Here we have our three ‘Star Pupils’ for this week. Well done to you all for making your teachers proud!
Here are this week’s Dojo Champions. Well done to you all for having the most points. We are very proud of you all too !
Have a lovely holiday everyone! You all deserve it for working so hard. See you all on Tuesday, 25th of October.
Primary 1 teachers.
This week, we have been discussing how we pray and we have created our guide to a perfect prayer. We have enjoyed designing a reading activity for our P2 buddy (this time we have focused on the “setting”). In Spanish we have learned a rap about the weather. It was really fun!
We have done grammar and punctuation work and talked about how to use the success criteria to assess our own or someone else’s work. Primary 6b knows it’s all about using mistakes to improve!
In Number Talks we have tried different strategies for multiplication and discussed the most efficient ones.
After a lot of hard work we are now ready for the October break!
Primary 5 participated in collaborative group work at the end of Money Week to further develop their skills. In our small teams we created menus within a budget, calculated food bills and gave change, worked out word problems involving money and used coins in different ways to pay for items.
Every few minutes we tried a different activity on our money carousel and we had the choice of mild, hot or spicy questions. An enjoyable session for all involved and lovely to see good team work.
Primary 5 have been busy this week, writing letters to both Edinburgh Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse, to thank them for providing the informative workshops that we enjoyed last week.
Today Primary 5 were startled to hear a Royal fanfare in their classroom. Mary, Queen of Scots arrived in the doorway with a royal wave and granted the class permission to ask her questions relating to her life in Old Edinburgh. Mary shared interesting facts regarding her favourite colour, fashion sense and need for a pomander to cover the foul smells during the 16th century. Primary 5 were not shy when enquiring about her various marriages and just what did happen to Lord Darnley ? There was an awkward silence until Mary explained, in her beautiful French accent, that she was rather annoyed with Lord Darnley as he did murder her friend, David Rizzio.
Do you think that this was a confession ?
Today we learnt all about hedgehogs.
What did we learn ?
‘When they are babies they are called hoglets’, – Piper.
‘When they are scared they curl up into a ball’, – Daniel.
‘You can make a wee house for them to live in so cats don’t eat them and
you can use sticks or a box’, – Sofia.
‘They have 7000 spines’, – Leo.’
‘They can eat dog food’, – Tyler.
‘They can eat cat food too’, – Jie-Rui.
‘When they are born they have no spines’, – Dermott.
We really enjoyed learning all about hedgehogs today, so much so that we made hedgehogs to put on our Autumn display. After the holidays we are planning on making a ‘Hedhehog Hotel’ in our infant playground in the hope that it will attract hedgehogs to our playground. Watch this space !
Our teachers were so proud of us for reaching over 1000 class dojo points that they rewarded us with a movie and popcorn this afternoon. We chose to watch ‘The Smurfs’. We have had to follow our class and school rules to earn points. What a lovely treat before our October break!
Primary 6A and B have been learning about working within a budget in money week. We applied our addition and subtraction skills in real-life situations when we had to organise the shopping from a supermarket web-site and ensuring that we bought enough ingredients to cook our weekly meals. We soon realised that buying in bulk and being careful to look for special deals (6 cans of own brand beans instead of one can of branded beans) meant that we had enough money left over for luxuries (we all like cookie dough ice- cream!). To finish off our money week learning we played the Global Market Game today. We were divided into groups to “govern” a country. Each country was given certain resources (some were rich in natural resources and some had great technology) . The aim of the game was for each government to barter, negotiate and trade what they were given to create goods and services for their population. Certain resources had to be prioritised (such as food and shelter) and others were very expensive (such as education) . We linked what we had learned during this fun activity to real life situations… running a country was hard!
Today P1 were very lucky to have a special visitor. We were visited by 2 policemen (PC Robertson and PC Hart)!!
We were very excited (and on our best behaviour).
Who helps us?
Alfie – policeman
Matthew – fireman
Ava – lollypop man (he has an orange jacket and a hat and a stick)
Haziq – shopkeepers
Louvisa – they wear a uniform
James – and a badge
Joshua – high service (customer service)
Piper – teachers
We learned a lot about Stranger Danger – we know that we don’t speak to people we don’t know!
We had some questions we were bursting to ask. Lots of these were about the uniform they were wearing. We wanted to know why it was bright yellow, what the pen was for, and what the handcuffs looked like . The policeman even arrested the teddybear!
We also asked:
Olivia – How do you catch bad guys? (we are really fast, and some people tell us where the bad guys are?)
Joshua – where do you do? (we take the bad guys to the police station)
Arran – is the car bumpy or not bumpy? (it can get bumpy when we drive fast)
Roman – do you only catch bad guys? (we only catch bad guys, but we speak to good and bad people)
James – do you drive really fast? (only in an emergency)
Tyler – why do you have a police hat? (so everyone knows we are policemen)
Kayleigh – why do you have handcuffs? (in case the bad guys run away)
Lucas – do you have a police ambulance? (no, but we do have a police van)
Leo – why do you have a radio? (so that in an emergency we can speak to each other when we’re far away)
Joshua – why do you have a flashlight? (so we can see in the dark, because we work at nighttime too, to keep you safe).
We then all had a chance to wear the policemans hat! (including the bear).
We then got a chance to see the police van! We were so excited!
We had such a fun day!
(photos will be posted later!)
Primary two were so excited today when our amazing Primary 6 buddies came to begin our paired reading journey. They even made us activities in our new jotters and decorated the front with all of our favourite things. We had an amazing time and learned lots about the characters in our stories. We can’t wait for next week already!
Today we learnt all about the ‘Triceratops’
What did we learn ?
‘They had three horns on their head’. – Isla.
‘It had a short tail’. – Chloe.
‘It had round teeth’. – Matthew.
‘It ate plants’. – Daniel.
‘It used the three horns to protect itself’. -Megan.
‘It had a crest on it’s shoulders’. – Lovisa.
‘It had flat teeth’. – Haziq.
‘It had a long tail’. – James H.
‘They had horns to protect themselves’. – Arran.
‘They walked very slowly’. – Joshua.
‘They had four legs’; – Leo
‘They were very heavy’ – Toby.
Primary 3 have been enjoying learning about Money. We have been totalling amounts, looking for the most efficient strategy, playing games on the netbooks and creating posters to share our knowledge and understanding.
