Pencaitland Primary Blog

P2/3 presented a St Andrew’s Day Assembly to Infant classes and parents. The children shared their knowledge of St Andrew and Scottish customs, and recited a verse of ‘To a Mouse’ by Robert Burns. Our Scottish country dancers performed for us and we closed the Assembly with ‘Flower of Scotland’. A great time was had [...]

We have been looking at some of the properties of solids, liquids and gases today.  First we tried squeezing an empty juice bottle and found we could quite easily squeeze the air inside. When we filled the bottle with water we discovered it was much harder and we guessed correctly that if we put the [...]

The new Parent Council has now had its second meeting. Our main functions are to :
*  support the school in its work with pupils and parents
* represent the views of parents
* promote contact and communication between the school, parents, pupils, the community, nursery and other providers
* report to the Parent Forum.
If you have a child [...]

On Thursday 15th January there will be a Cluster meeting for Parent Councils at Ross High School.
Alan Blackie, Director of Education, Don Ledingham, Head of Education and Children’s Services, Peter Mackenzie, Convenor of the Education Committee, and Sheena Richardson, Vice Convenor of the Education Committee will be in attendance.
The purpose of this meeting is to [...]

We have been seeing how much a solid can be pulled or stretched before it breaks. We suspended a bottle from a broomstick using different materials and added water, a little at a time, until the material snapped. We learned that gravity pulls downwards on the bottle, creating a pulling force called tension, causing the [...]

Our project on solids, liquids and gases continued today with more experiments.  We discovered how to use a filter to separate solids from liquids. We mixed flour with water to make a cloudy ’suspension’ which we thought looked like a banana milkshake. Mr Cain challenged us to produce clear water from this milky white liquid! [...]

Today we discovered that we can sometimes separate mixtures by using a sieve.  This only works when the mixture contains solids of different sizes.  We brought in colanders and sieves from home and used them to separate some sterilized compost into solids of four different sizes. We started with a colander with large holes, this [...]

Today was the day Pencaitland have been eagerly awaiting for weeks! The gym hall was turned into a professional recording studio and the whole school took part in recording our first ever Christmas CD. Each class was involved in singing and there was even a staff choir! Musical renditions from the P5 recorder group and [...]

We have been learning that some changes are temporary and can be easily reversed.  Last week we saw we could turn water into ice and back into water.  Today we learned that some changes are permanent and cannot be reversed.  There are three main ways of making permanent changes happen - by heating (eg boiling [...]

Today we took time to think about remembrance. P7 lead our assembly as an end to their WW2 work.
Rachel started our assembly by playing ‘after the battle’ on the piano. The class then told the story of the poppy aided with some dramas. Kirsty and Beth concluded our time by playing ‘the last post’ on [...]

We started our new topic this week  - looking at solids, liquids and gases.  Earlier this week we were making mindmaps in groups.  We’ve started to pool our ideas together now and are making a large mindmap display on the classroom wall.  We’ll use this to track our progress. 
We have carried out some experiments to [...]

All the P1 children at Pencaitland enjoyed an energetic dance session with Y Dance.

Some pupils in P4 have just completed a block of swimming lessons. Here are a few photos and comments .

It was cool because I can now do the butterfly properly! By Caitlin.

Swimming lessons were fantastic. I really liked the breaststroke. By Hamish.
It was really [...]

If anyone has a copy of yesterday’s (Wed. 7th’s) Scotsman, have a look at the feature article on page 46 about the Starlab visit to Pencaitland.

[ November 22, 2007; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] P2/3 & P3 Visit to Museum of Childhood will take place today.  We will be at the Museum from 10am ’til 12noon.

 
To find out what Primary 3 know about the 1950s, our new topic, they did a ‘Walk About, Talk About’.  This is where each group wrote down what they knew about each topic - transport, school, clothes etc.  Each group then had the opportunity to agree with the other groups, disagree and make a comment, [...]

[ December 20, 2007; 10:00 am; ] Nursery Christmas Party for morning and afternoon children in the School hall at 10.00am

[ December 19, 2007; 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm. ] P1 & P1/2 Christmas Party will be in the School Hall : 1.30pm - 3.00pm

[ December 18, 2007; 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm. ] P2/3 & P3 Christmas Party 1.30 - 3.00pm in the School hall

[ December 12, 2007; 1:45 pm to 7:00 pm. ] The Christmas Show - ‘Baboushka’ by P5 & P6 and ‘Granddad, Why Do We Do That?’ by P3 - 1.45pm and 7.00pm