Alternative Fairytales

Today we began our Alternative Fairytale planning. This is actually a trickier job than it looks. To be successful, we have to capture the key features of the original fairytale, whilst adding a new twist which will grab the reader’s attention.

We watched, listened to and read some great alternatives. Many were based around ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, using the wolf’s perspective.

Roald Dahl does this excellently, using his poem below, in which there’s an interesting twist at the end:

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Roald Dahl poem – CLICK HERE

The film ‘Hoodwinked’ also cleverly adds a twist – making the wolf in fact a ‘goodie’. We watched clip from this also:

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Hoodwinked – Click Here!

Next week, we will continue to develop our plans further, and look at how we can structure our writing within the form of a play.

See you in the morning,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

What’s your favourite fairytale?

Firstly, well done to Mackenzie B (P7) – who was awarded the sportsmanship award for all of the boys within the area school group today, whilst playing in the Football Festival at the Aquadome. This is an excellent event for the P7 pupils to get to know one another a bit better, before going to the IRA in August.

Fairytales

This morning, we began looking at the structure of a fairytale. We managed to summarise the structure of both Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel, by using the 5 basic principles: characters, setting, complication, resolution and ending.

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Little Red Riding Hood – VIDEO CLICK HERE!

Your homework for tonight:

– Choose a fairytale which you know the story of, and are able to give information on the 5 basic principles. You can write this down if you need a reminder – we will be using it in our writing plan  tomorrow.

See you in the morning,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Eden Court – Young Voices

Please see the message below about a new and exciting music workshop at Eden Court, available to 9 – 17 year olds.

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EDEN COURT YOUNG VOICES

My name is Claire Campbell, I’m a local musician, music teacher, song writer and performer, I teach piano and violin privately as well as being a Youth Music Initiative tutor, I am also involved with Music Plus as a mentor. I write and record my own songs. I was recently approached by Eden Court to help run their Young Voices workshop – please see attached poster for timings.

The classes will be accessible, fun and friendly with repertoire ranging from the Beatles and ABBA to current pop hits, the singers will be encouraged to choose their own songs which I will arrange for the group, there will be vocal techniques and songwriting included in the weekly class. All melodies and lyrics will be learned by ear, there will be no auditions for the group and no previous experience necessary – all welcome! As well as focusing on vocal techniques and singing the class aims to build confidence, improve memory and build social skills and networks, this class will suit aspiring and established singers as well as young people who are looking to be part of something new and fun. The class is open to anyone age 9 – 17 years old and will run on a Monday after school starting after the Easter break.

Rock Challenge

A special well done to Mackenzie.B, Finlay.M, Jamie.G, Duncan.B, Fergus.W, Erin.F and Anna.M who all took part in the Cross Country Championships on Saturday. Well done for representing both P6/7 and Lochardil!

Our Rock Challenge feedback is in – and the word ‘OUTSTANDING’ jumps out to us. Have a look at the feedback by clicking each of the pictures below.

   

Unfortunately, due to space within our hall we will not be able to put the Rock Challenge performance on for parents/carers. We have contemplated using the CCC or the IRA; however we feel that the lights added to the overall performance, and this would be lost.

FORTUNATELY, Mr Nairn has managed to create the DVDs for us. Once Mr Cook has sorted out the front covers, each pupil will be issued with one copy of the DVD as a gift from the P6/7 team.

See you in the morning,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

 

Hip-Hip Hooray!

Firstly, well done to the Rotary Team last night in the Inverness Rotary Quiz. We were delighted to come joint-second, along with Cradlehall Primary School. We’d like to congratulate Crown Primary School, and every other school which took part.

Today for Red Nose Day it was great to see the sea of red to support the charity. The school raised a massive £267 for the charity – Well Done. Thank you to Anna N who baked and sold cakes at break time – raising £34.70 for comic relief. Well done to Kirsty and Betsy for their sponsored silence – bet you’re glad you can talk now girls!

The finalists for the dinosaur competition in P6/7 were Nadya, Jenna and Amy.b – excellent work girls!

Hope you have a great weekend – and we’ll see you on Monday!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Do it for Comic Relief…

Red Nose Day/Comic Relief is tomorrow; their red nose theme being dinosaurs. Lochardil are doing a ‘Design your own dinosaur’ competition, organised by the Pupil Council. Your homework for tomorrow is to design and name a new dinosaur.

