Pencaitland Primary Blog

We enjoyed playing our favourite parachute games.

This is Lothian and Borders Police’s summer campaign against under age drinking in East Lothian. Click on the link below for more details.

http://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/thinkb4udrink/flyer_sliced.html

Over the last four weeks on a Monday afternoon, Primary 3 have been developing their skills to work as a team. The children have been encouraged to think about what choices they make as a team and to justify the decisions they have made. They have had to problem-solve, co-operate, and be very creative! The [...]

In P2/3 we have been working on our mapping skills. We went for a walk to the crossroads in Pencaitland looking out for landmarks. When we came back we drew maps with directions for getting to our school. We also thought about road safety when we were crossing the road, so we wrote instructions for [...]

The trainers have been dusted down and Primary 5 have been off and running round the village again in a bid to keep healthy, happy and active!
The boys and girls are already completing the same course we ran last year after only two weeks’ training! The team spirit is high, the encouragement the pupils [...]

To tie in with our “Living Things’ topic, we visited Dalkeith Country Park today.  When we arrived we played some ‘nature-themed’ games which were both good fun and reminded us of some of the things we had learnt about plants and animals during this topic.  To keep active we also played some football and rounders. [...]

On Friday 13th Primary 3 did our assembly about Jewish weddings.

There were 4 flower girls, 2 bridesmaids and a best man. The groom pulls the veil over the bride’s face and the two mothers break a plate to show that the agreement could not be undone.
There were also seven blessings and 2 witnesses. After [...]

We are doing an end of term show it is called Hoodwinked and it’s all about the story of Robin Hood and his merry men.
My character is called Friar Swill. The most embarrassing moment in the show for me was when Finlay took off my habit and I was left in shorts and vest.
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June is a busy month for nursery. Our pre-school children are taking part in lots of activities to ensure a smooth transition to P1 and have met their new teachers regularly throughout this session. We have our nursery sports days , a teddy bears’ picnic and an outing to East Links Park [...]

The football team were back at HTC this morning, minus the P7’s who were at the Ross High induction day.We were up against some very good teams (some of whom still had their P7s available).  Our first match was against Loretto.  Our boys played some scintillating football and showed great determination in coming back from a goal deficit to [...]

Today some of the P6/7 boys attended a football session at the new Hibernian Training Centre just outside Ormiston.The boys were very impressed with the facilities.  Between games they had a coaching session from one of the Hibs training staff - which they thoroughly enjoyed. As to the competition itself, we were drawn in a group [...]

This week has been a really busy week for the Primary 6s because we’ve been to the Science Centre, played a bit of rugby, been practising for our assembly and presenting our assembly in front of the parents, wearing pyjamas. (Annabel, Euan, Morgan, Guy and Lachlan)
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During our reading lessons we each have a role to play. We can be the leader, the clarifyer, the questioner, the predictor, the summariser or a reader. How do we feel about that?
Being the leader is fun because you get to tell people what to do just like a teacher. Sam [...]

P1/2 have been looking at China, and finding out what life is like for a child living there. As part of this topic we have been learning about the Olympics, and we decided we would have our very own Olympics. So far we have made the medals and the Olympic torch, and we have started [...]

This is the new logo of Pencaitland After Schol Club, which will be on the staff uniforms at the start of the new term.
The club ran a competition for the children to design a logo. This was split into three age categories: P1-P3, P4-P5 and P6-P7. There was a winner from each age [...]

In June this year, East Lothian Council, in partnership with Lothian and Borders Police, will be hosting a series of Internet safety and responsible use training sessions for parents with pupils in P5 - S6 across the county. This is in response to growing concerns, expressed by individual parents and parent councils, about how [...]