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.
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We have 5 new P1 pupils at Kirkgunzeon Primary. The news group have interviewed the new P1’s to find out what they think of their new school.
The school dinners are going down well with all the new pupils. Isabella, Levi and Sophie all like the fish and chips on a Friday.
Agnes told us she likes learning new things. Nathaniel’s favourite thing to do is maths and Isabella enjoys playing with her friends. They do lots of activities including painting, building, drawing and learning their sounds. Playdough is very popular with them all.
We are pleased to report that all the new P1’s like being at school!
P4 have been making a power point about the Vikings. What they had to find out was where they came from, why they came to Scotland/England. While p2 made a poster. Also for the power point we have been researching about Viking home life, and learning about how they lived, who they lived with and what their houses were like.
We also looked at some Viking artefacts which were a cup a mask and a necklace. The cup was used to drink out of, the necklace what was for young people and finally the mask was used to scare away the ghosts.
On Friday the 16th of September the pupils of Kirkgunzeon were digging up potatoes and leeks to make potato and leek soup. We got more than enough potatoes from the harvest and the school gave away some potatoes to the students to bring home. The leeks also grew well and they were an excellent addition to our soup see, Soup making. The carrots were also nice and really helped bring out the flavour in our soup!
On Tuesday 17th we had sports day. In the morning the P7 set up a warm up to get our hearts pumping. We then had potted sports. We had stations that were hurdles, chest pass, javelin, long jump, hockey dribble, shuttle runs, and beanbag toss.
We had 5 minutes at each station. When we completed all the stations we got to choose which station we wanted to do again. We each had two adults helping out in our groups. They kept our scores, and later, when we had done everything, including the races, we were told which team had the most points overall. 🙂
On May 12th the p7s went to have lunch at the high school and try some of the classes. Most people enjoyed the lunches, the options that day were pasta and pizza. The p7s were there from 12: 30-14:30.They tried science, home economics and a scavenger hunt, not everyone got to do all the activities but when they go back in June they will.
Recently the red group in the big room have been learning about BODMAS which stands for: bracket, order, division, multiplication, addition and subtraction. Mrs Raymond has taught them how to do this. When using BODMAS for a sum, you need to use the order of it to find the correct answer.
Wellbeing Wednesday is every Wednesday of school term. Wellbeing Wednesday is a day where you are encouraged to bring in fruit or vegetables to school for snack. You can bring in up to 3 pieces of fruit or vegetable, but each piece of fruit or vegetable MUST be different. You get 5 house points for each piece of fruit or veg.
P1-4 have been doing some science . We were testing which things dissolve in water. We tested coffee grandalas , rice , flower salt, stock cube and cornflour .We learned that soluble means that it would dissolve and insoluble meant it wouldn’t dissolve.
On the 27th of April Senga from Active Schools came in and taught us how to play table tennis. It was a 3 week block that everyone thoroughly enjoyed. Throughout the 3 weeks everyone improved a lot and had a lot of fun. During the 3 weeks we played noughts and crosses, matches (Boyd and Maisy kept the scores), horse racing, balancing game and learned the three points: distance, how you hold the bat, how to stand.
During the lessons every week we were practising our serves, and finally on the last week we got 15/15, meaning everyone in the class manage to do a good serve to Senga.
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