Our biggest highlight of the week has been our school trip to Livingston Football Stadium. We got to sample lots of delicious foods and people told us how to get a job when we are older. Our favourites were the white chocolate made with popping candy and spices and The Larder cooking school with all of the bread, brownies and pasta. We also liked the man who made fruit and veg origami. There was Bob from Herriot Watt. He blew bubbles that landed on us and didn’t pop. We had a great time here and it is an experience that we will remember.
We have done a think outside the box Thursday which is when we get a riddle and the first person to figure it out wins. It is good for a first thing in the morning thing because it gets your brain to work. We enjoyed this very much because it makes a good competition.
On Wednesday we had P.E and we were doing a bleep test. The whole class did very well and lots of us lost our breath. We also played a game called illuminator which is when we have to pick up cones when the teacher says to. For some of us we had two sessions of physical education because 4 boys also went to a cross country. Michael came 2nd, Logan came 3rd, Eoin came 17th and Aiden came 21st.
We have been reading a book called Nemesis by Catherine McPhail. We wrote what we thought would happen next in the story. Everybody had brilliant predictions of what they thought might happen. We are looking forward to finding out what might happen next in the story.
This week we did big maths beat that for the first time in primary 7 everyone had quite high scores.
We are looking forward to another jam packed week next week.
Ailee, Michael, Caitlin
This week P5 went on their trip to Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace. We all really enjoyed learning more about Mary Queen of Scots.
‘My favourite part was when we went to the real Mary Queen of Scots bedroom and saw her real bed.’ – Anna
‘My favourite part of Holyrood Palace was seeing David Rizzio’s blood stains.’ – Rhys
‘I liked the Palace because we got to do little challenges and to see lots of the rooms.’- Maya
‘I enjoyed going to Holyrood Palace and seeing the different room and paintings.’ – Ruby
‘I just loved when Mary Queen of Scots told us how to bow and curtsy.’ – Agata
I loved the part when we made pomanders from oranges and cloves’. – Eve
Primary 2 learned that if we can draw a triangle, square, circle, straight line and squiggly line we can draw anything! We looked around the classroom and explored the shapes that made up different objects. We were very excited about what we found!
Here we have our ‘Star Pupils’ this week proudly showing off their certificates. Well done to you all. We are very proud of you!
Look at the lovely smiles from our ‘Dojo Champions’ this week ! These children gained the most points in each of the classes. We award points for a variety of things including : trying hard, being kind, having magic manners, helping others and tidying up. Well done to these children for doing all of these things so well this week.
Primary 2 have been working on adding between 10 and 20 this week. We even started to see the connection between addition and subtraction. We have been trying to choose challenges to improve our growth mindset too!
This week we have been learning all about Rabbits. We were so busy this week that we learned these fun facts today (Friday) instead of Thursday!
We really enjoyed hearing stories and learning about different types of rabbits. Here are some of the things we learned:
Lucas – they eat grass and carrots
Daniella – (the burrow) keeps them safe
Chloe – it keeps them warm
Damian – there are over 100 types of rabbits
Haziq – they use their paws to dig
Emma – some rabbits stay in a house
Daniel (P1b) – some rabbits live in huts
Joshua – some rabbit ears stick up and some are down
Matthew (P1a) – floppy ears are called lop ears
Oona – some wild rabbits are brown
Maths-
In maths we have been learning about money.
” I enjoyed playing the purse game with the money” – Cerys p3b
” I enjoyed playing the piggy bank game on the netbooks” – Ronan p3a
” I found it tricky writing amounts and deciding to use the pence sign or the pound sign” -Ciaran P3b
” I found it tricky in number talks to find the most efficient strategy to find the answer” – Justin p3a
Literacy
In literacy this week we have been learning lots of different things.
“This week I learned that you can find lots of words in the dictionary and what they mean” – Alexander P3b
“I enjoyed practising our joined up writing” – Hannah P3a
“ I found it tricky to pick a character for my story this week“- Marcel P3a
” I found it tricky finding words in the dictionary” – Harry P3b
This week we also went to church for mass. After mass Daniel (trainee priest) came into our class and told us all about St. Francis of Assisi because it was his feast day.
WOW we have been super busy this week and are ready for a restful weekend to recharge our batteries.
Primary 3 have been working really hard during our Guided Reading activities. We have enjoyed exploring our reading books in depth and finding out more about the plot, character and setting. We have also enjoyed using the netbooks to practise our spelling words. Have a look at us in action!
Primary four enjoyed their trip to the National Museum of Scotland yesterday. They learned lots of interesting things about the Vikings and had the opportunity to handle Viking Artefacts. They also got the chance to explore some of the other areas of the Museum for a short time.
Primary 6 had a wonderful day at New Lanark where we learned what life could be like for children in the past. We found out about the pioneering reforms that took place at New Lanark which made life better for poorer people, including education for children, the first Co-Op for food and other provisions and protection for younger children from the more dangerous and difficult work. We took a ride on the Annie Macleod experience, participated in a Victorian school lesson and toured the New Lanark mills and houses. What a great day!
Primary 7 had a great morning at the West Lothian Career Conference in Livingston Football Stadium. The focus was Hospitality, Food and Drink, Hygiene and Engineering processes within food and drink. We all enjoyed sampling the smoothies, cakes, scones, pasta, unusual fruits and vegetables. We learned how to set a table and a little bit about silver service. We watched a cookery demonstration and some of us tasted mussels for the first time.
We have had the best day ever in Primary 1 ! Why ? Well, this afternoon after we learnt all about St Nicholas we went into our classrooms and saw that our eggs had hatched ! As you can imagine, this caused great excitement as it would seem that the mummy dinosaur also visited our classrooms. We know this because she left her footprints in each of the rooms. We were so excited that Mrs Brown came along to see what was going on. She was mighty impressed to see three baby T-Rexes in her school.
James F and James H from Mrs Evan’s class actually spotted the mummy dinosaur in the bushes, wow ! We will keep you all updated with our pet dinosaur’s adventures !
Today in Primary 1, we have been learning all about our school’s saint: St Nicholas.