A reminder that tomorrow is ‘Wear it Red for Comic Relief’. You can come to school in something other than your school uniform, preferably red if you’ve got it, and make a donation to the worthwhile charity which is Comic Relief.

Anna N is busy baking cupcakes which she’ll be selling to P6/7 tomorrow before breaktime. 50p a cupcake – we know we can’t wait to get ours.

Good luck to Charlie T, James H, Katie F, Finlay S and Ellie S who are representing Lochardil tonight at the Rotary Quiz. We wish them the best of luck, and we’ll let you know how they get on tomorrow.

Play the penalty punctuation game by clicking the link below:
Penalty Punctuation – CLICK HERE!

See you in the morning,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Mind-mapping!

Red Nose Day/Comic Relief is on Friday; their red nose theme being dinosaurs. Lochardil are doing a ‘Design your own dinosaur’ competition, organised by the Pupil Council. Your homework for Friday is to design and name a new dinosaur.

Well done to those people who had a go at our Fairtrade Challenge last week. The answer Mr Cook was looking for was . . . Drum-roll please . . . Yes, they’re all French speaking places.

Today we developed our ‘Mind-mapping’ skills. We used what we knew about the plot, characters, setting and themes of ‘A Cat in Paris’ to create a mind-map using descriptive WOW words and relevant images. As this was our first attempt we worked in pairs; however next time will try doing this mind-mapping process on our own. We found that a mind-map is an excellent way of showing a snapshot view of a lot of information – a great revision tool which Secondary pupils often use.

See you in the morning,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Une vie de chat!

FAIRTRADE CHALLENGE – Well done to all of those people who have submitted answers in the Fairtrade Challenge below. No one has managed to find the common theme I’m looking for between the three places. Have a go – we’ll talk about it tomorrow!

Today we went to watch ‘Une vie det chat’ (A Cat in Paris); it was an extremely enjoyable film. It was great to hear the French phrases and watch along with the English subtitles.

Watch the trailer below:

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‘A Cat in Paris’ trailer – CLICK HERE!

Let us know what you thought about the film by commenting on the blog. Remember to tell us why.

Red Nose Day/Comic Relief is on Friday; their red nose theme being dinosaurs. Lochardil are doing a ‘Design your own dinosaur’ competition, organised by the Pupil Council. Your homework for Friday is to design and name a new dinosaur.

See you in the morning,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

 

Walking in a winter wonderland…

FAIRTRADE CHALLENGE – Well done to all of those people who have submitted answers in the Fairtrade Challenge below. No one has managed to find the common theme I’m looking for between the three places. Have a go – we’ll talk about it on Wednesday!

Just as we thought that Mother Nature had blessed us with Spring, down came the snow… A reminder that tomorrow we are walking to Eden Court for ‘A Cat in Paris’. It is important that you have sensible walking shoes, in case the pavements are slippy. A jacket is also a must – the minus temperatures require suitable clothing.

The Loch Insh meeting is tonight at 7pm in the hall. If you are unable to attend the meeting, we will send the information pack home with your child tomorrow.

Good news – Thanks to Mr Nairn, we will be able to provide each pupil from P6/7 with a copy of Rock Challenge. This will be given out at the end of term for you to enjoy over the Easter break.

We’ll see any primary 7s who are coming to the meeting in a few hours, and everyone else – we’ll see you in the morning.
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Fairtrade Friday – CHALLENGE BELOW!

REMINDER: P7 Loch Insh Meeting – Monday 11th March @ 7pm. Pupils are welcome to attend.

The aliteration of Fairtrade Friday is a phrase which we all like to hear after such a busy week. The P7s, who were not swimming this afternoon, used our Fairtrade packaging to create an information board for display in the corridor. P6/7 managed to collect 48 pieces of Fairtrade packaging; an excellent result. Many of these were hot chocoalte containers – a clear favourite amongst the class.

This weekend’s challenge:

Go back to the Fairtrade post from Monday. Look at the three countries which we studied. Apart from them being Fairtrade exporting countries – your task is to find the common theme between these three places. Post it on the blog. We’ll let you know who our Fairtade Fanatics are on Monday.

Have a great weekend & to all the Mums – Have a lovely Mother’s Day on Sunday.

Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

World Book Day!

REMINDER: Last day for bringing in Fairtrade labels/packaging is tomorrow. Well done to those people that have brought items in so far.

What a week this week has been! Two WORLD events in a row have made us extremely busy.

   
   

It was great to see pupils dressed up in their pyjamas this morning. The P6/7 team were dressed up, but too camera shy for a photograph.

