Author: Isla

Today at break time Merissa and me were doing some gymnastics we were doing crabs ,round offs and  cartwheels I thought that Merissa was good at everything she She just needed to get her arms straight at the crabs and so do I we have been doing this all week . we also had fun by playing in the mud kitchen. then after the mud kitchen we did double cartwheels and a cartwheel race .

 

by Merissa and Isla

Today at P.E. did dodge ball and get the beanbags it got our hearts really racing . Gavin’s favourite one was dodge ball he won first . you have to get 6 balls and sit them on a bench in the middle and both teams have to lie on your belly and put your hands behind your back and the the whistle goes and you run to get a ball and then hit people from the waist down the last team standing will win the beanbag game you have 4 hoops and the you get 2-6 beanbags then put them in a hoop and then when the whistle goes you have to try and get rid of you bean bag the try and empty you hoop by putting them in the others .

 

by Gavin and Isla

 

The past two weeks we have been learning about France. with miss Sarah’s we’ve been learning what goes on and some famous land marks. Like the river seine the Eiffel tower the euro tunnel and they make wine and champagne in the north east . And we learned about what they eat and some things we have been doing are making models of these famous land mars , doing a report on what to do in France and to give to tourists on where to go there are lots of things to do in france my favourite is Paris . The hotels close to the famous land marks are very posh and expensive.

 

By Cameron and Isla

Today we had reward time and Ebony and me  were skipping handstands and cartwheels . it was really fun we also played in the mud kitchen and we made cookies and bramble pie . Every one was dancing to music and Sarah – Jane was singing to the block rocker and every one was having good fun and Gavin Kye and Greg were grass sledging .  We also were playing in the willow den and Zak and Mark were playing basket ball. Charlie and Paul were climbing trees.

BY Isla

 

 

 

 

Today is graduation at holywood we are going to be singing a sunshine medley with lots of old songs we are

going to be having a slide show of what we have done in the year . the p6-7s are doing drumsticks and p4-5s are doing tin whistle. and the awards I got the citizenship cup 2 years in a row . and there are lots of star medals an eco award and a sportsmanship award . and then tea and coffee with juice for the kids and cakes .

 

Today round there was lots of interesting stories the brilliant one was the fox out of zootropolis. it was a lego sculpture . a chinese 4 year old  broke it because he was just being curious . the other one was a Scottish gymnast called Nomi he is going to be competing for Britain in the Olympics . the last story was about African children and big telescopes . they were studying mars and if there is another world .

byIsla

On the 12th of may the whole school went to town on 3 mini buses and 2 cars my group went to the old bridge museum ,the camera obscura and up the high street the old bridge museum was the best out of all 3 because of the Victorian dentist it was really intresting but it looked really scary . The museum was good and really interesting . The camera obscura was good we went up the highstreet to make a list of all the shops . It was a really hot day not good for walking in  everyone had fun .

 

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

 

At the weekend it was the 27th anniversary of the disaster when 96 people got killed . It was declared in the court that it was unlawful killing after 27 years . It is believed to be the police’s fault for letting people in and the police are getting the blame . The families  were wanting the  truth, now  they want justice from the police .

 

we have got four displays in school that have been to do with our topics and business groups . We have got a p1-3 farm display that was to do with there topic on farms . It is great and they have great chickens that are made out of hand prints . we also have a display of birthdays this week there are loads of pictures of the queen and her 90th birthday we have made little birthday cakes that we coloured In with our names and date of our birthday and if your birthday is in the month your birthday will go on the board so we know who’s birthday it is that month this display all about childrens rights . we have all made a poster on what they are . Holyfield  the senior class made another Holywood and made a village and decided who lived in wich house.