Pencaitland Primary Blog

The nursery children all made Faberge eggs and daffodil cards to celebrate Easter
The Podcast Pals recorded what the nursery children liked about Spring
easter-morning-nursery.mp3

Primary 4 had to trust each other in this circle time activity.

This term primary 6 have been learning to use Powerpoint. They have each created a presentation about a country in the European Union.
First we created a mind map of ideas for our powerpoint then we planned our presentation on paper.

Ms Lewis looked at our plans before we used Powerpoint to design our presentation.
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We have been looking at the work of the designer Gaudi and created our own Gaudi inspired buildings. We made the models out of clay and the then painted them in colourful designs. Gaudi is from Spain and there are lots of his buildings in Barcelona.
Rebekah

Picasso
We took a section of one of Picasso’s pictures and [...]

Lesson 5 : 27/03/07
Todays Mission impossible centred around “deciding what the instructions mean”.  Once we got together with our thinking partners we were given some complicated instructions to carry out with some books. These activities showed us that firstly we should say what we thought the instructions meant, then agree on what they meant, before actually trying to do [...]

Well done to everyone for their hard work £415 raised for Comic Relief.

Primary 2 said goodbye to teddy. He has told us he has to go and visit another school. I wonder where he’ll go next……

Lesson 4 : 20/03/07
Our next impossible mission involved making something and then evaluating it afterwards, and thinking about the setting of our own standards.  To start with we were all handed out a picture of a hat and had to draw a head for the hat.  We then had to look at our drawing and talk about [...]

We wrote stories for teddy about our own teddies

Primary 2 have been painting their teddy bear.

Beat The Goalie
On Friday the 16th of March the primary sevens organised activities for the rest of the school to take part in. Me, Jack and Callum were doing beat the goalie and only four people scored all four goals into us. It lasted the whole afternoon and was really fun.
By Jack and James
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Read more about what happened when Teddy visited tomorrow …

RED nose day! W0T! What a day! So much in one day! I was in charge of the RN+SR (red nose and spoon race) with Stuart. Even though I didn’t go to school my long lost sister went instead. (you’ll see what I mean if you see any pictures!)
Weekly Blog Assistant
Matthew

We had a great time on Red Nose day. Firstly we had a really fun assembly where we were told all about the great things Comic Relief does for people and children who are less fortunate than we are.  After that, the P7’s organised and ran some really fun activities for us to try out. [...]

This week the children at school have been thinking about what makes them happy. They have then been reading about the stories of other children in the world and thinking about their lives and how Comic Relief can make their lives happier.
The podcast pals have been learning lots of new ICT skills and so [...]

We’ve had an exciting Red Nose Day. All morning all the children have been raising money and having fun. Primary 7 have been in charge organising lots of different fun and fundraising activities. Check back next week to read some reports.
We even had a visitor from Gareth Easton a photographer from the TESS look [...]

Big hair, big clothes, red everything and lots of fun in store on Friday 16th. Check back for reports from the podcast pals and don’t forget to bring your donation.

Hi ! We are the podcast pals from primary 6 and we have been making podcasts for Red Nose Day. We have been interviewing 6 people from each class in the school. The topic to talk about is what makes you happy for Comic Relief. If you would like to tell us what makes you [...]

An Artist called Laura Young came in to draw and paint a mural on the wall in the corridor during Health Week. Each class from Primary 3 to Primary 7 got a chance in small groups to paint a part of the mural.
The week before Health Week there was a competition to choose [...]