On Wednesday Primary 1 visited Jupiter Artland. We had a super time, looking and talking about the sculptures. We explored the natural environment and collected resources. After lunch we took part in a workshop to create our own Jovians, aliens from Jupiter!
Primary 5 will be going to Surgeon’s Hall, Edinburgh next week. We will be out of school for most of Tuesday 28th May. Please remember to bring a packed lunch and appropriate clothing for the weather. We’re looking forward to a great day out!
As part of our current context 20th Century Highlights P7S were fortunate enough to have a visit from Mrs Liddell from West Lothian Council Museum Service. She brought with her a whole range of 20th Century artefacts for us to handle. Maureen brought in items from each decade,some of them with a little discussion we could work out what they were…some we had no idea! Mrs Stewart felt very old when Mrs Liddell showed the class a Walkman and a Polaroid camera from the 1980’s…these are now classed as history!
A Stem Ambassador visited P7S on Thursday. The STEM philosophy of education is that it embraces teaching skills and subjects in an a way that resembles real life. To this end we asked Mr Innes to discuss Negative numbers in an everyday context,this links closely to our current maths learning. Matthew certainly brought negative numbers alive with a lesson about the negative and positive values of different classroom commodities! The class had to decide if it was worth getting a loan from the banker to expand their portfolio whilst appreciating the risk of changing market forces. We used coloured items of identical shapes (blue counters and red counters, with blue counters representing negative units and red counters representing positive ones), to analyse the importance of negative numbers when, for instance, calculating debts. At the end of the lesson the class had a real appreciation of how maths can impact on their everyday life.
Primary 5 are having their sharing the learning afternoon on Thursday 30th May at 2:15. We will have different activities to show you to share what we have been up to this year. It would be lovely to see you there!
Today was Miss Walkingshaw’s last day in class. We will all miss her, and we wish her well. This morning she taught us how to follow instructions to construct a handmade kite. We then went onto the field to run and try to fly them!
For our Future Me hub today, we worked in teams to plan and construct the tallest tower out of the materials given to us. We had to appoint a leader, work together and reflect on the whole process.
The older pupils helped the younger pupils to identify their skills and listened to their contributions during the planning process. We discussed what we would do differently next time, what worked well and even what roles we would like if we did it again (to play to our strengths). We had a clear winner; their tower stayed standing for a full 5 minutes, towering above them! Well done to everyone who participated.
Here are a few action shots from the Girls P6 & P7 Football Festival. We had a great opportunity to learn some new skills, meet some famous female footballers and show how talented we are. What an amazing, inspirational day we all had at Livingstone football stadium.
We have been learning about key events from the 20th Century and beginning to build our sense of chronology by examining key historical events and changes to technology. Yesterday we engaged in a session with museum services in which we each selected an item and identified where it would come on our timeline of decades. It was clear to see how many technological advances happened throughout the century and since! Miss Conner felt very old when we examined a tape player and floppy disks and the class tried to identify their uses- how technology has changed! An excellent afternoon with a lot to learn! Can you identify the objects? Which of the 10 decades do you think it was from?
This one was the trickiest! No one could guess what it was or when it was from? When we realised it was a gas powered portable hair curler the girls were jealous we don’t have these available now!
Yesterday, Primary 5J learnt about Burke and Hare and their role in the history of Edinburgh. We looked at a variety of texts to learn about them and discovered they were murderers who sold the cadavers they had to make money. We then created questions to ask them and role played their responses.