Here are some of the things we have learned:
Louvisa – he rescued someone
Thomas – he rescued them from a storm
Chloe – he made people rich (he was generous)
Leo – he shared his money
Roman – he left a bag of money for a man
Matthew (P1b) – the man found the money
Lucas (P1a) – he wants to give money
All – he was happy
Toby – he wanted to be a bishop
All – A bishop is like a priest
We started our money topic today in maths and commenced by calculating the best offers to buy goods. First, we had to calculate how much certain products would cost on an internet site (including delivery) and then we compared the cost of the same goods on another site. As a spicy challenge we worked out how we could “shop around” by buying our goods over a few sites to ensure we got the best deal….Moneysaving Expert – you have competition!
We continued to look at ways in which we could partition numbers into “partial quotients” to make them simpler to divide in our Number Talks and learned more about Queen Victoria (Empress of India – although she NEVER visited!) in our topic work.
We continued to work on our lines and songs for our assembly and prepared ourselves for our school trip tomorrow – we are very excited! Please remember to bring a packed lunch if you have not ordered a school one – thank you!
Due to us being so busy with our coffee morning last Friday, we did not get the chance to celebrate our ‘Star Pupils or ‘Dojo Champions’, apologies for this. So, h ere we have last week’s ‘Star Pupils’ from Primary 1. Well done to you all for working hard in class and trying your best.
Here we have our ‘Dojo Champions’ ! These children all had the the largest number of Dojo points in each class. Well done to you all too !
It is with great pleasure that we can now announce the grand total for our ‘Macmillan Coffee Morning. We raised a whopping £500 !! Thank you so much for digging deep and helping us raise such a super amount for a great charity. We enjoyed ourselves so much that we are thinking of planning another one. Watch this space !
Best wishes from,
The boys and girls in Primary 1
The boys and girls ( and teachers ) would like to say a great big ‘thank you ‘ to our lovely parents, carers and guardians for supporting us at today’s Macmillan Coffee Morning. We really enjoyed sharing our work with you over a cup of tea (juice for us ) and a slice of cake . We will count all of our pennies and let you know how much we have raised as soon as possible. Thanks again everyone!
This week Primary 5 have been learning about the masked robber, Deacon Brodie and the loyal dog of Edinburgh, Greyfriars Bobby. Here are some facts the children found interesting about both Deacon Brodie and Greyfriars Bobby.
Greyfriars Bobby died in 1872, 14 years after his owner. – Sean
Greyfriars Bobby was a loyal dog. – Eve
Bobby was a Skye Terrier. – Taylor
Deacon Brodie was hanged because he stole things from people’s houses. – Josh
Deacon Brodie used to rob houses by making his own copy of people’s keys. – Dominik
Greyfriars Bobby was a happy dog until his owner passed away. – Anna
Before Greyfriars Bobby’s owner died he followed him everywhere. – Owen
Deacon Brodie tried to escape on a boat but a couple read his letters and he was arrested. – Holly
The Lord Provost of Edinburgh paid for Bobby’s licence after his owner died. –Hollie
When Bobby heard the 1 o’clock gun he would go to Mr Traill’s café for food. – Lilli
When his owner died Bobby lay by his grave. – Ruby
Primary 5 are now looking forward to our trip to Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace on Thursday.
Primary 4 have had a busy week, we had our class mass, we learned to play Benchball in PE, we enjoyed learning a new French song for European Day of Languages and we made beautiful Autumn tree pictures with Mrs Renshaw. The best part was having pizza during Golden Time for a reward for earning 600 dojo points as a class!
Prisoner of War
By Caitlin Healy
Caged within the encircling wire
Heart mind and soul afire
Afire with longing for things of home
The glorious heaths once more to roam
Thoughts come springing from far away
Of loved ones kiss, of children’s play
Visions of comrades sharing the fight
Clothed in khaki a strange garb for a knight
Yet each one a crusader against power and lust
Till evil is humbled to the dust
Then free once more to roam
Through flowered fields to an English home
All heartbreak and sorrow past
Living in peace
Perfect at last
Soldiers Farewell
By Aimee Turner
I’ve saddled up, and dropped me hooch,
I’m going to take the gap,
My tour of Duty’s over mates,
And I won’t be coming back
I’m done with digging shell scrapes,
And laying out barbed wire,
I’m sick of setting claymore mines,
And coming under fire.
So no more fire support base,
And no more foot patrols,
And no more eating ration packs,
And sleepin’ in muddy holes.
I’ve fired my last machine gun,
And ambushed my last track,
I’m sick of all the army brass,
And I sure ain’t coming back.
I’ll hand my byonet to the clerk,
He ain’t seen one before,
And clean my rifle one more time,
And return it to the store.
Wartime Poem
Found by Michael Beagley
Looking Around
The battle scene was harsh
Bodies lay scattered on the ground
With the nauseating scent of blood
Surrounding me
I can hardly see
For smoke blinds my eyes
And as I look around, my heart sinks
And fills with sorrow
I want this battle to end
Noises of gunfire hurt my eardrums
Piercing and killing lives
The images of falling
Scar me for life
This is the place of death
And I try hard to keep hope.
Primary 2 were so excited to be introduced to their p6 paired reading buddy. We really enjoyed getting to know and reading with our buddies. The primary 6’s will be working hard on activities to help and support us in our reading. We are really looking forward to it!
We are so proud of Primary 2’s amazing pirate ships. They have worked very hard as part of their homework and we are so impressed with the outcome!
CHECK THEM OUT!!!
Well done everyone!
Here are the highlights that Primary 7 have chosen to blog about.
We all had lots of fun teaching our buddies Spanish.
” I really enjoyed it because the buddies looked like they were having fun.” Nicole
“I liked when they showed us the game they had been learning, it was like what’s the time Mr Fox” Kirsten
As part of our World War 2 topic we have been researching the following: Rationing, Women in the War, Scotland’s Blitz, Home guard, Anne Frank and Evacuation.
In Number talks we have been concentrating on the following strategies: partitioning, adjusting, landmark numbers, making tens, near doubles and compensation.
In RME we have been learning about the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. We have been comparing their accounts of events in the Bible.
We have been learning how to write a parody.
In Maths we have been working with factors. A factor is a number that can be divided into another number with no remainders. Next week we are going to look at Prime Numbers. We also learned the rules of divisibility. Some of us tested our parents on this! We are enjoying chanting in the counting choir.
