Croftmalloch Primary

Today P7  had their  photo taken  for the Courier beacuse we are nearly at the end of our P7 jouney and are  going to be leaving Croftmalloch forever. Soon (August)t we will be going  to secondary  school to meet new friends and have new school days in harder level of work. It will be very sad leaving Croftmalloch as most of us have been at Crofmalloch  for 9 years !

 When the man came  in to take our photograph everyone was very excited as we were going to be in one of  the most sucsessful newspapers ever! Everyone got placed into a position and had to say cheese for the camera ! Hopefully when the P7 pupils leave Croftmalloch they will have a good job and look back at their memories of primary school !

By CameronBetts and DemiBorsbey

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If you thought our recent cold spell was bad, read Bethany’s report on the Arctic! (P4)

Wednesday 13^th January 2010

A report about the Arctic

By Bethany Glen

The Arctic is in the North Pole. There is an Arctic circle which is an imaginary circle.

There are lots of countries in the Arctic such as: Canada , Greenland , Denmark, Sweden, Finland,  Iceland and Norway.

The temperature is normally – 40 degrees but the coldest is -68 degrees.

Even though the temperature is very cold wild life still live there such as, Arctic foxes, weasels, Brown lemmings, Arctic hares,  Polar bears, Bowhead whales , Beluga whales , harp seals and walruses.

In the winter the sun never rises in the Arctic. Scientists say in the summer the Arctic was the warmest in 2000.

The local people are called Inuits. They build igloos and use them when they are hunting.

They wear reindeer skins to keep warm.

I wouldn’t like to live there because it’s so cold…. and I don’t like the cold!

And neither do I!!!!! 

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The pupils in Primary 4 thoroughly enjoyed all their Scottish week activities. They threw themselves into the  “spirit” of the week by celebrating with our other National Drink!

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For Scottish week the middle and top area learned and recited Scottish poems. The winners from our class were Emily, Hannah and Helen.They went through to the final and Mrs Howit  and Miss Cassiday will decide who are the winners of the Scottish Poem 2010. Keep reading our blog to see who the winners are.

By Lee,Heather and Lorin P6

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This year let’s all try and be safe at Guy Fawkes night . Here are a few tips .

Keep a safe distance when they are getting lit.

Make sure you dont get burnt.

Make sure an adult is with you.

Posted by some of P7 pupils

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One of the many activities the pupils enjoyed during health week was learning to wash their hands properly. Please post a comment telling us how and when you should wash your hands or anything else you would like to share on this subject.

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When I first saw the Mugen Taiko Dojo Drummers at the 2008 Hopetoun House Fair, I thought that they were fantastic! The Japanese form of drumming, taiko (meaning drum),  is extremely energetic and very much like a martial art. In our class we were learning about Japan and I put together a proposal for our head teacher, asking if the taiko group could come and perform for the school and do a workshop with the P7s. After a lot of thought, she agreed. A few friends of mine then helped me organise competitions which were to help us raise funds. These included Guess the Momiji Doll’s Birthday and colourin the Taiko Drum.  These were a huge success and yesterday on the 23rd of June the Mugen Taiko Dojo Drummers came to our school and amazed us all. The performance had a lot of audience participation and by the end of the Japanese drumming experience the P7s were the envy of every other child in the school. The Primary 7s in their workshop learned to play a short piece on the drums called Matsuri Daiko.

This piece was posted by Erin A.M. Cooper, P7

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As part of our ‘Schools in the Past’ topic, we went on a visit to a Victorian Classroom in Edinburgh. We dressed up in Victorian dress, the girls wearing white pinafores and the boys in shirts and waistcoats. The teachers were very strict and we had to sit up straight with our feet together. We were not allowed to talk. If you were naughty, you had to sit on a stool at the front of the class or you got the belt. We tried copperplate writing with a nib pen and ink. It was quite hard but we did really well. If a Victorian pupil made ink blots they were given the belt for every blot. We had fun, but we like being at Croftmalloch better.

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Cinderella Rockerfella at Croftmalloch PS

On 10^th and 11^th June Primary 6 and 7 of Croftmalloch PS staged a wonderful production of the musical, “Cinderella, Rockerfella”, the love fairytale with a little modern twist.

Cinderella was treated like a slave by her ugly step sisters, Gusty and Nasty who absolutely loved themselves to bits. Buttons and Teaser the dog were Cinderella’s only friends who helped her out all the time. Fairy Nastyboots was an evil fairy who wants to spoil the love story and get her own way.

Rockerfella wanted to get out of showbiz to find true love and happiness. The fairy brigade were trying to stop Fairy Nastyboots in her evil plans. Cinderella and Rockerfella meet at the ball and fall in love and live happily ever after!

Our overall comments were – entertaining, brilliant, funny, amazing, phenomenal, heart warming, mind blowing, interacting with audience, good singing and breathtaking.

Paige’s performance was worth mentioning. She sang well and her duet was especially outstanding.

We loved the Ugly Sisters (Molly and Emma ) who were hilarious.

Fairy Nastyboots played the evil role so professionally we jumped 3 metres in the air and some of us had nightmares that night.

This review was written and posted by P5 pupils

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