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Author: Mr Archibald
P4-7 Primary Teacher, Brydekirk Primary
New Banners
The section at the top which usually says ‘Brydekirk Primary Newsworld’ is called the Header Banner.
As P4-7 are working on a new topic we decided to design some news ones, which I’ve included below.
Each time a page is loaded the banner is chosen randomly. I’ve kept one from last year – Abbie’s – as it was a lovely design and she was the only P7 to leave the school.
Electricity
This year P4-7 have started learning about electricity. Here is a little taste of some of our work.
Mind Maps
P4-7 learned how to mind map and then made one about themselves.
A New Teacher (again)
Last term P4-7 wrote a description of what they would like as a teacher, one example of which was posted on this blog here.
As the new teacher, I read, marked the work and also took a tally of how many pupils used certain describing words. So for example, the word fair was mentioned by six different pupils.
Above is a Wordle. Wordle allows you to select a piece of writing and counts how often a word is used. It then makes words that are used more often bigger and displays them as a word cloud. In this case, I entered the describing words according to how many times they were used, and the Wordle above displays what P4-7 are looking for in a teacher.
Food for thought.
Mr Archibald
Amazonia Trip Parrot Video
We visited Amazonia on the Wednesday 25th may 2011. We left at 8.45 am and got back at 7.30 pm. Amazonia is near Hamilton by Glasgow. We were taken on a tour around Amazonia. We were told about the birds in this video. These birds are parrots. The birds were quite small and they were green and slightly yellow. They made a low squaking sound. We went to Amazonia because our school topic is the rainforest. We had lots of fun!
By Esmé, Hamburger and Cool
School Trip/Amazonia
On Wednesday 25th May. We went to M and Ds which is the National Theme Park of Scotland. We went to Amazonia in M and Ds. We were given a guided tour by Fiona. We saw lots of birds and monkeys. The monkeys in the video are marmosets. They like to eat the sap from trees, but at Amazonia they are given a special gum to replace the sap. The monkeys also try to get sap out of dead wood, but everyone knows that when a tree is cut down it does not have sap anymore. Please watch our video as the monkeys are cute and you will learn lots of new things.
Cosmic Bowling Fun
We went bowling on 25th May, 2011 during our trip to Amazonia. It was a cosmic bowling alley with glowing pictures all around us on the walls and floor. The little ones sometimes used a ramp because the balls were heavy. Please watch our video it is really,really awesome and we had a great time!bowling 2
By Heidi,Purdy,Hammy and Irritating .
Our trip to M & D’s
On Wednesday the 25th of May the school went to M & D’s in Hamilton. We 3went bowling first some people got strikes and others got spares. Some of the little ones couldn’t throw the ball so they used a ramp. We also got to order food. If you watch our video you will see how much fun we had.
A New Teacher
I would like our new teacher to be a female like Mrs.Pirt so when Mrs.Pirt leaves it won’t be that big of a change big of a change we would still have a female teacher.
I think that our new teacher should be patient so when someone’s bad they don’t just shout at them all the time. They’ll be calm and patient, tell them that they want them to stop being bad and they will stay calm and not just shout all the time and get mad at us.
I think that they should be kind. We don’t want someone who will be mean to us all the time and not let us do what we want to do. And make us do the same thing all the time. They should let us have a say and get a chance to shine and show off.
They should be easy to talk to not all big and strict and you’re scared to talk to them. It should come out easy because theres no point hiding it because the truth will be discovered and you kept it a secret so you would be in deep trouble and you could of let it go on more when it shouldn’t have been happening.
They should also be very enthusiastic so they won’t hesitate and if they hesitate we’ll hesitate. They should be confident not scared but brave and confident so they can make us brave and confident for us to have a good future when were older and looking for a house and a job to be happy.
They should be interactive not shy, aiming to make us shine and stand out from other schools and be noticed because we’re a small school. We don’t really get noticed a lot compared to other schools.
They should also be brainy to help us on a hard Question in Maths or English. They will help us solve it and not just give us the answer so next time we know how to solve it next time.
They should let us do new things and not just do the same thing everyday and theres no change.
For Haiti we organised all the events ourselves and I would like to do it again when our new teacher gets here I’d like to do it in any up coming events.
Our new teacher should still let us do French. They should know how to talk it and know how to teach us it but still only the P6-7’s are allowed to do it.
Our new teacher shouldn’t be afraid to speak their mind because if we’re doing something wrong they should say and not be afraid.
They should be sporty so every lunchtime we could run round the field three times each day for cross country.
Our new teacher should be raring to go and prepared for anything. They shouldn’t hesitate.
They should be artistic so we can make things and put them up all over the school and show off to visitors how great we are.
Our teacher should be fair not strict kind but not too kind and nice.
Our new teacher should come with us when we go on trips so they can make sure everyone is behaving and they could have fun with us.
I think the new teacher should be musical so when we’re doing performances they can help us practice and point out what we’re doing wrong.
I think they should have a sense of humour so they could teach us jokes and how to be funny.
They should also be fun so we can enjoy leaning and have fun doing it.
I’m going to be sad to see Mrs.Pirt leave because it will be a big change. And Mrs.Pirt’s the best teacher ever!!!.
By Purdy
