P6-7 went on residential from the 17th to the 19th of March 2025. We got a bus 🚍 from school to Whithaugh Park with Moniaive Primary. We travelled for an hour and a half! When we arrived we got our bags of the 🚍 . We headed to the main cabin called ‘The Oak’ and we put our bags inside. One of the leaders came in and gave us some important information.
We spilt into groups for activities, we did the following:
Abseiling, rock climbing, swimming, archery, low ropes,
raft building, zip line, night walk, inflatable obstacle course,
Ben and Ella both P7 have picked there favourites activities and they where:
swimming,
Inflatable obstacle course.
You brought your own snacks to eat when you got hungry or if you didn’t like dinner. The rooms were good quality and we had good chats in them 🙊.
We got to wear costumes to school. It was so fun and cool. Miss Anderson was dressed up a bee,Mrs. Robertson dressed as a caterpillar, Miss Atkins dressed as a ladybird and and Mr. Rudd was dressed up as a caterpillar.
We got to go round and listening to all teachers reading to us and I got to choose the book.
Ben Mcfadzean started a Warhammer club that runs during Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday lunch time.They are building figures at the moment but after they have finished they will paint them.They can complete activities to earn collectible cards from their leader.
Today we held our Sponsored Dodgeball Event and what a day it has been!
We have played around 75 games of Dodgeball and all pupils have thoroughly enjoyed themselves. They have worked so well in their teams and supported each other, either playing or refereeing!
At the moment the total raised is an amazing £655! Well done to everyone who has collected sponsors and if there are any other donations outstanding please could they be handed in by Monday.
Primary 1/2 have been selected as one of the winners of the Pocket Garden design competition! The competition is run by Keep Scotland Beautiful in partnership with the Garden for Life Forum.
The challenge was to design a miniature garden that uses edible plants, plants that attract wildlife, and to reuse something which would otherwise have been thrown away.
The themes were Our Heritage, One Planet Picnic and Wildlife Gardening so we had to show what we want to celebrate through our Pocket Garden. With Kirsty as our gardening advisor, we chose to celebrate Wildlife Gardening. We are very thankful for all her help and support and she is going to help us throughout the build and growing stage too.
This is a fantastic opportunity for the children to investigate plants and food, develop creative design skills and apply that knowledge to creating a sustainable garden while working a s a team.
As you can imagine, we are thrilled to have been chosen and are now looking forward to building our design. The garden will be around the size of a wooden pallet and will be photographed or filmed to feature in an online showcase for a public vote on the Keep Scotland Beautiful website between 13 June to 23 June. Keep watching our school blog and Class Dojo for updates on progress and a reminder of when you can go and vote!
Today some pupils from P5-7 took part in the Queen of the South Community Plate at Palmerston. There were 8 schools competing and our team won!
Ben, Jack, Reuben, Cameron, Finlay, Isak, Joesph and Jamie played very well throughout the rounds and then went into the semi-final. This went to penalties, which was very exciting and we got through to the final and won 1-0.
We want to say a huge thank you to Colin, our coach and Mr Carter for his support today.
This was a new competition held by Queen of the South and so we are very lucky to be the first name engraved on the plate! This plate will be kept at Palmerston in their trophy cabinet. We were given a trophy to keep in the school.