In Music we have been learning the recorder with Mrs Steele. Some of us took part in Mr Bruce’s Chanter workshop. We are proud of Finlay who has just started playing in the West Lothian School’s Pipe band.
We are continuing to look at the artworks of Kandinsky and we have enjoyed recreating our own pieces of art in the same style.
P7B are really enjoying their class novel Nemesis by Catherine Macphail. There is lots of mystery and lots of twists in the story so far. It is keeping us on the edge of our seats!!!!
” I like it because it has lots of suspense.” Caitlin
” I like it because there are lots of wow words in it.” Ellie
” I like it because it is an interesting and determining story” Jack
P7A are reading Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy. This has been highly recommended by Caleb Heather.
“It’s a wee bit mysterious because we don’t know who is behind the mask…..yet.” Jamie
“It’s a very interesting read.” Nicole.
P7 boys took part in football trials for the school team this week. The first tournament is this afternoon at the Albyn. Good Luck Boys!
We are ending the week by helping out at the P1 Macmillan Coffee morning.
Maths
Last week we learned about BODMAS (Brackets Order Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction). It was important to do our problems in this order because otherwise we could all have different answers! In Number Talks this week our strategy was ‘Adding up in chunks’. When we break down our calculations, it makes it easier to solve difficult problems.
This week we also did rounding to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand. We also challenged ourselves by rounding to the nearest ten thousand and hundred thousand. Furthermore, we took a look at decimals. This was tricky and it is something we will work on again in our next maths focus, which is money.
Language and literacy
In language and literacy we revised similes and metaphors. We also learnt about personification which is when you describe an object or thing with human characteristics. For example:
The wind whistled through the valley.
The trees whispered secrets.
Last week, we learned all about synonym and antonyms.
PSD
In PSD, we have been learning about gender inequality and we have made posters of what people think girls should like and another one that they think boys should like. We also wrote a traditional fairytale but we changed the gender! We are learning to respect each other and not to show discrimination.
Assembly
We have recently been learning about the Victorians so we are doing an assembly to show you what we have been learning and we found out that we are doing a local show and it’s Oliver Twist!
Primary 2b have been enjoying creating and watching one another perform a song or dance! We are so impressed with the confidence and excellent creativity!
During European Languages Day Primary 2 had the pleasure of working with Primary 6 children learning all about colours in Spanish. We were so impressed with the creative and exciting lesson Primary 6 had prepared for us! We had great fun and can’t wait to buddy up with you again!
Thanks P6!
Today we learnt all about ducks. Mrs Macdonald spotted a duck in the burn next to our school on her way to school this morning. Keep your eyes peeled for it next time you pass the burn. Please remember though boys and girls to never go near water on your own.
What did we learn ?
They can eat bread – Lucas S.
A baby duck is called a duckling – Roman.
They can swim straight away – Chloe.
They come out of eggs – Eleanor.
We have been learning about the Roman army and were excited to try on a typical helmet that a Roman soldier would wear. We were surprised at how heavy it was. We know that the hairy part is called the plume and it was there to make the soldiers look more manly.
In Primary 6 this week Monday started with Media Monday, followed by a Number Talk using doubles and near doubles (250 + 250 followed by 248 + 249) . We saw how much quicker is was to add up to a near double first, then remove the extra RATHER than spending time on a chimney-style sum. Next, we started a new topic in maths – rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000 and applying this knowledge to word-problems that required several steps of calculation; although the task required concentration we all felt pretty confident that we could move on to the next stage which was to round bigger numbers and decimals.
We continued with our Literacy work, mostly looking at how more complex paragraphs are made by creating COHESION in our writing. We discussed the meaning of cohesion and looked at the cohesive devices used by authors to make a paragraph work well (namely, pronouns, conjunctions and determiners). Synonyms are also used to assist with cohesion in writing and therefore we subsequently completed an exercise to replace common words with interesting synonyms in a passage.
We found out some things about the Victorian Artist and designer William Morris in our topic work.
This week Primary 6 have also started their Primary 2 reading project; we met our Primary 2 buddies and found out about some of the books they like to read. Next week we’ll create some activities designed to challenge and interest our junior readers! We strengthened the connection we have with our Primary 2 friends today with our joint language learning when Primary 2 sang us a song in many languages and in return, we taught them the names for the colours in Spanish by playing games we had created with them…a great collaboration!
In 6B our Number Talk today was about how to simplify division. We found a range of strategies to answer the question 56 divided by 4. The most efficient was to split the 56 into 40 and 16 and divide each of the parts by 4 separately. Hard at work P6!
Primary 3 have been learning about the visual element of line. We have explored using lots of different types of line – wavy, straight, zigzag, swirly. We know that lines create shape. We then used these different lines to create crazy hair! Have a look at some of our masterpieces.
Both Primary 6 classes put in a HUGE effort today at their Cross Country Running Competition, run by the Active Schools Co-ordinators at Kirkhill Primary. Despite the wet weather, there were no complaints from our competitors as they battled mud, hills, rain and slippery slopes to come in third in the competition! Well done Primary 6 we are really proud of you! We have some photos of the event, but a technical difficulty means that we will need to upload them later.
Today we had great fun learning alongside our primary 7 buddies when we played a game in Spanish called ‘ Un, dos tres Calabaza’, (One, two, three pumpkin) in celebration of ‘International Day of Languages’. We had lots of fun playing this game as it helped us to learn how to count in Spanish. We also played number games that our p7 buddies made especially for us. We love learning Spanish in Primary 1. We can say hello, goodbye, good morning, how are you and are learning the names of colours and numbers.
Muchas Gracias to Senorita Alvarez por ayundarnos and our lovely friends in P7 for helping us to learn how to count in Spanish.
Today we have been learning all about the Stegosaurus.
What have we learnt ?
Megan – A stegosaurus was the size of a bus.
Lucas – They had plates on their back.
Thomas – They ate grass.
Max C – Stegosauruses were herbivores.
Sophia & Chloe – This dinosaur had spikey horns on their tail to help them get away from other dinosaurs.
Isabella A – They moved slowly.
Ava – They moved slowly because they had short legs.
Toby – They had 17 plates on their back.
Well done to all of the boys and girls for listening so well. Tomorrow we will learn all about another dinosaur. Which one will it be ?
