S1 French

This week, S1 have been looking at describing their hair and eye colour in French. At the end of class today, they created their own cartoon faces, telling us about themselves in French. Have a look at how they got on:














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New Faces

Middle school were looking at the problems of tissue transplant at the start of this week. They then decided who may be eligible for a face transplant. They sturdier the risk involved when making their choices.









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Vaccine!

Middle school are using their ipads to listen to stories in the vaccine debate. They are then to work together to present a short drama to help parents decide on vaccinations.









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Super speeches!

Middle school are working very hard this morning! They are using their own research and the information they learnt from Dr Marks to write persuasive and exciting speeches...




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Digital Art Exhibition

Today, with the help of artist & photographer Graham Mckenzie Smith, we put up a digital art exhibition of over 80 framed prints. The prints are of a range of artworks created on the iPad by pupils from all stages of the school.

The exhibition is part of the Technology for Excellence conference that is being hosted by the school this week.

Middle school pupils will be opening the exhibition to parents, friends and the general public in the near future - we will keep you posted!

This is the middle school section:




The senior school section:




And the primary school section:

Dr Marks

Dr Leah Marks, a lecturer from Glasgow University, was working with middle school today on genetic disorders, chromosomal anomalies and new born screening. It was a great session with lots of interesting activities and discussion.

Character

Pupils were exploring character using adjectives, similes and metaphors this morning. They were working in groups and then individually on descriptions of the policeman who arrests them in their story about being wrongly accused due to false fingerprint evidence.

Dr Marks from Glaagow visits middle school

As part of our investigations into the DNA database, Dr Marks, a genetics lecturer from Glasgow University has spent the afternoon with us.

Dr Marks explored the reasons for and against having a DNA database.

We took our own fingerprints...









Mixed them up...




Then tried to match them up!...










We discovered how tricky fingerprint matching is- making us consider the benefits of a DNA database!


Then, Dr Marks spoke to us about how the database works, and examples of when it has been useful. She then explored with us some of the problems with a compulsory database- and was impressed with the childrens own research on the subject!



Here, volunteers are using string to represent their own DNA:



Then more volunteers tried to compare and match others DNA...






It's been a fascinating afternoon- a big thank you to Dr Marks for coming in.



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Yeast alive!

S1/2 were looking at yeast under the microscope today.









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Middle school get real...

Middle school are now researching arguments for and against a compulsory DNA database. They are using our get real method to assess the validity and usefulness of the websites they visit.












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DNA database

Middle school started the morning by demonstrating the learning they've done at home by summarising in five sentences their knowledge and understanding about the DNA database.

Here is Lyle speaking:





And Jack:



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Primary paintings

Here are a few examples of the paintings done by P2 and P4 during our peer tutoring afternoon (some have still to be emailed to me):

Chiara (P2):



Rebekah (P2):



Cain (P2):



Kathryn (P4)



April (P4):



Chantelle (P4):



David (P4):



Clair (P4):