P6 Pencaitland

Yesterday we went to The Glasgow Science Centre for our school trip.  It took an hour and a half to get there, but we used up the time by playing on our Nintendo’s and Ipod’s.  When we got there we walked in and got showed somewhere to put our bags and lunchboxes.  Next we went in a long queue to wait for the I-Max movie which was in 3-D. It was really interesting and was narrated by Tom Cruise. It told us about the huge International space station which was built by loads of countries and has people actually living in it. The 3-D affect’s were amazing, especialy when the rocket took off and when the orange got thrown at everyone’s eye. Then we had lunch and spent 15 minute’s on the 3rd floor which was full of fun things to try out.  One of the main parts was Car-Razy circuit’s were you had to build your own car out of scrap cardboard and straws. At the end you raced them and it was really good fun.  It was really hot in the lab but it was fun making and racing our car-zy cars. Sadly that was the end and we had another long bus journey back to school. Still at least we had our Nintendo’s and ipods. It was great fun and we reccomend that the next P6’s do it, and the gift shop was great and they had some great stuff!

George and Isla -  P6 amazingly superb Blogging team.

With the P7s away at a Guitar Hero do, we (the P6 boys) got to compete in the Hibs 7 a side tournament. It was awesome. Our games were played in the big inside barn with real artificial grass. We played 3 games - we lost the first to Kings Meadow but bounced back to beat McMerry. We then lost our final game to Elphinstone but due to a mix up they had sent their P7 team so really we did really well.

We got a goody bag at the end with a Hibs football strip and a ticket to see a  game at Easter Road. Much better than being in school.

Harry & Rory (P6 Bloggers)

Today P6 went to a rugby festival in Tranent (Ross High). It was great. Team 1 won one game but still really enjoyed it. Team 2 did even better, with all three of their games being wins and scoring a huge amount of trys. My team (Team 3) did OK winning two of our three games. The first one we lost was against team 2 anyway. When your team wasn’t playing a match you got to have a go on the tackle mats and crash bags - it was great. We tried to knock Mr Cain over when he had a go holding them. With about 10min to go it started to rain REALLY HARD! But we all enjoyed it anyway even the Parent’s and Mr. Cain!

George (P6 Amazingly brilliantly perfect superstar of the Blogging Team!!)

On Thursday 4 people from Edinburgh University came to show us their microscopes. It was really cool. There were loads of plants, bugs, mouldy food and evryday stuff like money (£5 note and velcro and stuff like that). The microscopes made everything really clear and almost 3D  - like the Sky HD advert on TV. We saw how  sticky willow had loads of tiny hooks on it that makes it sticky and that the £5 note lines are made up of tiny writing. The bugs were even more yukky when you got to see them close up !  Its was brilliant.

Glen & Alasdair P6 Bloggers

Miss Kay our student has gone but we’ve got Mr Cain back again. Monday was a great day. The best thing we did was probably the figure drawing for our folios. We got into partners and had to use our observation to draw each other. We had to use proportion to make sure all the bits were the same size. I Stewart) got to play in the school football team against East Linton and we won 6-5. Another good thing this week was getting to write stories in groups of three. We all started writing stories (4 pages) that Mr Cain will read out at class novel time. It took us over 4 days but each group managed to write 4 pages with a cover page and back page blurb. At LAST we got to start Guitar Hero. We made bands and on Wednesday we got to have a go on the game. We also used Inspiration to make mindmaps about what we could learn through the Guitar Hero game. Its gonna be really cool!Because we had worked so hard for Meadowbank Mrs Jones & Mr Cain let us play rounders for PE. It is a lot harder to catch a tennis ball than you might think. On wednesday we met our new girl Orla who was nice. We also talked through the traditional sports day which our class has to organise for the school.. At least we have already done the Red Nose Day so hopefully that will make it easier. We learned about trust and honesty in Keeping Myself Safe and Robotics was just fab because we got to try the robots without a controller and got them to draw patterns. Today (Friday) we learned about contour maps and made some models out of cardboard and of course played Guitar Hero at Golden Time.

