Braemar School and Nursery

When I woke up one day I went downstairs.There was this weird object  on the table. It looked like a time machine but I was not sure. Then it started beeping beep beep beep. Then red lights started making popping noises pop pop.  

Then I went  to check it. I looked around the object and  finally I found the button I was looking for.I pressed it and a voice said you can choose to go to the future or the past. I was right- it is a time machine. Then I said to the time machine I would like to go to the future. 

What is  the reason for your choice? Mm I didnt think about that. Then I said I would like to go to the future to get the newest console. The voice said press the future button so you can travel to the future. 

The ground started shaking around me  then a portal appears out of  nowhere.

There was a cupboard that nobody dared to use ever since Morag Toerag went missing. But one day a new person opened it and vanished. She found herself in a box that was as shiny as the sun smiling down on you.

It was full of dials that went buzz buzz buzz as you pressed them. The dazzling buttons danced around she thought “you have been in this  situation 1 million times before .” So she pressed the buttons. There was a bang bang bang however there was a ding ding ding.

She got the box and she heard a roar. She knew what was above her but nevertheless she looked up and there was a huge dinosaur above her. Rapidly she ran back to the box but it was under the enormous foot of  the dinosaur. ” Please pleasant charming delightful good-natured  dinosaur can you get off my box?” she enquired politely. “Roar,” bellowed the dinosaur. It groaned and stepped off.

She got in and travelled back to the present day and she never went near the cupboard again.

On Thursday 3rd October 9:15 -10:15 we had an open morning at Braemar primary school. We shared our work with parents and our community.

First I showed my dad the classroom. Then I showed him my jotters and he liked all the work I did. After that I showed him all the wall displays in the corridor.

Meanwhile others were showing there parents around. Some other people showed Simon and Geva Blackett around.

Before that my dad had tea and our apple pie muffins and he said they were delicious.

We had 2 tally charts 1 was about how many people crossed the main road to get to school. The other was about which bag you thought was a better size.

Then we had feedback forms. One said “The children drawings was my favourite part.

By Olivia

On Thursday the 3rd of October at Braemar school  we  had a open morning.We opened the doors at 9 . 15 am .We showed the visitors what we have been learning about.  The staff and pupils organised the open morning.Room 3  made some muffins and the parents and visitors ate them and then they went home. 

Some of the parents said that it was really nice that  the children got to tour the parents through the school. 

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On Tuesday the 1st of October in the afternoon the CCOW came to just outside the school grounds. CCOW stands for countryside classroom of wheels. They came so that Rm 3 could learn more about Farm To Fork. The CCOW staff brought 2 sheep and a little calf.

There were only 16 pupils allowed to go on at once so we split the classroom in half. First the girls went then the boys went and finally Rm 2 went.

They started talking about types of cows and what they give us. They showed us a picture of a dairy cow which is what the calf is and a beef cow. They talked about what we can make with what the cows gave us. They then talked about the sheep and what we can do with the different types of wool. How some wool is softer and can be used for hats, coats, gloves e.c.t. Different wool can be used for other things. After that they showed us different crops. We were asked what they were. Again we were  told what we can make with them. There was wheat, barley and oats. Then we got to pet the animals! They were very friendly and were happy to be petted. The sheep’s wool was deep and soft. Some people got to feed the sheep. Then we were told that we could put our fingers in the calf’s mouth. It didn’t have any teeth yet. The calf sucked on our fingers. Overall it was fun.   By Kaitlin

Last Friday the nursery came with stilts. They made them out of logs pretty impressive for nursery kids. They have a hole for the rope to come through. The rope is there so they can hold on and they are good at walking with them they fall off a couple of times but that does not matter.

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P4-7 are learning about farm to fork.We did an experiment with celery and food coloring. It didn’t go that well but the food coloring was out of date. We are going to try again soon.  We are learning about why we need food and how plants grow. We also learnt about food labels and what needs to be on food packaging. We have learnt a lot about farm to fork.

In maths we are data handling. We have been collecting information and putting it into graphs. We did a tally chart on which food from the community garden was the p1-3 ,p 4-7 and the whole school favourite. There was spinach , kale , apple , carrots , parsley , coriander , parsnips , strawberry , potatoes , chives , cauliflower , onions , broccoli , fennel , brussel sprouts , beetroot , lettuce , rocket , cabbage , turnips and leeks. Then we did a bar graph on the whole school. We did a hand up survey on how everyone gets to school and we explained it in a bar graph.The options were walk , cycle , scooter/skate , park & stride , driven , bus , taxi and other. We also have learned about pictographs , line graphs and pie charts.By Josh B and Olivia

This week we have been learning about farm to fork . We are  enjoying it so far .

We were playing basket ball in teams of 4 and we were in 4 groups. It was fun and the green team won.   And a couple of weeks ago we were practising rugby skills. There was stations like throwing balls, catching balls and getting the ball and placing the ball down.

And we think rugby is fun. By MAYA and AJAY.