All classes in the school have been sharing what they have found out about their commonwealth country in a series of entertaining and interesting assemblies.
Commonwealth Assemblies
Tour Guide Launch!
The launch of the 4th generation of Huntly Castle junior Tour Guides took place today, Wednesday 2cnd July.
Sports Day!
Sports for P2,3 and 4 started at the begining of school. My team had to throw a football in a tyre and parents came to watch us at sports day. It was amazing at the start but then it got hard. There were16 stations. There were hurdles and javelin. It was exciting at sports day and the Ospreys 1, 2 and 3 won sports day and I was excited and I felt for the other teams.
By William P4B
Huntly Express
When we walked along the river Deveron there was a lot of people who stepped in dog mess. The next week we wrote a letter to the Huntly Express. They were so interested they came to the school. Five lucky people got in the Huntly express and they are Ross, Caitlin , Charis ,Emily and Harvey. Pat Scott interviewed us because its disappointing that there is so much dog mess in Huntly. She put it on the front page because it was disgraceful and we want Huntly to be a cleaner place. By Ross & Peter
P3 Visit to Leith hall
On Tuesday the 24th of June P3A and P3B went to Leith hall. They went to Leith hall because they had to find minibeasts and minibeasts are their topic. There were four activities. One, was they went into the middle of the woods and did a bug hunt. Two, was they had pictures of minibeasts and they had to find them. Three, was a meadow sweep they had to have a tub and a magnifying glass, they made some room and put the tub down and saw some minibeasts, they tried to name them. Four, the last one that they did was the minibeast survey. The weather was very, very sunny.
They had fun and have been invited back to Leith hall.
By Rachel P4B
Balhousie Open Day
On Friday 20th of June p4b are going to Balhousie for the open day. We are going with our class but our parents and grandparents are coming to admire our work. The butterflys are beautiful and I think they will brighten up the place.
The care home looks wonderful with all the butterflies. We will be singing two songs; “I went to the cabbages”and “Downtown”. We are all having our face painted but only if our parents give us permission. We are all looking forward to be going to Balhousie.
By Charis and Mazie P4B.
Inter-Schools Commonwealth Games
On Monday 16 th June 2014 p4b and p4a did our own commonwealth games with other local schools. The schools included were Rhynie, Gartly, Forgue and so on. Our country was Northern Ireland and some of the other countries were Australia, South Africa and Malta . We had great time! Our team did not win but we did well. The Javelin was my favourite. I threw it so far so it went past both of the cones!
By Aidan and Harvey P4B
Class talks
Members of P4B have been doing talks about their interest/ hobby. The class have found out about a wide range of interests. Talks have included playing the chanter (with a lovely tune played by Lewis), football, mountain biking (which featured a wonderful video of Alasdair and his family biking through the forests and countryside and manga drawing from Sanya, who showed her artwork and talked about how her drawings have developed. Other interesting talks included Pokemon, Holland, WW Wrestling, animals, model trains, horse riding, dinosaurs and many others!
Paul Anderson
Pupils at the school were very lucky to be able to listen to Paul Anderson playing fiddle at assembly. Paul has been working with Deveron Arts, who arranged the visit into school.
Paul explained the difference between a fiddle and a violin. He then played some traditional scottish tunes. Everyone”s toes were tapping! Next he played some haunting music and asked everyone to close their eyes and try to imagine what the music was about. Some children thought the music was very sad. Paul told us that it was about the lady from Fyvie Castle. He then invited the school to walk around the hall in time to a tune.
Everyone enjoyed listening to the music and learning more about fiddle music.
Moths Galore
Recently P4B have had the opportunity to observe two spectacular moths. First Clover bought her moth into school. She had hatched the moth out from a larva. Unfortunately once the moth hatches out it only lives for two weeks. The class admired its spectacular markings and some children were able to hold it.
A few days later someone noticed another large moth(a Poplar Hawk moth) that had landed at the doors into the P4 area. Everyone had a chance to have a really good look at the moth, and we then told the P3s (who were out doing a mini beast hunt!) where it was so that they could observe it too.
