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Archive for November, 2008

Dates for Xmas

Click on this link for the November School Newsletter which will give you important Christmas dates.

Junior Road Safety Officers

To find out what’s new click on our link to the JRSO page.

Kindness Awards

World Kindness Day 2008
The Eco group from last year and this year went to Ocean Terminal’s World Kindness Ceremony. We were told to meet outside Debenhams. It took place next [...]

P4 Learn about Volcanoes

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Last Thursday, the class learned about how the Scottish landscape was formed millions of years ago. Then they got to make their own volcanoes with the help of Anne from Dynamic Earth. The pictures tell how much they enjoyed [...]

P7 Workshop

Biodiversity Bamboozle
Biodiversity Bamboozle is about the World and the Earth and also about animals. You learn about rare animals, Endangered Species, Facts about animals and more about things to do with the Earth.
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Green Flag

Good news was received today at Ormiston Primary school. We’ve now got our green flag! It has taken three years of working to reduce waste and recycle in school. This has been due to lots of effort from all the children, Mrs Wightman and the Eco- Committee.

Polish up your mental maths skills

Have a look at this website -it’s fun, educational and for all ages www.supermathsworld.com

Halloween and Fireworks -Nursery

To help us celebrate Halloween we made pumpkin lanterns to put our display and the children enjoyed the story ‘Room on the Broom’ by Julia Donaldson and ‘Meg and Mog’ stories. After Halloween we put our lanterns in the composter.
We made very sparkly firework pictures.

Autumn Time in the Nursery

The children from the nursery have enjoyed their Autumn activities. They collected leaves and conkers which they used to make lovely pictures for display.

P2 Investigate the Moon.

This afternoon Primary 2 were busy finding the answers to all our questions about the Moon… We wondered how big the Moon was, how far away from Earth it was, and if it was going to break!  We also looked at the different shapes that the Moon appears to be in the sky, the phases [...]