Sharing Our Learning
P7/6 have had a lovely first week back, out new P7s have been brilliant buddies for our new Primary 1s and have been keen to get started on electing our new head pupils for this school year. I’m very impressed with all of our candidates keen to take on responsibility in their final year with us. Today we collaborated to complete 5 STEM challenges all involving a single sheet of paper. Some super impressive creative and critical thinking on display and it’s only week one!
Day 1 at Ford Castle complete! After a long journey we arrived safely at Ford Castle and have already had a day of fun activities including rifle shooting, zip wire, survivor and ‘balloon splash’, which resulted in Mr McNaughton getting very wet! Looking forward to 2 more days of fun and teamwork.
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.
P7/6 have shown how creative they can be this week with their entries for the ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ schools competition. The competition encourages entrants to spread a positive anti-racism message through a choice of formats. Our entries range from pieces of art, to football boot designs and even songs and musical compositions, all highlighting this important issue in different ways. Well done P7/6 and good luck!
P7/6 had a visit from Ms Baty from the West Lothian Digital Learning Team this week to help us begin profiling our achievements and goals on ‘My World of Work’. We can use this platform through our GLOW accounts to help us keep a record of our achievements in different curricular areas as well as wider achievements we have accomplished outside of school. We aim to add to and update this regularly to build a picture of our skills and targets.
