I recommend Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling and illustrated by William Webb. The story is fiction, fantasy, scary, adventure and mystery. The book was first published by Bloomsbury in 1997.

My Favourite character’s name is the Sorting Hat. His personality is sorting people into the houses Gryffindor, Slytheren, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. His physical appearance is a talking hat. I feel sad for the character because all he ever does is sort people into houses.

The setting is at Hogwarts which is a school of witchcraft and wizardry,  platform 9 3/4 where the Hogwarts express leaves, Privet Drive where the Dursley’s live and Diagon Alley in London which only magic people can enter.

The first part of the plot is set at the Dudsleys house, number 4 Privet Drive. The second part of the plot is the sorted into the houses Gryffindor, Slytheren, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. The third part of the plot is battling Voldmort.

[Charlie P4]

Last week I went on my primary 6 residential at Kingswood. I got to try a wide range of new activates including abseiling and climbing. We also did some more relaxed activities such as walking and team challenges. This really helped build my social confidence and I got to meet lots of new people.

I enjoyed making friends with people from neighbouring schools. I liked learning about lighting fires and not just surviving but thriving. My favourite activate was defiantly the 3G Swing.

Thank you so much to the Kingswood Team!

(Connie P6)

The whole school went once a week for a swimming lesson. We went on a Tuesday to Kelso Swimming Pool. Those who can swim were in the deep end those who could not swim were in the shallow end. Each group had a leader who taught us new things.

It was very enjoyable experience.

(Dougal P5)

To celebrate World Book Day we decided to have A Big Booky Breakfast. We asked the parents to come to our school with their kids and bring a book each. Once we had shared our books with everyone we all had cakes, croissants and pain au chocolait with jam.

I enjoyed seeing the kids, getting to know new people and to experience seeing new books. The food was awesome and I hope everyone enjoyed it.

(Fraser P5)

At Sprouston Primary School , we are passionate about running the daily mile. For the last couple of weeks we have changed our track to make it more interesting. We have put tyres out on the tarmac to make it longer, and to make it even better we run through our willow tunnel.

I think everybody is happier with our new track and I like to run it.  (Rory P6)

In March Primary 5 and 6 participated in a Tapestry Workshop. None of us had ever tried tapestry before so it was a great experience. We each got a piece of linen with an oval drawn in the middle which we used to design something from it. I made a horse and everyone else did something different. All of our pieces were unique. Everyone wanted to do Tapestry weekly but we couldn’t! Lastly we got to do a bit of the REAL Tapestry which will be shown in The Great Tapestry of Scotland gallery.

I thought it was brilliant and such an experience! It was such fun!

Thank you The Great Tapestry of Scotland for coming! It was wonderful!!!  (Saskia P5)