Many pupils across the school created entries for this year’s Fringe Poster Competition. Congratulations to Harry p2/3, Sadie p2/3 and Parth p4M whose work was shortlisted and will be exhibited in the Fringe Poster Exhibition at Dynamic Earth. The free exhibition will be on view at Dynamic Earth from 22 May to 27 August.
Harry Sadie Parth
The slideshow below shows a selcction of some of our other fun entries!
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This week in nursery we have been learning lots about spring time and Easter. We have searched for signs of spring, talked about who celebrates Easter and why it is a special day, made Easter bonnets and painted eggs. To finish our busy week we took part in an egg hunt out in the forest.
The children were excellent explorers and helped each other to gather all the eggs. They identified the numbers on the eggs, put them into numerical order and also sorted them by colour. Great searching everyone!
P6R had a fantastic day at the Museum on the Mound on 8th March, learning all about the history of money and how our money is kept secure. They really enjoyed all the activities and handling old forms of money. A highly recommended trip.
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P5 delighted us all with a fabulous performance of the ‘Gruffalo in Scots’ – a combination of group and solo dances, singing and thoroughly entertaining drama! Well done to everyone for all your hard work designing the backdrop and masks, learning lines, creating dances and singing so well. A grrrreat job!
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Pupils from p5 and p6R were delighted to show off their dances moves last week in the Queen’s Hall. For many, it was their first public performance and they shone with their enthusiasm, energy and creativity!
P5 performed their ‘Tree Dance’ from their recent production of ‘the Gruffalo in Scots’ and P6 rocked the stage with the ‘Bear Necessities’! The pupils choreographed their own group moves during dance lessons in school and enjoyed the challenges of interpreting the music, giving thought to levels, space and direction and learning how to use lifts and flight confidently and safely.
Well done to everyone who took part – it was thoroughly entertaining!
In nursery we have been busy planting seeds. The children have done an excellent job at looking after their seeds to help them grow! Our cress has already sprouted and we can’t wait until the shoots of our sunflowers start to appear!
We are currently busily working on our Europe topic. The class have split into groups and each group is learning as much as they can about a country in Europe. They are creating posters, iMovies and presentations about their country in preparation for parents coming to school in March. Parents will be invited to our travel agency to browse possible holiday destinations and choose which they feel would be best for them based on food, activities and weather. The date for this will be given soon.
We have been learning how to code in our Topic work. We have been using Tynker on the Ipads and we had to tell the dragon what to do. We gave the dragon instructions and we tried it to see if it would work with correctly. We have been learning about bugs (this is when something goes wrong, or our instructions are not correct). We have also been learning about loops which is when an instruction repeats itself.
Today we visited the Apple Store in Princes Street. We learned about which is a ball-shaped robot that you can program to move about. You can change the colour of the light inside, fade the light, and put different light effect on it. We also worked in partners. One of us was the coder and the other was the robot. We had to give instructions to our partner to get them to the finish point. We learned about an Ipad app called Swift Playground. We had to use our coding skills to move the character around the maze. This is a free app that can be downloaded to help children with their coding.
In our Maths work we have been learning about chance and uncertainty. We have been playing a lot of probability games. We are getting really good at predicting things that match a word (Impossible, Possible, Sometimes, Not very likely etc). We have also been working on our times tables and we are trying to improve the speed of our tables.
P4M have had a very busy time over the last few weeks! Mr Green joined us as a teaching student from the University of Edinburgh and worked with us on a number of topics. The class particularly enjoyed the science experiments he delivered on dissolving and water filters. We will be saying farewell to him this week on Friday 9th March.
We have started to learn how to code as our latest class project, and have had a Field Trip to the Apple Store on Princes Street. The class learned how to code using the coding language Swift and the iPad app called Swift Playgrounds. This is a free app so if you have an iPad at home you could download it and give it a go! The class also learned how to code Sphero robots using block based programming. We will be following this up in class with some work using an app called Tynker and a visit to Craigmount High School to work with Microbits.
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Don’t forget this term we have parent consultations so we are looking forward to seeing you all then! Miss Millar will be taking care of the Wednesday evening consultations and Mrs Martin will be taking the Friday appointments.
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