On Wednesday 20th of March the JRSO’s held a Beep Beep day to help the younger ones to learn about road safety. We read a book to them about walking safely around the road. We then held a game of corners. Then to finish everything off we made a mock up of a road and taught them how to cross it safely.

On Thursday the 17th Zoolab visited us to talk about the Rainforests  and the animals that live in them. Tristan who was the person who came in brought along a tarantula ( called Tinkerbell) , a royal python ( called Hector) , a tortoise (called pancake), some hissing cockroaches, a rat and a horned toad. We all got to handle or touch some of them. 

On Friday the 30th Mrs Ferguson brought some Japanese snacks in for us to try. There was dried pea pods, spicy peas, nuts with soy sauce and prawn crackers. We all tried something and we really enjoyed it. Thank you Mrs Ferguson.

By Miller, Isla and Jackson F.

The P1-4’s did an Egyptian Assembly giving the parents, grandparents and carers a taste of what they have learned about Ancient Egypt. An Egyptian mummy showed up and the pupils made pyramids they also made their own necklaces.

Nathan, Miller and Thomas

On Wednesday the 7th of November the P 5/6/7’s  led our Remembrance Service. We made some poppies out of clay and        re-cycled materials. Mrs Black brought in her clay poppy from the Tower of London. The older ones made their own Remembrance poems.  After the service the Primary 7’s  laid a wreath up at the church with Calum the Minister.

Today we were to wear shoes to school that made us happy. The JRSO’s organised this as it is walk to School Week were we’re encouraged to walk to school if you can. The shoes were brilliant. we had ones that flashed, sparkled. we even had slippers. Even our teacher wore shoes. One sandal and one slipper. It was really funny.

By Miller and Nathan

On Saturday the 19th May the school hosted a fair to raise money. The stalls included a bouncy castle, beat the goalie, sumo suits, welly throwing, parent soaking. There was also a gin bar, ice cream truck, craft stalls and home baking. The home baking alone raised a fantastic £137.20 and the P7’s organised this. It was a really good day for it and it was good fun. We would like to say thank you to the Parent Council for organising it.

Primary 6/7 were given a homework challenge to make a NATURAL DISASTER (volcano, earthquake, tornado, wild fire etc.)  to show how much we have learned in our topic. Lots of people in our class took part in the challenge and here is what they created…

This week was health week. The theme was the Commonwealth. We were split into 3 groups called, Canada, Brilliant Britain and Fiji. Then we made our own team badge and slogan. We have earned team points all week!!

Primary 4/5 (Snack Attack) have organised and ran tuck this week selling fruit, smoothies and other healthy snacks.

On Monday we all walked up the track and back before lunch. It was a lovely day so we got a great view of the school. In the afternoon we were visited by Pauline from Tesco. Pauline brought food from all around the Commonwealth. For example tea from Sri Lanka, noodles from Singapore and grapes from South Africa and many more. We then had music with Mrs Inglis learning songs from all over the Commonwealth.

On Tuesday we were back in our groups going round 3 stations – Aboriginal art-inspired printing with Miss Watt, Commonwealth flags with Mrs Taylor and Commonwealth Values with Mrs Harrison.  P1-4 also had a visit from Penicuik First Responders who taught them about first aid.

I really enjoyed singing at the concert because it was fun and I got a little more confidence. I also enjoyed the community singing and we were better than the adults. The P1/2/3 sang Baby Sleeping and Three Wise Men, the P4/5 sang No Room At The Inn and There Were Shepherds and the P6/7 sang In A Stable and Unto Us A Child. We also had people speaking. Everyone was very good.