The Royal Conservatoire visited P5 to let them have a taster session playing a cello or a violin.
Tuition is being offered and all children received a letter with details of how to secure a place. Be quick to have a choice of instrument, it is first come, first served!
What an opportunity!
Everyone has settled in really well. No tears (though not a huge amount of sleep either!).
Yesterday’s activities were a combination of two of the following; Â Low Ropes, Tree Climb, Nightline and Mini Survival. Last night we all took part in the Iron Man challenge. This morning was a huge Search and Rescue mission (task- not a real emergency!) in the beautiful weather.
This afternoon each group will complete the two remaining activities from the above list. Tonight we’ll all get dressed up for the Cheesy Disco!
Tomorrow morning we’re looking forward to stripping beds, packing cases, Â Team Challenges and Rocket Launch.
After lunch we’ll head back home. We are hoping to be back at school for 3/3.15. Please meet the children from the bus if you can as it will save them pulling their luggage up to the school. We will groupcall if there are any delays.
Primary Five have finally sorted through the hundreds of camp photos. We picked a favourite each. 
Another super busy day today.
A woodland team challenge to start, next the teams used their points earned to buy materials for the egg challenge. Only one egg made it 🙂
More activities, a survival game, adventure playground and now the ‘Cheesy Disco’!
Loads of fun had by everyone, weather was pretty awful at times but it didn’t stop us having fun.
A few more activities in the morning. We’re having lunch then heading off. We should be home at the end if the school day tomorrow (and lots of very dirty clothes coming home).
All children are settled, happy and now getting ready for bed after a very busy first day.
Activities have been great, food fabulous and the weather could have been worse (though not much!)
No wifi so no photos tonight but hopefully tomorrow.
From P5 and P6 🙂
After a lot of hard work and literally thousands upon thousands of questions…..
The children each won a years subscription to the full site.  Well done everyone 🙂
Special mention to Lily and Poppy who reached 4th place and 10th place respectively on the individual leader boards too!
Today we had a visit from Mrisho Mpoto a musician and poet from Tanzania. We did some (very loud and energetic) African chants and dances. I’m sure the children will be happy to share these with you at home! Here are a few pics that will show you a bit of what we did without giving anything away.
As part of World Book Day P5 made Vlog (video blogs) book reviews. We uploaded them to Espresso (a topical schools website) and we were delighted today when one of our pupils was featured in their news bulletin. Well done to all the children who took part, the standard was high! Especially well done to Hannah for her starring clip!
 Here’s a screen shot from the broadcast.
This week is West Lothian Sumdog Maths Competition. We are super keen and all set to do our very best and make it on the leaderboard! We managed a very respectable 15th last time but since then we have been polishing our skills and are very hopeful for a higher ranking. Watch this space!
Go for it P5!
Primary Five spent some time thinking about what an Eco-School might look like. The pupils drew their visions and then explained to the rest of the class how they’d try and be an eco-committee member. We voted for a class rep and depute.
Congratulations to Jamie and his depute Abbi!
Welcome to Primary Five’s first contribution to the Blackridge Primary School Blog.
This week we have been working hard researching Victorian houses and the features associated with these. We collected ideas and sketched them in our project books before incorporating them into our super duper house drawings.
We are now looking forward to creating a Victorian street scene. We will post a picture or two when it is completed!
Can I take this opportunity to remind everyone that gym is on a Tuesday and Wednesday and gym kit should be brought on these days.
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