Ormiston Primary School

Thankyou to all who attended the fair on Saturday. What a fantastic effort by everyone! It’s good to see a comment already about the day. Yes it was a great day and well supported. I know the children enjoyed having the police car, fire engine and army in attendance.
Update on the [...]

[ September 26, 2008; 9:00 am to 10:00 am. ] This term is very busy with a variety of events happening in, out and after school.
Primary seven are having a block of football training in Ormiston Park every Friday till Christmas. They are also lucky enough to be trying out Hockey with two taster sessions.

P7 Pupils Jack Walshe and Katie Cormack are out on [...]

Primary 2 have created a police station in their classroom. They have been finding evidence and taking fingerprints. The children decided what a police station would need and brought some of their own things in to use in their role play. They also made their own Police radios.
We decided to find out about: Police Uniforms, [...]

Primary 1 are learning lots of new sounds.  Today, we learned all about ‘r’ and thought of some things that begin with ‘r’.
Here we all are working together to make a big rope ‘r’ in the playground.  Once we’d finished that, we each got a skipping rope and practised making some of the other letters [...]

[ September 29, 2008; ] Primary four are definitely looking forward to the class outing to Edinburgh Castle next Monday. We have been working hard learning all about life in a castle in the Middle Ages. Look out for some of our pictures and thoughts as we get to visit places the public don’t normally see!

[ September 27, 2008; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] The school fair (which we normally hold in Spring) is almost upon us. There’s still time to hand in any old toys, books, videos, baking, plants, toiletries etc. Hope to see you all on Saturday between 2pm and 4pm even if it’s just to soak the teacher!

Last week every pupil took home their Learning Story for the first time. The pupils have added photographs and personal details to their Learning Stories and have set their first 2 Health and Well Being Targets.
Download and print off these communication slips if you have any evidence of your child working towards their target and [...]

In the nursery we have been learning about Harvest time. We watched a DVD all about a combine cutting a field and what it did to the wheat. We used a mortar and pestle to grind up some wheat to make flour. We made bread for snack and also tried some other [...]

The Nursery staff would like to welcome back our pre-school children and send a warm welcome to all the new children who have started this session. We look forward to the exciting year ahead.