On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day by bringing in our favourite book. In small teams the pupils then had to try to work out whose book was whose and why! It was very impressive how many were guessed correctly and what good reasons were given. Along the way we learned lots about each other. We finished off with a few rounds of some very challenging World Book Day quizzes.
At the weekend I was at Grangemouth swimming in the Forth Valley Disability Sport – Regional School and Club Swimming Championships. I got a gold and silver medal. One was for back crawl and one for front crawl. I think all the people that I raced were older than me. I had lots of friends.
Across the partnership we are focusing on developing a nurturing ethos and on developing a growth mind set in all learners. As part of this, each day, one child tries to spot a classmate who is showing a good attitude. There are many attributes they can spot: being positive, keeping going when it gets hard, being a good team member, helping someone else etc. In Hottsbridge P1-4 the child chosen at the end of each day gets to wear the “Creating Futures Crown” the next day! (We made our crown together using lots of origami squares!)
Last night, 7th of March , I played my debut (after 7 months preparing to play matches) for Brian Gilfillan Little Tekkers. Being only 11 it was a big step up to be playing with 13 year olds and the like but the bigger achievement for me was being named captain to play on the astonishing Palmerston pitch! Against a side like Queen of The South U14 boys & being our first game it didn’t quite go to plan losing…….. 15-0! Anyway it was a big moment in my life to play for an ex-professional footballer (Brian Gillfillan) , being named captain & playing on QOS’s pitch!
Callum Hill
On Thursday the 7th of March, P1-7 went to Masterclasses at Eaglesfield and we were at the station ‘Lego We.Do’. We made Melo the space robot. Also, we learned how to program him to move and change colour. Click on this link to see the video of him and his friend:Video (1)
By Isla and Tom
Max and Shaun entered the Super 4s cross country race and on the final race Max and Shaun worked together to get a good score. At the end they got an award and it was really hard to earn.
By Max and Shaun.
Today we got a Numicon set. It is so fun. The whole of P5-7 got involved :). It involved having these pieces of Numicon shapes and putting them on a peg board and the first one to get all the numicon shapes back in the right place wins.
By Isla and Sarah
On Wednesday the 20th of February both classes enjoyed a fun filled day. The P1-4 class getting a visit in the morning and p5-7 in the afternoon. All students enjoyed a demonstration of how food goes through the digestive system & saw a lot of cool explosions. Four pupils from the little class commented “It was a lot of fun” The children also enjoyed the tin can explosion most out of the lot while big class students enjoyed the mento’s in lemonade explosion! All in all it was a great day & here are a few photos on the day. Just click the link to access.
By Callum & Alistair P7
P1 and P2 had fun in free time building this Unifix Snake that stretched the length of the classroom! Together we worked out how many cubes they had used by counting how many cubes in a metre, how many metres long it was and then multiplying. The trouble is this was last week and I’ve forgotten the answer! I’m hoping one of the pupils remembers and posts a reply! There was lots of great teamwork and cooperation. Well done P1 and P2!
Unifix Snake
On Sunday I went to the Annan River Race (Hosted by my running club). We had to do 2 and a half miles of sprinting and I was so tired afterwards but really proud of myself. My number was 91 and I won a medal for it. We had to do a route of up hills through woods and along the river. I was in the under 13’s race and all of the other girls were in S1 I was the smallest of them all. An S1 was behind me and we raced to the sprint line. After we had finished I literally fell on the ground with exhaustion I had great fun doing the Race 🙂
