Primary 6 had an amazing day yesterday learning more about World War 2! In the morning, pupils had opportunity to handle historic documents and see where they are stored. They also discovered how damaged artefacts are restored at the Archive Centre in Inverness. In the afternoon, a visit to Fort George allowed further immersion in real life history. With dressing up in costumes, a guided tour of the museum and exploring the Fort itself proving to be fun, interesting and informative. Thanks to those at both venues for helping to make our school trip a huge success! Thanks also to Blake’s mum, Mrs Wright and Mrs Neil for giving their time to help the day run so smoothly.

Well done to all the children who made such an huge effort to come in dressed up as a member of the work force. We had a plethora of jobs from Builders, Nurses, Vets, Actors, Teachers, Mums, Artists and so much more. Here are some of the work force on parade at assembly:

Primary 6 – little rays of yellow sunshine for Highland Hospice!

Primary 6 thought the science experience today, run by Mr Sharkey and pupils from Charleston, was amazing and awesome!!

Primary 6 learned how to use microscopes and now know the names for parts of the microscope too.

A big thank you to those who visited Beauly and helped us with our learning.

Primary 6 had a great day today at the RHET, Fun with Food and Farming at the Black Isle Showground. They learnt a lot about the different types of farming, investigated the vast range of foods/grains that Farmers’ produce. As well as discovering the economical aspects of farming and how important it is to support our local farmers.

Everyone  enjoyed the lambs and calves! 🙂

Here are a few pictures from our day out:

Sheep Shearing

Calves, one breed for milk the other for meat.

Making butter in the dairy.

Learning about bee keeping

Hay Bale wrapping.

where does the milk go?

Primary 6 pupils shared their learning with pupils, staff, parents and visitors during an Assembly on Friday 3 May. All pupils had been hard working and focused since returning from the Easter holidays and in a very short time had produced an amazing fact sharing Assembly. Information was presented using a timeline, posters, 3D models of gas mask boxes, shelters and homes, with interactive sounds of sirens and planes from chrome books. An Enigma code breaking challenge was given to Ben and Isla of P7. (Well done to them for solving it!)

Very proud of every one of you – you were amazing!!!

Primary 4-7 pupils had fun learning about magnetism in the Primary 6 classroom.   When learning about the properties of magnetic forces, each class watched an interesting video about the world’s magnetic forces and the aurora borealis.  Pupils also learned about the use of electromagnets within health and industries.  Pupils then went on to investigate magnetism at seven different active learning stations.  Within these stations they explored magnetic poles and their attraction and repulsion. They compared the strengths of different types of magnets and discovered that magnetic forces can travel through various materials.  Pupils were amazed that they could transfer magnetic forces to some metals and then use the metal needles as compasses that found the position of North.  Everyone enjoyed taking part in the fun activities too. Using magnets they made a car racing game and moved ‘stretchy people’ through a maze!

Over the past couple of months our interdisiplinary learning has been about Scotland and Scottish culture. We have been comparing our country with others. During our learning we have expressed what we’ve learnt through different mediums, such as poster making, literacy and art and design to mention but a few.

Here are some of our wonderful creations from posters about Scottish produce, to thistle tealight holders and clay Nessies.

Very Delicate and elegant thistle tealight holders hand crafted from clay.

Some of our creative expressions of our beloved Nessie, molded from clay.

Individually designed posters on Scottish produce.

The Eco group would like to give a big thank you to all the pupils and parents who helped make our book swap last Thursday such a big success.

We are happy to report that all children who brought a book from home left with a new book and story to enjoy.

Here are some photos of very happy and excited children with their newly swapped books.