Duck visit

I'm This week P4 are all taking part in presenting 1 minute talks on a topic of their choice. 

They have all been doing really well and we have lots of confident presenters in the class. 

It was Ewan's turn today and he took in his pet duck to show us. He took it round the school to show everyone else too. 

Good job with the presentations everyone.

Swimming!

Primary 4 start their 4 week block of swimming on Monday! 

Please bring your swimming kit (costume, towel and shampoo/shower gel)

Spread the word! 

Doctor visit

On Thursday afternoon Dr Sheehan kindly came to visit us to share some information about her job and how she helps people to get better and stay healthy. She showed us some of the equipment she uses every day to help find out what is wrong with people and what she might use in an emergency. 

It was very interesting to hear all about the job of a doctor. 

Finding out our heart rates and how much oxygen is in our blood. 

Using a stethoscope to listen to our heartbeats. 

Testing our reflexes. 

Finding veins. 

The emergency kit bag! We learned all about the ABCs of medicine today! Airways, breathing, circulation! 

Learning more about where we live

On Wednesday P4 went to Stromness Museum to find out more about Stromness 100 years ago. We each had to find out face next to a well known character and find out a bit about them. 

On the way to the museum P4 explored some of the peedie lanes around the town. We had a super wander and envelope managed time for a peedie play at Ness Playpark. 

Scottish Water Competition winners

Back in October, staff from Scottish Water came to the school to tell us all about the work that they will be undertaking in Stromness over the next while. They gave us the chance to enter a safety poster competition. The winners posters will be made into large billboards for around th work sites in the town. 

In the P3&4 category, Annie was runner up, receiving a £10 book token, and the winner was Erin, winning a £20 book token. Well done girls! 

Buddy bench painting

We have made a start painting up 1 of the 3 buddy benches. Annie's design was chosen as the winner. 

Here we are undercoating the bench. We will get onto the bright colours soon. 

We are looking to have the benches out in the playground in the next few weeks. 

Egg-citing challenge

In topic we have been learning about the skeleton. We learned that our bones are strong and help to protect our main organs. We took on a fun challenge to end the week which involved us designing a protective case for an egg. We would be dropping the egg from a height and we had to try and stop the egg from breaking. We also had to try and do this by adding the least amount of packaging around our egg.   It was great fun dropping the eggs and only 1 team managed to save their egg! 

Stromness in the past

As part of the World War 1 commemoration project primary 4 are taking a closer look at Stromness 100 years ago. We are looking at photos of Stromness in the early 1900's and will be aiming to take updated versions showing the changes in the town over the last 100 years.