As part of our Natural Disasters topic, the children made tornadoes inside bottles. 

Each person had a job to do to make sure we had no disasters in the classroom :D

This really was a trial and error activity and everyone showed great perseverance as it did not work initially. 

I loved hearing the shouts of "It worked!" and "I did it!"

The pupils became structural engineers with a task to build a house to withstand an earthquake. Not to make the task too easy, it had to protect a raw egg. The only materials they had was dry spaghetti and marshmallows. It really was a case of trial and error and a few eggs did not make it :)

Here is a selection of some of the houses built by our engineers. Each house was placed on a bed of jelly and it was given a wee shake to simulate an earthquake. Thankfully none of the houses completely collapsed. We may have some structural engineers of the future in P5.

Our new topic is The Jacobites. We made white cockades like the Jacobite supporters used to wear.

We were lucky enough to have a visit from the author of our class novel, Barbara Henderson. We are reading The Reluctant Rebel which begins after the battle of Culloden.

We were treated to a reading and some freeze frame drama lessons.

Lots of budding actors I think you will agree.

During our trip to Culloden Battlefield we learned more about real people affected by the war. We also became detectives, looking at artifacts, trying to identify what they were and who they would have belonged to.