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Page 3 of 12 Primary News March 2017

Page 3 of 12 Primary News March 2017

Farm Visit
Mr Liney ’ s class were invited by the Thomson Family at West Park Farm to see what happens at lambing time .
P7 News
P7 have had an interesting term . Science week was a huge hit . From the planetarium to examining rocks , the P7s experienced a whole range of STEM subjects and wrote up science diaries to keep track of the wide selection of activities . The “ Making IT Happen ” session dovetailed with their “ Technologies ” topic , where they were able to programme a computer game . Since then they were amazed by Dr Armstrong from the Fish Laboratory at Faskally , who showed them how his team merged science with technology and spoke to them about his own career linked the ‘ World at Work ’ programme . Finally , they have rounded off the term by creating their own web pages using html and CSS coding based on their “ Personal Project ” homework . Keep your eyes peeled , we are hoping to have them available on the school website for you all to see !
Dinosaurs in P1 !
This term Primary 1 have been learning about dinosaurs . We learned about the work of palaeontologists and made our own fossils . One morning we found a strange egg had apparently hatched in our classroom and although we followed the footprints on the carpet we couldn ’ t find the baby dinosaur anywhere . This inspired us to write our own stories about what we think had happened .
We worked in groups to learn more about different dinosaurs . We have been sharing our learning with each other by presenting short talks and some of us have produced excellent visual aids to help with this .