Primay 5 took part in their own Euro 2016 football tournament in PE today. The boys had a French, Welsh and English team competing in the tournament. Whilst the girls had a Welsh, Italian and French team taking part. All players showed some impressive skills and were all very competitive!
We had great fun today making our bird houses for the Garden Party. First of all we had to build our bird houses, then we used acrylic paint to paint the background and then we finished them off by using glitter, sequins and gems.
Glenmanor’s Senior Choir are practising for the end of term service! Here’s a clip of One Direction’s ‘History.’
Primary 5 have loved learning about our new topic- The Rainforest and Deforestation. We enjoyed looking at the 4 layers of the Rainforest- the emergent layer, the canopy, the understory and the forest floor.
We have been making the most of the sunshine in PE. We worked together to measure how far we could jump in long jump. There are definitely some aspiring Olympic Athletes in the class!
A huge well done to everyone who took part in the first heat of the Great Glen Bake Off. We were extremely impressed with the standard of cooking and the talented bakers we have in school! Well done to all the children in P1-3 who did a super job decorating cakes. Mrs Burke and the Captains tasted all the bakes and had the tough decision of choosing two bakes to put through to the final. Congratulations to Max and Leo who have made it through to the P4-7 final.
Today in homework club with p5 we were doing a lot of work. We were reading, practising our words and lots of other things with Miss Gillespie and Miss Riach. All of the other children are enjoying it to . We have 2 teachers that take the homework club. In maths we get to use ipads for our homework. We also use the ipads for probability fair online games .We have also been using the ipads to time each other with our times tables. In homework club we work very hard and are good at writing.
By Keira
Today in p7 we had a parent’s open day. Our task was to build an earthquake proof building using marshmallows, straws and toothpicks. In addition the criteria stated that our buildings should be at least 25cm tall and have two stories. Once we had finished our buildings we tested them out by putting them on a tray of jelly and shaking the tray. If the building did not collapse then we would have a second test by putting a weight on it if it didn’t collapse with a weight on it we would put another weight on! During our task we had a false earthquake alarm and we all got under the tables and pulled our chair in, all the parents began to laugh (which you really shouldn’t do if there is a real earthquake.) We had a good result, none of buildings fell down!!!! 
By Skye and Zoe
This week we enjoyed making decisions to help us develop skills for games like badminton, tennis and volley ball. I am delighted that 3 children from our class attended a badminton club on Tuseday night!
Last week in primary 7 we were making crepes with Nutella and banana.We made them from scratch with flour, milk and an egg. We mixed them all together and poured the batter into the pan and waited for it to cook. We even attempted to flip the pancakes!
After they were cooked we spread on our Nutella. Then we put our banana at the end of our pancake and carefully rolled it up. Next we cut it into bite size pieces and finally we got to eat them. They were very tasty.
The reason we were cooking this particular recipe was because it has recently been Pancake Tuesday and also because Fairtrade fortnight is focusing on breakfast food. In addition bananas and chocolate are typically associated as Fairtrade produces.
When we were not cooking were writing poems about the things we love and drawing portraits of our self to go with them. (written by Leah and Alexis)
We have been practising hard on our Scottish poem, Fireworks aff the Castle, by Matthew Fitt. Some of the children recited their poem to the rest of the class. Some of the words were really tricky to pronounce but they all did a fantastic job. Well done to the performers and a big well done to the audience for demonstrating excellent listening skills.