Primary 4b enjoying their music time with Miss Mulholland yesterday. They have been learning to keep a steady beat. 
A big well done to Leo, Daniel and Jie-Rui for being our ‘Star Pupils’ this week. We are very proud of you all.
Here we have Joshua, Isla and Lucia A big well done too to you all for being our ‘Dojo Champions’ this week. Who will it be next week ?
Wow ! We have some really exciting news to share with you all. Today, we receiveda letter and a package from Professor D. Inosaur asking us for some help. He asked all of the lovely boys and girls in Primary 1 to help him to look after a dinosaur egg.
Well, we could not believe it and of course we have said ‘yes’. The next few weeks in Primary 1 are going to be so much fun as we wait for the egg to hatch and learn lots of exciting things about dinosaurs. Stay tuned for dinosaur updates !
Today, P1 all got together to learn some fantastic facts. Today we were learning about Spiders!
We began by reading two different stories. One was a fiction book. This means it is not real (Andrew).
The other was a non-fiction book. This means it is real (Joshua).
We learned lots of facts about spiders:
Kayleidh – they have 8 eyes
Isabella P – they have 8 legs
Matthew P – they have spinnerettes
Matthew R – these make webs
Primary 5 have been learning about Old Edinburgh for the past fortnight. We have been learning lots of interesting facts about Edinburgh Castle, the Palace of Holyroodhouse and Mary,Queen of Scots.
We have also been using mixed media to create these fantastic sunset silhouettes of the Edinburgh skyline.
Please click on the link below for a short video explaining the process.
Well done to Hugh-John, Justyna and Haziq for being our stars this week. We are very proud of you all !
Here we have Thomas, Oona and Lucas. These children had the most points this week which makes them all a ‘Dojo Champion’. Who will it be the next time ?
See you all on Wednesday ! No school on Monday and Tuesday as these days are holidays. Have a lovely rest.
Primary 1 teachers.
We’re all just back from a fantastic afternoon, watching a travelling theatre company perform ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’. In celebration of one of our children’s favourite authors, Roald Dahl, all our boys and girls from Nursery to P7, watched the production. At St Nicholas Primary, we love Roald Dahl because there are always morals in his stories and great characterisation, making them suitable for young and old.
Here we have Rian, Andrew and Brooke proudly showing off their certificates for being our stars this week. Well done to you all !
Here are our ‘Dojo Champions’ this week, Leo, Patryk and Isabella. All three children received the most points in their classes. A big well done to you all too.
Have a great weekend everyone, see you all on Monday for more learning and fun in primary 1.
Your teachers.
Our primary one children had a fantastic day today visiting our local fire station!
The children listened well as the fireman told them what his job was. They learned all about the uniforms (did you know that most fire fighters wear yellow helmets, but the one who’s in charge wears a white helmet?!) and all about the fire engines (in Scotland they are red with blue lights – the same as the ambulance!!)
We learned that at Broxburn, all the firefighters have pagers, which beep when it’s time to go to work, but other stations have fire fighters who eat and even sleep there!
They then saw what fire fighters have to wear (Mrs Evans and Mrs Baty modeled the uniform – it was very heavy and warm!!)
We also learned what to do if we ever see someone on fire (tell them to Stop, Drop and Roll – you can see us practicing this in our photos).
After that, the children went outside to explore the fire engine. They even got a shot of a water hose out of the fire engine!
All primary 1 children were fantastic on our first trip! Thank you again to our fabulous parent helpers!
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Today, primary 1 were lucky enough to have some very special visitors! As part of our People Who Help Us topic, we invited some paramedics to come to see the children. They told us all about their job, what they do and what equipment they use.
Some of us were allowed to dress up in their real High Vis Jacket, and their paramedics helmet. Then, we pretended Mrs Evans had been trampled by an elephant!! The paramedics put a bandage on her head (like a big plaster) and used a special machine to make sure she was feeling okay (it beeped, and had a blue wavy line on it).
Then, we went to see the ambulance!!! It was amazing! We even got to go inside! Then they put the siren on for us to hear! (See our picture with our hands over our ears … it was so loud!).
We had a really great day!!
Joshua – Paramedics have ambulances
Alfie – they wear an ambulance suit
Ava – they have a torch
Kayleidh – (how could they make sure they are seen?) you wear a jacket
Isla – (Mrs Evans should..) get away from the elephant!
Lucas – (Mrs Evans is hurt, what do we do?) phone the doctor!
James – is the number 909?
Ben – the ambulance is blue
Lucas – …and green and yellow
Matthew – the ambulance has lights
Olivia – the lights are blue, and they flash
Matthew – it has a siren, and they rescue people
Toby – they help people who get hit by a car
Ben – they are sometimes with the fire brigade
Arran – they take you to the hospital
Dermott – St Johns hospital.
We have had a fantastic day in Primary 1C today!!
We have been learning all about people who help us.
Yesterday we learned all about the police. We played with dressing up, coloured in pictures and even took our own fingerprints. It was very exciting.
Today we were learning all about the ambulance service. We had two very special visitors called Andrea and Scott.
This is what we have learned from them and what we enjoyed:
How to keep safe – Lovisa
The ambulance put a bandage on Mrs Evans’ head – Bhavya
I liked the siren – Max
I liked going to see the ambulance – Isabella P
I liked the sirens too – James H
I liked seeing the bed in the ambulance – Isabella A
The ambulance is white and green – Megan
They wear a uniform – James F
Their uniform is dark green – Isabella P
Sometimes they have to wear a hat so we know they’re an ambulance – Oona
They wear a hat because they might bump their head on the road – Max
They sometimes wear a yellow jacket – Brooke
They wear a yellow jacket so they can be safe on the road – Bhavya.
The lights on the ambulance were blue – Julia.
You shouldn’t be scared of ambulance people because they help you – Lovisa & James H
You should wave if you see an ambulance – Bhavya & Lovisa
Primary 1b are really enjoying learning lots about ‘People Who Help Us’. So far, we have been learnt all about the police and paramedics. Today we got to see inside a real ambulance. It was very cool! Thank you to the two lovely paramedics, Andrea and Scott for bringing an ambulance along to our school.
What have learnt so far about the police ?
‘The police have cars and motorbikes’, Matthew.
