Primary 3 have been working on partitioning in maths. Here they are explaining one of their strategies.
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Perfect Partitioning from P3
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Primary 4 and their Pictish Diet
P4 having been looking at Pictish foods as part of their IDL topic this term.
We decided to try our hand at making butter by using ancient technologies. After we had made it, we all had chance to taste some along with oatcakes, another staple of the Pictish diet.
The oatcakes and butter were delicious
P2/3 Dazzling Designers
This week in P2/3 the children were learning to design their own tartan as part of Burns day.
We discussed the role of a designer and why planning our ideas is important. We also discussed the importance the task and building our creativity skills.
Once they designed their own tartan, P2/3 had the opportunity to create it, using a variety of materials chosen by them.
P7 Take on Tam!
Tuesday was a day to celebrate Robert Burns!
In P7, we read Tam O’Shanter. We discussed the language in the poem and it’s meaning.
We recorded each other reciting the poem, created a QR code and displayed them in the hall for everybody in the school to enjoy!
Learning How To Build A Scarecrow
P1b read a non- fiction book, all about how to make a scarecrow.
Then we made our own Scarecrows.
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P5 Celebrate Burns Day
In Primary 5, we enjoyed researching and making our own family tartan for our Burn’s display.
We enjoyed the Burns Assembly and the yummy shortbread.
We enjoyed learning and reciting our Burn’s poem ‘Up in the Morning Early’. We liked practicing our best Scottish accents!
We were happy for the afterschool clubs to start up this week. We loved the Multi-sports club.
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Terrific Tartan in P1A
This week P1A have been painting tartan as they celebrated Burns Day. They used different colours and vertical and horizontal stripes to create it.
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P4/5 Welcome to the Woods
Last week we looked at the biodiversity of our woods. We found many plants and insects living there, so this week we took on the challenge of creating some bug homes/hotels for the wide variety of minibeasts inhabiting the area and to attract many more, using only resources we found in the woods.
When creating our homes and hotels we made sure to think about the conditions and requirements for the bugs – dark, wet, well concealed, access to food, etc.
The minibeasts moved in quickly!
P4/5 Managing our Emotions
Primary 4/5 have been developing their own strategies to help them identify and regulate their emotions, after being inspired by Virginia Ironside’s “Huge Bag of Worries”.
P4/5 made their own worry monsters to keep with them at all times so that they are able to acknowledge, express and let go of their anxieties as the monster will listen to, gobble up and hug away their worries.
We discussed other ways of sharing and releasing our worries, we reminded ourselves of our trusted adults to talk to, using music and meditation to relax and the one strategy we really enjoyed was imagining our worries inside a bubble, blowing them away and watching them float off into the sky.
P4/5 Outdoor Learning
This morning we visited the wooded area of our playground to investigate the biodiversity there. We listed all the living things we found, took lots of photos of them and discussed the conditions that made this a good place for them to live and grow and how theses living things interacted with each other. We also made some tree bark and leaf rubbings.
Did you know to estimate the age of a tree, count the number of rings on the stump, from the centre out?!
We can’t wait to investigate other areas of our playground to see how the biodiversity differs depending on the conditions.
We wonder what we would find if we investigated a river or pond, a beach, a mountain? 🤔
