jump to navigation

Autumn Watch at Newhailes - P2 November 14, 2008

Posted by Steve Wood in : P2, Uncategorized , add a comment

What a miserable day of weather we had for our Autumn Watch, but despite the cold and wet the children had a good time. We looked at berries and funghi and played a parachute game. Challenge and outdoor learning (in all weathers) is a big part of what we are trying to do in P2. This visit had a good mix of both. Thanks to the Ranger and parents who helped with this trip. We have a winter watch in December - hope the weather is more kind!

P1 with the art specialist November 5, 2008

Posted by kmcnaughton in : P1 , add a comment


This term primary 1 are lucky enough to be getting the art specialist. Each house will spend 2 afternoons with her. Carlyle have been already. They made a beautiful autumn painting and some oil pastel fish pictures! Have a look at our funky fish! The other two houses will go over the coming weeks. They are looking forward to it!

Newhailes - Looking for Signs of Autumn November 5, 2008

Posted by kmcnaughton in : P1 , add a comment
Listening to Hannah the ranger.
Is it a home for an animal?
We found mushrooms!

Brambles
We learned a lot - test us on our knowledge!

We have all had a chance to get some fresh air, exercise and learn a lot about nature during our first day out in primary 1. The three houses went out on separate days and we were all blessed with lovely weather. Thank you to Hannah the ranger for helping us learn so much, and a BIG thank you to the parents who came along. Always very grateful for your support.

A Very Special Gift October 29, 2008

Posted by Miss Collins in : P6 , add a comment

Last year P5 classes took part in a Scottish food standard agency project in conjunction with Scottish Rugby Union. It involved a 6 week rugby coaching slot and in class children worked through a healthy eating workbook. It covered health and safety with food and what to eat and when it was safe to do so.

Last week we were presented with a signed photo of the Scottish Rugby team for our involvement in the project by Craig McGeary, the Musselburgh Rugby Club Development Officer!

P7 Newhailes Outdoor Day October 28, 2008

Posted by Alicia MacFarlane in : Uncategorized , 4comments

Today P7 and P6/7 walked to Newhailes to take part in a Woodlands Outdoor Day which involved shelter building and survival skills, identifying funghi and woodland art. With the woodland art we also did digital photography. During the shelter building we had to get into groups and decided on the most important things you would need in a shelter to survive in the woods. Then we marked our area to build our dens and began gathering dead branches and materials to build it. After that, we acted as estate agents to describe why our dens were the best! Some of us had lunch in our shelters.
Our groups used parachute games to learn about funghi and searched for mushrooms and other funghi in the wood. Mrs. Baillie led our art group and we used natural materials for our artwork and we practised our photography skills taking digital pictures of nature. A very good day overall though we were quite cold!

Our Thoughts about Camp by P7c October 24, 2008

Posted by dmunro in : P7, Uncategorized , add a comment

Here are just a few comments about our amazing week at Lagganlia.

I thought camp was amazing but challenging.My favourite activity was definitely the blading. By Connor Marwick.

I thought camp was definitely the best expirence of my life.My favourite activity was the blading.By Joe Fraser.

I thought camp was amazing but tricky.My favrourite activity was gorge waiking.By Euan MacDonald.

I thought camp was good. Gorge walking was exellent but very cold. Mountain biking was a great challenge. By Matthew Gibb

This year camp was a great experience, better than anything else! It was far more a challenging than my other camp. By Jamie Galloway

Camp was amazing the best thing had to be blading.Mountin biking was also great.By John Lockhart

Camp was amazing my favourite thing has to be gorge walking because it was freezing iwould love to go back by Kirsty Roy

Welcome back everyone! October 22, 2008

Posted by kmcnaughton in : P1 , add a comment

It’s nice to see everyone back after the holidays. For those of us who stayed here it was nice to see a little sun!

Primary 1 are refreshed and raring to go. We have our reading books now and are doing well in remembering OUR reading bags and their contents everyday! It is amazing what we have remembered from last term.

Here are a few photos from this week - see what we have been up to so far.

Enjoy

the P1 teachers

Can we form our numbers correctly?
“Show Me”

Which number are we trying to be?
Who is winning?

Rise to the Challenge! October 17, 2008

Posted by Alicia MacFarlane in : Uncategorized , 1 comment so far

Looking back, it was certainly a challenging week at Lagganlia (and not just for the children, either!). There were many new and exciting activities in which to participate, as you have seen from our photos and posts, but also having to overcome fears.  It is quite a challenge in itself setting out for a full day of rock climbing or hillwalking, for example, or looking up the white water of a fast-flowing gorge and realising the high expectations that are set for you at Lagganlia.  As it wasn’t just a case of rising to the challenge yourself, but more importantly, how did you help the rest of the group reach their goals? One of the many enlightening stories from the days out came back from a teacher who said her group made up songs and sang together on the very long walk up the mountain.  Aside from the physical challenges, the pupils organised and managed themselves for the week in terms of preparing lunches for the day and following the instructors’ direction.  Evening activities were exciting, including Capoiera and Circus Skills as we learned even more about stretching ourselves and lot about working together!

Glow Games - Try these out October 10, 2008

Posted by Steve Wood in : Games , add a comment

We are coming home October 10, 2008

Posted by Steve Wood in : Uncategorized , 2comments

In 45 minutes we will be on the road back to Musselburgh. What a great week we have had. Most of us are walking around like zombies as we are all so tired. Everyone is currently stripping their beds and packing their bags - i’m just about to go and do a room inspection, I will probably need a face mask and gloves, but you never know. Anyway thanks to all of you have looked at the website and commented, I have tried to pass on your messages, however I have had to rely on memory as we dont have a printer or big screen here.  After the holidays we will display more photos.

See you soon

Mr Wood