Leavers visit Hollybrook Academy

Our Primary Seven children visited Hollybrook Academy to take part in a science morning and get to know the place most of them will be going to in the summer. We saw some old friends who left Kirkriggs for high school last year and they put the children's minds at ease about the big move to secondary.

Ms Roberts gave us a warm welcome as always

 

The hall was laid out and ready for the activities

 

Leon got a very mild shock from the static electricity

 

James cycled a bicycle which in turn moved a blender to make a smoothie

 

Leon had a go too!

 

We met children from other schools who might well be classmates of the Kirkriggs children in August

 

Harris liked the sound-waves game.

 

Former Kirkriggs teacher, Mr Falconer was leading the activities!

This was a very good introduction to Hollybrook for our children and is just the beginning of an extensive programme of visits which will prepare our leavers for high school. They are all positive about their transition to Hollybrook and we'll do everything in our power to make it as smooth as possible. Exciting times for the P7s!

Community Cafe- Community Helpers

Thank you for all your kind donation for the Community Café. Its was a great success and the Community Helper's are looking forwards to opening again next week.


Here are some photos of us at work.

This week in Room 3...

We used our numicon blocks to build towers up to number 5.

We used playdoh to make boats, cars and aeroplanes.

We used our cutting skills to cut out fish and stick them onto our underwater submarine pictures.

 

 

We used a rocket launcher to make our rockets fly along the school corridor. It was great fun!

 

Maths Time in Room 9

Room 9 always enjoy maths time in class as it's a time of fun and challenge as well as a learning opportunity. The children learn mathematical concepts by manipulating various materials such as cubes, counters and base ten material.

It is very important that children get to use skills they learn in class in real life situations. That is why it is so good to take them to the supermarket or other such outings. They will see money, numbers, shapes, words, sizes and prices displayed there and begin to link them with the things they do in class.

Shah and Jamie are concentrating well.

 

Aman is solving his add on problems.

 

Mazin is figuring out hard sums using Base Ten material

 

Jamie is working well in maths these days.

The children learn about numbers in a whole host of ways and the emphasis is always on active learning and engaging the children.



Transport in Room 3

This week for our transport topic we all had turns of different activities. We used playdoh to make wheels, passengers on buses and different types of transport, we used the beebots to travel around the mat and we pushed and pulled cars up and down the ramp. Here are some photos of us working hard: