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The work that we have created in collaboration with Fruitmarket Gallery will be on display as part of the ‘Colour Collective’ exhibition this weekend. Pupils will be attending the preview on Friday and can re-visit with families throughout the weekend to show off their work. Everyone is welcome as this is an exhibition that is open to the public.
Dear Mrs Jessop
It was almost impossible to decide which Design a Mathematician pictures to give awards to, since there were so many excellent entries in the competition. After a lot of discussion Lotte Hollands (who organised our MathWeek activities) and I decided that we would award one first prize and joint second and third prizes, though there were many more entries that were worthy of mention.
We were both very impressed by the number of different jobs that were drawn – mathematicians don’t just teach maths, and also at how few stereotypical old men with crazy hair were drawn – mathematics is a career for everyone.
At Heriot-Watt University, for instance, five of our recent staff appointments in mathematics have been women and we have many different nationalities working and studying together here.
The first prize was Willow Morgana Mathers – this was an excellently drawn picture of a female mathematician or scientist – or maybe even a medic, all of whom would be using mathematics in their everyday work.
Joint second prize went to Ella Goodall for a designer (and cat) and Malika Sahnoun for a robot mathematician (on a hover skateboard)
Ella showed that mathematics is used in all kind of careers and also drew a great outfit, and as for Malika’s design, we just liked the robot!
Joint third prize went to Mairi for her petsitter and Paul for himself in a rocket going to space. These were unexpected places to find mathematics being used, but it certainly is important in both cases either for keeping the pet or Paul safe.
Once again congratulations to EVERYONE for the great designs. We had great fun looking at them and arguing about the prizewinners.
I’ve appended pictures of the winners.
Prof Des Johnston
Mathematics Department
Heriot-Watt University
As a part of Interdisciplinary Projecr: All about me, boys from Language Class 1 have been learning about human body. They have worked really hard to create life size pictures of their bodies. They’ve also identified and labelled different parts. They have done amazing work!😀
It has been a very busy start of the year for us in the nursery! We are happy to have welcomed lots of new friends into both Calton Hill and Castle Hill class and have been having lots of fun.
We have been focusing a lot on friendship, kindness and how important they are. We have created a “kindness tree” and the boys & girls as well as staff are keeping an eye out for acts of kindness they see around the nursery so we can add more leaves to it. We have also put up a world map and been talking about where we are from.
We are noticing the changes around us; the days getting colder, the mornings being darker and the leaves changing colour before falling from the trees. We learned that squirrels collect nuts in the winter and that some animals hibernate. We have also been looking at “Nocturnal” animals and made a display of them.
With the days growing colder could parents please remember to send a winter jacket to nursery and any donations to our tissue collection would be greatly appreciated!
Royal Mile Primary School 