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Investigating Viking Artefacts

Primary 4 have been learning about the Vikings.  We were very lucky this week to be able to investigate some real and replica Viking artefacts.  Sarah-Jane organised for the class to borrow some artefacts from the charity Archaeology Scotland.  The children really enjoyed looking at and touching the artefacts  They thought about what they might be used for, how they would be made, what they were made of and how they were found.

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Sarah-Jane told us about  being an archaeologist and showed the class some pictures of digs she had been on.

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Primary 4 became history detectives – building stories about the people looking at the evidence.

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The children then did some observational drawing, looking at the artefacts and trying to draw exactly what they could see, thinking about line, pattern and shading to show the different textures and colours of the artefacts.

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Thank you to Sarah-Jane for organising this brilliant experience.

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NHS Advice regarding increase in Measles cases

Measles infection in Lothian

 Measles cases have been confirmed in Lothian over the past month in teenagers and young adults.

Please do not send your child to school if they have any symptoms suggestive of measles infection.

Symptoms

The symptoms of measles include fever, lethargy, runny nose, conjunctivitis, cough and a red, blotchy rash which starts at the head spreading over the chest and limbs. The rash generally fades within ten days.

If your child has developed symptoms suggestive of measles, you should keep your child at home and contact your General Practitioner for further advice by phone (or NHS24 if out of hours on tel. 111).

This is very important in order to avoid the spread of measles to other people.

People with measles are infectious from around five days before the rash appears until four days after the rash appears and should self isolate at home during this time.

MMR

The best protection against measles is two doses of MMR.

http://www.immunisationscotland.org.uk/vaccines-and-diseases/mmr.aspx

NHS Lothian Health Protection Team October 2016

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Garden Club

Our school gardening year is coming to an end. We had a bumper crop of vegetables this year and we all had fun digging, sowing, planting, reaping, cooking and eating. Thanks to everyone who helped build beds and sheds and to all the parents and carers who bought the vegetables. We made over £80 which we will use to buy seeds and compost for next year.  We can’t  wait for the springtime to start again!
A huge thanks from everyone at school to Sara-Jane Haston who keeps us going with her enthusiasm and ideas.  The outdoor space would be nothing like it is today without her efforts.  20160831_133727 20160831_134508 20160831_135613 20160831_135620 20160831_144705 tattie-haul_aug-2016
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Primary 7

This week we have been working on division using the bus stop method.  Please continue to work with your child at home to improve recall of times tables as this helps them with their division facts.

A reminder that the P7 Remembrance Assembly will take place on Tuesday the 8th of November.  Please arrive at 2.00 pm ready to be seated in time for the performance which will begin at 2.15 pm.

Thank you

Mrs Mooney

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Primary 5

This week, Primary 5 have been extending their knowledge of 3D shapes. In Primary 4, we learned that 2D shapes could make 3D nets and ‘skeletons’. So, we decided to use our knowledge of shape properties to create some more. Here are some of the shapes we created:

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We did run into a problem – although we had the correct number of faces, edges and vertices, we couldn’t make our shapes join accurately. So, we thought about why this might be. We realised how important it is to measure shape edges and re-made our designs using accurate measurements. This meant our ‘skeletons’ would join together easily and we could add tabs to our nets to glue them.

Next week, we are going to be looking at angles. Check in with us to see what we have learned.

Until next time…

Primary 5 & Miss M 🙂

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Primary 3

P3’s Seasonal Science Focus this year is ‘Trees’. We have been noticing lots of changes at this time of year.

We read a book called Leaf Man and decided to make our own autumn art using materials from nature. It was okay to use these leaves as they had fallen from the trees. We even found lots of small living things in amongst our leaves like insects and baby snails!

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