We enjoyed getting started with this year’s Master Class programme. The classes on offer this term are Yoga, running, Chinese craft, Lego movie making, cards, orienteering, geometric art, chess and hamabeads.
Some of our P7 coders had a fun time learning about robots by doing a teardown on Marty, with our friends from Robotical.
Next week the challenge will be to put them back together!
We all got a good work out when we tried to make butter last week. Our first attempt with single cream failed but we tried again with double cream and were delighted with the results!
The children shook cream in a bottle, after a while we noticed that the sound it made and texture had changed. When we opened the bottle we discovered that we had made butter and buttermilk.
The Musuem of Childhood is hosting free teddies and trains workshops at 10.30pm and 1.30pm tomorrow.
Bring along a toy and make your own themed basket to keep them in.
Mr McDonald, Maths Teacher from Tynecastle High School delivered a maths lesson to Primary 7.
The focus of this lesson was cracking different types of code. The class started with semaphore before learning about Caesar ciphers and pigpen ciphers.
Primary 7 have been investigating whether the design of a paper aeroplane effects how far it will fly.
The class worked in groups of 3 and made 4 different styles of paper aeroplane. They then took them outside to see how far they would fly.
If you’re confused about parent pay don’t worry, we have a page for that!
Mrs Samina Mustaq, our EAL teacher, met with parents whose children have English as an additional language.
She provide advice and answered the questions parents had about how they could support their child’s English and home language development during their time at nursery and at home.
Afterwards some of our feedback from the parents was:
‘A wonderful session for all other language parents’
‘The EAL Session was very helpful and encouraging’
‘The EAL session was really helpful – solved some of the questions we had’.
P5 are creating marshmallow and spaghetti space rockets as part of our Space topic.
A festival of walking and cycling is coming soon to Harrison Park.
The event takes place on Sunday 30th in the afternoon.
Dalry Primary Edinburgh 