Pencaitland Primary Blog

I’m the first to get it to light up!

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P3/4 were given the challenge today of making a bulb light up.  They worked out that they needed a source of electricity and some wires to connect everything together.

No luck yet!

Keep watching this space for further developments.

Primary 3/4 are pleased to announce the launch of their new stationery shop “Stationery Express”.  The shop will be open on Thursday afternoons.
For details please see our full page advert - link top left below ‘Home’.

Before Christmas the PTA bought us a new birdbox - but this isn’t just any birdbox, it’s a Marks and …. (sorry, got carried away there!).
Seriously though, this isn’t just any birdbox.  It’s got a built-in camera, powered by a solar panel, that transmits the pictures and sound wirelessly into the school where any of [...]

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On Friday Primary 3/4 presented our assembly “Robert Burns and All Things Scottish” to the whole school and invited parents.  The assembly, which featured poems, singing, dancing and jokes, was well received by all.
Well done!

Poster by Natalie
Primary 3/4 have been studying A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.  As well as looking at such things as plot, setting and characters, we also created a radio play version.
Click to hear our version.
[Note: the play is 20 minutes]

Today P3/4 joined up with classes from Dirleton and Law Primary Schools via GlowMeet (video conferencing) to celebrate St Andrew’s Day.
After each class had performed their own song (we sang Katie Beardie) we all joined together to sing The Proclaimers’ I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles).

Who’s Billy Hughes I hear you all asking?  Well, he’s the main character in the P3/4 health project that we’re doing at the moment.  The project revolves around Billy’s attempt to get fit for a race.  We have looked at Billy’s lifestyle and the changes he will need to make.  We have also looked at [...]

As promised, here are some pics of our model longboats:

Never mind the World Twenty20 Cup - Pencaitland’s been the place to be for exciting Cricket for the last 6 weeks as several P3/4s and P4s joined in the Cricket After School Club.

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A great time was had by all, especially Ben [...]

We have been working on apostrophes in class over the last few weeks and this week your homework task is to play two apostrophe games on the BBC website. When you have done this, please post a comment letting me know how you got on. Please do this by Monday 15 June. [...]

Yesterday, Pencils R Us, the P3/4 stationery shop opened ‘its doors’ for the penultimate time this session. We have all had a lot of fun, taking on responsibility for stock control, selling, counting the money and crowd control (a very important role at busy times!)
With the profits made, we recently rewarded ourselves with a [...]

Today P3/4 and P4 spent a fun-packed day at the beach. First of all we went rock-pooling to Yellowcraig beach where we found a lot of sea creatures. We then had lunch on the beach in North Berwick and spent the afternoon in the Seabird Centre where we learned all about puffins.

On Friday, P3/4 shared their Outdoor Journey experiences with the upper school. We also had a visit from a number of people from Edinburgh University who were interested in finding out what we had been up to.

Primaries 3/4, 4 and 7 have joined together for The Great Egg Race 2009!
Yesterday the 3 classes were split into 12 groups of 6, each with children from the 3 classes and given their challenges for the week.  They are to create a vehicle that can carry an egg over a 5 metre course as [...]

This afternoon the P3/4s and P4s presented their Easter show ‘Here Comes Jesus’ to the parents, brothers and sisters, grannies, grandpa’s, aunts, uncles and friends. It was a great success. Everyone worked really hard and this showed through the fantastic acting and singing. Well done everyone!

Primary 3/4 and Primary 4 treated the rest of the school (including the Nursery) to the dress rehearsal of their Easter show “Here Comes Jesus”.  We will be performing the show for parents of P3/4 & P4 on Wednesday afternoon at 2:15pm.

Today P3/4 were fortunate enough to work with Shonagh Davidson, a drama specialist, on a traditional story about the giant. Everyone enjoyed taking on different roles and discussing how the giant could deal with a number of problems in his life.

As part of our Health Week activities, P3/4 and P4 were fortunate enough to be able to work with Martin from East Lothian Outdoor Education team. We spent a fun-packed morning doing many activities such as working in pairs directing one blind-folded person from one end of the rope area to the other, [...]

Today P3/4 took our outdoor learning a stage further and went into the woods to try to answer some of our questions. Two of the groups were focussing on trees and the ground in the forest. The rabbit group tried to find some signs of rabbit life and the bird group were listening and [...]