Cross where the residents of Old Edinburgh would hear the news and passed the impressive St Giles Cathedral. We saw the location of the infamous Deacon Brodie’s workshop. Finally we arrived at Edinburgh Castle and saw the many defence features of the building, the one o’clock gun, Mons Meg and the statues of Wallace and Bruce. We managed to visit St Margaret’s Chapel which is the oldest building in the Castle. We were exhausted but had a wonderful time.

In art we have been exploring a new technique where we created autumnal art. We blended oil pastels to create the leaves and then blended paint to create a water effect around them. They were very impressive.

School News

Titanic Adventure

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Yesterday we had a great time with Captain Sean who came to our classroom with his Titanic Workshop. First of all, Sean told us all about how the Titanic was built in Belfast. We dressed up in costumes as crew members such as a stewardess, purser,quartermaster, engineer, fireman, gymnasium instructor, wireless operator,lookout and captain. Sean gave us all official job cards that were stamped with a picture of the ship.

Sean let us hold a piece of wood from the bannister of the Titanic’s staircase. He was given it by the grandson of a worker on the Titanic who had kept the offcut. When I touched the piece of wood I felt like I was coming down the staircase on the Titanic.

We were put into groups and then had to design a White Star Line dinner plate for first class, second class and third class. First class were allowed to use unlimited colours but third class could only use four colours.

We then put our costumes on and acted out what happened at the time of the collision. It took 37 seconds from when the lookout spotted the iceberg until it collided with the ship.

Sean then told us about some of the survivors on the Titanic. He was actually very good friends with a few of them and had spoken to them in real life. Sean was at the 100th birthday party for Edith Haisman when she was presented with her father’s gold pocket watch that had been found in the shipwreck.

We also were allowed to hold the name plate from one of the life boats used on the Titanic. The metal plate had the smell of the sea on it, it was very heavy and it said S.S. Titanic.

Sean had an awesome model of the ship from America that he used to show us how the ship finally sank to the ocean floor.

We learned lots of new facts about The Titanic and would recommend the workshop. We would love to participate again.

Written by the pupils of Primary 5a