Category Archives: Literacy and English

Rotary Club Writing Competition

Our class have been writing a story for the Rotary Club Writing Competition. The theme was Our World is Beautiful and you had to write a story where you had to use your imagination, include descriptive language, outstanding openers, capture the reader’s interest and only go up to 500 words! My story was about an explorer who loved to travel the world and every time he came to a different country, he would take the perfect picture for this mothers birthday. But he was sick of giving her the same sort of stuff. So he decided to travel to Scotland and take a picture of the beautiful scenery. We had lots of fun writing these and can’t wait to hear the results.

By Kiera

Puppet Show

We’ve had great fun making a puppet show. We made some dragons out of some bright colourful card. We got put into a group, each group had four people in. I was in a group with Stewart, Etienne, and Jenny but one group had five people in it. We had to make our own background and our own scenes. We used paper and different materials then when we had finished and we were happy with then scenes we each went into different rooms to film our movies. We each got about an hour and a half to do our movies. The next day we used an app on the MacBooks called iMovie to edit the shows. We all finished then we got to see all of the other movies it was very funny for me. The best part was making the dragons.

By Lara

 

Earlier this term we made some Chinese dragons and we thought it would be a great idea if we make an iMovie puppet show with our dragons. First we had to make up our own story then Miss Travers put us into groups of 4-5 people and sent us to different rooms in the school so it was nice and quiet for us to video. I was in a group with Lara, Stewart and Etienne. We also had to make all our backgrounds and other characters that we needed. Our story was about four fearsome dragons and they lived on different islands surrounding one island with their special egg on it. But there was an evil King who wanted that egg and set off on a scary journey to steal it! When he got there the egg had hatched and all the dragons got together and won the battle! I really enjoyed doing it and I especially enjoyed making all the props and characters. And once all the groups had finished there stories we all sat down and watched everybody else’s. I found them really cool and funny!
By Jenny

Chinese Dragons

We listened to a Chinese legend about a dragon then we made our own.
The story we listened to was about a very old dragon who had flown down from a nearby mountain to die but the hated King wanted the dragon killed anyway to be more popular. He hired the best dragon killer in all the land to kill the old dragon but he didn’t because he knew it was going to die so he returned and the King was furious but he didn’t stop try and hired the second best dragon killer in the land. But he also returned without killing the dragon, this made him so angry he could have stomped his feet but he didn’t. He hired the third best dragon killer in the land. He went to see the dragon then came back and agreed to do it and killed the old dragon, ignoring the warning the previous dragon killers had given about the dragon. The dragon blood poisoned the land so that crops didn’t grow for 100 years and the smoke that came out of the dragon’s nose blocked out the sun.

After we made Chinese dragons out of paper. It was quite simple. We drew the shape of the head and cut it out the added some horns, eyes, beards and teeth. Then we made the body by folding paper.
Here’s the website we used if you want to make your own.
www.topmarks.co.uk/ChineseNewYear/ChineseDragon.aspx

By Euan

Saint George and the Dragon

We have started our Myths and Legends topic and we’ve been listening to lots of stories. Miss Travers read us the story of St. George and the Dragon. Some versions of the story have George killing the dragon, but in others the dragon is actually quite friendly. We looked at the clothes and equipment that a knight might need. We looked at images of shields on the internet then we started to make the shape of our own shields. Once we had made our shield we started to cut it out, and then we decorated them. Some people put animals or mythical creatures on their shield, quite a lot of others made swords. There was a variety of things to do. I chose to make a lion and two swords. The shields look great on the classroom wall.
By Matthew M

Burns Competition

Burns

On Friday, 12 pupils from Cardross Primary went to a Burns Competition at Hermitage Academy. To qualify for the competition, you had to be the winner of your class competition for either the poem or song and be in P4-P7. I was the class winner in the song competition and Laura won the P7b competition so we both got to go. There was four other schools there and they were all very talented. The schools were Garelochhead, Rhu and Colgrain. Colgrain and Garelochhead were just doing the poem but Rhu and Cardross did the song and poem. The Rhu children were great and in their song they had some hilarious words and I can’t even remember them. In Cardross we had a few phenomenal songs because we had five songs and four poems. All the winners were from Cardross Primary! We were over the moon to find that out! One person thought I was only a P6 and could win next year. When I told him I was actually P7 he said that they should hold me back a year.
By Samuel M