SLF Lego!

The BPS SLF Lego team have been getting very creative with our WeDo Lego kit over the last two weeks in school to prepare for the Scottish Learning Festival at the SECC on Wednesday 22nd September.

Advertising!
We will be appearing on the RM stand between 10am and 12.15pm at The Scottish Learning Festival and in order to advertise ourselves we had a little competition to design a flier which RM would have printed for us to hand out to passers by on Wednesday! We each created our own flier with a Lego theme and then we got together and discussed which one we thought would represent BPS the best. After much discussion we decided that Lewis' flier would be the winning entry and we have uploaded them all onto the SLF Lego Glow group with Lewis' flier being the one to be printed!

  

Construction!

We decided to create Lego models based around the theme of our World War II topic and last Thursday we completed our model Spitfire plane which connects via USB to the computer to both power the motorised propellor and enabled us to create sound bites which, after much discussion about timings, meant that our Spitfire sounds like it can drop bombs and fire guns!

After this we split our group into two; one group focused on creating extras using other Lego pieces to make a scene from the Clydebank Blitz, whilst the other group got busy on creating an instruction manual on how to build our Spitfire.

Our Clydebank Blitz scene is now complete - it has a large crane like the Titan Crane at Clydebank and it has a ship which we have tried to make look like an old replica sitting in the River Clyde.  We researched old ships and cranes online and that gave us some ideas for our construction.  We think that with the help of some green screen technology (as well as a green jumper sleeve and a green rubber glove!), our Spitfire should be able to fly over our river scene to Clydebank with its propellor spinning, firing guns and this time STOP the Luftwaffe from creating a path of destruction similar to that of 70 years ago!

Instruction Manual!
We completed our instruction manual on Friday there and it is fantastic! We deconstructed our Spitfire and using the same style as a real Lego instruction booklet, we drew each section of the plane, took photos of them and illustrated how it all fits together.  We then used Comic Life to create our own Lego instruction booklet using all of our drawings and photographs.  We have inserted captions as a guide and we are looking forward to seeing if our class mates can build our Spitfire from it too!!

If you would like to see our instruction booklet or try to make the Spitfire for yourself, click on the link below. (It is a large file so please be patient!)

Bearsden Lego Spitfire 

We can't wait for SLF Lego on Wednesday and we are really excited to find out what sorts of animation and green screen technology films we  will be creating too!


Inayah, Jamie, Paul, Lewis, Victoria, Abigail, Tom, Rennie and Mrs Russell!

Termly Update: September 2010

The P7s are really excited about their final year in Bearsden Primary School and want to make it their best year yet!

Topic  The topic this term is WWII.  The classes will be using Reciprocal Reading skills to enjoy the book 'Carrie's War' by Nina Bawden.  An exciting theatre trip has also been planned to see a production of Carrie's War in Glasgow in November.  As part of the WWII topic, P7's RME will be looking at Judaism and Jewish Holocaust.

In Music, the P7s are also going to script, act and film their own music video based on classic WWII songs.

So far we have looked at the events leading up to the start of WWII, Hitler's background, 1939 and 1940.  We have been particularly enjoying researching evacuation and have made our very own gas masks and boxes as well as ID cards and name tags!

PE  Both classes will have PE on Fridays, Room 19 will have an extra PE session on Wednesdays and Room 20 on Mondays.

Election  Our House Captain elections were a great success again this year, with some really fantastic election speeches.  Well done to our new House Captains and Vice Captains and good luck for the year ahead!

Assembly  As ambassadors for the rest of the school, all P7s are expected to wear full uniform, shirt and tie for Friday assemblies.


We are going to have a great year in Primary 7 and we are all very much looking forward to all of the exciting things that we will be taking part in.  We hope to do our very best and end the year ready for our move to secondary school!

CROSS COUNTRY

Our Cross Country runners took part in the final competition of the
Dunbartonshire Schools Cross Country League on Saturday at
Kirkintilloch. Every one of the runners gave 100% and the results were
fantastic.
However, our sympathies go to Catriona Booth who was lying in second
place in her race with only about 100 metres to go, when a painful
hamstring injury forced her to pull up.
The P7 boys team finished 2nd winning silver medals
John Brechany - 10th
Nicky O'Brien - 11th
Blaine Lang 18th
In the girls p7 race Caitlin Trotter finished in 3rd place winning
individual bronze.
Well done to all the runners who took part.
John Brechany Catriona Booth
Nicky O'Brien Caitlin Trotter
Blaine Lang Lauren Lyon
Adam Stanley Nicola Brechany
Andrew Turnbull Erin Halliday
Max Harris Lucy Scott
Martin Zelenka Kirsty Donaldson
Jamie Brennan Katie Simpson
Fergus Hempel Courtney Trotter
David Johnston Rebecca Munro
Murray Mackay Iona Cadger
Jack Buchanan Hannah Linden
Euan McClenaghan Laoise Rogers
It was great to see so many of you there and doing so well. A credit to
the school

Cross Country Winning Results

Once again our Cross Country runners have done us proud. In very
difficult slushy and icy conditions at Mugdock they managed to win 16
medals.
This
is the biggest haul of medals so far for Bearsden Primary.
Congratulations to all the pupils who took part. The P7 results are as
follows.
P7 BOYS TEAM:- 2nd PLACE- SILVER MEDALS
John Brechany 8th
Nicky O'Brien 9th
Blaine Lang 16th
As this team was only put together at the last minute on Friday this is
a great result.
P7 GIRLS INDIVIDUAL:-2ND PLACE - SILVER MEDAL
Catriona Booth 2nd
Caitliin Trotter 5th
Again there were not enough runners to make up a team, however, if
there had been there was a strong possibility that they would have
achieved gold medal position.
Amazing results! Well done runners you certaily deserve your medals!
Plenty of room for more runners. Why not come along to the final race
on Saturday 13th..you never know you COULD just win a medal!

Valentine's Disco

Primary 6s and 7s enjoyed a fantastic night at the Valentine's Disco last Thursday!  We had so much fun dancing together and we enjoyed the healthier tuck shop too.  The house captains did a tremendous job organising such a great night!!

Mrs Russell has now posted the photos from the night on Glow.  They are in the documents tab on the Primary 7 group page.... have a look, they're brilliant!

LCross Country 30th January at Oxgang

Well, the competition went ahead thank goodness and despite freezing
weather and icy conditions our runners did extrememly well.
In the P7 girls race Catriona Booth finished 3rd, Caitlin Trotter 7th
and Lauren Lyon 11th. This means that the girls win silver medals for
finishing in 2nd team place.
In the P7 boys race John Brechany finished in 13th position.
Unfortunately he was the only P7 boy running for the school so was
unable to be considered for a team position. Come on P7 boys! Come and
help John win a team position.
In the P5/6 girls race Nicola Brechany finished 2nd, Kirsty Donaldson
18th and Erin Halliday 19th. This means they finished a VERY creditable
5th team position out of 11 teams. They were only 4 points short of
winning silver. Next time girls! Courtney Trotter, Hannah Linden,
Rebecca Munro and Jennifer Wilson also ran well on the day, especially
as for some of the girls it was their first competition.
In the P5/6boys race David Johnston finished 19th, Jamie Brennan 26th,
and with Murray McKay our 3rd boy to finish 30secs ahead of Fergus
Hempel,this meant that the boys team position was a worthy 7th out of
the 14 that took part. Well done everyone and keep up the good work for
the next race on Saturday 27th February at Mugdock - 10am start.