P5 enjoying their silly end of year present!

The class’s latest topic is The Olympics where it will be hosted by Brazil this year. P5 were lucky enough to get a visit by renowned jazz musician – Mario Caribe. Mario talked about his life in Brazil before he settled … Continue reading →

To celebrate Star Wars Day (May the Forth!), P5 made their own version of the original Star wars IV movie (A new Hope). They summarised the story, decided on scenes to record, wrote scripts, designed backgrounds and characters in small … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Murrin for her Directional Hearing Aid idea, and to Connor for his Bird Strike Protector – they have both been awarded a Distinction and have been shortlisted to potentially win a year-group trophy which should be decided later this … Continue reading →

We are still waiting to hear if anyone in the class has been successful with our Engineering Invention entries for the Scottish Engineering Leaders Award,  but have heard that at least 2 of our entries will be on display on … Continue reading →

As part of the current STEM topic, the P5s have entered a Scottish engineering Award Competion. For this, P5 had to think hard about problems that could be solved with a bit of imagination and engineering. They had to write … Continue reading →

A photo of P5 in front of the Queensferry Crossing has now been included in a mosaic of the bridge made from thousands of photographs. It is at the following website – Search for Patrick Robertson to find our photograph and … Continue reading →

On Monday, we were able to visit the Forth Bridges Education Centre. Here we learned about the different types of bridges across the Forth – The Forth Rail bridge (cantelever), The Forth Road Bridge (suspension) and the new Queensferry Crossing … Continue reading →

Today we had a special visitor to P5 – Aibo.  This is a special robot dog that has its own personality and entertained the class. We had great fun watching it play with its bone, doing a dance and mistaking … Continue reading →