Primary 5a and P5b held a very successful enterprise event Round the World Market.  Over 100 tickets were sold and parents were entertained with some International songs, music and fun facts.  Each group of children  had researched a different country and created an informative display with text and pictures.  Visitors had a little taste of food from each country as well.  Everyone had a great time.  Our profit from this event is £50 and this will be donated to Save The Children.

Thank you to Mrs. Musgrave for her amazing talk about the history behind the Beltane festival. We were amazed by her Auntie Alice’s Beltane bits and pieces.

Mrs. Musgrave,  we thought your stories of when you were a child were really funny. You sounded like you had lots of fun at the Beltane festival.

You have really helped us to understand the meaning of Beltane.

P2A and P2B worked together on a Health and Wellbeing activity this morning. We explored happy and sad times. Then we made happy and sad puppet faces to show how we were feeling in different situations.

Our teachers were so impressed with the grown up answers we were giving and the reasons for them.

It was lovely working together as a year group and going outside into the sunshine for a special P2 Circle Time discussion.

Our favourite part was dancing to, ” Happy ” and that is exactly how the song made us all feel .

How are you feeling today?

P2A did French colour mixing. It was strange writing in French.

The Beltane Song

At Beltane in the aulden time, it was the custom gay,

To gather on the village green and hail the festal day,

Huntsman gallant and shepherds grey, doughty and blythsome men,

And Lassies blooming fresh and fair cam liltin’ doon the glen,

Through the greenwood haste away,… Sing aloud the festal lay,

Busk the Beltane banner gay, to Peblis and the play.

Across the wild foam-crested wave, in distant lands of fame,

The exile oft wi’ pride recalls the dear auld Border hame,

And while we crown our virgin queen, ‘mid flaming skies of June,

We pledge the leal hearts far a-wa and lilt our festal tune,

Honour is our watchword clear, Truth our dauntless halberdier,

Liberty’s our heralds cheer, Long live our Beltane Queen.

We have been  learning about the history and traditions of Beltane, and why it is so important to people of all ages in our Peebles community. Mr Mackenzie and Mrs Musgrave both kindly came in to tell us about Beltane.

Amy and Louise from Bank of Scotland in Peebles came to speak to p4 and p4/3 about the money- this links really well with our numeracy work on money, and our topic enterprise work ‘Grow £1’.

We had a visit from Jen (Live n Learn),  who was telling us all about Growth Mindset and resilience.

This week we have been learning about how to measure  different objects. We had to think about what we could use to work out how big an object was and how to compare its size to other objects.

When we were measuring something big like a castle we used our feet, hands or whole bodies.

When we measured smaller objects in the classroom we used cubes.

We discovered that to measure accurately we had to make sure there were no spaces and to compare the size of two objects we had to measure them both with the same measurement tool.

When Mr Wilson visited Primary 2 he told us about St Andrew’s Tower in Peebles. Then we realised we can actually  see it from our playground.

Today we did a study of St Andrew’s Tower using felt pen. Once we were happy with our line drawings we coloured or towers in using different tones of oil pastels.

We are amazed by the fact that even though we studied the same building our drawings look very different.