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Safety in the Park

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On Thursday 25th of August we had a school trip to Arthurlie house, in Barrhead for an educational event called  Safety In The Park.

Safety in the Park is an event to teach young children about drugs, road safety, law and your health and wellbeing. It included activities which warned you about electricity, fire safety and cyber safety.

First we were split into groups then we went to our activities.

Here are our top 3 favourite activities:

1. The first of our favourite activity  was when a man taught us about safety on social media. He showed us a pretend Facebook account and we had to point out things that were unsafe. For example,   the girl let strangers follow her, she told people where she lived and told them that she was home alone.

2. Our second favourite activity was when a man told us  not to drink alcohol and if someone over age bought a drink for someone under age they would have to pay £5,000!( WOW!). When we were asked questions and got the answer right. we got to try on the drunk goggles. They looked like ski goggles but when you put them on it felt like you were in a simulator.

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3. The last fun activity was when a woman told us to go to our next activity around the corner and a woman came up to us and said,  “I’m your next activity, come with me.” So we did. She asked us our names and if we did anything nice during the summer holidays. Then out of nowhere a police man came up to us and as soon as we saw him we would be in trouble, we knew we were tricked that was an experiment to see if we would walk off with her.(a stranger)

By Pippa and Daniel.

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First Blog

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As this is the first blog, of the year for primary 7 we will start off with the first day of school!

As we like to say (the last first day of primary school) because we are in the highest class now. It was nice to see our class mates again and our great teacher Mrs Fraser. We know our teacher’s great because we had her in P4 and now that we are in P7.

There are many new teachers in the school. I will first tell you about our Ivrit (Israeli language) teacher Mr Guetta. Mr Guetta is kind hearted and improves our Ivrit a lot by saying Ivrit words. Another amazing teacher called Miss Itcovitz teaches French and because of her we will remember lots of new vocabulary. Our class will make sure they will feel like they are at home in Calderwood Lodge.

The excitement of maybe becoming a house captain is coming. Each house represents teams for the school. There are 4 teams Emek, Galil , Negev and Sharon. Two primary 7s from each team will get to be the leader of their team. We really want to be house captain and we will try our best for Emek and Negev . I hope you enjoyed our blog, bye.

By Ben. J  & Leah.N

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Bikeability. By Lana Tiefenbrun

In the past few weeks, we have been doing Bikeability. If you don’t know what that is, it’s where you learn to ride a bike safely on the road. So far we have just been cycling in the playground learning how to signal to traffic and do safe starts and stops. We also learnt how to do a safety check on our bike to see if it’s safe to ride.

 This week was different because it was our first week on the road. We learnt how to do right turns and left turns. For a right turn, you indicate with your right arm and then you turn and put your arm down. At a junction, you stop first, look behind you, indicate and then go. For a left turn, you do the same but indicate with your left hand.

We’re all really enjoying Bikeability and have two more weeks to go.

 

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Riding on the Road! By Ben Jackson

It was the first time that I rode my bike on the road properly! I did a left turn, a safety stop, a safety start and I looked behind myself. I went down a hill and also rode on flat roads.

I shared my bike with Oliver, Abi and Ilya.

It was really interesting because I felt like I’m more professional at riding my bike!

I did this cycling with two professional cyclists Dagmar and Caroline. They are really good teachers for cycling.

I really hope all you other bloggers enjoyed reading my blog.

 

ben

 

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Lion King Pantomime! By Elyze Nadler

This week we had a pantomime! The whole school was there even the teachers stayed to watch the whole show. Even though they only had 4 actors they had 7 characters. The only weird thing was Scar was a girl but that changed hardly anything just that Simba had an auntie instead of an uncle and it did not stop the show from being great! It had a lot of audience participation. It also had a lot of singing and dancing and the whole hall was full of excitement and joy. When everybody left they were beaming because the show was so good!

