In the Forrest Room we were investigating Tessellation through the work of the Artist M.C. Escher.
We made tiles using shapes and printed patterns using in and stamps.
We found out that to be successful tessellations should have no gaps and that the shapes should not overlap.
In the Support for Learning classroom we were looking at telling the time. Children were revising using o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past. We also had a look at five minute intervals. We did lots of active learning, such as making our own telling the time clocks, playing ‘what time is it?’ bingo and playing some fun interactive time games on the SMART board.
In Primary 3B we looked at splitting different shapes into halves and quarters. We found out that there was more than one way of finding fractions of a shape. We had races in the gym hall and split our running track in half and then into quarters so we knew how far we had to run. We created a pizza with cones and played the role of different toppings to create the pizza Mr. Clark ordered on the phone. He ordered mushrooms on three quarters of his pizza. Yuck! Finally, we created our own pizzas back in the classroom. We chose our own toppings and wrote some fraction facts about our pizza underneath the pizza box lids!
Today, across the school we had maths masterclasses. In P3a, we spent the day being problem detectives. We were set lots of different challenges throughout the day. Some of the different strategies we used were:
– Drawing a picture or making a model
– Acting out the situation
– Having an idea and testing it out with examples
– Producing an organised list or a table
– Looking for a pattern
– Guessing, checking and improving
Here are some photographs of a few of the challenges we were set! We had a fantastic day.
Not too long ago primary seven went on a school trip to Sky Sports. We did a variety of different sport activities and we also got to meet some athletes that took part in the Olympics. They gave us some inspiration to help us in the future. We did rugby, gymnastics and some fun activities!
By Gabrielle
This week underneath Mrs Turnbulls desk we found a rat! He had a letter with him. He was called Ramsay. The letter said that he was lost! We figured out that he was from a Scottish castle a long long time ago and that he has time travelled. Ramsay has asked us to find out some more information about Scottish castles. We are also decorating our classroom to look like a Great Hall to make him feel more at home.
By Rebecca
In P1b we did a big bird count for RSPB. We counted all the birds in our community. My favourite bird was the robin. We saw a lot of birds.
By Devin
P7 did a maths challenge. For this challenge we had a grid and on each square had a European capital city and we had to work out the countries. Using clue cards each we had to work out which prime number went on which county. We worked in groups of three. Although it took us hours we are all very proud.
By Danielle
In p5 we have been doing weaving to look like tartan as part of our topic about Scotland. Here are some weaving examples. Here the weaving that Jemma and I did. I will tell you how you do it. You need a bit of paper cut and lots of strip of paper in 2 colours. Then you put one of them in and out and then you do the same with the other. The first one was hard but after you have done a couple then it is easy.
By Morgan
In P3a, we learned about the human eye and how it works. It is very sensitive! We did a pupil experiment and looked at how our pupils change size depending on how much light there is. We found that our pupils are really big when there isn’t much light and are small when the light is really bright.
We also made models of the eye and labelled them to show to different parts. We used part of a plastic poly-pocket to be our cornea, so they looked more realistic! Don’t they look good?
