P1/2 turned palaeontologists

We had a great afternoon on Wednesday exploring fossils and the work of palaeontologists. It was a very active classroom with lots of discussion about fossils, how they could be extracted from the ground and the work of palaeontologists.

Our first activity involved removing chocolate chips from a cookie using only a cocktails stick – lots of care and concentration needed here!

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Our second task involved putting back together the bones of various animals using an internet game.

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In our third task we had to use plastic spoons and toothbrushes to excavate dinosaurs from the sand.

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Our fourth and final learning task was to make our own dinosaur fossil using salt dough and dinosaur models.

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World Book Day March 2nd

To celebrate World Book Day, Mrs Grant has organised a variety of fun activities for pupils to enjoy on the day. Wally will be hiding in and around school throughout the day and pupils will have to follow clues to find him. Pupils are asked to bring in their favourite book to share with us on the day, and there will be a host of other book-related activities to keep us all busy.

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Community Coffee Morning

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P6/7 would like to remind you all that you are invited to our Community Coffee morning, to be held on Friday 24th February, 10am to 12 noon. There will be a jumble sale and tombola, as well as a chance to have a coffee, cake and chat! The pupils ask that you hand in any as-new books, games, jigsaws etc. for the jumble sale and also are hoping that some budding bakers will hand in home-baking to be sold on the day. If you could hand in baking the day before, that would be very much appreciated. We look forward to seeing you on the day, and would like to thank you in advance for supporting this fund-raiser.