The children of Blackburn are raising money for Sport’s Relief and are taking part in 5 sporting activities every day leading up to Sport’s Relief Friday. You will have received a sponsor form to raise money for this event and we kindly request that the children only ask for sponsors from friends and family. It is going to be a lot of fun and a healthy way to raise money. Please ensure that the children have suitable clothing to take part in each event and look out for the photographs to follow.
Category Archives: Whole School
March 2016 Newsletter
Taking Action on Our Playground!
The Rights Respecting School Group have been working hard to take action on our playground.
On Friday some of the group laminated the posters that we made to stop people from allowing their dogs to foul in school grounds. It is an offence which could result in a fine from the council (Article 24 – we have the right to a clean and safe environment).
The other half of the group looked at the survey we carried out and decided on a charter to set rules for the playground so that everyone can enjoy their play time (Article 31 – we have the right to play).
Primary 5,6,7 Science Workshop
This afternoon we were lucky enough to be visited by Generation Science who are part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival. The children took part in an interactive workshop called Power from the People. They explored electricity; what it is and how it is produced. The class were taken on a journey as Electric Scientists to discover how they could produce electricity from the movements of their bodies.
The class were able to explore the principles of electricity through use of circuits, flowing electrons, magnets and capacitors. As a final challenge the class worked in small groups to build their own generator to produce electricity from their own movement.
Valentines Disco
Everyone from P1-P7 that attended had a great time at our Valentines disco. Prizes were given out for musical statues and best dancers. Even some of the teachers joined in on the dancing.
Day 100 in Primary 2/3/4
Primary 2/3/4 celebrated the hundredth day of school last Tuesday afternoon by enjoying various activities in class.
We tried different exercises to see how many we could do in 100 seconds, we tried to organise 100 coins into patterns after sorting them into 2 groups of 50, as a class we came up with 100 words – 5 groups of 20, we drew 10 groups of 10 shapes to make up 100, we also wrote our names in colour on 100 squares to see what patterns came up.
Round Robin Food Tasting
Each group came to Miss Farquhar’s class and had the chance to taste porridge, oat cakes and cheese, haggis and tatties. The groups were a little disgusted when they heard what haggis was made from.
Robert Burns and Scotland
Primary 1/2 have been learning lots about Robert burns and Scotland. Here they are at their Scottish workshop.
show and tell
P2/3/4 are going Rhino crazy!
As part of our communications topic last term, Primary 2/3/4 learned about how to communicating by writing letters. We decided to combine this with our work on rugby in PE. As Mr Reid is a big fan of rugby league team Leeds Rhinos, we decided that to write to the team to congratulate them on their magnificent season.
Then, on the last day of last term a very special envelope arrived at school. A puzzled Mr Reid opened it. Confusion turned to delight when we found that not only did Leeds Rhinos send a brilliant team photo and copy of the players autographs, but they also sent us a personalised letter thanking us for writing to them, complete with photographs of the first team players reading the children’s letters! They responded to the children’s questions such as how to become a rugby player and how many first team players there are. The letter is also signed by head coach Brian McDermott. You can hopefully read the letter in the photographs on this post. If not, we are hoping to get a frame and display it in school soon!
The new rugby league season starts on Thursday 4th February with Leeds taking on Warrington (live on SkySports, or highlights on BBC One’s ‘Super League Show’), so here’s hoping that our adopted club can triumph again this year!
