Ormiston Primary School

Wow! Awesome!  A big congratulations to everyone for your fantastic performance of We Will Rock You!  The scenery, the singing, the costumes, the acting, it was all brilliant! 

Gail Walshe

March 8, 2010

7:00 pm

Last Thursday (4thMarch) was World Book Day. We celebrated this in school by listening to well known children’s author Michael Rosen. Classes from P3 to P7 listened to him through a live internet link. He kept everyone enthralled by his stories and poems written in his very own style for forty minutes.

Class Rap
During Citizenship Fortnight each class had to work on the Rights of the Child.
The class decided to make a rap. Hope you like it.

Primary 2 are learning all about Native Americans this term.

Here are some photos of us wearing the head-bands we made.

February 12, 2010
10:45 am	to	11:30 am

Pupils are almost at the end of very busy fortnight in school. Over the past two weeks, you may have noticed a few children around the village on their way to the library, the Day Centre or local houses. In school, each class hosted a coffee morning to help the children of Mozambique. They have learned about the work of Unicef in Mozambique and the Rights of the Child.
Tomorrow each class will tell about something they have been finding out about at a special
assembly.
In true Ormiston tradition they will raise lots of money by dressing up in the colours of the the Mozambique flag.
Here are some pictures from our P5/6, P4 and P7 coffee mornings.

Primary 4 have been having swimming lessons at the Loch Centre in Tranent every Thursday.  They have been learning lots of strokes and are gaining in confidence every single week.  Well done P4!

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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