Pencaitland Primary Blog

Lesson 3 - 30/04/07
We were introduced to a new class member today - “Bob” the skeleton. We were able to investigate the skeleton and look to see all the different bones.  We then returned to our model of our hands which we had cut out last week.  Today we cut up straws to match the length of [...]

Today we were very lucky and Mr Malcolm agreed to show us round the local church as part of our RME study on “Special Places”.  We went to the Carriage House first where he showed us a part of a video which explained how churchs were formed thousands of years ago.  Then Mr Malcolm took [...]

Never mind the Champion’s League - the best football on view this week was at Meadowmill in East Lothian. 15 Primary Schools sent teams to compete for the John Home Robertson trophy.  Pencaitland were drawn in an initial group with Stoneyhill, Pinkie and the Burgh. Playing some fast flowing one touch football, the stars of Pencaitland [...]

   Primary 7 have been learning how to animate in ICT today. Ms Lewis gave us all a webcam and after her demonstration asked us all to have a go at using the new software. Have a look at our animations

The Magic Bag
Today we were practising animation for ICT and I have made a movie [...]

Lesson 2 - 24/04/07
 Today we were learning all about what lies under the skin - bones.  We began to learn about certain bones in the human skeleton and actually had to put a (paper) skeleton together so all the bones were in the right place. Doing this meant finishing the worksheet was easy !
We then [...]

Lesson 1 - 23/4/2007
We started our new science topic today.  We are going to be learning all about ‘Processes of Life’.  We will be able to name and identify the main parts of humans, plants and animals, how we use our senses and recognise the stages in life cycles of humans, plants and animals.
To begin with we [...]