Yesterday the P7s went to Edinburgh college for a STEM experience. If you don’t know already STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths which are all the things we did at the college. My favourite thing that we did was building model rocket cars that actually WORKED! Every P7 from every school got put into teams and Lewis, Eden and me were on a team with two other people(our team was called Scooby).

Our teams rocket car went 72 mph but the fastest team’s car went 80 MPH. The cars were made out of a foam block that we drew on to get the shape that we wanted the car to be and then we took it to a wire cutter and one of the adults cut it. I learned that when plastic burns it smells horrible.

Once we had finished, the adults put rockets inside them and then used a 12 volt battery to set them off so they went flying down the wire they were attached to (so they don’t turn) and made a cloud of smoke that smelled like rotten egg. I learned that when sulphur is burned it smells like rotten egg, it smells like egg because eggs also have sulphur in them.

By Flynn Bronsdon

On Thursday p7 went to the stem challenge in Edinburgh College to do some transition for going to Ross High. When we got there we got into teams with other p7s from Elphinstone and St Martins. I was in team Shaggy with Cameron and Connor and a girl called Abby. We made rocket cars first out of foam. We cut the foam into a shape and put in some wheels and a jet engine. Our car went at 78 mph –  we called our team the rocket riders

My favourite part was the rocket cars and I like going to places to meet other people for transition to go to Ross.

Brennan Pender, P7

On Wednesday Lewis and I went to Ross High to meet other children going to Ross after the summer.  We were in a group with children from Elphinstone Primary.  There were 7 groups, we were in group 1 in the morning and group 7 after lunch.  We did basketball, curling, art, food, Young Scot, meditation, exercise and sports games. I enjoyed trying the paninis from the kitchen at Ross High and am looking forward to going to Ross after the summer holidays.

Brennan Pender, P7

Ever since August of 2017 there has been a challenge.

   A book challenge.

 A challenge to read 40 books in one school year.

It’s name, The 40 book challenge !!                    

Now in March of 2018, a whole 7 months later, for some, the challenge is nearing an end, for others not so much,

to show this, here are 5 of the highest current book totals of the p5/6/7 class :                               (with no names mentioned.)

1.  32
2.  30
3.  28
4.  25
5. 23      –  joint total

Personally I enjoyed the challenge and it definitely inspired me to read more. I hope it inspires you too!

I think some of the younger classes had different challenge goals to suite the ages of the class. maybe not, I don’t know.

Eden Young, Primary 7

In p5/6/7 this week we have been  learning about shapes.  We have learned to draw some 2D shapes –  squares and rectangles and parallelograms.

First we learned how to hold a ruler so that it would stay straight. Then we drew a faint line with the ruler, we used dots and lines to draw a square.

by May Jack p6

On Wednesday 7th February David Gilmore the IT guy came in to show us some of the features of the new chrome books. He showed us how Google drive works, he showed us how more than 1 person can work on Google docs at one time by sharing with someone, he showed us that you can voice type through the chrome books and it can listen for different languages but there can still be a bit of glitches because when we were trying it out on French we ended up with: furious pomme de tere avec fromage! Haricot depecher!

He showed us the various app you can get on your chrome books.

Cameron Smith

P7