Ormiston Primary School

Primary 3 have had a very interesting afternoon.  We have had a visit from Miss Grierson’s Granny and Grandad so that we could interview them!  We wanted to find out about when Grandad worked in Tynemount mine, what it was like to live through a war and what school used to be like!!! 
We even got [...]

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careful cutting going on

accurate measurement was needed

some people worked better standing up

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, [...]

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.

Primary three up to seven had a 30 minute taster session in Judo today. They watched two Judo experts from a local club in Tranent show them how to wrestle without hurting your partner. Children received information about how they can try out a free session at the club to see if they [...]

Welcome back to all pupils and staff after the summer break. We will soon have, once again, lots of ideas and pictures to display on the school blog. This session will hopefully see more pieces being written by pupils and more comments being left by parents.
Pupils will be getting usernames and passwords to [...]

We were all treated to fantastic perfomances on Thursday as pupils showed us just how talented they are at our end of year talent show.  We had dancers, singers, footballers, clappers, recorders, pianists, magicians and a hula-hooper!
Our winners were a group from P7 who sang and danced to Heaven.  They’re pictured here with some of the [...]

[ June 26, 2008; 1:15 pm to 3:15 pm. June 27, 2008; ] We are looking forward to Ormi’s Got Talent taking place in the school gym next Thursday afternoon.
Auditions will take place in classrooms all next week.

School closes at usual times for all pupils on Friday 27th of June.
The new session for pupils starts on Monday 18th of August.

On Friday 20th the school went a walk down the railway. We went in our houses. Cockburn started first then Wishart then Moffat.The big ones had to look after the little children. The walk was long but it was fun.
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