Month: November 2018

 

hello we are the publicity crew our names are Alister, Jokubas, Argyle, Marley and Jack.

We will be updating you on what’s happening with the Primary School Christmas Musical, which will be performed on the 18th and 19th of December in our school hall at 6.30pm. All of Primary 6 and Primary 7 will be taking part in the show even if its backstage. The show will be about some school pupils that do not want to do  a Christmas musical and drive the teachers mad. there will be a raffle on the night, and lots of songs. The pupils will be acting as some of the teachers and children (not children from the actual school, however the teachers will be from the school!).Hope you come to our amazing show and bye from the publicity crew. here are some pictures of us rehearsing.

Today Primary 1 welcomed their grown ups in to share some of their learning.  As this is Book Week Scotland the children decided to share some of the work they had been doing on the books in their free book bag.

First the children sang a French song about the colours then it was the grown ups turn to do some work too.  They had a go at three different activities:

•   creating bats for the book ‘I am bat’ by Morag Hood
• using go animate on the computer to create a film for the book ‘One Button Benny’ by Alan Windram and
• experimenting with floating/sinking for the book ‘Eric Makes a Splash’ by Emily MacKenzie

Finally we thanked them all for coming and each child got their book bag to take home!

Primary 6 visited Crochmore Farm near Crocketford this morning as part of their topic about the journey of food which had been organised through Fiona Jamieson from RHET. I will post more photos next week but thought the class would like you to know that during our visit, a cow was giving birth and the calf arrived shortly after we had left. Angus Kerr, the farmer, asked the children to name the new calf and they chose Andrew. Here are the photos Angus sent us this afternoon.

 

 

As part of our mini topic on WW1 commemorating the 100 years since the end of the war Primary 7 visited Dumfries Museum to meet characters from WW1  (The Colonol and Mrs Stackpool) and to learn about being a spy.  They took part in different group activities which encouraged them to look at World War 1 critically. They also found out lots about propaganda when looking at the photographic exhibition upstairs realising what is real and what is “fake news.”  The children were all a credit to themselves and the school and seemed to have a great afternoon. Maya remembered learning that custard powder was highly explosive from the true/false quiz she did.   Shea remembered that the football rattle was used to warn the men that the gas had been released as it was a very loud noise all would hear and recognise!

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We had a busy term 1 in Primary 5 and the children certainly earned their October break. Of particular enjoyment for the children were the exceptionally engaging gymnastics lessons kindly provided by Mr Sharp.

Towards the end of term the children were learning about the properties of materials. A highlight of this topic was working together in teams to design and build models of flood proof houses. All of the children worked industriously to ensure these models were completed and their determination was impressive. There was weather warnings for floods on the day that these were built as Storm Callum wreaked havoc outside which undoubtedly added to the atmosphere.

During art lessons the children have been focusing on weaving with textiles and their work has generated an inspiring wall feature in our classroom. Well done Primary 5!