   
   

Our task this morning was inspired by ‘Horrid Henry’s Guide to Perfect Parents’. We began by reading the first few pages of the novel which set the scene. Henry’s aim is to write a guidebook to perfect parenting.

   
   

In our groups, using a role one the wall, we had to write/draw the qualities of the ‘Perfect Parent’. We worked on the skill of agreeing to disagree.

   
   

We were given ten minutes within our group to complete the task. After this, we visited each group and were greeted by an expert; the expert introduced their character. When we returned to our group, we had to tell our expert everything we had learned. 

   
   

At the end of the lesson we got back together and discussed the similarities in each of the ‘Perfect Parents’. We realised that many of them contained: money, games, fun and love. However, when we reflected, we realised that getting to do whatever we wanted the whole time, would result in damaging consequences. We thought that we might become spoilt, and fail to appreciate what we have.

   

Therefore the ‘Perfect Parent’ needs a balance – and we agreed – all of our parents are PERFECT!

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

World Maths Day

REMEMBER: Tomorrow is World Book Day – wear your pyjamas and bring your favourite book if you wish. We’re also looking for Fairtrade packaging.

Today is WORLD MATHS DAY. For the event, we completed ‘The Millimetre Challenge’.

Within our groups we had to develop the skills of estimating and measuring both millimetres and centimetres. We found that this was a difficult task, as millimetres are such small units of measure.

   

We had to agree on a way of estimating, without using a ruler; this was the first tricky task. Working together, we also had to know how many millimetres were in a centimetre.

   

Finding the objects outside was a bit of a scavenge, but 10 minutes just gave us enough time to complete the task.

   

When measuring, we found out that some groups had excellent estimation skills. Other groups weren’t far off.

We were at a tie-break situation at the end, with three groups estimating 3/6 correctly. We decided the winner by checking the difference in each of their answers.

Well done to group 3: Morven, Beth and Finlay M who were our WINNERS!

Play in the World Education Games by clicking on the link below:
WORLD EDUCATION GAMES: CLICK HERE

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

 

This week’s Mathletes…

REMINDER : It’s World Book Day tomorrow – you can wear your pyjamas and bring in your favourite book to share with us.

Fairtrade Task – Bring in any Fairtrade packaging/labels you have at home by THIS Friday, 8th of March. We will be counting our packaging, and creating a display on Friday.

The time challenge for last weekend was a little bit more challenging this week, but we’re glad to see many more Mathletes.

Well done to everyone who attempted the problems. To be put into the final, answers had to be written with either am/pm or in 24 hour notation.

Well done to Anna who won the grand prize of an Easter egg produced by Fairtrade company, Cadbury.

Look out for future maths problems to join our Mathletes.
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Pupils of the Month

Fairtrade Task – Bring in any Fairtrade packaging/labels you have at home by THIS Friday, 8th of March. We will be counting our packaging, and creating a display on Friday.

After our success at Rock Challenge, P6/7’s Pupils of the Month could easily go to ALL pupils in P6/7. However, there are three pupils who were voted as providing that additional contribution.

Finlay – Finlay successfully worked with the technical team to create the lighting and video plan for Rock Challenge. On the night he was our lighting director, and called his cues perfectly. The lighting was crucial to the success of our piece.

Georgia – Georgia had the important job of introducing our performance. She persisted at rehearsals working on the clarity of her voice. Her introduction on the night was flawless, instantly setting the high standard for Lochardil.

Ellie – As one of the main characters within our performance, Ellie had a fundamental role in convincing the audience that Global Warming needs to STOP. She listened to all of the teachers’ guidance during rehearsals – and perfected her performance!

Well done from everyone in P6/7!

Euro Challenge!

Well done to Erin, Finlay, Georgia and Ryan who all represented Lochardil today at the Euro Challenge in Millburn Academy. This year the pupils had limited preparation time for the quiz, as we did not receive the materials until a few weeks ago. We’re all very proud of them for going and taking part. Arriving back with smiles suggests that they all had a great time.

Fairtrade Fortnight!

Fairtrade Task – Bring in any Fairtrade packaging/labels you have at home by THIS Friday, 8th of March. We will be counting our packaging, and creating a display on Friday.

Fairtrade Fortnight – Monday 25th February to Sunday 10th March – are two weeks in which we can put an emphasis on Fairtrade within the classroom and the school, with a hope to it being part of our daily routine.

