Tag Archives: P2

Early Stages Sports

P4c went to see the lower stages sports.  And the sun was shining and they were doing javelin, superman, egg and spoon race,and hurdles.

They were trying to get the ball into the tyre, they were running  round poles, stiltwalking, kicking the ball round poles and jumping in a sack.

Primary 1, 2 and 3 worked really hard at their sports day and they had a lot of fun.

By Louise and Kirsten

Learning Council

Elections are being held next Thursday (6th June 2013)!

The Learning Council is where class representatives and a group of teachers  meet regularly as a group to take forward and discuss the school!

Each class will elect 2 members to be in the council. The election will take place in term 4 of each year!

The learning council will discuss what is happening in school, making plans for improving the life of school, reps share the work of the council at assemblies, collect ideas from their classes and share at meetings.

They will meet 2 times in a term.

By Duncan (P6 Blogger)

Fairtrade Sculptures

As part of Fairtrade fortnight, classes have been making Fairtrade Sculptures out of recycled Fairtrade products. Many classes have already made a Sculpture!

P1  – Have made a Fairtrade banana tree!

P4c –  Have made a Fairtrade School!

Mrs Websters P2s – Have made a Fairtrade Rocket!

P4b – Have made a Fairtrade Jumper!

P5b – Have made a Collage of the Fairtrade logo

P5a – Have made a Fairtrade Funky Banana!

The completed sculptures and collages are being displayed in the dinner hall.

Here’s a link to the page on the Fair Trade website where the pictures are shown:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fairtradefoundation

By Duncan (P6 Blogger)

FAIRTRADE Fortnight

Fairtrade fortnight will be starting soon (February 25th to March 10th).

The FAIRTRADE representatives from all the classes in the school have been busy having meetings and deciding how they could help to promote Fairtrade over the fortnight.

There will be a Fairtrade tuckshop during the fortnight, run by the P4, 5,6, and 7 Fairtrade representatives. There will also be a sculpture/collage competition; each class is invited to bring in Fairtrade wrappers and packets and use these to make a sculpture or collage which will be displayed in the school. Photos of the artwork will be uploaded to the Fairtrade website.

There will also be a Fairtrade logo hunt in the school grounds during the second week.

Primary 4 Fairtrade reps have written letters to parents about the Fairtrade activities. Some reps have been busy making logos (for the treasure hunt) and badges. P 1-3 reps spoke to the early stages at assembly about the fortnight , and P5-7 reps wrote and delivered an assembly to the Upper Stages, reminding them why we should try and support Fairtrade and how Fairtrade helps some farmers to get a better (and fair) deal..

The Primary 6 classes are looking at Fairtrade as their project. P6B designed some lovely posters to promote the fortnight and the tuckshop.

Find out about Fairtrade with Aberdeenshire

http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/green/fairtrade/index.asp

News from the Palace!

A letter recently arrived at Gordon Primary School; we were very excited because it wasn’t an ordinary letter … It was a letter from the Queen!

During the run up to the Queens Diamond Jubilee, pupils in the lower stages had made a massive scrapbook about the Queen which included portraits of her Highness and information that they had found out about her life. They posted the scrapbook to Buckingham Palace as a gift for her for her Jubilee Celebrations.

They were delighted when a letter with a Buckingham Palace postmark arrived at the school in November. In it was a letter, signed by The Queens’ lady in waiting thanking the children for the “splendid scrapbook”. The letter also contained some leaflets about the Queens working day, Buckingham Palace and her pet corgis.

by Phillippa(p5 blogger)

and Mrs Sell