Category Archives: Group 1 2023 / 2024

Group 1 Spring Activities

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Group 1 have been busy completing Spring activities during their IDL time. We enjoyed observing and recording all the signs of Spring outdoors. We have been pairing baby animals with their parents and learned about the life cycle of a frog. Following instructions group 1 made their own paper frogs. We enjoyed acting out the Easter story and making our own story boards. Group 1 made Easter eggs and put their favourite things inside. We also explored symmetry in nature, made our own symmetrical butterflies using paint and completed some symmetrical patterns in class.

Group 1 Science Electricity

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Group 1 have been learning about things that use electricity. They have also learned about circuits, made a circuit clown with a light up nose and spinning bow. Next they used the circuit to explore whether different items in the class were conductors or insulators. We also added a switch to our circuit and explored adding more batteries to get a brighter bulb! They also explored electricity and it’s history to understand how life has changed because of electricity

 

 

Visit to West Lothian College – Sustainability week

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On 6th March, some members of the Eco-Committee and senior pupils from the Looking After Our Environment group had a fantastic time on their visit to West Lothian College.

As part of  ‘Sustainability Week’ project, the group enjoyed taking part in a workshop on wind chime and mobile making, led by Lesley Hossack and supported by Childhood Practice students. They had a brilliant time in the wellbeing garden and left some wind chimes made with natural and recyclable materials, along with painted stones, to decorate the garden. They also visited the Eco House to see how it looked like.

We look forward to more opportunities like this in the future because it was a great experience for everyone involved.

Do Bigger Hands Hold More Cubes.

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Group 1 have been measuring different lengths this week. They have used cubes and rulers to measure their hand lengths. Next they counted how many cubes they could hold and investigated if bigger hands could hold more cubes. They stood in order of hand length then stood in order of how many cubes they could hold. One pupil also plotted the results in a graph.

 

Eco-Committee minutes 17th November

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Please find below the minutes of our Eco-Committee meeting held on 17th November.

 

 

Our 4th Eco-Schools Green Flag Award

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We are delighted to have successfully achieved our 4th Eco-Schools Scotland Green Flag Award. A special thank you to our Eco-Committee for their commitment to this project. Well done to everyone who worked hard to help us make Pinewood more sustainable and protect the environment.

 

Eco-Committee Meeting

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The Eco-Committee has had its first meeting with the new Eco-Rangers, who are representatives of each secondary class. If you would like to know what we talked about, please see the minutes of the meeting below.