Day: May 6, 2016

On Tuesday the 3rd may 2016 p1/7 went to samye ling. It was very cool it had los of statues. The lady Buddha is called Tara.

On Tuesday the 3rd of May we went to The Buddhist temple in Eskdalemuir because we have been learning about that religion. Our tour guide was a man called Peter who is a Buddhist himself. He taught us how to meditate in the meditation room and after lunch we watched and listened to some chanting. The temple is huge and really colourful these are what the colours symbolise:

Blue-Sky

Red-Fire

Yellow-Earth

Green-Water

There was also black and gold and there was another symbol that meant space but we don’t know what that colour is.

By Kaylan

At a Buddhist Temple we were looking at a golden Buddha statue. We were learning about the temple. I enjoyed it. I would recommend this to everyone.

by kye

Today the p.4 where doing tennis we were not  supposed  to be doing it but because the p3s were on a trip meant that we had to do it witch I was glad about it  because I really enjoyed it. we were playing lots of different games they were called banana tig,circle pass and pirate game they were all very fun.

 

 

by Ebony and Georgia p4

At holywood primary school every Tuesday it is frozen desert challenge the first week we made ice cream my one did not go well. The second week we cod bring are food to make are own ice cream my one was good

 

 

by Gavin

 

Holywood Primary School paid a visit to a Buddhist temple at Eskdalemuir as part of their world religion topic. With help from our tour guide Peter, he gave us a lot of information.

The meditation hall was full of gold. It had so many tiny gold Buddhas in glass cabinets.

After lunch we went back in to the temple to see some Buddhists chanting. It was very noisy and we could not understand what they were chanting.

Inside the stupa there were three Buddha

statues. The stupa is a

remembrance place for Buddhists. The prayer wheels outside the Stupa were used to send wishes to other countries and loads of people scatter peoples ashes there.

The shop was really dear but every thing was

handmade. E.g. a prayer mat was £250 it was a lot of money.

The journey was not good on the way there because 2 people were sick. On the way back it was fun but travelling by bus was slow and boring at times.

There are loads of Buddha statues at Samye Ling but they all mean something different. My most

favourite one was the

Buddha with the cobra on its head it stands for scary . It looks really cool there were also prayer wheels that you could spin aswell my favourite bits were the meditation hall and the Stupa .

By Isla

 

on the 3rd of may 2016 we went to Samye ling we set off at 09:00 and we got their at 10:10.

We got back at 03:20 visited the temple and the shop, stupa and the. The lady budda is the budda of healing and heals people with plants. Tera is the budda of fear he sits on a snake implicating no one should

be scared of him. On the way back Cameron and mark sowed echoer what they got in the shop mark got a fringe magnet and a candle Cameron got nothing because it was over to over priced

 

 

 

 

 

 

All p7 girls from the cluster schools were invited to an event called girls allowed to give them confidence for high school. we went every Thursday for 3 weeks at Maxwelltown high.

There were 3 sessions with lots of different types of sports .

week 1: dance and movement

week 2: badminton

week 3: football

Dance and Movement – On week 1 we done dance and movement. we had to get in groups to make and preform  a dance. in our dance we had to include a clap pattern and a cannon it was a real confidence boost for us.

badminton – Anne was teach us how to hold the badminton racket and we played jail which we also play at school with Mr Law.

Football – football was with Chris Jardine who does football training at out school.

We really enjoyed Girls Allowed

Chloe, keira p7

 

 

 

 

 

Samye ling was really good when we got there we put our lunch and snack in the lunch area so that when we come back we could eat it at lunch time then we went out then our tour guy was called peter he was our tour guy

On Tuesday the whole of p1/7 went to samye ling in eskdalemuir. We left at 9 :00 and came back at 3:20.

The Buddhist retreat is good to stay for a day, a week, a month or even years. Our tour guide Peter gave us lots of amazing facts about the statues and the temple as well as the Stupa .

The most interesting part was the meditation hall,  it was made out of mostly painted gold and some pieces are gold leaf. It has a Buddha with lots of teachings and we sat on pillows, the teachers sat on chairs .

All of it was amazing especially the stupa with lots of polished stones. There was a hall of prayer wheels which on the other walls contained ashes of the dead which was a little spooky walking through it but it was fun spinning the prayer wheels .

We had lunch at something past 12 or 1 I didn’t know but after lunch we saw the statues of a lady Buddha called Tara. Another sat on a cobra which represented fear and after that we went to a in-progress herbal medicine farm  and also we could see the accommodation for the monks and nuns but could not go in. We saw them through windows it was really interesting.

 

by Paul and Elliot