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Class Learning, performing, Whole School

Scots Poetry Judging

February 17, 2017 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

The class Scots Poetry competitions were judged today. All class teachers judged different classes throughout the school. This was not an easy job but they all thoroughly enjoyed their morning. The standards were very high and children once again have put a fantastic amount of effort into learning and reciting their poems. The winners from each class will perform their poems next week at assembly. Photos to follow.

P1 Y P1F

1st Joseph McKnight 1st Isla Smith

2nd Ava Drummond 2nd Lucy Bell

3rd = Fynlay Carson and Mackenzie Robison 3rd Jake Hall

1st Chloe Campbell

2nd Mack McLean

3rd = Theo and Courtney Roy

P2/3

1st Harry Little

2nd Jack Johnstone

3rd = Cameron Patterson and Maisy Pipe

1st Laith Atkinson

2nd Grace Hurley

3rd Jake Henderson

1st Maddison McMurtrie

2nd Lucy Simpson

3rd = Emma Harper and Lilly Eveleigh

P4/5

1st Lousie Kelting

2nd Joy McCall

3rd Jessica Davidson

1st Katie Mein

2nd Jay Parker-Smith

3rd Emma Newbold

Primary 6G

1st Kiara Kirk

2nd Gregor Davidson

3rd Aimee Ho

Primary 6 of P6/7

1st Grace McQuarrie

2nd Zara Ireland

3rd Niall Gilligan

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Primary 4/5 Titanic

February 17, 2017 Mrs J McLean 1 Comment

Primary 4/5 started their new Titanic topic this week and have created a gigantic Titanic on their class wall! They worked together in small groups on different aspects of the ship and then brought it all together – a masterpiece!

The class then evaluated their display and their team work skills. They were able to give reasons as to why they had been effective contributors.

The class will add more to their display as their topic progresses.

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P7 Burns Competition

February 17, 2017 Miss Clendinning Leave a comment

For the last few weeks Primary 7 have been busy learning their extracts from Tam O’Shanter for the annual P7 Burns Competition.

The children have worked extremely hard to learn the pieces, as well as applying their drama skills, using facial expressions and actions, to retell the story.
They were also challenged with choosing a scene from the poem to collage. The children used a variety of materials to create some wonderful finished pieces, which can be seen below.

On Thursday 16th February, Mr Cathro came to judge both the poetry and collage competitions. Our winners were as follows:

Poetry
1st – Leon Pipe
2nd – Orrin Carson
3rd – Sam McKnight

Collage
1st – Molly Boynton
2nd – Tamzin Jolley
3rd – Kerrie Pendleton

Miss Clendinning, Mrs Burn and Mrs Duncan were all very proud of all of the children for their effort. Well done everyone!!!

Class Learning, creativity

Forest Classroom

February 9, 2017 Mrs Duncan Leave a comment

P3 enjoyed a fantastic mud filled afternoon constructing in the forest classroom yesterday! They collected and experimented with materials to build Celtic round houses. Developing team work and problem solving skills in the outdoors- great fun!!

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P1F Winter work!

February 6, 2017 Mrs Fitzsimmons Leave a comment

Recently P1 have been learning about Winter. We enjoyed investigating ice by looking closely at our ‘ice balloons’ including adding some salt, food colouring and floating it in hot and cold water! We also wrote stories about a snowman, had fun printing snowscenes and snowmen and also created a cold winter tree scene.

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P7 – ICT Learning

February 2, 2017 Miss Clendinning Leave a comment

In Primary 7C this term we are developing our computer coding skills. For the past two weeks we have been using Tynker to create characters and interactive games using coding blocks. So far we are all really enjoying the challenges and have been learning a lot about perseverance as some of the tasks have required us to problem solve and think very carefully.

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P7 Homefront Day 24.01.17

January 24, 2017 Miss Clendinning 4 Comments

Primary 7C have had an absolutely fantastic day today with Dean from Homefront Histories.

We engaged in a huge variety of hands on learning, exploring WW2 artefacts and taking part in pretend air raids. We had the chance to dress up in real WW2 solider uniforms, we learned how to deal with an incendiary bomb and even got to hold some real (disarmed!!) WW2 guns.

Primary 7C would like to say a huge thank you to Dean for such a wonderful day. It is definitely one that we won’t forget!!

To P7C:
Thank you everyone for your lovely manners and excellent behaviour throughout the day. Dean was very impressed with you all. Miss C

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P7C Anderson Shelter Projects

January 19, 2017 Miss Clendinning 1 Comment

Recently, as part of their WW2 topic, Primary 7C were challenged with a homework project to create a model of an Anderson Shelter.

The challenge was to choose a variety of suitable materials to create a model which was accurate in shape, colour and fitted the time period. Children also had to consider the size of their model to ensure that it was in proportion to the other objects they were including in their scene.

I am absolutely delighted with the outstanding effort from all of the children and cannot thank the pupils and parents enough for their effort, help and support with this task.

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P5D McCoo Calendars

January 15, 2017 Mrs Dyson 1 Comment

Primary 5 have been studying the work of Scottish artist Steven Brown and used his McCoo paintings as inspiration to create their own McCoo calendars. Mrs Dyson, Mrs Ross and Mrs Cox were delighted with the artwork. Well done Primary 5!

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P6G 2017 calendars

January 6, 2017 Mrs Graham Leave a comment

To kick off our new topic, we looked at the Aurora Borealis (the Northern Lights ) and used mixed media to create calendars for the new year 2017. They are coming home today with the children.