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Health & Wellbeing, Highlands 2017, Outside of School, Primary 7, Sporting, Uncategorized

Loch Insh Residential

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As our residential week comes to end, I would like to say a big well done to all the pupils who attended. They all demonstrated their resilience and perseverance by trying all activities and not giving up. They also showed our school values of being responsible and respectful when visiting Culloden and the Highland Wildlife Park.

A big thank you also to Ms Richmond, Miss Sherlow, Miss Anderson, Mrs Combe and Mrs Findlay got attending camp with the pupils and making this trip possible.

It was great to see all the likes and comments on Twitter and we will try and add more photos to the blog next week.

Hope you all don’t have too much washing!

Highlands 2017, Primary 7, Uncategorized

Loch Insh -Hawks

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Today we had a fantastic day starting with canoeing, then skiing and finally taking on a special challenge in the evening. Only a few of us had been in a canoe previously, it was exciting as most of us learned how to paddle in a canoe. We had few crashes into trees and navigating our way down narrow parts of the Loch. Thankfully no one fell in or got stuck. Skiing was incredible as we all managed to ski from the top of the hill in only 2 hours of practising.
The Egg challenge involved designing and making something that would hold an egg and support it when being dropped from different heights. After various designs we were ready to take on the challenge. We started from knee height and ended from the balcony outside. Three designs successfully supported the egg and as a result it didn’t crack.

We look forward to new adventures at The Wildlife Park tomorrow.

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P7/6 Jacobite Assembly

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This week we presented all the information that we have learned about The Jacobites. We presented our assembly in the form of a News Report, beginning with the story of how the Jacobites were formed and moving on to included examples of famous battles between James and King William. We ended the Jacobite story with the battle between Bonnie Prince Charlie and William at Culloden. We read a diary extract that one of us had written in class. This highlighted what it was like going in to battle for soldiers and the challenges that they faced. We all felt incredibly proud after the assembly.

Maths & Numeracy, National Maths Week 2017, Primary 7, Uncategorized

Crazy Coordinates in P7

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We are learning to explore the use of coordinates to plot points and describe positions and movements on a grid.

Success Criteria:

  • I can use coordinates to describe and locate a point on a grid.
  • I can plot coordinates on a grid and connect them to complete a 2D shape.
  • I can make journeys on a grid, following instructions about the coordinates to visit.
  • I can give the coordinates of points on a grid.

Primary 7 have been learning to work with coordinates. We have been working on drawing grids accurately then plotting points for our partner to identify. We have also been identifying the coordinates of shapes and creating our own shapes. We will continue with our coordinate challenges this week.

Interdisciplinary Learning, Maths & Numeracy, National Maths Week 2017, Primary 2, Uncategorized

P2 Dinosaur Maths

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P2 have been very busy this week learning to gather, display and interpret information related to our IDL context of Dinosaurs.

Success Criteria

  • I can collect information
  • I can display information
  • I can interpret information

We discussed what question we wanted to ask, and how we could best gather the information.

We decided to find out what P2’s  favourite dinosaur is. We  thought that creating a Tally chart would be a good way to gather and display the information.

This is what we found –

We were then able to look at, and comment on the results.

In our Dino Discovery Teams, we were developing our research skills this week too.

        

As part of this, we began to learn about the size of different dinosaurs. We soon discovered that although some dinosaurs were quite small, some were huge! We were particularly interested in the length of them. We noticed that the lengths were given in metres, so we had a look at a metre stick that happened to be in the Maths area, and we used it very successfully to work out that a Stegosaurus would only just fit into our classroom!

We think we’ll have to find more metre sticks now, and go outside next week to measure the lengths of other longer dinosaurs!

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P4 go to the Museum!

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This week Primary 4 went to the National Museum of Scotland to explore the exhibits and take part in a Dinosaur workshop. We began by taking a look at the different exhibits at the museum, paying particular attention to Dinosaur displays. The children enjoyed looking at the T-Rex skeleton and were amazed at the size of the bones!

We then took part in a workshop where each small group had the opportunity to take on the role of Palaeontologists. The children were set a task to piece together evidence and work out which dinosaur the evidence belonged to. Each group looked at dinosaur foot prints, fossils and dinosaur teeth!

We had a roaring good time!

Interdisciplinary Learning, Maths & Numeracy, National Maths Week 2017, Uncategorized

P4’s Dinosaur Maths Week

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This week Primary 4 collected data using our IDL context of Dinosaurs. We decided that it would be fun to find out the favourite dinosaur at Mid Calder Primary School.

Each Dino Data Group visited a different class to collect and record their data. We then looked at the data as a class to interpret our findings.

The most popular dinosaur at Mid Calder Primary School was the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the least popular dinosaur was the Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus.

FIRST LEVEL INDICATORS:

  • I have used a range of ways to collect information and can sort it in a logical, organised and imaginative way using criteria.
  • I can ask and answer questions about data that has been collected.

Early Level, Maths & Numeracy, National Maths Week 2017, Primary 1, Uncategorized

Marvellous Maths in P1P

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LI: We are learning to sort, collect and display information.
We are learning about tally charts and pictographs.

SC: I can talk about my favourite toy and ask others about their favourite toy.
I can say what type of toy I have and record it in the form of a tally mark.
I can contrast and compare our favourite toy results with the P7’s favourite toys.
I can answer questions about the information that I have collected and displayed.

This week P1P have been learning how to gather and display information. During our Maths inputs we have developed an understanding of tally marks and have began to explore and use pictographs through a variety of practical, written and digital activities. We have also been able to use our new knowledge during our Toy Story IDL lessons to create a tally chart to show P1’s and P7’s favourite type of toy. It was really interesting to compare both the results and find out that both P1 and P7 had the same favourite… ‘cuddly toys’.