Our fantastic sunflowers, planted by P3/4 last session have finally collapsed in the wind…..but the Pre-5 unit have saved the heads and the birds are now enjoying sunflower seeds for lunch!
Paper making in P1/2
P1/2 have been learning that paper comes from trees. They found out all about the process that turns trees into paper and thought about what this meant for the planet. They think that we should not waste paper, that we should recycle more paper and reuse our scrap paper, and that people should plant a tree for every tree that is cut down. Here we are turning old newspaper into paper pulp – we enjoyed using the zapper! Our first recycled paper turned out a bit grey but we are going to try and refine our technique.
Bookswap
P1/2 held their first book swap of the year. One of their customers was so keen to get some new reading material that she brought 5 books to swap! Swapping books is great fun. It lets you get new books, which don’t cost anything and you can get rid of books that are too young for you. It is also good for the environment – reducing paper being used, and reusing books. The book swap will run every two weeks but remember to fill in a swapping form first!
The Cheeky Chicks
Mrs Clark brought 5 chicks to the school and a mum called Kracken.
The chicks are all yellow orange and are so cute. The mum’s feathers are crazy and are everywhere but don’t tell her that she is ugly because that will upset her, (she thinks that she is beautiful!) Sadly the little black chick, Smudge, has died due to bad weather and is no longer with us.
The chicks have water food and little crumb things around the outside of their chicken coop that Alicia made for her Endeavor last year and looks beautiful.
The chicks have to go home for the holiday to Mrs Clark’s house in case their food runs low and in case of bad weather.
Hope the chicks have a lovely holiday.
By Izzy
The New Eco Committee
Last week we had some interviews to see who would be our new committee. Â If we wanted to become part of the committee we had to fill in an application and say what we wanted to be and why we wanted to be part of the eco committee. Â So now we have chosen our committee we can tell you.
Chairperson- Oliver
secretary- Annie
Media managers- Ciara and Mirren
Treasurer- Torin
Fundraiser- Anwen
P1/2 eco monitors- Katherine and Scott
P3/4 eco minitors- Rebecca and Mathew
P5/6 eco minitors- Jasmine and Eva
On the 24th of november we will be getting assessed by the green flag committee.
By Annie Farrell
P3/4 Harvest assembly
On Wedensday 8th October p3/4 held a harvest assembly for parents and the rest of the school to watch. A week before the harvest assembly we collected lots of harvest gifts for the old. We do this every year and everyone puts in a tin of food and lots of other things in. When all the food was collected they started their Harvest Assembly which was called the little black cloud. Ellen was the little black cloud. It was about a little black cloud who was trying to help by watering everything but everyone was unhappy but at the end the farmers needed the water for the plants and then the cloud was happy again. The moral of this story is that everyone has different points of view. It linked to harvest because when they watered the plants they could use the food as harvest food! We interviewed Abi and Jack they were very kind to let us do this. They both said that they were very nervous at first but they really enjoyed it in the end. Abi was a narrator which she was very good at and Jack was a builder and he was good as well.
By Emily and Jodie 🙂
Team games with P6/7 from Port Charlotte Primary School
Yesterday we went to Port Charlotte Primary School to do some team games and bond with some of the P6/7s there. When we got there we had a chance to get to know the P6/7s better. After our long break we had lunch inside the school and went back out to have lunch break. Then at last we finally started team games, I was in a team with Annie, Jodie, Seumas and Mohit. We worked great as a group and won the game with 44 points. I had great fun and can’t wait to do something like that again.
Smoke Free Me!
On Monday P5,6,7 went to the high school to smoke free me. The people that were doing smoke free me they were telling us about how dangerous smoking is so they did a little drama. There names were Claire Air, Willy Try it and Justin Time. Claire Air and Willy Try it were best friends and they met a man called Justin Time and he smoked because he thought it made him look cool. so they said to him jump on the time machine and took him to the past were he met the tobacco lord and met a Doctor and they were persuading Justin not to smoke. So he jumped back on to the time machine and it took him back to the present. Then the time machine and it took him to the future but Justin didn’t have a future because he died young by smoking when he got back to the present and he quit smoking.
There are 4000 chemicals in tobacco.
By Ciara Johnston 🙂
Elections
For a couple of weeks p5/6 and p7 have been learning about elections and have been organizing their own parties. We all got split in to groups and there were six parties. The six parties were, the peace party, t.a.p which stood for the animal party, the green team, the fun party, fruitastic and w.o.f which stands for world of fitness. They all had slogans,
Peace Party- Make Peace, Have a Break
Green Team- We are Green and we are Keen
t.a.p- We stand for the Animals
Fruitastic- Fruity Fun
Wof- Fitness for Life
Fun Party- Fun for one and Fun for All!!!!!!
On Monday was our hustings, each group took it in turn to come and present their party on front of the school. In the presentation was the party leaders speech, the groups power point and the video which told you about them and how they would help people.They also went round at breaks handing out stickers so people would vote for them.
On Tuesday was the voting day where everyone in the school voted for who they thought would be the best. We set it up like a proper election, we had an electoral register, a ballot paper and everyone voted separately in the polling stations.
On Wednesday Mrs Clark and Miss Brown counted up all the votes: here are the results;
6th place- The Peace Party with 6 votes
5th place- wof with 7 votes
4th place-Â The Green Team with 9 votes
3rd place- Fruitastic with 11 votes
2nd place- Tap with 18 votes
1st!- Fun party which had 26 votes !!! 🙂
This was all part of our election topic and to finish our election topic, we are going to write our captains speech and use as many techniques as possible.
By Emily and Izzy 🙂
P6/7 Science Trip
On Tuesday 3rd June P6/7 went to Edinburgh to talk about science. They went on the Tuesday and came back on the Thursday night. On Wednesday some of the P4/5’s went to Social Enterprise awards they were doing Scent-Citizens soap business. They enjoyed being at the presentation and receiving an award. On the Thursday some of P6/7 went to Murrayfield to show off their science knowledge. At Murrayfield P6/7 were getting tested their knowledge about science, they’re was 3 judges that came round every stall and listened to all the schools talk about science and what they have created. P6/7 were against a lot of primary schools all over the UK. They took part in a number of STEM challenges run by different company’s one challenge was you had to build a tower of cups but you coulden’t touch they cups all you had was string and a rubber band and there was 5 all together. They also did a PINGPONGPENTATHALON were they had to create a number of things to carry a ping pong across the obstacles. At their stall they had science gadgets like (robotic arm) (Lego Mine storms) and a presentation that they performed in front of the judges they all really enjoyed it, sadly they didn’t win anything but they participated that’s all that counts.
By Alicia & Asher