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Dojo and Biking. By Oliver Tomkins

This week in class we starter a new points system called ‘Dojo points’. Dojo is a website for classes used to award children for different things such as being on task, participating and working hard. You can also take off points for things like being off task and being too loud or shouting out. Another thing we have on Dojo is our own little avatar. My Dojo is a little red guy with spiky hair.

We also did bikeability this week on the back pitch. I was not able to bring my bike in to school so I borrowed Bens. In our bikeability lesson we cycled around the back pitch to start and after that we did a challenge and what we had to do was cycle as fast as we could and when we got in between the cones we had to stop immediately – an emergency stop.

I really enjoyed this week and I think I improved on my biking skills !

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Oliver Twist Script. By Aisha Qayyum

My class and I have been making scripts from the book Oliver Twist. We were all put into groups. I was with Izzy Rachel and Daniel Sabba. In the book there s a boy called Oliver Twist and he has a very adventurous life. My group and I made our script about when Nancy tells Mr Brownlow and Mrs Maylie about Bill and Fagin’s plan to kidnap Oliver and carried it through to the deaths of both Nancy and Bill. Fagin and the Artful Dodger both go to prison. The end was pretty good because Oliver, Mr Brownlow and Mrs Maylie live happily ever after. Our play was a bit short but overall it was fun practicing it and performing for our class.

I really, highly recommend reading this book because it is really adventurous, thrilling and dramatic. Also I liked how the book had a lot of information in just a few pages with a lot of detail too. I was able to picture a lot of scenes in my head too

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Visit To New School Site. By Pippa Ure

I was in the pupil council last year with Abi and we were involved in a consultation for the new school. So we were invited to the building site to take pictures for the new school.

We went on the school bus at about 1:30 with Mrs Carlton Lilah and Josh in Primary Seven and Zipporah in Primary Five. On the way to the building site we picked up the pupil council from Saint Cadocs and finally arrived at the building site. We parked the bus in Mearns Castle car park. We met the photographer that coincidently took pictures for Mrs Carlton’s wedding! He led us to a big pile of mud with stones and rocks around it. We got bright yellow jackets that builders wear and bright blue helmets and the photographer positioned us with the smallest person in the middle at the front she got a shovel and so did the people on the end.

We got our pictures taken, we smiled and we cheered and in some of the pictures the teachers were behind us. Overall I really enjoyed being part of the pupil council again and I hope that I’m in it next year!

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Hammantaschen. By Rachel McGhie

On Monday Primary 6 made Purim cakes they are called Hammantaschen also known as Ausne Hamman this is the recipe:

 

2 eggs

2/3 cup of sugar

1/4 cup of canola oil

1 tsp of vanilla

2 ¼ cups of flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 to 5 tsp of water [if needed]

 

We made about 7 trays of them. Each of us got one. They tasted amazing and dancing with flavour my taste buds exploded.

 

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A Perfect Purim. By Zainab Ahmed

This week it was Purim and it was a blast! Everyone was dressed so lovely and even the teachers! I dressed up as an evil scientist with potions and everything. When the time came for the Purim Parade the teachers went up too!

We then gave Mishloach Manot bags, my one was for Aisha and they weren’t just bags they were white ones so we could decorate them. I received one from Sergei and he did a great job! We put chocolate, juice and crisps in them!

Then we went to do a challenge and that was to find as many words as possible in the word “Queen Esther”. If you did not want to you could have sat and done some relaxing colouring.

We then went to the Purim Quiz and it was super fun, my team won! So we got to choose a prize mine was a pink pencil with white dots.

After that we created our own Purim paper masks. We then went on a Treasure Hunt and our team was so good at it we even got the bonus questions!

Then we had some more relaxing time. We just sat down and ate some yummy Auzne Hamman and drank some juice, after a while we had to do a Purim Play in less than a minute. And guess what!? Gabby said we were the only group who did it right. Finally, in our last station we had to dance.

It was an amazing Purim!

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