P6 Update October 25, 2007

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Welcome back to everyone, I hope we are all relaxed and ready to go!!
This Friday we will conclude our Woodland topic with a selected number of students presentating their ideas for a Woodland Trail, to the East Lothian County Ranger; Bobby Anderson. We have been busy working in groups to design a woodland education &; leisure facility. Everyone has worked very hard and hopefully have enjoyed the experience!?

Just before the holidays P6 were visited by the country ranger, Vicky Hughes. She took us on a nature trail around our school grounds. We were able to appreciate variety of plants and trees our playground; as well as being introduced to some of Vicky’s furry friends

This week P6 will be continuing with our Circuit sessions. During Circuits all of the P6 classes are mixed and divided into four groups and, over a four week period, have a chance to try a new activity each week. For this block of Circuits the activities will include Taekundo, Art, Drama and Ultimate Frisbee.

Miss Brodie P6A

P7 make history as first pupils to attend Parent`s Evenings! October 11, 2007

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Well this week sees Primary 7 pupils attending parents evenings with their parents for the first time. So how did they get on? All the P7 teachers think it has been a huge success.

They will share their feelings and experiences here and are currently compiling podcasts of these too. We would appreciate any feedback from parents on how they thought it went. p7d-who-went-to-parents-evening.mp3

This is P7A’s podcast about Parents Evenings, we hope you enjoy listening to it. p7a-parents-nights.mp3

First JRSO Meeting October 8, 2007

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On friday we went to a meeting of all the Junior Road Safety Officers in East Lothian at Port Seton community centre. It was really interesting, we saw slideshows about lots of things including road safety from the past and making a school travel plan. We hope that we will be able to follow up on our school’s travel plan and try to encourage people to walk or cycle to school safely.We will keep you updated on everything on the web blog.

By Megan and Neil JRSO’s

Whacky Wellie Week planned for good cause! October 3, 2007

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All staff and pupils at Law will be getting their thinking caps on and creative juices will be gushing, as they come up with ideas to raise money in support ofthe Farm Africa project. (click for more info.) So watch this space for all the goings on and updates from the children.

P7 have will have quite a week including:

Creating an innovative and creative design for a welly boot using a variety of techniques and materials which show the significance of the Farm Africa organisation and what it stands for. This will be a group activity and the most thought provoking designs will be enlarged and displayed at the whole school assembly at the end of the week.
All pupils will also be involved in researching the Farm Africa project so they know why we are supporting it.
A welly chucking event that will cost £1.00 for 3 throws. Who will be the P7 welly chucking champion ?
A most outrageous welly wearing fashion parade in which all pupils and staff will make a donation to take part and a winner will be chosen.
A whole school assembly which will highlight the work of the Farm Africa organisation and all the whacky welly activities that have taken place to raise money. All generous donations will be collected in some extra special wellies and handed over at the assembly.So get your wellies at the ready, dates to follow!

P7 Parents Evenings October 3, 2007

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Primary 7 will be attending the meetings between their teachers and parents next week for the first time. It will be a very valuable exercise and pupils will feedback how they felt about it here next week.

P7bs visit to the high school October 1, 2007

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P7b went a visit to the high school to a science lab to do science with Miss Nicholson .We used the smart board to find out about experiment relationships. Miss Nicholson told us about another word which was variable it meant changing something. She showed us some shapes on the smart board and we had to write down what was changing. At the end of the lesson we did an experiment to test our reaction time. We all enjoyed the very informative lesson and are looking forwards to doing science in high school!

The Simpsons come to Law Primary? September 26, 2007

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All P7 classes will be involved in the “gene jury” this week. A debate and discussion about genes and how and why we are the way we are. Great discussions have raged and so many questions asked and answered. Pupils were asked to think about the idea of “designer babies” and how they could be made and indeed if they should be made! A very interesting workshop indeed! The pupils will share what they thought and learned here.

Wanted - Junior Road Safety Officers September 18, 2007

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WE WANT YOU

We are looking for new Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs) at Law Primary School. Your job, which will last for one year, will be to help more pupils learn about keeping safe on or near roads around your school. You might have the chance to meet other JRSO’s at your first meeting on Friday 5^th October at 10am at Port Seton Community Centre. You will have regular meetings over the next year at your school.

There will be lots of fun things to do including; -

Assemblies: you could do your own ‘Be Safe, Be Seen’ fashion show.
Competitions: word searches, crosswords, posters, whatever you like.
Design your own road safety Notice Board.
Getting to know Tam, Connie and Ann from the ‘Safety Street’ CD-ROM.
Meeting the Streetwise Guys on the Internet.
Design park & stride flyers
Help organise Walk to School Week

We are looking for two pupils who are outgoing and don’t mind speaking in front of other pupils and adults. If you want to help others be safe near roads then that is even better. If you are interested please fill in the form attached and return to your teacher by Thursday 20^th September. You will be contacted if you make it through to the interview stage. jrso-application.doc

Fun Maths Road Show September 13, 2007

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Today we had a fun maths road show. We were split into four groups, set 1, set 2, set 3, and set 4 the challenges were varied and they were very hard.There was about 25 challenges per set. It was a great day and we all enjoyed it.

There was a game called building up dominoes.You had to match the dominoes so the numbers were the same.

Another game was you had different shaped cards.Then you had to fit them together to make a sqaure.It was quite hard because all the card pieces were different.

By Finn and Katie 7D fun-maths-road-show.mp3 fun-maths-roadshow.mov

Homework Timeline Reminder September 10, 2007

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Your Volcano and Earthquake research booklet is due to be handed in this Friday 14th September and we will all spend time looking at and learning from each others work.

Remember it is very important to pace and organise yourself so that you are not rushing at the last minute.

I would be helpful for others if you could recommend a useful website or other source that you have used. Tell us why you are recommending it too! Here is one to get us started:

http://www.fema.gov/kids/volcano.htm

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