the Health- Eco group are doing a audit on the school playground. This audit is being entered onto the school wild challenge it has lots of good information on it and shows you lots of things in our school grounds. It took a lot of work and the school is aiming for gold in the challenge.

On the 11th of November the author David MacPhail came in and talked to us about his books. He told us  that he had a very great interest in monsters, myths and ghosts. He told us about lots of myths and asked us about any other legends or myths we might know. He also said that he liked Vikings and that many of his books were based on them. David also worked with a man called Richard Morgan who illustrated his books. David said that he couldn’t have produced the books without him.

On Friday the 18th of November Kirkgunzeon Primary school had a Children in Need Day. We got to wear bright funny clothes for it and we had a bake sale to raise money.   We raised £94. 84 for children in need.  After lunch we made some teddy bears clothes using cloth and pieces of string. Also we coloured in pictures of Pudsey bear. It was loads of fun.

In music time on Wednesdays we have been having lots of fun. This week we sang a song called Jimmy’s lost his marbles that was funny and was about a boy Called Jimmy that had lost his marble down a drain and it turned out Jimmy’s marble was in his pocket all along! We also played a game called bat moth moth which was a fun listening game. Every body stood in a circle and one bat and two moths were picked, the bat was blindfolded when the bat got too close to the edge of the circle then the people standing along the edge of the circle said tree this was to tell the bat that it was too close to the edge of the circle.  When the bat called out bat the moths had to say moth moth. This was to help the bat was to catch the moths. The game ended when the bat had caught both of the moths. The aim of the game was to sharpen your hearing . It was really fun!

On the first of February we had an amazing poetry competition that was really fun (although there was a lot of tension, everybody was good sport). Prior to this event there were  competitions held in each of the schools  then the winners of  those competitions went to compete against each other. There was a junior winner (P1-4) and a senior winner (P5-7) .The Palnackie senior winner was Lacy, Colvend’s winner was Conner and  Kirkgunzeon’s  winner was myself, Nathaniel. The junior winners were  from Palnackie , April, Colvend, Katie  Kirkgunzeon, Isabella. The overall winner for the seniors , Nathaniel. The junior overall winner was Katie from Colvend!  It was very exciting!

I felt relieved at the end of the day but also really pleased that I had won.  I got a £15 book voucher and I am looking forward to getting some new books.

On the fist of November we had a very exciting event. It was Halloween so we got to have a Party! The pupil organised this exciting event for us. First we did a game called corners, a game of pure luck!  We also played Chinese whispers and lots of other exciting and very fun games. On the day we also got to dress up. There was a costume competition and the winners were Charlie, Leigh, and Lina.  We had a lot of fun at the  Halloween party.

With Mrs Magee we have been doing lots of art. It is very fun. We have being zen tangles . Zen tangles are when you draw a simple drawing and divide it into different sections in every section you draw a different pattern but it has to be very detailed otherwise it will not look as good. We have also been doing printing with vegetables and made a honeycomb pattern on a black sheet of paper and painted bees on top of that. We made the honeycomb shapes by cutting potatoes in half and chopping off the sides until we had a pentagon shape. Another thing that we did was draw our faces with charcoal. We took photos of our face and cut it in half then we drew the other half with charcoal. It was hard because we had to do allot of shading.  We have been doing much more with Mrs Mrs magee and that is just a snippet of what we have been doing.

During Altogether time Reverend John comes in and teaches us about Christianity, we all have lots of questions for him and he is always happy to help explain things to us.  We have been learning important stories from Christianity like The Lost Sheep, Daniel and the Lion, Jonah and the Big Fish, Abraham and Sarah and the Christian Creation Story.  We discuss the story and what lesson it is trying to tell us and Reverend John explains why each story is important to Christians.  We have found it really interesting and  there has been lots of discussion.

We have three new House Captains for our school, they are:

Lily Webster who is captain of Criffel

Elha Tulloch who is captain of Lotus

and Sunna Salthammer who is captain of Screel

At the beginning of September representatives from Child Smile came in and talked to us about cleaning our teeth. It was  surprising how much sugar is in perfectly healthy foods !  We spooned sugar into a puppets  mouth and we watched it get fatter and fatter. We learnt that fruit smoothies are really bad for your teeth and fruit juice is also bad. We found out that you are only supposed to have a maximum 5 teaspoons of sugar in a day but we should try to avoid it if we can.  Now we all clean our teeth in the afternoon after our lunchbreak to keep our teeth clean.

If you want to find out more you can visit this website:

https://www.child-smile.org.uk/parents-and-carers/index.aspx