Braemar School and Nursery

We made the most of the snow by using rulers to measure snow in the playground. We were looking for the deepest snow and wondered if there would be more or less snow in the afternoon. The snow was 26.5 cm deep in the morning and 22.5 cm deep in the afternoon. We spoke about why this was.

We are excited about our new context for learning – The Weather.

Well done to the Recorder Masterclass who have learnt how to hold the recorder and play some notes. Some of the older children have managed to learn a tune or two. They have all made a lot of progress and I hope you continue to play in the future.

On Thursday 23rd of January  primary 1-3 started a building project. They will do the project for 6 weeks on the first week they were studying what buildings were made of. They found out that they were made of bricks, clay, reeds, stones, wood, mud and turf. They had help from a lady called Sian. On week 2 they learnt how to build houses and used pretend mortar to glue the mini bricks together. They used clay and stones to build walls and used paper bricks to build walls with no lines of weakness. Yesterday they were making arches and looking at shapes .They still have  4 more weeks to finish their project and they look forward to learning more.

Braemar School Burns Event

On the 27^th of January at Braemar School we had a burns event. In the morning we all started the competitions. We started with our poems and the P7s went first. For a while we have been learning Scots language and about Robert Burns. There were 4 competitions. The competitions were poems, art, music and singing. After all the competitions we went through to the hall for our Burns lunch. The haggis got piped in, and Josh B did the address to the haggis. Then we got our food and the younger class did the grace for us. We ate out haggis, neaps and tatties. Then Lesely, Raymond and Ian who were the judges told us the results for the competition. For the poems one person won from each year. For the music it was P1-3 and P4-7. It was the same for the art and the singing. Then we went out to play for 10 minutes. When we came back in, we had a concert. The winners performed and some adults from the community also came in to perform.  It was very entertaining. At the end we got in a circle and sang Auld Lang Syne. We all went home after having a good time.

By Kaitlin  and  Julia

On Monday the 27th of January we had a competition for singing, poems, art and scottish musical instrument  playing about Robert Burns. The judges were Lesley, Raymond and Ian. They had a while to decide who were the winners and they were announced at lunch.

We ate our haggis neeps and tatties for lunch. The haggis was piped in by MR Torrence and Josh B addressed the haggis. Then we said grace and ate! All the school attended including visitors.

We had a concert in the afternoon where all the winners performed. Including Sue and Derek sang a beautiful version of A Fond Kiss. Kaitlin and her dad played the fiddle. We also had a performance from the recorder group. They played Katie Bairdie. The winners of the poem competition were: P1 Harris and Ella P2 Sebastian P3 Eilidh P4 Alexis and Robin P5 Josh F P6 Abigail P7 Josh B. The winners of the singing competition were P1-3 Lucian and Jack P4-7 Diamond. The winners of the art competition was P1-2 was Harris P3 Chloe P4-5 Alexis P6-7 Christian and the musical instrument players were P1-3 was Lucian and P4-7 was Kaitlin.

By Olivia and Maya

We are learning about Scots and Doric language. We are collecting words and phrases to use in our own writing. Please can you help us by adding words and phrases to our virtual pinboard. Click here to visit the pinboard and follow the instructions.

Thank you for your help.

( For pupils – add one word/phrase to the pinboard. Ask family and friends to help you.)

On Tuesday Braemar school sang at the school fair and it was a success. On Wednesday Braemar school went to the Fife Arms Hotel to decorate gingerbread men and after we decorated gingerbread men we sang on the stairs to the guests in the Fife. On Thursday we went to Kindrochit Court.

By Christian and Robin

We have be being dancing with Mrs Munro and with the younger class and we have  also been doing a dance called strip the willow then we had lunch then we did more dancing with Mrs Munro and we did the  gay Gordon’s.

by Ajay and Brian

We went to the panto to watch CINDARELLA in Aberdeen it was really fun and a bit rude/silly my favourite  was the dances     It was so interesting and funny. Starring buttons, fairy godmother prince charming ugly sisters Dandini and they gave us ice cream YUM .

by Josh F and Vasi

We have been using seesaw so we can share our learning  with our parents and we are 

enjoying using it so far.

by Victor