Sharing Our Learning
Congratulations to our Head Teacher Award winners this month. We loved hearing about your hard word, kindness and perseverance.
It was also lovely to hear about the literacy achievements of our Golden Coin winners.
Finally we loved celebrating the wider achievements of our learners, from kickboxing and martial arts to reading achievements, we are so proud of you!
Alongside the various activities that have taken place in the classrooms this week as part of Maths Week Scotland, we have launched a new challenge – the Maths Problem of the Week. You will be able to see this in the window outside the P7/6 classroom near the office – look out for it the next time you are in the playground. Each week, the Maths mini champs will post new problems for you to solve. You can solve any of the problems or have a go at all 3! Once you work out the answer, ask your teacher for a post it note and pop it into the pink box which is inside, under the window. The Maths mini champs will be keeping an eye on who answers the questions and awarding house points each week! Happy problem solving!
It has been another busy and exciting week in Primary 2/1! 🌟
This week, we have been learning all about healthy eating and how making healthy choices helps to keep our bodies strong and healthy. We then put our learning into practice by making our very own fruit kebabs, developing our skills in cutting carefully and safely. 🍎🍌🍊
Later in the week, we became scientists and took part in a fun bubble experiment using water and fairy liquid! 🫧 We investigated who could blow the biggest bubble, whose bubble would last the longest and even explored how we could put our hand inside a bubble without it popping. The children loved making predictions, testing their ideas and discussing what they discovered.
To finish off our busy week, we began our recycling project. ♻️ We are reusing plastic bottles to create our very windmills and wind catchers learning how we can turn something that might normally be thrown away into something creative and useful.
What a fantastic week of learning, investigating and creating!
This week we took part in two live STEM lessons from BEAR Scotland. The first of these was on bridges with Elaine Barry, an engineer who worked on the design of the Queensferry crossing. We learned about different types of bridges as well as what makes a bridge strong. We used these principles to design our own bridges and then to build a geodesic dome made from triangles.
P7/6 had the opportunity this week to take part in a football coaching session with Daniel from ICA Academy. He was very impressed with our skills and helped us to improve them by working on different drills and games.
