Newmore Primary School

This week, the whole school were given the opportunity to take part in a Talent Show to show off their skills and talents which contribute and help to develop their own personal skills linked to our ‘Super 6 Skills.’

The children were super and we had a huge variety of talents from jokes, to parkour.

P1-7 all worked collaboratively in mixed groups today to create a roller coaster.

The children were given the following design brief that their roller coaster had to be:

• at least 30cm tall in one point (ruler)
• The bingo ball rolls down from the top to the bottom without falling off or without someone supporting it

The children all created some brilliant roller coasters, it is interesting to see how the children interpret the design brief and how different they can all be. The children were problem solving along the way and coming up with strategies to challenges. They were also able to justify their solutions.

This afternoon, the staff will evaluate the activity and make links using our schools ‘Super 6 Skills.’

This week P4-7 created mixed media Viking Boats.

Aren’t they fantastic?

This week,  Fionnadh Carroll, STEM Engagement Officer for the Dingwall ‘Newton Room’ delivered a taster session to P7 pupils from Ardross and Newmore at Ardross Hall.

They are currently in the process of refurbishing the space in Dingwall Town Hall to become a local ‘Newton Room’. Whilst it awaits completion of this work, they are offering taster sessions for Primary 7 pupils.

The children explored different ways to estimate, calculate and measure distances then use LEGO MINDSTORM robots to assess their accuracy. They calculated the circumference of their robot’s wheels and plot a course around the perimeter of shapes.

This was a super session for the children and they loved using the robots to aid their learning.

Background:

The Science Skills Academy (SSA) delivers hands-on practical STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) activities to P6-S2 students in the Highlands and Islands. Our aim is for the sessions to excite and inspire students, and encourage them to study STEM subjects at school and beyond. We also introduce students to the wide variety of STEM career pathways, both in general and in the Highlands and Islands region. The SSA is a programme led by Highlands and Islands Enterprise and run in partnership with the Highland Council, NHS Highland, Skills Development Scotland, and the University of the Highlands and Islands.

On Friday Night we held a Family Games Night to raise money towards the P7 Residential trip.

A fantastic amount of £241 was raised.

We all had great fun, special thanks to Mr G, our Games Master and to all who baked for the interval.

THANK YOU for your support, it was a great turnout 🙂

Today, South Lodge kindly gave us the use of their hall for P4-7 to take part in a Netball session delivered by P.E Teacher Mandy Gill who also attends Fyrish Flyers Netball Team.

The children thoroughly enjoyed this experience, they had never played Netball before.

In Science, P4-7 are beginning a topic on Senses. To link with this, in Art the pupils used mirrors to make an observational drawing of their own eye using pastels.

The children have been covering a number of Curricular areas in their latest project, Science, Technology and Creativity are to name but a few.

The children had to design a luxury apartment with at least two rooms with two pieces of furniture . One room had to include a series circuit with two lights and the other room had to include a parallel circuit. They also had to consider how to keep the wires from showing in the rooms.

We used an energy ball to test whether humans are conductors. When you touch the two metal strips on the ball your hand becomes part of an electric circuit. We made a whole class circuit by holding hands. It made the ball light up. When someone broke the circle, the light went off.

Today saw the debut of our new ‘School Values Award.’

We had 5 successful winners today who have demonstrated our school values. Well Done to all of our winners! Awards can be given to pupils showing examples of the following…

‘Never give up

Empathy

Working Hard

Motivated

Opportunities

Ready to Learn

Encouraging’