Pencaitland Primary Blog

Primary 5 children have been learning about impressionism and visited the National Gallery of Scotland on Thursday to find out more about French Impressionists.  In the afternoon they had a landscape workshop.  What do you think of the results?  Are we better than Claude Monet?

Primary 2/3 have been learning about the Romans in class.  We looked at the mosaic floors in roman villas and produced our own designs.  We hope you like them!

Monday - The first thing we did today was get our spelling words for the week and had a chance to learn them. We wrote them down and had to LACAWAC them. After this we went to the hall for maths. We played 3 fraction games. In 1st game we all had cards showing [...]

Last Friday was anti-bullying day. All the classes worked hard at making a new anti-bullying display in the school.
P7 worked on a comic book display about a character called Alex, who gets bullied in lots of different ways. We also worked on 5 drama scenes about Alex that we performed at the assembly. We all [...]

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P7 have been learning what it was like to live during WW2. We have learned about many apsects of life on the homefront, including making anderson shelters and writing ‘Outbreak of war’ news articles.
We have also learned how to sew and [...]

The new Parent Council is now up and running.
The members for 2008-2009 are:
Angus Finnie - Chairperson
Carol Snow -   Co-Chairperson
Colin Brown - Community member
Alison Glencorse - Parent member
Simon Riley - Parent member
Graham Wilson - Parent member
Dorothy Ogilvy - Parent member
Kim Bartlett - Teacher member
Stella Birrel is the clerk to the Parent Council
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Minutes from last session are available - please [...]

Primary 1/2 are studyng mini-beasts and what better place to find them  than n the local woods.  They were helped by a parent and the local ranger.  It was great fun.

In ICT, Primary 5 have been learning to use the digital camera. We have been snapping away throughout the school. Some of our photos are shown below. Our challenge now is to produce a slideshow!

To complement Mrs Jones’ hockey lessons, Primary 4 have had their own mini-tournament. After a very closely fought contest, our winners are shown below.  Well played everyone!

Cole in P4 has won the competition to design a reflective outfit to be worn near roads and to be seen by road users.
Well Done Cole!

Primary 7 have been learning about world war 2. We have watched three short programmes about a family getting evacuated and a documentary about people who lived in the war. P7 brought in lots of things from the war.

Like gas masks, ration papers and many other things.
Later on in the year we will be making [...]

Some P6 children checking out this session’s anti-bullying display which all classes contributed to.

Primary 3/4 and P4 have been very busy over the last few weeks building Viking Longboats. Everyone had fun making them and enjoyed designing their own shields and sails.

Tuesday: The class got their pencils and writing books and talked about writing instructions for uploading a cd-rom onto a computer. It was harder than you think because you have to say EXACTLY what you mean. We did French with Mrs. McBean where we played the French name game and the alphabet game and we [...]

Calum and Lewis, the P7 Class Reps, realised it was Clean Up the World Weekend and asked the Eco Reps to organize an event. We got together a group of P2’s,a P3/4,a P4,P5’s,P6’s and P7,Eco and class reps and did a litter pick up around the area. Two teachers came with us, Mrs McBean(deputy head) and Ms Donaldson(playground superviser). We [...]

Staff and pupils have been busy developing and using the upper area.  Some Primary 7 pupils kindly helped build the science tent - problem solving in action- and it is now one of the main features of the upper area.  The theme will change each month.  This month’s theme is ‘Magnets’.  Look out for ‘Bubbles’ [...]

On Monday moring we continued our pinball machine paintings by scraping the black paint off into shapes of circles and it looked really effective. Then we kept practicing our control over the hockey ball by going in and out of the cones while we were running. For milk and story we are reading The Hobbit [...]

The School Website, which runs alongside this blog, recently had the 10,000th visitor since its launch 3 years ago.

The website, which can be viewed at www.pencaitlandps.org.uk contains information about the school which doesn’t change very often, such as term dates, policies, lunch menus etc. whereas this blog changes all the time and reflects day-to-day life [...]

MONDAY On Monday we did hockey with Mr Cain. We did the indian dribble and then tried it running between cones. Then we did spelling it was okay. Everyone did really well. Some of us [...]

The Pencaitland Primary School HMI report is now available from the HMI website.
To access the report, click HERE.