Wedding fever has come to primary three!  We have been very busy writing invitations, creating orders of service, making favours and flowers and writing speeches.  Darren came in to visit us this week and told us all about Christian weddings.  Tomorrow we are creating wedding cakes as part of a P3 challenge, with the winning cake being the centrepiece at our wedding reception.  We will be undertaking final preparations over the next few days, ready for our wedding ceremony and reception on Wednesday next week.

We have been very lucky to have a visiting teacher in class for the past few weeks.  Miss Hao, who is based in James Young High School, has been teaching us about Chinese culture, language and characters.  We found it quite tricky to speak Mandarin but enjoyed the experience.

We had great fun at sports day yesterday!  We played a variety of sports challenges, took a shot at kurling and hoopla and ran our socks off in different races.  We were all very tired but had lots of fun.  Our teachers thought we showed wonderful sportsmanship and all tried really hard.  A big thank you to our primary 7 helpers, who demonstrated each sports challenge station and kept scores for us.

This week it was our turn to visit and stay over at Lowport, and we’re very pleased to tell everyone that we had lots and lots of fun and managed to come home safe and sound.

We left for Lowport on Wednesday and after a bus ride (complete with a tour guide in the form of Mr Brice) and a quick check of our rooms, we were off to Linlithgow Palace.  We were very lucky to have some very knowledgeable children from the local Primary school who gave us a tour around the palace.  We then came back to Lowport, unpacked our bags and then went out on to the Peel to play games before dinner.

We were very well fed at dinner time and managed to have enough energy to play outside on the Peel again!  Mr Brice had some wonderful games for us to play and tired us all out.  Then it was back to the centre for pyjammas, supper and a DVD before bed.

We got up at 7.30am yesterday (although some of us had already been awake for a while!  We must have been excited for the day ahead) and after packing up our rooms and having a huge breakfast (including bacon rolls!) we set off for Linlithgow Canal.  We had a lovely trip on a canal boat and then a look around the little canal centre museum.  We learned lots about canals and now understand the difference between a canal and a river.

At 1.00pm we got back on the bus and headed for Beecraigs.  We all managed to get to the top of Cockleroy (although some of us required some extra encouragement!) where we were treated to a super view – we could see the Forth Bridges and Linlithgow Palace where we had been the day before!

Then we played in Beecraigs park for a while before getting the bus back to school.  Some of us were so tired, we fell asleep on the bus back.  Mr Brice was fast asleep in the front passenger seat!  We were very happy to see our families waiting to collect us.

We had the best time at Lowport and will remember it for a long time!  We will put some photos of our trip up soon!