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STEM Assembly: Sharing our STEM Learning

Today we our classes shared their STEM learning this term at our assembly.

 

Miss Connor, the West Lothian Development Officer for STEM shared with us the importance of STEM skills for our future jobs and carers.

 

Each class then shared with us their STEM Learning.

Primary 7

Primary 6

Primary 5

Primary 4

Primary 3

Primary 2

Primary 1

 

We celebrated the children and classes who scored highly in the West Lothian Maths Sumdog Competition.

We also invited along a neuroscientist, who told us all about his career and what STEM skills he used.

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Primary 4 STEM Learning

Our STEM topic has had a focus on space linking to maths within daily life, seasons, time, day and night.   In Writing the pupils wrote instructions for how to make a paper plate sundial including a title, goal, materials and steps.  To check if they had written a successful set of instructions the children then created the paper plate sundials by following instructions that were written by someone else rather than their own.  They were then able to give feedback on what went well and what could be improved by peer assessing using the peer assessment placemats in order to link their feedback to the success criteria.

Finally, the children participated in the ‘Let’s Make a Sundial’ challenge to design and create a sundial using readily available resources. 

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P2

In Science, P2 have been learning about the 5 senses and the different things that can help people who do not have their hearing. Here are some of our P2 children using sign language to the song “A Thousand Years.”

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Term 1 Celebration Assembly

On Friday we had our end of term Celebration Assembly.

We acknowledged our Awesome Authors, those children who have made excellent progress or achievements within writing.

We also recognised our STEM Superstars, those children who have made excellent progress or achievements within Science, Technologies or Maths.

We recognised our P6 and 7 children who helped out at our recent parent consultations.

We found out that our school has received the Silver Sports Scotland Award. A huge congratulations to our Sports Stars and Mrs McConville.

Our House and Vice Captains set a Maths Weeks Scotland Poster Challenge, and the winners received a prize!

We took part in the National Maths Week Sumdog Competition. Some of children completed all 1000 questions! Primary 3 scored the highest for the school, and Tyler came 207th out of almost 75000 pupils.

Thank you to our Sumdog reps who reminded up about the competition!

We watched a video that showed us all about our learning during Maths Week Scotland.

Congratulations to Calder for winning the house points this term.

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Primary 3 Science

This week, Primary 3 have been learning about germs and diseases. We are investigating how germs can spread and grow on different surfaces by conducting an experiment with a potato.

We cut the potato into 4 slices and put the first slice in a plastic bag. This is our control slice to see how a potato would decay normally. We then rubbed the other slices on different surfaces before putting them into bags to see which would result in the most bacteria growing.  Our slices were then labelled and placed in a cupboard. We will have to wait until next week to find out the results.

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Primary 6 Endangered Planet

This week, Primary 6 turned into wildlife investigators!

In Science lessons, we have been discussing the words ‘extinct’ and ‘endangered’. Miss McLaughlin set us an investigation task to research ‘endangered’ animals. We could choose to show our information as a video clip or poster.

We structured our investigations around three themes:

  • information about the animal
  • what makes it endangered
  • what the WWF are doing to try to stop this.

Miss McLaughlin combined our presentations into a wildlife ‘documentary’. She has added 5 dojos to everybody’s score for their hard work.

Click on the link below to watch (apologies, as some sections are quite quiet).

Check in with us again soon to see what else we have been learning!

Until then…
Primary 6 & Miss M 🙂

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