Click the image to the left to go to the Fairtrade Foundation website!

Today we learnt about Fairtrade Fortnight through three different ways.

1. Watching the French video: Mange te banane – this told us about the story of Javier

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Mange te Banane – CLICK HERE!

2. Learning about Martin – a farmer’s son from Martinique. The PowerPoint below tells you all about Martin’s life.

Fairtrade – MARTINIQUE – PowerPoint

3. Fact finding activity – using 3 websites, we worked as a group to find out information about bananas, cocoa and mangoes. The websites links are below:

Bananas
Cocoa
Mangoes

Think Fairtrade this fortnight!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Tic-Toc!

REMINDER: ECO mascot homework due in for Monday

Time really has flown by us this week – It’s not only Friday, but also March – the beginning of Spring.

The video below shows how the 12 and 24 hour clocks are connected:

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24Hour Clock Video – CLICK HERE!

Here’s another time problem for the weekend. Remember to post your answers on the blog and we’ll choose a winner on Monday. Last week we had a small successful group of Mathletes – we would love to have a bigger group next week.

Click the document below, or the photograph to see each of the problems:

Weekend Problem – 1st March CLICK HERE!
Have a fantastic weekend!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Enlightenment Artwork

Reminder:
1. Cinema parent/carer helper form to be back tomorrow
2. ECO mascot to be created for Monday
3. Swimming parent/carer helper form to be back for Monday

Check out our new art gallery inspired by our project: The Scottish Enlightenment

Our architectural drawings are a tribute to the wonderful work of Robert Adam, an architect during the Enlightenment period. Adam’s designs can be seen in buildings in Glasgow and Edinburgh; however Adamesque buildings can be found all over the country, created by those inspired by his work.

   

Alexander Nasmyth was a portratit and landscape artist who created the only portrait done of Robbie Burns, a good friend of his. Because of his political views, he was shunned, and the wealthy did not want him doing their portraits. He then became famous for his landscape work, which we have replicated.

             

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Look After School Property!

REMINDERS:
1. ECO homework : to design and ECO mascot – To be done by Monday 4th March
2. Pupil Progress Update: appointment slips went out today – If you still have not handed this in; hand it back tomorrow by the latest; or we will not be able to issue an appointment

This month’s theme within Citizenship was – ‘Look After School Property’. The pupils who came over to the P6/7 building watched a video which detailed ways in which pupils can look after their school.

We made our own video. Watch it below:

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Looking After Our School – CLICK HERE!

The advice we gave in the video was:

  • Put PE equipment back where you found it
  • Always tidy away your tray at lunch
  • Put your bike away safely and tidily in the bike shed
  • Make sure you put your rubbish in the bin
  • Take care of your belongings – make sure your name is on them
  • Put away equipment once you have finished playing with it
  • Keep the cloakroom tidy – using the boxes for shoes, and the pegs for bags and coats
  • Keep the classroom tidy by putting your things away

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Check out our Mathletes!

P6/7 – Mathletes!

Well done to our Mathletes – who solved the time problem over the weekend. Excellent work from Aileen and Morven who scored 6 out of 6. Kieran, Michaela, Kirsty, Catherine, Amy and Ewan also attempted the challenge and performed well.

Each pupil who gave it a go was awarded a competing prize, with Aileen winning the overall challenge prize.

WELL DONE to those who took part. Look out for future challenges!

In Numeracy and Maths today, there were 16 different time problems which pupils had to try and answer. We will be looking again at these next week to discuss solutions!

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

It’s ECO time!

REMINDER: All parent/carer Pupil Progress Update (Parent/Carer interview) slips have to be in TOMORROW. We will be handing out the slips for this on Wednesday.

Design an ECO mascot

Your homework, for next Monday 4th March, is to design an ECO mascot. A winner will be selected from the entries, and used as the ECO mascot for Lochardil Primary School. See the pictures below for a couple examples of mascot examples which other schools use.

If you need A4 paper, we will give this out tomorrow!

Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

How long to go?

Following on from our blog post on time yesterday, we thought we’d end the week with a challenge. Below, there are 6 different time challenges. Give them a go over the weekend, and post your answers on the blog. From those people who get the correct answers, we will choose one winner on Monday. If you bump into anyone from P6/7 over the weekend, let them know it’s on the blog- that way they’ll be in with a chance to win it!

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24 Hour Clock video CLICK HERE!

Time Challenge: CLICK HERE!

