A team of P7s from Birkhill Primary had so much fun participating in the annual Monifieth Fun In Athletics competition. Our team performed really well in the track and field events and came in second place overall. We would like to thank Jo Whaite (our Active Schools Co-ordinator) for helping to organise the event. We’d also like to thank the team of Dundee & Angus College students for overseeing the events and demonstrating the different skills for us each time.
Article written by Zara
This term P7B & P7J have been studying democracy as our topic. We have been learning about voting systems, voting behaviour, leadership systems and much more.
To practise what we have been learning, we held an election for our house captains. We decided to use the First Past The Post voting system and we prepared by writing persuasive speeches and posters/rosettes. We invited all of the pupils from each of the different houses to the upper area and we divided across four classrooms. We had lots of great candidates but our winners were…
Today we ended our topic with a visit from our local MSP, Graeme Dey. We prepared around 40 higher order questions to ask him and learned a huge amount about his work and what’s going on in the Scottish Parliament right now.
Article written by Zara, Sarah & Alan
The Eco Committee are thrilled to announce that we have just been awarded our 3rd Green Flag! A big well done to the whole school and all the parents involved.
The preschool have been using their imaginations to do some junk modelling. Look at some of their fantastic creations!
Post written by Eve and Holly P.7B
On Friday 2nd September, P7B and P7J went to the Dundee Flower and Food Festival and it was an amazing day! We got to try lots of tasters and gathered lots of freebies. We even saw a miniature Oor Wullie. Have you taken part in the Oor Wullie Bucket Trail?
Article written by Zara, Sarah & Alan
This year our new blog team will be responsible for our school posts. Keep a look out for their exciting, upcoming posts!
Our parent helpers organised and prepared a fantastic spread for a tuck shop taster session. All classes were able to come along and encouraged to try some healthy snacks that they had never had before. Huge thanks to all the mums who helped!
It’s been an action packed Health Week so far and here are some of the activities that have kept us busy! We have also had reflexology, pilates and meditation.
This term P4 opened their own café as an enterprise project. This opportunity helped us to develop a number of skills for learning, life and work in the process.
Our café was very well attended each week and we averaged over 50 guests on each of the five occasions that we opened. Before deducting the cost of equipment that we purchased for the café, we made a total profit of £835.75!
Due to the success of Dronley Delights café, we have covered all of the costs for a class trip to Edinburgh Zoo. The children have decided that they would like to donate a further £300 to Guide Dogs for the Blind. We look forward to a visit from a dog and one of the trainers in the final week of term.
Dronley Delights would not have been so successful without the overwhelming generosity and support of the school community. Thank you to all of the adult volunteers who helped in school with baking, running the café and doing dishes! Thanks also to those who were busy baking at home and who generously donated items for sale. A special thanks to Mrs Reid for running a very successful after-school cooking club. The club was attended by 19 pupils across the four occasions it ran and was a lot of fun.
We thoroughly enjoyed the experience and hope that you did too!
Mr Johnston
Written by Primary 7
Yesterday Birkhill Primary School held their first Careers Fair for children in the Primary 6 and 7 classes. We had a variety of speakers who came in to visit us. Some of the jobs included; forensic examiner, beauty therapist, civil engineer, police inspector, business owner, sports coach and lots more interesting careers. We had great fun planning and organising the Careers Fair.
We learned some valuable skills for life and work such as writing letters to professionals and writing our own CVs to highlight our skills and strengths. We also enjoyed participating in the team building activities halfway through the Careers Fair.
We would like to thank Mrs Ford from Monifieth High School for planning these activities and supporting this event. We would also like to thank Mel from CITB for his inspiring speech at the beginning and end of the fair. We even had helpers from our Primary 4 community café, Dronley Delights, to serve our guests refreshments. Thank you to all involved.
We had a great time at the Careers Fair and would like to take this opportunity to thank all the speakers who took part and made this event such a successful one.
Helana Storrie, Iona Cavill and Cameron Bell
You must be logged in to post a comment.