P5/6 have been having lots of fun with their new topic “Natural Disasters”.
We made 3D pictures of the structure of the Earth. We labeled the crust, mantle, inner core and outer core.
We also made our very own exploding volcanoes!!
We put clay around a bottle to make the volcano…
All set to go…..
We were so impressed by the result…
Our Christmas Fair is on Saturday from 12 – 3pm. Time to start thinking about Christmas again! We will have over 30 stalls to help you get started with the Christmas shopping. There will be lots of fun stalls and activities for children as well such as face painting, kids tombola, jar tombola and chances to ‘Guess the Birthday’ and ‘Guess the Sweets in the Jar’. Amazing hot food will once again be provided by Apple Pie and our school choir will entertain you with some festive songs! We have a raffle, with a top prize of a Marks and Spencer Voucher worth £100! If you don’t already have tickets, these will be available to purchase at the door. Entry for adults is £1 – entry for children is free!
Please come along and support our Christmas Fair! We look forward to seeing you on Saturday!
On Tuesday the Nursery children went to the forest to learn all about Minibeasts. This topic was chosen by the children as it is a common interest among many of them.
We started off the session by going on a hunt for pictures of lots of different minibeasts hidden around the forest.
We then read a story called ‘Mad about minibeasts’. We talked about all of the different insects within the pictures and identified which ones were our favourite.
After listening to the story we made a model of our favourite minibest using plasticine.
After making our minibeasts, we talked about where they might like to live and what they might need to survive in the forest. Then we made our own bug houses by carefully selecting a variety of natural resources from around the forest. We brought our bug houses back to nursery and have chosen to put them in sheltered areas around the nursery outdoor area to try and attract some insects to live in them.
We then had a picnic snack after all of our hard work!
After snack we counted the spots on the ladybird and identified the corresponding number on the number line.
We finished off our visit by making spider webs using paper plates and wool.
Thank you to all of the adult helpers who came along to make this visit possible. We all had a great time and cant wait for our next visit to learn even more about Minibeasts!
Our JRSO (Junior Road Safety Officers) have been selected by their peers in Primary 6 and we look forward to learning lots about Road Safety from them. They will have the responsibility for the upkeep of a display board and will be organising an assembly as well as running Road Safety competitions throughout the year.
The nursery children were excited to see the snow. We learned that the snow comes when the weather is freezing cold and then when the weather gets warmer the snow melts and becomes water. The water, like puddles, then disappear when the sun comes out. We also described how the snow feels e.g. crunchy, cold, freezing, soft and hard.
