Category: Achievement

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Primary 5

Primary 5 explored the concept of buoyancy by making their own boats out of tin foil! They learned that buoyancy is the force that helps objects float in water. Each group designed a tin foil boat and then tested how many marbles it could hold before sinking. They had so much fun experimenting with different shapes and sizes of boats to see which one could hold the most marbles. Primary 5 discovered that if the boat was bigger and had more layers of tin foil, it could hold more marbles. Some boats could hold up to 205 marbles!

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P6 Trip to Sky Up Studios

Last Thursday 29th August, P6 attended a school trip to Sky Up Studios in Livingston. We were lucky enough to explore the Sky offices and see lots of people at work. We learned about the different roles and jobs they offer at Sky. We were shown behind the scenes clips of the new Wicked film, taught how to produce and plan trailers and the importance of props and settings. We worked in groups to write scripts, plan, film and produce a trailer. We got to watch our final productions on the big cinema screen complete with surround sound and flashing lights.

Our teachers were very proud of our creativity and behaviour as we represented our school.

Here are some photos of our school trip and an excellent piece of writing describing the experience.

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Sports Day Feedback

Hello everyone,

First of all, thank you to those who were able to join us yesterday for our School Sports Day. We are glad that so many of you could join us across our morning and afternoon sessions. We are looking to announce the winner of Sports Day tomorrow at assembly (14/6/24).

I would greatly appreciate any feedback about Sports Day yesterday. This will allow me to plan and organise next year’s event with input from parents, children and carers.

The link below will take you to the feedback form or you should have received this through a group call today.

https://forms.office.com/e/VQjuH5TBZ6

Thank you for your continued support,

Miss Walkingshaw

PEPAS leader

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P6 Cross Country

Libby from Active Schools ran a Cross Country event for us today. We worked hard both individually and collectively to ensure the event was a success. We all received a participation medal and proudly showed them off for the remainder of the day.

Well done P6 from Libby and Miss Walkingshaw!

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P5 and P6 Amazon/Smallpeice Trust STEM Day

Today our Primary 5 and 6 classes enjoyed a full day STEM session run by The Smallpeice Trust, kindly funded by Amazon. We completed lots of fun activities to give us a taster of what it would be like to be an engineer. We learned about Engineering as a career and the jobs available in the world of work.

We started our day with a code breaking task. We worked with our teams to use our prior knowledge of skip counting, multiplication and sequencing to crack the secret code.

Next, we learned all about the mechanics behind rockets. We were tasked with designing an economical robot and had to work out the cost of our product before building and testing it.

Throughout the day we worked towards completing our STEM certificates by earning stickers for speaking, staying positive, teamwork, problem solving, creativity, aiming high, leadership and listening.

After lunch, we learned about autonomous vehicles. We created maps and used iPads to program a Sphero. We had to meet a specific criteria and direct the robots to follow our instructions.

We also had a virtual visit from  Amazon where we learned about job opportunities and the role of engineers at Amazon.

We are so grateful for such a fantastic experience and we have loved learning through STEM challenges today.

 

Well done P5 and P6 🙂

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Primary 3/2

This week in Primary 3/2 we have been finishing off our topic on Fairtrade. We have completed our learning journey to show all of the work we have done along the way.

On Wednesday we made our own banana and mango smoothies. We learned different cutting skills and the importance of food hygiene.  We created our  own recipes and enjoyed getting to taste them when they were ready.

Super work Primary 3/2 you have worked really hard throughout our Fairtrade topic!

Miss McGregor & Primary 3/2 🙂

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