Mrs. Coutts brought some eggs and a incubator to p4b and we now have eighteen cute, cheerful little chicks. It takes round about 21 days for them to hatch. We got them on the first of May and they hatched on the 21st of May. The incubator does three jobs: keeps them moist, keeps them turning for 18 days and keeps them damp. When the eggs were hatching it was very exciting because we’ve not seen it happening before. There are three black chicks, one yellow chick and ten stripy chicks. Mr. Scrimshaw took four home.
Some people in P4b are taking some chicks home when the chicks are old enough. Mrs. Sell thinks that the chicks are going to have a good home. And we have had fun with them.
By Rachel and Hilary P4b
Mrs Coutts bought brought some chicks eggs into P4B. Now they’ve all hatched and they are so cute. My friend Peter calls one of them Benjyman and they are now in a box with food and water. The floor is sawdust and droppings – yes droppings. They’re fluffy and when they came out the egg they were wet! And not so cute. Now they play with each other and we are happy.
On Wednesday 21st May the Choir did a wonderful performance of musicals at assembly. Mrs Innes loves MUSICALS! They worked so well together – smashing voices and the piano player was fab.
The songs included the Cup song, Castle on a Cloud and Frozen.
One week a pupil in our class 4b brought in tadpoles.There are about one hundred and some of them are growing back legs.We are feeding them rabbit pellets and chickweed. The bigger ones are more of a brown colour but the smaller are a black colour.The tadpoles are fast eaters! We are watching them change into frogs. There is one that’s a froglet all ready. We plan to release the frogs in the Bin Forest.
Last Week p4b went on a walk round the Deveron because we were looking for habitat for our salmon and I persoomed they will be Fry by now. We walked with Catrin Jeans from Deveron Arts. We went to the Deveron park and kept going down a little path then we walked further until we came to a big hole. Much to my surprise we saw cows waiting for us.We also saw lovely flowers. And I was carrying my bright yellow hat and suddenly a fly came on, then another and another and by the time I got back to class I had twentyfive flies in my hat. And yesterday I went with my dad and sister and did the same walk but we went right up the steps and right back to my house.
Some oystercatchers have been busy in the school grounds over the last few weeks. There’s been two adults protecting their young from harm. They have a nest on the school roof, and the chicks have come off the roof quite early.
The young chicks have been wandering about the playground so when people come to school the parents have been trying to keep people away from the chicks! It has been lovely to see wildlife in school grounds.
Both Primary 7 classes had a Policeman in to talk to them about Internet Safety and Drugs Awareness! Both classes are currently doing revision on Living and Growing, and looking at other areas of the topic.!
They learnt about some of the many different types of drugs and how some can be used in medicines and some can be illegal and can seriously harm people. They learnt about how some drugs can slow down your brain and how you react to things, some can speed up your brain and make you more alert and how some can make you hallucinate!
In the second talk the policeman told the class about Internet Safety, he told them that not selecting private on social networking sites is a bit like putting a sign in your garden with your personal details on it and leaving your front door open and allowing anyone to walk into your house and look at your photos, bedroom etc.
The Primary 7’s really enjoyed the talk and found it very interesting!
Gardening club’s coffee morning was great we raised over £700. we would like to say a big thanks to the parents and to everyone who helped and supported us.
Last Tuesday the two p6 classes did an assembly, talking about how to stay safe on the internet. Some of the facts that learnt is that there are smart rules. S stands for safe, M is for meeting, A is for accepting all the junk email, R means reliable , T stands for tell. There was also other facts – like don’t give your personal details to people that you don’t know that person.
Remember that is it’s a jungle out there!
Here is a website link if you want to find out more;
As part of a dance set up by the Scottish Ballet, the whole of Gordon Primary had learnt a dance . The dance was called the Big Dance. It was great fun !.
One by one the clases got taught the dance by Mrs Raeburn and some of her helpers who were Fiona, Ellie, Faye, Nicole, Sophie, Caitlin, Philippa, Norah, Lola, Fiona, Amelia and Emma. 16th of May the whole school had learnt the dance. After lunch the whole school went downto the all weather pitch to do the dance. Everybody enjoyed it and hadgreat fun.
Last week two people from Balhousie care home, called Lucy and Tanya came to our class P4B and told us about a project that we will be doing at Balhousie Carehome. Our class is going to make butterflies at Balhousie. We are going to be working with some of the residents and we hope that they can tell us some stories. It will be spectacular!
