Ormiston Primary School

February 3, 2010

On Wednesday 3rd February primary four visited Edinburgh Castle to find out more about castle life and Mary Queen of Scots for their castle topic.  Although it was very chilly at the castle we had a super time and learned lots from our tour guide Calum.  As we were visiting the castle in the afternoon we were lucky enough to hear the one o’clock gun!

We had fun learning about the castle’s defences and got to try lifting some of Mons Megs’ cannonballs, but as you can imagine they were far too heavy! We saw the Great Hall where big banquets would have taken place and also the dungeons where prisoners of war were kept. We even learned how people went to the toilet back in medieval times and it wasn’t very nice, we can assure you! We were able to spot various plaques on the castle walls that told us that Edinburgh Castle was a royal castle. We even found a plaque that comemorated the year that Mary Queen of Scots and her husband Henry Stuart had their son James in the castle.

Before we left we got to see some chainmail, armour and swords that soldiers would have used in battle and we even dressed up as different people that would have lived in or worked for the castle in medieval times. Don’t we all look lovely? We hope you enjoy the photographs of our trip.

February 1, 2010

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February 12, 2010

The children are all going to very busy over the next two weeks before half term as they think about how they can help others in the community.
Primary six and seven pupils will be walking dogs, clearing paths, dusting rooms, hoovering carpets just to name a few jobs for the elderly community in Ormiston.
Primary three are meeting some younger members from the Mother and Toddlers down at Ormiston Library on Wednesday to read them some stories.
Primary five are going on a litter pick as part of their John Muir project.
Primary four are thinking about being polite and remembering their manners.
Every class will be working on enterprising activities about being good citizens.

January 29, 2010
10:45 am	to	11:30 am

Classes are working hard on their poems and songs for our Scots Assembly next Friday 29th of January. Parents are welcome to come along and hear the performers.

Many classes are linking this work to other areas of the curriculum. Here you can read a poem written by Niamh Gillies in Primary 7.

This New Year I had a braw wee plan.
I’d stop biting my nails
for as lang as I can.
They got awfie short and very sore
I’ll find ma’sel a much safer chore.

I was inspired when I keeked at my pals
wee nails.
So I bought bonnie polish in the
New Year sales.
They’ll grow long like a bonnie lassie’s
Aw strang and shiny you’ll hae to
wear glasses.

So everyday I dinnae bite
Not even when am scared in the night.
I give them a wee paint
Short and sare they definately ain’t.

Niamh Gillies P7

The next meeting of the Parent Council is being held in the school staffroom on Tuesday 26th January 2010 at 7pm.  All parents/guardians with a child at school or nursery are welcome to attend.  Please click on the link below to view the agenda.

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January 13, 2010

Primary 3 had a very busy day on Wednesday 13th January.
In the morning they got to meet author Lori Dan who has several children’s books published.
They listened to a story from one of her books called First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts, then told them a story about a Viking which she discovered when researching for one of her books. The class loved every minute of the session and at the end had some great questions to ask Lori. The library had also some free books for the children to choose from.

In the afternoon, there was more story telling but this time with a twist. Shona Davidson from the Arts Team took the class into the gym hall for a drama workshop called ‘The Hungry Giant’. The class loved stomping around like ‘Giants’.

Try your hand at this spelling game.
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Listen here to the Christmas 09 radio broadcast

Listen here to the first ever broadcast of Ormiston Primary’s very own radio station. ( Be patient, it may take up to 1min to load).

Children from P4 to P7 have been using their Golden Time to write and record their own sound bites. Listen to the hot topics, jokes, quiz and sport news. We would appreciate any feedback or suggestions to make January’s broadcast an even bigger success.

This month, Primary 2 have been looking at some books by Lynley Dodd, the author of the Hairy Maclary stories.  We all made up our own stories about a new dog who comes to visit. 

Here are some of the covers.

Please click on the link below to see updated photos of the Parent Council.

http://edubuzz.org/blogs/ormiston/school-board/parent-council-representatives/