‘They catch robbers and have handcuffs’, Andrew.
‘They have the same jacket as their car’, Keilidh.
‘The police look at fingerprints to help them catch the baddies’, Alfie.
‘We can see lines on our fingers and these are fingerprints’ Thomas.
‘The police wear a badge with their name on it’ Sofia.
‘Police dogs catch the baddies’ Isla.
Here are some of us having fun dressing up in polics clothes, making fingerprints, reading books and playing with the polic toys.
What have we learnt so far about paramedics?
‘They wear a uniform’, David
‘When you get hurt they put a band aid on you’, Thomas.
‘There is a bed inside the ambulance’, Alfie.
‘People lie down on the bed and it helps them’, Matthew
‘You call 999’, Jamie -Leigh.
Primary 1a have been working so hard this week! We have been learning to read and write some sounds. So far we have learned ‘m’ and ‘a’.
We have also been continuing to learn about patterns. We have made some lovely pattern caterpillars, which Mrs Baty is looking forward to putting up on our wall!
Primary 1 are really enjoying having lunch at school, now that we are in school all day!!
Today, Primary 1 were learning all about The Police, as part of our People Who Help Us topic.
We began by watching a video about police in action, then we had lots of fun activities. We got to play dress up (as police and firefighters), and we even took our own finger prints!
Here are some of the things we learned today:
Ben – the police use helicopters
Toby – They catch bad guys
Olivia – They drive police cars
Lennox – They go fast on their motorbikes to get badies
Dermott – They have sirens on the top of bikes and cars
Ava – They have handcuffs
Arran – They go on motorbikes
Daniel – They use horses
Roman – They go on police helicopters
Daniella – They wear a white and black vest
Ben – They wear helmets
Abdullah – (the pattern on the side of their cars is…) blue and white and yellow
Ava – Everyone has different lines on our fingers
Tyler – … called their fingerpints
Eating lunch at school is great ! Here we are being big boys and girls filling our tummies with our delicious lunches.
Here are some lovely pictures of us working hard. We love school!
Here are our three ‘Star Pupils of the Week’ in Primary 1 , Abdullah (P1a), Chloe (P1b), and Ian (P1c). Well done everyone !
A big well done too to EVERYONE in primary 1 for working hard and for settling in so well. We had a hard task deciding who to choose for this award because you have all been stars.
Have a lovely weekend,
Primary 1 teachers.
We have been having so much fun and we’ve been working very hard in Primary 1a! Mrs Baty is very proud of us!!
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We have been learning all about pattern. We know that pattern means ‘it is repeated’. We have been making patterns with colour using counters / cubes, and we have begun making patterns with shapes. We also made a pattern using ourselves!!! (sitting and standing).
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Today we read the story of Elmer the Elephant. Elmer was sad because he was different from all the other elephants. He painted himself grey, but quickly realised that by embracing his unique personality and his colours, he was happier and he made everyone else happier. We then spoke about what makes us all special and unique.
We had some brilliant answers:
Joshua – I was really good at football when I was wee
Olivia- I am very good at swimming and gymnastics
Ben – When I was younger I went to football and I was really good
Toby – when I am a grown up I am going to be a really good fireman
Rian – I am really good at football
Roman – I am really good at football and I can go under the water
Daniel – I am really good at football
Leo – I’ve played in lots of football games
Tyler – I am good at swimming underneath the water
Matthew – I am really good at football
Lucas – I am good a lot of games
Daniella – My daddy’s daddy used to live in Sri Lanka
Lennox – I can jump in the swimming pool from really high
Abdullah – I am good with my bike
Hugh-John – I am good at swimming
Julia – I am a perfect ballerina
Nadia – I am good at ballet
Dermott – I am really good at painting
Arran – I can speak snail
Ava – I am really good at football
We then decorated our own Elmer in our own unique way. We were excited to add glitter to make them super special.
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Last week we made our beautiful Rainbow Fish, whilst learning about how to be kind to each other by sharing. Our Rainbow Fish look ‘amazing’, ‘fantastic’ and ‘beautiful’ on our wall.
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We have also been learning to draw a self portrait. Don’t they look fantastic?
We are really enjoying listening to stories each day. We have a few favourites already, ‘Elmer’s Parade’ and ‘Aliens love Underpants’. We have been busy participating in different activities linked to these books. Here are some pictures of our super work.
This morning the boys and girls were practising colouring and cutting. They designed their own butterfly using the different colours of the rainbow (just like the butterfly in The Hungry Caterpillar).
After break we read The Rainbow Fish story. We spoke about what this story was teaching us and how we can be like the rainbow fish in our classroom. We have all agreed to be kind, helpful and good at sharing just like the Rainbow Fish.
We have spent the morning getting to know each other and exploring our new environment. We found lots of exciting things to play with!
After seeing our buddies at break we read The Hungry Caterpillar. This got us chatting about the different foods that we like to eat. We also discussed things that we like to do in our spare time. After that, we drew self portraits which are displayed on our classroom wall.
We have had a great day!
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The boys and girls in Primary 1c have settled in very well.
On our first day we enjoyed exploring our new classroom and have made new friends. We coloured in cupcakes using our favourite colours. Look out for these on our birthday display!
Here are the lovely boys and girls on their first day at school. Don’t they look fabulous!!
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Primary 1a have had another exciting day at school today.
This morning we had fun doing lots of different activities to build our fine motor skills. We drew spikes on crocodiles, we playing with jumping frogs, we made necklaces, we played with laces, and we played / danced with some playdoh to the Doh Disco (so much fun!).
After playtime (where we got to see our buddies again), we listened to the story The Rainbow Fish. We had a chat about the importance of sharing, and discussed the ways each of us have shared things with others. We then had to share the glue, scissors, and coloured paper, to make our very own Rainbow Fish. They look beautiful!
We had a fantastic morning in Primary 1a, we had so much fun and made lots new friends.
We showed Mrs Baty how clever we were by doing fantastic listening, sitting and by putting up our hands to talk.
We played some circle time games to get to know our classmates, and found out all of our favourite animals. We all seem to like cats, dogs, lions and penguins amongst others.
We had a story after break time and met our story animals. They help us to listen nicely to the stories, and sometimes ask questions too.
We even got to use some paint to make a friendship tree for our classroom (photo to follow).
