Sadly Mr Norris (school inspector) couldn’t make it on Friday. He will try to come in February instead.
By Fiona & Ellie P5 Bloggers
After School Cricket Club
Our school sometimes holds clubs after school and in school times!
We really enjoy them and I am going to tell you about one of them:
The Cricket Club!
Its only for girls and its after school and its for girls in primaries 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Mr Nicol runs it and he enjoys it as much as the girls do!
They meet every week on Tuesdays and they have to be first to leave from school.
There is also a boys cricket club and a girl and boy cricket club but I am only going to write about the girls one.
By Libby And Sinead xxx
Outdoor Fun
Other classes also took the opportunity of working outdoors in the snow, making the most of the fact that the snow was perfect for making snowballs and snowmen. P4 and P3 classes went outside today to build snowmen. P4C worked together in their co-operative learning groups to build and name a snowman. One group made a snow horse. P4B decided they wanted a change from snowmen and worked together to build a snow dolphin and other animals.
Snow
The white stuff is back…
…but the nursery children are making the most of it by shovelling it, building snowmen out of it and they made snow angels!
Their outdoor playsuits, that they bought with the money raised from their sponsored walk, came in use yet again.
By Duncan (P6 Blogger)
Class Dancing!
Most classes in our school are doing social dancing for their Christmas parties. We are all working very hard and having some fun ! 🙂
P6B and P6A are dancing together for our Christmas party and we all cant wait !
It is normally girls pick boys and then boys pick girls but sometimes it is the other way round for partner picking. We are all doing a variety of dancing and we all have a load of fun !
My class P6B are doing Gay Gordon’s, Grand March, Circle Waltz and many many more !
By Libby x 😀
FAIRTRADE Elections
Results are coming in from the FAIRTRADE elections that were held last week. Here are some of the new Fairtrade representatives.
- P7A Megan Lily
- P7B Ellis Stephanie
- P6A Amelia and William
- P6B Leah and Jesse
- P5A Freya Quinn
- P5B Fiona Liam
- P4A Duncan Ayesha
- P4B Ailsa
- P4C Cameron and Zoe
- P3A Charlotte Scout
- P3B
- P2A Leah Jack
- P2B Reaban Joseph
- P1A Hazel Ludovic
- P1B David Kacie
More results are to follow.
New reps will meet for their first meeting next week.
Horse logging
Primary 4A and 4B were very lucky to be able to go down to the meadows to watch the horse logging last Thursday (Nov 30th). The trip was organised by Aberdeenshire Council and the Forestry Commission.
Over a period of 3 weeks about 155 trees had been moved from the Meadows using the traditional method of horse logging.
They learnt about the importance of the woods for encouraging wildlife, the uses of the forest (for paper production and fuel) and why the forest was being thinned. The Clydesdale horse was being used to move the felled logs because it was able to fit into smaller space that a tractor wouldn’t be able to fit into.
The children were able to stroke Wesley, the horse and help to feed him.
Ther outing was very interesting and everyone enjoyed seeing the horse and learning about logging.
St Andrews Day
The nursery joined in St Andrews Day celebrations by coming to school in a touch of tartan.
Movember!
At school some of our teachers are growing moustaches to raise money for a mens health charity.
The teachers that have took part in this are:
Mr Srimshaw, Mr Gray, Mr Wood, Mr Paterson and Mr Main.
They have had to grow a Moustache and try and get people to sponsor them and all the sponsor money will go to a Mens Health Charity.
We Congratulate all the Teachers who took part!!
By Cameron & Duncan (P6 Bloggers)
Nursery Tour
The nursery were told about Huntly Castle by some of the Huntly Castle Junior Tour Guides.
They learnt about the kitchen and how the food was cooked in an enormous cooking pot. They learnt that the fire was never allowed to go out.
They were also told about the prison, the Great Hall and the Lords chamber.
Back at the nursery they made a soup just like the one that would have been made 400 years ago in the castle.
