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Primary News
March 2017
Welcome Aboard the Titanic!
P4-5 have greatly enjoyed learning about the unsinkable queen of the sea this term. They have had
tremendous opportunities to learn about life on board and the causes of the disaster. They have seen
how film-makers affect our emotions with clever cinematography and how newspapers don’t always
get all the facts right! The opportunities for writing in different genres have been extensive and the
children took their learning home with a brief to be as creative, as organised, as independent and as
historically accurate as possible. We thought you might enjoy seeing some of the results.
Findlay Newman’s
Polystyrene Ship
Darach Blair’s
Minecraft Model
Jade Campbell’s
Massive Model
World of Work
Following on from the success of the World of Work Week last session, this year it was decided to
extend it to have pupils engage with the world of work throughout this term, therefore allowing the links
to be more relevant to class work. Thanks to the support of many local places of work our pupils have
had a range of opportunities this term including:
 A reporter from the Perthshire Advertiser speaking to P2/3 about what it is like to work for a
newspaper. The children had the opportunity to showcase their own news reports and ask
questions.
 A member of staff from Tayside Contracts spent time talking to P7a about her work in the
kitchen and how it related to their health and wellbeing healthy food outcomes for this term.
Generally the class decided her job was too stressful and no-one wanted to be a canteen
manager.
 P1 have been learning about the work of palaeontologists as part of their dinosaurs topic.
 Dr Armstrong from the Fish Lab in Pitlochry spoke to Primary 7 pupils about his work and how
his team used technologies to monitor fish stacks.
 While learning about the power of advertising P3/4 had a visit from Alistair Barr, the publisher of
The Quair magazine. He told the children about his work and set them a task, to create an
advertisement for him to use in The Quair – you can see an example of this work on Page 6.