As part of our Health Week, each class was asked to lead a short session where they demonstrated a work-out to the rest of the school. We did our session earlier today, leading the school in a work-out based on our own recording!
Many apologies that the quality of the sound is not good- we used the huge speakers in the hall, which played the song very loudly, yet clearly. For some reason, I think the camcorder couldn’t cope with the volume!
Our 2012 entry to Schoolovision is now on the blog, ahead of Friday’s deadline, when all 39 countries’ songs need to be there. With entries from as far north west as Iceland, right down to Azerbaijan in the south east, we have already seen that the standard for this year’s contest is probably the highest yet! By Friday, we should have entries from new members Luxembourg, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as Azerbaijan and Bosnia & Herzegovina’s which was the very first song uploaded last month.
We all enjoyed watching our entry this morning, and we should thank Castlesound studios in Pencaitland for allowing us to use their venue, as well as Gavin Tully-Jackson from Haddington who filmed the song for us. Thanks too to Miss Traill, who worked very hard to ensure that we sang fantastically at the recording studios! How will we fare against 38 other countries? We’ll find out next Friday, 25th May!
For the past few weeks in gym, we have been working with Mr Johnstone to improve our gymnastic abilities and skills. Today, we split into groups, and worked our way around a variety of tasks.
Have a look at the results!
This afternoon, the whole school enjoyed the pantomime, Mother Goose. Here is a short clip, to give you a flavour of what it was like!
We have been working with Miss Traill for the last few weeks on our African Drumming skills, and today we performed what we had learned to the other classes in the school.
Finally, we have the chance to post material onto our class blog! I will endeavour to update this page weekly, starting from after the October break, as this week is quite busy with parents’ evenings on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Meantime, when our Finnish visitors were here recently, P5/6 hosted the Monday morning assembly, welcoming them to the school, and telling them some things about Gifford, East Lothian and Scotland, in a light-hearted way.
After our presentations, some of the Finnish pupils then presented information about their village, Kuvansi, the local town, Varkaus, and some information about Finnish wildlife.
I promised to video the event, which I did, and now I have completed the main video I have been putting together for the Finns from their visit, I have had time to edit footage of the assembly itself and upload it here, below.
If you wish to see the video of the Finnish pupils’ visit, along with bits of the assembly (which includes all the words to the Inventors song!) then please have a look at the blog which is here.
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