Pupils and staff alike flocked to the P7 Bake Sale this morning for delicious home baking. Many thanks to all the pupils and parents for your kind and creative donations. Also thank you Campie for your support of the bake sale- £200 raised collecting 30-50p for our charity Riding for the Disabled. Fantastic.
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The Primary 7s were one of the first Primary schools to take part in debating workshops from the English Speaking Union and certainly helped to hone our debating skills. We were able to put these skills to practice as we had a debate and question time with visiting MSPs Robin Harper from the Green Party [...]
As P7 have been studying Scottish Parliament we thought it would be interesting to follow up our Parliamentary Officer visit with a debate in class. The motion was ‘to pass a law banning the smacking of children.’ It was a hot topic and both sides of the argument made some very good points for and [...]
Linda Young, Scottish Parliament Officer, visited P7s at Campie to discuss roles of the Parliament and MSPs. We formed our own political parties, where our leaders presented party speeches and then held an election to vote for the topics that mattered most to us. We also debated wearing school uniforms and even had a presiding [...]
Mara Menzies visited Primary 7 to share her African storytelling and through this taught us about Fair Trade. Mara moved to Scotland from Kenya and showed us traditional Kenyan clothing and talked about working conditions for many people who live there. There was a lot of role play and both funny and very serious characters, as [...]
Lagganlia
Hey all! Miss Porter here reporting the news back from Lagganlia. Unfortunately, there have been a few problems with the computers and the kids are unable to blog or upload any pics! Nightmare, but I must say nobody has even asked (sorry) there has been so much going on and everyone getting so involved that [...]
This week Primary 7 visited the Poppy Factory in Edinburgh. As part of the visit we were able to learn a bit about World War 1 and take part in a presentation by Peter, who shared stories and all his memorabilia from the Second World War. We learned that the poppy is an act of [...]
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