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The children have been enjoying learning how to measure length, volume and weight this week!

Primary 2 / 3 have been learning about the impact climate change is having on our planet. We have read stories to help our understanding of what climate change is and how changes to our world's weather and temperature can have a big impact on our natural world.

P6H joined in with pupils from all over Scotland again to take part in a second coding lesson. The theme this week was to create game to save the shark from plastic pollution in the ocean. The task was quite challenging as we had to use our maths knowledge of angles, negative numbers and co-ordinates [...]

Yesterday we had fun creating wordsearches for one another to complete that contained our weekly spelling words.

This morning we took part in a live code a long session with over 3000 pupils from across Scotland. We used a programme called Scratch to code and make a butterfly garden. It was great fun and used lots of our creative and problem solving skills.

Today in class we were measuring using tenths of a metre. We recorded our answers as fractions and also decimal fractions. Our measuring skills linked nicely to our work last week when we were learning all about decimal fractions.

Great way to finish up for Halloween this week with the children constructing some scary monsters. Hope they tasted as good as they looked!

This week we started learning about what tools we use to measure different things. We applied this knowledge when we made our fizzy potions and lava lamps for Halloween. We needed just the right amount of ingredients to get the mixtures to fizz but stay within the jar.

This week we have been carrying out some science experiments in P3/2. We tried different ways to make ghosts wail and fly and used our feedback to improve our techniques.

On Friday morning we used our problem solving skills to create patterns with one and two lines of symmetry using cuisenaire rods.

This week, P6 have been participating in Challenge Poverty Week. This relates to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child, linked to: Article 2 You have the right to protection against discrimination. This means that nobody can treat you badly because of your colour,sex or religion, if you speak another language, have [...]

P6 have continued their learning about Roman Numerals this week. They can now interpret and write in Roman Numerals, understanding the 7 basic letters used. The class created their own Roman Numeral clocks before working in small groups to create a Roman Numeral clock from natural materials in the playground. They had great fun locating [...]