March

Our Class Assembly!

P7.1 presented their assembly all about Lockerbie Manor on Friday. Miss Harkness was extremely proud of all of us.

STEM Week - Engineering

On Friday, Jack from Gordon Leslie spoke to us about Engineering. He brought in a drone for us to try! We were also set a challenge to design a vehicle using batteries and motors.

STEM Week - Satellites

On Thursday, Jack from Spire Global visited us. He told us all about nanosatellites. He set us an exciting challenge and we had to decide what data we wanted to gather and what satellite we would use to collect the data.

Rugby Session

We took part in a rugby session on Monday with Greg learning lots of skills.

STEM Week - Innovation Station

Mrs Martin planned lots of interesting STEM activities for us to participate in at the Innovation Station.

STEM Week - DXC

Gordon from DXC visited us on Monday. He talked about his job as a Project Manager. We were given a task to work together as part of a team to build a spaghetti and marshmallow tower.

Young Stem Leader Workshop 🪂

On Tuesday, the Young STEM Leaders from Mearns Castle High School came to visit P7.

We learned all about air resistance. Our task was to build the best parachute. It was really fun but quite challenging. Sometimes our parachutes would flip when they landed so we had to re-think our design.

Mirab told us some top tips for making the best parachute and we had another chance to improve. We definitely had some more successful parachutes after learning the top tips.

Mandarin

This week we learned the numbers 11-20. We also practiced asking each other our age.

Bikeability Road Session 2 🚴

We had our final Bikeability session on the roads this week. Everyone showed excellent skill when demonstrating manoeuvres such as left and right turns into major and minor roads, u-turns, safe starts and safe stops.

The instructors were really impressed!

World Book Day 📖 📚

We celebrated World Book Day on Thursday 6th March. We took part in a World Book Day "Booky and Footy" quiz online run by the National Literacy Trust.

There were also Drop Everything and Read sessions throughout the day. One was during our PE slot!

We also had the chance to do some shared reading with our buddies in Primary 1. We read them lots of books.