Wow! What a wonderful morning we had yesterday!

We have been working hard on our Victorian Adventure performance since February. Victorian Adventure is an Oxford Reading Tree book that we turned into a play as part of our Children in the Past topic.

We had four teams working on the project, the art team, the music team, the directing team and the acting team. All the pupils were involved and everyone helped to organise the event.

We came up with the idea that we would like to show our performance like an old cinema. We filmed the performance in black and white and invited parents to a cinema morning with singing and popcorn!

Lots of parents said they really enjoyed the morning which is super! We have enjoyed everything about this project: learning our words, making the backdrops and props, making sure everyone knows what they are doing, making programmes, tickets and posters, creating sound effects for different scenes and of course putting it all together!

It has been very busy in the afternoons for the last few weeks in P2S because we had to use and develop our learning from different areas of the curriculum such as  literacy, expressive arts and social studies for this project.

Thank you to all the parents and carers who came along to see our performance yesterday and we hope you all have a lovely break.

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Last Tuesday, we were very lucky because we had a class trip to the Museum of Childhood in Strathpeffer.

At the museum, we met a lady called Alison who showed us different old toys and games from the past. She also let us dress up like children from the past. The girls wore pinafores and the boys wore waistcoasts.

We had a look at the artefacts in the museum and Alison told us stories about some of the special toys they have.

It was very snowy, but we made it back safe and sound!

We would like to thank the parents helpers who helped with our trip and Alison who organised the day for us!

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Today the pupils celebrated the fun fundraising day – Comic Relief 2013! The pupils dressed in something red and had a fun afternoon designing silly dinosaurs. Congratulations to Iona for the winning dinosaur entry for P2S! We also talked about the important bits – who Comic Relief helps, what the money is spent on and how it is raised. A great finish to a great week!

Last week, we made beautiful cards for Mothers Day. The whole school was set a challenge by the ECO committee to create our cards from things we had already used. We made cupcake cards! We made the icing and from glitter left over from Christmas activities, we used dollies a a ‘plate’, the cupcake case was made from strips of old magazines and our ‘cherry’ was an old button! We also wrote a special acrostic poem for the inside using WOW words. We hope all our mums enjoyed our cards and we had fun making them..(we were covered in glitter by the end!)

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Last Thursday, we were very lucky to have Pat Macleod visit our classroom. She works at Dingwall Museum and she brought along objects that people used long ago. Some things we thought looked familair, but other things we had to try guess what they would have been used for! It was great to imagine what life might have been like a long time ago. Pat brought in some things that she remembers from when she was a child and she brought in things that were much older. Thanks Pat, we had a lovely afternoon learning about the differences

between now and the past.