Have a look below at our super smart First Day Photos. Don’t we look super?!
Keep checking back to see what else we get up to in our first week of Primary 1.
Here we are having fun making new friends, exploring our new classroom and playing. It has been a great day !
Here are the lovely boys and girls from Primary 1b on their first day at school. They all settled very quickly and had a great day exploring their classroom, playing and meeting their super P7 buddies again.
I am super excited to be your teacher and am looking forward to the year ahead.
Love,
Mrs Macdonald.
Here we have Tavia and Kyle !
Tavia is proudly showing off her swimming certificate for moving up a level. Well done Tavia, I am very proud of you.
Here we have Kyle showing off his football medal. It was presented to him at a recent football festival. Well done Kyle, I am proud of you too !
I would like to say a big thank you to all of my lovely boys and girls for working so hard all year and making me very proud to be your teacher. I am going to miss you all ! Have a lovely Summer and I will see you around the school when you get to Primary 2.
Love,
Mrs Macdonald xxx
PS – Thank you so much for the lovely best wishes, cards and gifts. I have been truly spoiled.
Primary 3A and B had a busy weekend receiving medals.
Well done to Isla, Rebecca, Lilya and Melanie for taking part in a gymnastics competition at the weekend.
Well done to Callum, Luke and Warren for taking part in a football tournament at the weekend.
Also, congratulations to Monde-Jnr for going to London on Friday and receiving sponsorship from the High Commissioner to continue with his passion in motor sports.
Well done to all children! We are very proud of you.
Primary 6b buddies came into nursery to spend time with their new buddies. The nursery boys and girls were very excited at seeing them again and even remembered their buddies names! The children all had great fun together getting to know their new friends.
Primary 6a came into nursery today to visit their buddies. The boys and girls were very excited and loved spending time with them. The primary 6 children kindly made games to play and interact with their buddies. Great fun was had by all!
Thank you to all of our lovely mummies, daddies, grannies and grandads for coming along to our assembly. We hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did! We are looking forward to a well earned rest this weekend.
For working hard, we have decided that all of our children deserve to be ‘Star Pupil of the Week’. A special treat will follow on Monday.
Have a lovely weekend everyone !
Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty.
Here we have Santiago and Grady ! Santiago is holding his orange belt that he was awarded in Tae Kwon Do. Well done ! Grady is proudly showing off his medal for being a fantastic boy at rugby. Well done ! I am very proud of both of you both.
Today we had a visit from three lovely ladies from ‘West Lothian Gymnastics’. What did we do ? Well we all went to the gym hall and had a gymnastics taster session . It was amazing ! First of all we played a warm up game called ‘Breakfast’ before we stretched out. We were then placed into three groups and let loose on the equipment doing forward rolls, backward rolls, handstands, kangaroo jumps and more jumping using the springboard. We had such a good time that some of us wanted to have another go. Well done everyone for working hard !
Primary 1a and 1b had a fantastic afternoon of Karate. Some of us have already experienced Taikwondo or Karate before, and we were keen to show off our skills.
We found out that Karate is a Japanese sport.
We began by learning how to say hello in Japanese. They are very formal. To say hello, they bow, with their hands at their sides and their feet together. The more important the person, the lower we bow. So of course, we all bowed very low to our teachers!
We then learned how to count to 5 in Japanese.
1 – ish
2 – ni
3 – san
4 – chi
5 – go
We then learned different ways to punch and kick correctly, so as not to hurt ourselves. (Of course, we learned that this is just a sport, and only to be done in safe environments, such as in karate or taikwondo classes).
We learned a forward punch – it is important to keep our thumb tucked away, punch in a straight line, and use the top part of our first 2 fingers.
We learned to a head block and a side block (to stop others punching us).
We then learned something called a slap kick – we don’t use the bottom of our foot or our toes, as this would hurt. Instead, we use the top part of our foot.
We practiced all of these on punching pads, held only by the instructors. We then got a go at using the pretend man called Bob. This was fun as he was very squishy and wobbled a lot.
We also had lots of fun playing games. These games were to help us get fit, and to exercise our muscles. We played an opposites game. We found this tricky at first but eventually got the hang of it. If the man said sit, we had to stand. If he said fight, we had to dance.
We then played a dice game. The dice had different exercises on it, including crunches, push ups, star jumps and squats. There was even a side which got the teachers to do 25 exercises! Luckily it only landed on this once. It was very funny watching Mrs Baty trying to do 25 push ups! She’s not as fit as us.
We had a really fun day, and we’re looking forward to the rest of the week.
We have had a fantastic day today !
What have we been up to ?
This morning we took a walk up to the ‘Range Park’. Some of us had already been before so we were already familiar with it. For some of though, it was our first time there and we were amazed when we saw all of the super things there. What did we see ?
a flying fox
a climbing wall
a roundabout
a chute
an obstacle course
a trampoline
a roundabout
and lots of lovely green grass and sand for us to run around on.
We all had lots of super fun running around and using the equipment. It was really great ! We arrived back to school just before lunchtime having walked back. Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty agreed that because we walked up and down to the park we didn’t have to do our ‘Daily Mile’ back at school. Phew !!!!
In the afternoon we had a visit from a nurse ! She told us lots of super things about our body and what we can do to keep ourselves strong and healthy. She also showed us what a heart looks like and told us how important it is to exercise. We learnt that children’s hearts should beat between 80-120 beats per minute. We also learnt how important it is to wash our hands. It was a very informative visit. Thanks so much toMrs Purves for giving up her time to talk to us.
A big thank you also to Freya and Tavia’s mummy, Wiktoria’s mummy and Thomas’s mummy for coming along to the park this morning to help us.
Here is Kyle proudly showing off his trophy that he was given for having good football skills. Well done Kyle ! In future years you could maybe play in the World Cup !
It was very, very, very difficult to choose a star this week in P1a because all of the boys and girls are stars. We have had such a busy week and every single one of the children has worked well and joined in every activity with great enthusiasm.
However, I have decided to give the ‘Star of the Week’ to Cole. He has impressed me with this week with his kindess towards others and how enthusiastic he has been with all our ‘Fitness Fortnight’ activities, (especially the daily mile). Well done Cole !
Our DOJO Champion this week goes to Kuba ! Well done Kuba for getting points for tidying up, changing quickly and remembering his magic manners.
