Entries from March 2009

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Eco Songs

The Eco-Crew set a challenge to all classes to write an eco song or slogan for the school. We listened to some eco songs we found on the internet and worked in teams to write our own lyrics to catchy tunes.

How do you think we got [...]

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

WWII – Henry Moore Sculptures

Primary 7 created sculptures based on Moore’s war drawings.
Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist and sculptor.
During the war, Moore was commissioned as a war artist, producing powerful drawings of Londoners sleeping in the London Underground while sheltering from the blitz.
We used newspaper to make our figures and [...]

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Red Nose Day 2009

Today everyone at school worked together to raise money for Comic Relief. P1-3 wore spotty clothes and P4-7 wore something red, we also had a RED tuckshop! Altogether the school raised over £300! Click on the link to play some Red Nose games and leave a comment with your score – Good [...]

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

INEOS SET Fair

Today P7s from Dunipace, Hallglen, Carron and Kinneil Primary Schools went to the INEOS Science Fair. There were lots of activities including errupting volcanoes, crane building and the live wire challenge.
What was your favourite part of the day?

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Denny High Science Day

Today we visited Denny High for a Science Day. We did lots of experiments, including turning clear liquid pink and making noisy putty!
Leave a comment about your favourite part of the day.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

WWII Information Films

We’ve been working in pairs to make an information film about a topic relating to WWII, for example rationing, evacuation or a family member who experienced WWII. We researched and gathered information, wrote a script and presented what we found using Windows Movie Maker.
Here are a few of our films:
Chloe & Hannah
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Gas Masks – WWII

Gas Masks
We designed and made gas masks as part of our WWII project, we had to make sure we could see out of the gas mask and a filter to protect us from the poisonous gas. It was quite tricky because it was difficult making the paper do what you needed, especially the nozzle. [...]