Stewart & Harry - super bloggers

On Monday we did spelling of the week then we did some dancing in the hall it was great fun! After break we did some maths and made a new maths display. After lunch we did rugby with Michael. We are getting better which is good because we are having a rugby tournament soonOn wednesday some of the class were away at Meadowbank for the athletics competition. We were with the big schools so we didn’t win any races. We did our best though. The rest of the class learned google applitions its the new M.S.N.! hehe. As well as a chat room, we got emails and were able to all write to a page at the same time. In music we got to bang the big drum kit. it was fun. We made our own red card football kit for anti -racism then went out for a game of rounders. On Thursday we did our robotics and had a game of 10pin bowling. We used what we had learned last week about moving the pots to change the robots speed and curve. It was hard but fun. Today the school football team with Jack T & stewart won 4-2. After our art work (we were studying Paul Klee) we got to play football with Mr Cain at Golden Time. But it was a sad week because we had to say cheerio to Miss Kay.

Arran & Declan - P6 Bloggers

Hi its Rory & Joe here. Our favourite bits of this week were ;

Monday : We learned a French dance in drama which was really fun. Maths was good too because  we got to do a questionnaire and then make a graph of the results and the Triangle girls got to do more on their Nintendo DS. Tuesday : We did imaginative writing about  anything we wanted which was cool. Miss Kayes visitor was in which was a bit scary but cool too. We also did long jump with Mrs Jones in PE. Wednesday : we used our plans to the first draft of our story and in music we learned a new “blues” song. Thursday : In robotics were were learning to run the robots without the control wire. We had to adjust the POTS to allow the robot to go straight, go right and go left. we will be using this work next week when we get to have a 10 pin bowling competition. In Cycling we got to turn right from a wee road into a busy road. Friday : we were doing pointy paintings in  the style of the French artist Seurat. We all did pictures of the Eiffel Tower which Miss Kaye said looked really good.

Joe & Rory

This has been the Anthony Horowitz week. We did our writing based on his latest novel - Necropolis. We got into groups and talked about the different characters and made A3 posters with lots of notes about the characters on them. We then used these posters to make up our own opening for a book. We read some of Necropolis for our class novel this week. In drama, we were given the first line of the novel and had to improvise and act out the next two minutes. It was fun. Finally toady the day we were waiting for. We had to have an early break because we got to watch Anthony Horowitz answering questions. He even answered one of our questions (although there was over 200 schools watching too). It was brilliant and he gave us loads of tips to be better writers.

Other good things this week was our rugby coaching, overtaking parked cars (really cones) in cycling and having a robotic race (Jack T & Caitlins won - they were really good)

Jack G & Arran

We have only had three days this week. Some of the lessons we did included making some covers for our Robots in Robotics. There was some really good names and designs.  Some of the names reflected their cover, like The Bat Mobile which looked like a fierce bat like creature. I can’t wait until we do our Robo-Race next week. Another Robot was called Eco-Rob and he loves litter. This week in maths, the triangle girls had some fun with the D.S’s in brain trainer, and it was the best maths ever. The other groups were doing graphs. Soon they will have a shot on the Nintendo D.S.’s sooner or later.Next Friday we will be on Glo meet to listen to an author called Anthony Horowitz. It is on the internet for lots of people to see. We will be asking him two questions and he will give us the answers, but, unfortunatly he can’t see us but we can see him. We are reading right now one of his latest books called Necropolis. I am personally glad that the main character is a teenage girl! We did some mapping with wool. The way to do this was you measured the length of wool that went along the wiggly lines between the places. We could then stretch out the wool and measured it. It was so much fun. We also learned things about raciscm this week too and talked about our feelings over it. We made some raciscm poems too.  We continued with our cycling too learning all about left turns.

Isla & Chloe-Jo

These are some of the best things we have done this week - robotics, art and last but not least cycling. Robotics this was better than last week because we didnt have to build them at the start. We had to work out how the controls worked and made up some obstacle courses to practice driving round. Cycling was good fun too. We were learning how to do a ordinary and emergency stops and how to start properly. We finished with a fun race - who could cycle the slowest without putting their foot down. In art today we were learing to draw a self portrait in the style of Picasso. Miss Kaye told us about Picasso’s life and thenm showed us how to draw like Picasso did. 

Stewart & Hannah