Big thanks to parents Lorraine, Jenny, Vicky, Moray and Orla who came along to help with the adult gardening work on Friday. Thanks to Moray for her work on the weeding – strimming still needs doing but hoping to have an update on that later in the week. Our other parents painted – some before, during and after pics attached. All looking much brighter but most items will need another coat of paint so (weather depending). All gratefully received if you have any time to spare.
Welcome back to our class blog. We have had a busy week. Lots of us were on transition at different schools this week! We had a great time. Those of us in school were helping hands for Gala day preparations. We also created our own 3D guitars. On Thursday we had our Leavers disco .
Well done to our our great little Rockstars who put on a fantastic performance on Tuesday night!
We are all very tired because we put on our Rockstar performance on Tuseday night at school and then our Rockband performance on Wednesday night at the Howden park Centre. We were all very nervous but we really enjoyed singing the songs and playing the keyboard, guitar and drums for a live audience! Well done to Pip who won the Scottish Book Trust award and the Young Writer of the year awards with her poem ‘Ma Grandad’. Some of us went tot St. Kent’s for our transition and we loved it, we can’t wait to move up now! We finished all of our ‘Transition’ work and then we created our own ‘Pop Art’ pictures.
What a busy week we have all had.
Our week began with a trip to Cramond Beach, we were joined by P4. We were going to investigate how polluted the beach area is. Before our visit we had been learning about plastic nurdles and how the East coast of Scotland is particularly bad for nurdles.
When we got to the beach we split into three groups, one group went to visit a Roman fort and another group played beach games whilst the third group went in search of the nurdles. We rotated so that every group took part in each activity. The trip was great fun and we enjoyed each of the activities that we took part in. The weather was chilly but it did warm up through the day. We found over two thousand nurdles in just a small section of coastline which has caused us to want to learn more about the effects of these nurdles on wildlife both in and out of the sea.
When we returned to school we then sorted through what we had found to see what type of plastic we had found.
Tuesday we had the chance to share our Rookie Rockstar work that we had been doing as part of our topic. We came back to school in the evening to perform to parents and grandparents the songs that we had learnt. This was great fun and a chance to dress up in our Rockstar outfits. Congratulations to Emma M whose CD cover design won and will be on every CD sold.
Wednesday we went to the rugby club to meet Elizabeth Ezra who wrote Ruby McCraken. We had the chance to understand how she gets ideas for her books as well as give her lots of ideas for a story. We also had the chance to ask questions about what inspired her to write stories.
To end our week we are having an ice cream party on Friday as we were not able to get one on Monday.
P5
Hi everyone, it has been hectic in P7.
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This week has been amazing; we have had such a fun filled week. Our learning this week has had a musical theme every day.
During the afternoons we have had special visitors called Glyn and Chloe from Rookie Rockstars. Over the week they have introduced us to five new songs which all had actions as well. We watched Mr Reed stuff loads of marshmallows into his mouth and then try to sing a song. We also watched Mr Brice and Mrs Telfer rapping out nursery rhymes which was very funny.
We ended our story this week having worked hard to create our own version of ‘The Water Horse’ by Dick King Smith. Through this story we have been learning to use new and exciting vocabulary which will make our story interesting to readers.
We have been learning about plastic ‘nurdles’ and the effect they are having on the beaches and wildlife around our coastlines. This is in preparation of our trip on Monday.
On Friday we spent the morning in our new class getting to know our new teacher and enjoying some fun activities.
Next week are all looking forward to our class visit to Cramond Beach where we will be carrying out our own investigation into plastic ‘nurdles’.
P5
Welcome back to our blog! This week in Primary 7
