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We are really enjoying our project about Scottish Inventors.  We even became inventors ourselves!  Look at the fun we have had designing a bridge out of newspapers to carry Miss Munro’s monkey.  We even got to create our very own inventions which was lots of fun.

Cameron: I liked going on the laptops to research John Logie Baird. I had fun making my glove. You get limited power with it like fireballs.

Brad: I made a bed that makes itself. I enjoyed doing my invention.

Lucy: I enjoyed painting my invention. I made a tele-porter. You type in where you want to go and then you press go and you’re there!

Sophie S: John Logie Baird, Alexander Fleming and Alexander Graham Bell were really famous. They invented medicine, TVs and the telephone. We got good information from the computer about them.

Today we had our Fancy Dress Dookin’ Party and it was great! We all got into the spirit by dressing up and the teachers found it tricky to know who we all were. Although everyone looked fantastic, the winners of our dressing up competition were:

P1/2/3:   First – Milly, Second – Keir, Third – Jamie

P4/5:  First – Cameron, Second – Finlay, Third – Sophie

P6/7: First – Ellie, Second - Andrew, Third (Joint) - Nadean and Andrew

We also held our traditional pumpkin competition!  Every year we are amazed by the imagination that you all show.  It was really difficult to pick some winners, but congratulations to Keir, Kyle and Ruairidh. 

Well done everyone, it was a really good day! 

We are all so excited about our Fancy Dress Dookin’ Party tomorrow! This afternoon we made some decorations. We worked in small groups and the older class helped the P1/2/3s. Some of the decorations were a bit of a challenge, but we think they look great!

We were so lucky today to have some visitors from Africa. The Zulu warriors came to us from God’s Golden Acre in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. It is an orphanage which helps children who have lost their parents through AIDs or violence. We were amazed by their fantastic clothes! They were great at singing and dancing. By the end of the morning we were all able to join in with two of their Zulu dances.

We have been learning all about our senses. This week we made a display to show people what the 5 senses are. You can look at them in our cloakroom. Then we did some surveys. We asked the whole school about their favourite things to see, hear, smell, taste and touch.

This week we enjoyed painting with Mrs Campbell. They were called monochrome paintings and we only used one colour with different tones and shades. By Sophie D and Sophie S.

We also went to tennis this week with the P6/7 class. We took the bus to Tain and learned more about tennis. Half the balls went on the road! We are looking forward to going next week again. By John and Clara.

Morag and her latest group have been cooking for us again! This week they pulled up some tatties from our garden and treated us to some tattie and leek soup. You might have been able to smell it if you passed the school on Friday – it was delicious!

Morag and her trusty bakers have given us some delicious treats for the past 2 weeks!  Last week they picked some apples from our school apple tree (given to us by Aimee Munro in June) and they baked some cakes with the apples mixed inside.  Then this week they picked some rhubarb from our garden and made some jam.  Can you guess what they decided to make for us to have with our jam?

Last term we were all involved in planting lots of interesting things in our school garden.  When we came back to school last week it was great to see that nature had been hard at work over the holidays!  So far we have spotted apples, strawberries and broadbeans.  We are having a think in our classes about how we will use them.

Congratulations to Dean Morrison (P7) who came first overall in the shot putt at the Invergordon Highland Games this weekend.

We hope you all had a lovely summer and are feeling refreshed for the new term.  A particularly warm welcome to all the new pupils who have joined us.  Keep checking the Blog regularly to see all the interesting things we are doing in school.

Look at our sports day pictures… we had the best time!

Here are the rest of the Easter pictures – as promised! Do enjoy!

In Science today we did PARACHUTES! Lots of us had very successful parachutes. We made little plasticine people to tie to the parachutes. Some of us used our red noses, we had to use our heads and work out what the weight of the parachute would be. Also how big it would be, if some of our class mates were real parachute designers not much lives would be saved. We had a lot of fun today at science crashing and sailing across the room.    

By Emily

  

Today in school we made some parachutes and boy it was fun. We all worked in pairs. To make them we did lots of experiments to see which ones would work the best. We all got to make our own model men to see if the parachutes were successful.  All of them appeared to be successful and worked. We were mainly doing this to see if the size of the parachute would make a difference on how quickly it would fall. We also had to make the parachute light to so it would not fall too fast.

 By Glenn and Tom M  

 

 

 

Over the last few weeks P6/7 have been making some victorian puppets and now we are painting them and gluing felt,card and pipe cleaners to them.

While we have been waiting our turn for the hot glue we made clowns and jesters they are very funny!!

What do you think?

David (P7)