A huge thank you to a very talented parent who came in today to share her experience in photography. We learned about composition, complementary backgrounds and how to use lighting.
Each group had a photographer, director and model. We worked on our team work skills and communication.
Our context this term is ‘Sports’ and our aim was to create some action shots, posed portraits and a still life.
Have a look at some of our results! 
Today primary 4 visited Dynamic earth as part of their Climate topic. We learned so much about the climate, weather and the world. We had a workshop about weather, a movie and a tour.
Here are some highlights.
Running alongside our Democracy context this term the class have demonstrated their Pupil Agency by also creating a project on a topic of their choice. One member of the class chose to do The Cold War and as you can see from the photos he created a set of diorama’s to represent the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is his explanation of each diorama.
My Diorama’s
I made my dioramas for my school project- cold war. I made 2 dioramas; one of the Cuban Missile Crisis and one of the Berlin Wall. It took me 2 weeks to make my dioramas. I used sand and glue for the Cuban beach, and I used toilet paper, paint and glue for the ocean. For my berlin wall I used cardboard and paint for the wall and oil pastels for the graffiti. I think my dioramas are accurate representations of each event.
By exploring climate zones around the world, I can compare and describe how climate affects living things. SOC 1-12b
By exploring a natural environment different from my own, I can discover how the physical features influence the variety of living things. SOC 1-13b
Having explored the landscape of my local area, I can describe the various ways in which land has been used. SOC 1-13a
P4A have been exploring their new IDL context for this term, which is all about our environment, climate zones and comparisons between them.
So far, they have completed their key questions which they want answered and have identifies the 3 main climate zones on the world map.
They have also begun thinking about the animal and plant life in different climate zones and how they have adapted.
‘We were making Earth Day pictures for Earth Day’ Zoe.
‘We learned to look after the planet’ Michelle.
‘We learned to pick up litter so sea animals don’t die- they might become extinct. We should not be cutting down so many trees.’ William.
‘We have to learn to look after plants’ McKenna.
‘We made little Earth door hangers’ Mia.
‘We were learning the ay sound’ Emily.
‘We were learning to share in maths. We were learning halves’ Zoe.
‘Were learning quarters in maths’ Abbie.
This term we have moved on the learn about writing Explanations. We started off looking at an Explanation titled Why a Goalkeeper’s Job is Important. We learned about the sections of the writing Title, Identifying Statement, Explanation Sequence & Summary Statement. We then looked at the text and highlighted the nouns. After that we spoke about present tense verbs and highlighted them. We found this quite hard so will continue to work on them this term.
We have started learning to create pictograms. We started by drawing a small picture of ourselves making sure to show our hair colour. We then added our pictures to the graph on the board. By doing this it was easy to see what colour of hair most of the class had. We then answered questions about the information shown by the graph. We then did the same with eye colour. We also learned that a graph needs a title and both of the axis need to be labeled. Mrs Spence is really missing her square board that she had in the old school!!
When celebrating Earth Day recently, the pupils discussed how they could look after our planet. Some suggestions included turning off water, switching off lights, not dropping litter and not wasting food. They watched short films all about recycling and listened to the ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ song. This all linked with our previous Eco learning.
To celebrate, they made Earth Day hats and created seed bombs which they planted in our P1a flower bed. They talked about what our seeds needed to help them grow – light, water, air and warmth. Hopefully there will be a colourful display in the months ahead and a chance to attract pollinators and minibeasts – our new IDL theme.
With our new ‘Sports’ conext, it seems fitting to post about our success across a variety of sports in Primary 7. Here are some of our P7 learners celebrating some amazing achievements in swimming, motocross, ballet, skiing and dance. The pupils chose to learn about Sports as our final context this term; we are researching sporting history, equipment, how sports have evolved and gained popularity. All of us are working on a personal project this term and we can’t wait to share our learning when we complete them. Some pupils have already brought in some of their sporting equipment to share! 
Good morning!
I’ve had lots of requests for the delicious cookie recipe we used in our hubs session – so I’ve attached it below. The only rule is that if you make them at home you need to bring me one for snack!
Mrs Beattie
As part of our Social Studies context P6 have been investigating the features of an election and the work of our representatives at both a local and national level. They are developing their understanding of how a democracy works and are discussing what the rights and responsibilities of citizens in Scotland are. To assist us with our learning we have been fortunate enough to have a visit from the Scottish Parliament this week with the UK Parliament visiting us in May. We had our own manifestos, elections and of course we had a speaker and Presiding Officer too so everyone came to order!