Have  a great weekend!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

What’s the time Mr Wolf?

Over the next few weeks, in numeracy and maths, we’re going to be looking at time!

By the end of time we’d like everyone to be able to tell the time using am and pm and 24hour clock. In addition to this we aim for everyone to be able to calculate durations in hours and minutes. Some people will calculate durations in seconds and milliseconds, as well as using timetables to find information and plan activities.

This time video brings us back to basics. What is a minute, hour, day?

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Time Video: CLICK HERE!

These two games are great. On the first game, you can choose to do basic time, am/pm, or 24 hour clock. Test yourself and let us know how you get on. The second game will test your ability to calculate time durations.

What time is it? game CLICK HERE!
How long does it take? game CLICK HERE!

Happy gaming!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

One word – WOW!

We think the title sums up yesterday – WOW!

What a fantastic day yesterday was- a fantastic group extremely tired pupils and staff today! You were all fabulous and amazing. Your final performance scored 100% from your toughest judge – Mr Cook. Well done for succesfully making him tear.

In addition to that, we picked up 7 awards which will be displayed within the school. The judges comments could not have been better. The word ‘OUTSTANDING’ which they used, really does portray the hard work of you all.

Watching the DVD today really highlighted how fantastic your performance was. Now we just need to find a way of copying it…

We’re hoping to put  a performance on for parents/carers, however we need to source a suitable venue first.

Thank you to all the parent/carer helps who assisted yesterday- we couldn’t have done it without you!

Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

T-MINUS 14 hours!

Its 6.30 pm – and in 14 hours time, we’ll be meeting in the foyer of Eden Court.

The dress rehearsals got progressively better today- even reaching a 96% from ‘nasty judge’ Mr Cook, even though Mrs Prentice, our resident Karen Barber (Dancing on Ice) had a tear in her eye. You’re aiming for 100% tomorrow- your aim- to make Mr Cook shed a tear!

REMINDERS:

– Meeting at 8.30am in Eden Court
– Collected at 7.30pm from Eden Court
– Wear School Uniform, bringing your Rock Challenge clothes in your bag
– Make sure you have enough food and juice to keep you going for the day

Three very excited teachers,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

February break!

A Friday like no other, the Friday of ‘half-term’. Just a reminder that pupils will not be in school next week: Monday 11th February – Friday 15th February (inclusive) due to the February long weekend, and staff inservice.

We hope you all have a great holiday, however REMEMBER all of your moves for Rock Challenge. We only have 1 day back before the event.

A few pieces of information to clarify for the day: Tuesday 19th February 2013

  • Pupils to be dropped off at Eden Court at 8.30am

  • Pupils to be collected from the foyer at 7.30pm

  • Pupils to have a packed lunch for the afternoon

  • In the evening, pupils will either have pizza (if opted) or a large packed lunch

  • Pupils should wear school uniform to Rock Challenge, bringing their clothing with them

  • Evening parent/carer ‘Make-up artists’ who have received letter to arrive at 4.30pm

The February break is also a great opportunity for you to make progress with your project.

Let us know what you’re doing with your week in February by commenting on the blog!
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

The finish line is in sight…

FINAL REMINDER: If you’re wanting pizza on the night of Rock Challenge, pizza money is due tomorrow, FRIDAY 8th February at the latest!

Today was our last Rock Challenge rehearsal before the February holiday. We’re almost ready, but have a few finishing touches to iron out on the first day back. Our technical team have a fanastic lighting and video plan created, which will capture the hard work and efforts of everyone on stage.

Unfortunately, due to space, we wont be able to do a performance for parents/carers BEFORE the Eden Court performance.  Logistically, with the stage being closed off currently, it is difficult.

If you’d like to see the full Eden Court performance, tickets can be sourced by clicking the link below:

Eden Court: Rock Challenge- CLICK HERE!

See you tomorrow,
Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice

Culduthel’s got talent is BACK!

After last year’s success- Culduthel’s got talent is back!

Message from the Culduthel Christian Centre:

“Do you have a talent? If so, audition for Culduthel’s Got Talent. Cash prizes are up for grabs at the final on Saturday the 2nd March with a prize and certificate for the p1-p3 category and £50 first prize, £20 second and £10 third prize for p4-p7.”

Pick up a registration form at Culduthel Christian Centre, or download it by clicking the link below.

The closing date for entries is Friday the 1st of March, so be quick!

Culduthel’s Got Talent- REGISTRATION FORM

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