On a Wednesday morning the P4-7s have eco time – everyone in primary 4 to 7 are in the Eco Committee. We have been researching different topics about transport and sustaining our world: How transport has changed over time, ferries, fair trade, food journeys, air pollution and wind turbines. We are putting all the information we have found into a PowerPoint/poster and will present these to the rest of the school. We are going on to learn about climate change now.
In the morning we went over the story of Valentine’s Day. There are lots of different stories of how Valentines Day started but this is the story we looked at today.
Valentine is the name of a person who lived over 1000 years ago. There was an Emperor called Claudius who lived in Rome in a big palace. Claudius wanted lots of men to join his army and go and fight in different countries. Most men did not want to fight wars because it meant leaving their wives and families. This made Claudius very angry so he decided to make a new rule that people could not get married. He thought if men did not have wives and children then they would want to join his army. Valentine was a priest and one of his jobs was to marry people even though Claudius had banned people from getting married. Valentine would marry people secretly – sometimes at night, whispering so no one would hear them. Valentine was caught and sent to prison. Claudius said Valentine must be killed because he broke the law. When people heard what had happened to Valentine they felt very sad. Some people threw flowers and notes up to his prison window. One of the prison guards had a daughter who he let visit Valentine. They talked for hours and became very good friends. On the day that Valentine died he sent a message to her thanking her for her friendship. He signed it… from your Valentine. It was the 14th of February. So now every year on the 14th of February people send Valentine cards to people they love and care for. Sometimes they want it to be a secret so they sign it, From your Valentine.
After we read through this story Mr Spence showed us a PowerPoint on Valentine’s Day Around the Wrold. We learned of different traditions and customs around the world:
Here is how you say ‘I love you’ in each of the above countries:
In the afternoon we made Valentine’s crafts. P4-7 made heart books for someone special. We wrote their name or Happy Valentine’s Day on the front then on the other pages we wrote down nice messages or drew pictures for that special person. They came out really well, we forgot to take pictures so here is an example of what it looks like without the writing.
For Children In Need this year we came to school in our pajamas and had a sponsored times table challenge. When Mrs Lawson blew the whistle everyone had to stop what they were doing and write down their chosen times table as many times as they could until the second whistle blew then we swapped over to mark each others work. Once we knew how many each person got right we collated this to get a total number and recorded them on a piece of paper under our class. This is what each class were doing:
Primary 7 organised different activities for us to do. They put us into cooperative learning groups and told us we had 15 minutes at each station. There were 5 different stations that each primary 7 led: Emma led an information station learning about what Children In Need is and what they do with the money raised. James led a colour/design the best Pudsey competition. Dylan had Children In Need games on the laptops. Sabienne had a group completing a word search to do with Children in Need and Jessica led a dance group. Here are some photos of our day.
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who sponsored us for this challenge, along with this money and the £1 we all paid for wearing our pajamas and the sale of the key rings (they were £1) we raised a fantastic £350.65!!!
So again, thank you very much!!
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone that has helped by donating items for us to fill shoeboxes for the shoebox appeal. We felt as a school we would like to do our bit again this year for the shoe box appeal and help those less fortunate this Christmas by giving them a gift. We have been extremely busy wrapping the boxes and then filling them, making sure we had the correct items for the different people. We would like to thank Winnie from the women’s guild who came to help us which was great. We have managed to fill an amazing 34 shoe boxes! They have now been sent to Blythswood Care to be distributed. Again thank you very much!
On Monday 29th of August we decided we would make a cake to enter into the Yell show. We had to decide what to make and decided on a sheep cakeas it is an agricultural show. Then on Thursday the 1st of September we baked the best cake anyone has ever seen! The whole school baked with Miss Nicholson and Miss Jamieson. We worked as a team and got into groups to make a different part of the cake. There was a team making the icing, a team making the big cake and 4 groups making fairy cakes (this was for the sheep). Ruby, Abbie and Jasmine designed how the cake would look thinking about the icing, the fencing and where the sheep would go. At golden time on Friday we decorated the cake – icing the big slab of cake to make it look like a park, we used curlywurlys and chocolate fingers to make a fence then decorated the individual fairy cakes to make them look like sheep by using mini marshmallows. Kane made one cake look like a dog. Miss Nicholson had bouht edible flowers so we used these to decorate the cake and used chocolate chips to make it look like sheep pirls.
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