P6/7 have enjoyed returning to school and have especially enjoyed learning maths!
We have also enjoyed PE with Mr Colverson
Category: Primary 7
Budding Engineers!
We had a visit from Mr Leckie, a civil engineer from Aecom, who came to present certificates and prizes to some of our pupils for their innovative entries in the ‘Imagineers’ competition. The pupils had to come up with an invention that could help solve a problem in the world – our winners included ‘ The helping hand’ which is a robot that distributes medicine in remote or war torn areas, the ‘Plastic Picker’ which trawls the bottom of the ocean removing and recycling plastic and the ‘Automatic Claw 31000’ which scans and sorts rubbish to promote recycling. Well done everyone!!
Final PE Session for our P7s
Last week the P7s had their final PE session. The decision was left up to the class as to what they wanted to do and they chose football. The weather was beautiful so we took the equipment out onto the field. We started with 5v5 games and then increased the challenge by inviting the P6/7s to join us. A great time was had by all!
Teamwork across the year groups!
Dean and Harry were working together to complete a puzzle. They were very methodical: looking for all the corners and edges first and then helping each other to find the correct pieces. It was often tricky but they persevered and managed to complete it. Mrs Duke was very impressed. Great work, team – high five!
Primary 7
Hello from P7! It’s been a gorgeous sunny day and a very busy Monday. This morning we had a visit from two science teachers from DCHS. They helped us to complete some tasks on our science passports. The passports are part of our transition activities to help us prepare for high school. We carried out 2 experiments, the aims of which were to;
– investigate the adding of salt to water on the time it takes to dissolve
– investigate the change in temperature of hot water in a single test tube and a test tube huddle
After science we worked on laptops to create profiles for our P7 Leaver’s books. Everyone was keen to share their favourite memories from their years at primary school and enjoyed reminiscing.
This afternoon we discussed self image and self esteem as part of our work on health.
As part of nurture week we will be working on some mindfulness and yoga activities. We are also looking forward to our judo taster session on Thursday.
Primary 6/7
We also managed to get out into the sun for a short period of time for some healthy exercise on the Trim-Trak.
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Today we had a visit from some science teachers for Deans Community High School, who did some experiments with us.
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PE Week Beginning 16th April
In PE this week Primary 1 have been learning ball skills. We rolled sponge balls down our arms and legs and back up over our heads using our fingertips! This was much trickier than it sounds! We were throwing and catching small balls with two hands and challenging ourselves by trying to throw and catch using only one hand. We even tried doing this while walking around the gym hall! We also worked in pairs to practise our throwing and catching.
Primary 2, 2/3, 5, 6, 6/7 and 7 have been learning about athletics. We know that athletics involves running, jumping and throwing events. As we took part in long distance running and sprinting last week it was time for us to have a go at jumping this week. We tried out long jump, high jump and triple jump. We tried each jump without a run up, recorded our distance and then tried again with a run up, we were amazed at the difference having a run up makes! We spoke about the personal and physical qualities needed for athletics events and discussed which events we think we would enjoy most.
