A huge well done and thank you to Miss Mannion and our Rights Respecting School Hub pupils, who today secured our Silver – Rights Aware award status.  This is a fantastic achievement and we are all very proud.

Achieving this level means:

• We explicitly embed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in our policy, practice and culture.
• We promote knowledge and understanding of the Convention throughout our school community.
• We are seeing the positive impact of our actions on children and young people, staff, and on the school’s ethos, practice and environment.
• Our children see themselves as rights respecting global citizens and advocates for fairness and children’s rights, both locally and globally.

We are absolutely delighted to be amongst some of the first schools in Scotland to achieve endorsement of our continuing excellence and development in digital learning and teaching!

We had a wonderful time sharing our learning with our parents, carers,  grandparents and family. We worked hard to set out different stations with different tasks, to showcase what we have been learning. The pupils created different activities which were enjoyed by everyone who came.

Everyone was full engaged in what they were doing and the class did an excellent job of explaining and facilitating the stations.

We are so grateful that so many people attended and left us lovely feedback to reflect on. The pupils had a lovely afternoon showing all the work and learning they are proud of.

 

Ella in P5A has been learning British Sign Language and this week she volunteered to teach a short lesson to the class. We learned how to sign please, thank you, hello and goodbye and then we practised signing our names. Next time, Ella and Emma will be teaching us how to sign all the letters of the alphabet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P6 were fortunate enough to visit The Oriam at Heriot-Watt University today. We met Hope!

Hope is a life-size inflatable whale. Hope measures 13m long and 8m wide, similar to a real-life humpback whale.

She also looks like a real-life humpback whale both outside and inside.  We were fortunate enough to go inside Hope. This gave us the opportunity to learn about the internal anatomy of humpback whales, from breathing to feeding as well as the impact of plastic pollution. Our visit gave us the opportunity to think about sustainability and how important whales are to the health of our oceans. We had a whale of a time……

We worked with a random partner to look at the patterns between the 2 and 4 times tables. We worked out that if you multiplied the answers for the 2 you would get the answer for the 4. We then wondered if we could do this again and work out the 8 times table even though none of us know it yet. We then challenged ourselves to work out the 16 times table by multiplying our answers for the 8 by 2!!!

Next we looked at the patterns in the 3 and 6 times tables, then worked out the 12. Some of us even went on to look at the 24 times table!!!

We are learning about Roman villas and how they were decorated. We found out that rich Romans had mosaics on their floors and walls. We created our own mosaics using pictures or patterns.

Last week we celebrated British Science Week in school by completing some exciting science challenges!

Every class was tasked with trying to see how far they could stretch a Curly Wurly. The world record is 426.2cm – did we manage to beat it?  Not quite – but one team was pretty close! What a fun and sticky challenge!

We also had to try and build an ‘Unsinkable Boat’ using card, lollipop sticks and lots (and lots) of masking tape. How many weights could we add into the boat before it sank? There were some very different and wonderful designs created.

Well done to everyone for taking part!

Mrs Beattie