Longridge Primary School

Primary 1-4 and P7 Buddies had a cosy afternoon collaborating together to create some lovely items to share with the people in our lives who love and nurture us. Children enjoyed the opportunity to work in different groups, and got creative with wool wrapping, painting, collaging and patterning. We shared a story together that helped children understand that all families are unique and special, and talked about the reasons children have to celebrate people in their life. We hope families at home enjoyed their surprise handmade gifts and pictures!

It was lovely to celebration the achievements of our learners today, what a talented bunch of young people! First up was our wider achievement awards:

Well done to our Head Teacher Award winners for impressing staff so much with your hard work and demonstrating our school values. It was lovely to have hot chocolate with you.

Finally, our golden coin winner this month was awarded a golden coin to use in our vending machine for excellent progress in writing. It was even more exciting as she had the first pick of our newly restocked selection of books. Thank you to our parent council for their support in fundraising to support this.

P7 and P6 visited Dynamic Earth on Wednesday, during British Science Week. We were there to attend a careers showcase where we found out about different jobs involving STEM. We did VR mechanics and welding with Edinburgh college, we used ultrasound to examine what happens inside our mouth when we speak, we learned about nature and different types of rock found in Scotland. We were also lucky enough to have 2 visits to the planetarium where we travelled through the solar system and learned about how scientists photograph distant stars.

P2/1 are enjoying Science Week so far. Today the P6 and P7 STEM Leaders visited our class to help us to conduct a skittles experiment. We enjoyed seeing the colours blend as the sugar dissolved, although we did wish we could ‘taste the rainbow’ even a little!

We explored materials and reactions by mixing different store-cupboard ingredients and testing the results – discovering that vinegar and baking soda are very exciting! P2s also researched famous female scientists from the past, and told the P1s and nursery class about how they challenged discrimination and made huge contributions to science. We are very glad that women and girls are not excluded from science any more, the girls and the boys in this class love getting hands on and exploring our world.