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Primary 1 continued their Fitness Fortnight today by playing on a bouncy obstacle course. It was great fun, and very tiring! This means we were doing great exercise. We all felt very hot, sweaty and our hearts were beating fast. Primary 2 and 3 even got to have a go as well. Look at our photos. We all have huge smiles!
Just a little reminder about the Bouncy Castle Obstacle Course tomorrow (Friday 10th June).
If you would like a go and are in primary 2 and primary 3, please bring in your £1 coin in tomorrow morning. Your class teacher will take you along.
(Primary 1, we have already paid, so just bring your smiles and bouncing legs).
We hope you all have a brilliant time!
P1 are having a brilliant week as part of our Fitness Fortnight. We are definitely feeling very fit …. and very tired!
Today we did our daily mile again. It is 6 times around the field. We have been walking most of the way, then running the last 2 laps, although some of us are pushing ourselves further to run more. We are noticing the differences now that we’ve been doing it more continuously.
This afternoon P1a had a yoga instructor come into the class. We had lots of fun trying to get ourselves into all the different positions. They had funny names, including The Airplane, The Bridge and The Cat. We had a lot of fun! (Primary 1b will get to try this next week).
This afternoon, P1b made some healthy snacks. We actually began by trying Mrs Baty’s smoothie (she wasn’t so keen on the ones we tried yesterday, so brought in one of her homemade ones). Lots of us liked it a lot more than the others, and we found out how easy it was to make.
We then made our own yoghurt snacks. We mixed yoghurt, coco powder, honey and banana, and put it in the freezer. We were hoping to eat them this afternoon, but they weren’t frozen enough. It’ll just have to be our breakfast tomorrow! (P1a will make these next week).
We have had another great day today ! We started our day off learning about lots of different fruits. We spoke about our favourite fruits before trying some of these in the form of smoothies.
We tried a mango and passion fruit smoothie, a pineapple, banana and coconut smoothie, a strawberry and banana smoothie and a pomegranate, blueberry and acai berry smoothie. We liked some of these better than others but we still tried them and some of us even asked for more. A big well done to everyone for trying these , we are super proud of you all.
Primary 1b voted, and we decided our favourite was the strawberry and banana smoothie, although the mango and passion fruit was a very close second.
In the afternoon we went for our mile walk. This is starting to become easier for us and we are enjoying being out in the fresh air.
We are looking forward to inviting our mummies, daddies, brothers, sisters, grannies and grandads to our assembly on Friday, 17th of June at 11.00am in our hall. Please come along if you can to share our learning with us.
Today has been another busy day gfor the boys and girls in P1a and P1b.
What did we do ?
We walked another mile today with the help of our lovely friends from P7. This is what we think about the daily mile :
Lara – I love it !
Mia – It is nice !
Gabriel – I am excited going for a walk.
Haroon – I like it because it gives me strength, (good words Haroon !)
After the daily mile we played games outside ‘Duck Duck Goose’ and ‘Donkey’.
After lunchtime we walked over to Strathbrock and did some Zumba. This was great fun! A huge thanks to Nina, the dance teacher for showing us some cool moves and helping us with our fitness.
Well done to Monde-Jnr for receiving this trophy for coming first in a go-karting competition on Sunday in South Wales.
Well done to Harris and Maisie for receiving medals for taking part in a triathlon on Sunday. Harris came in 13th place and Maisie came in 2nd place. Congratulations to you all! We are very proud of you!
Primary 1b had a great couple of weeks towards the end of our Fairytale Topic.
Thank you to all the mums and dads and grannys etc to who came to our Fairytale Showcase. We had such a great time telling you all about our learning. We have really enjoyed this topic.
After the showcase, we still had lots more to learn. We looked at the fairytale of Hansel and Gretal. We decided the witch was very nasty, and that we should be cooking her instead of her cooking Hansel. We wrote some amazing recipes for her.
We then made our own sweetie house. They looked yummy!
Primary 1b have worked so hard to build their castles! They all look amazing! Mrs Baty is so proud of us all!!
Primary 1 have had a brilliant start to their Fitness Fortnight!
This morning we went on a trip to Craigswood Xcite Leisure Centre.
It was amazing! We had 7 different activities set up for us, and the trainers were very helpful.
We experienced shot-put, using basketballs before using REAL shotput balls!!
We tried the javelin. This was very tricky.
We tried the high jump and the long jump (I think we brought back most of the sand!)
We had a go at wellie throwing.
We had a hoop game, and we had races. We were all super fast, but eventually we got our boy and girl winners. We even got prizes!!
We had a really fab time!
Then, this afternoon, we took part in our daily mile. We are enjoying it a lot more and are finding it easier now. We are even trying to run more and more of it.
Then we had some team building games.
We had a hoop game – we had to get the hoop around the circle, without letting go of each others hands. This was quite tricky, but Mrs Baty & Mrs Gaffney’s team seemed to get the hang of it very quickly.
We then had some wheelbarrow races. Most of us went in the right direction! This was great fun though.
Finally, we played a game with a ball. We stood in a row in our team, and had to pass the ball along the line in a pattern. We were quite good at this, but rather tired by this point.
Overall, we had a fantastic day! (and what great weather it was too!)
Hopefully we’ll all sleep very well tonight, and be ready for more adventures tomorrow.
Look at our amazing castles ! Haven’t we done well ? Well done everyone for working so hard on these. I am super proud and I think that our friendly dragon will be too.
Here are the boys and girls from P1a and P1b taking advantage of the super weather whilst participating in the ‘Daily Mile’.
Here is Flynn proudly showing off his swimming certificate. He has moved up to Level 9. Wow Flynn ! Keep up the good work.
A very big well done to Lara for being our ‘Star Pupil’ this week. Lara has been kind, helpful and hardworking. Congratulations to Luca for bring this week’s ‘DOJO Champion’. Luca pipped everyone by just one point. Well done !
A big well done to Michael for being last week’s ‘Star Pupil’. Well done too Niamh for being our DOJO Champion. You are both hard workers and have super listening ears.
Thank you to our lovely mummies, daddies, grannies, grandas and friends for coming along to our ‘Fairytale Showcase’ yesterday afternoon. As always, it was lovely to see you. We had fun and hope that you did too.
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