Pencaitland Primary Blog

On Thursday 29th October we all had a day out visiting Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace.  Our class had studied the life and times of Mary, Queen of Scots and we were keen to learn even more about her!  One of the highlights of the day was when we all dressed up in costume at [...]

Following our lessons on animation earlier in the year, P4 were given a free hand to create a short animation of their own choice.  The 2 winning entries are shown below:

Yoo Hoo’s Day Out - Created by Nicole, Erin, Arran, Blair and Katie with editing by Nicole and Erin.
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/xm3zH1DHetM" [...]

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 [...]

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 Primary 4 lead the upper school assembly.

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Recently we have been finding out about invertebrates - creatures without a backbone.  We found that there are 5 groups of invertebrates:

Molluscs
Insects
Crustaceans
Arachnids
Annelids

The class split into 5 groups to share with everyone else some [...]

There once was a big hairy sock
Who lived in a draw with a lock
One day he got out
And wandered about
But fell in love with a frock!
By Megan and Rosie
There once was a large ugly man.
Who lived in a green caravan.
He took it to France.
And went to a dance.
Where he made a new friend called [...]

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.

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, [...]

Our Burns Supper has raised this amazing amount for the PDSA.  Many thanks to everyone who helped with this fantastic result!

4 weeks of work came to an exciting conclusion yesterday as we welcomed a P4 class from Sanderson’s Wynd school for a Powwow:

Before yesterday we had already had 3 drama sessions with Shonagh, 2 dance sessions with Beth and an all day art session with Alison in preparation for today.
We welcomed our visitors and, lead [...]

This afternoon, P3/4 and P4 had their Burns Supper rehearsal which was performed to the whole school. We are very much looking forward to the evening performance tonight. We will keep you posted on our success and will let know how much we raise for charity.

On Monday P3/4 and P4 got their Burns week off to a flying start with a visit to Glasgow Concert Hall for the Celtic Connections concert. This is part of the launch of the Homecoming Scotland programme and is also the start of a very busy week for both classes.

Our Powwow continued with a dance session last week.  Half of the class were buffalos and the other half wolves.  When we perform our dance we will be carrying masks instead of hockey sticks!

Later this week we are having an art specialist visit us to help us make our masks and in a couple of [...]

Primary 4 have been looking at the work of Piet Mondrian.
We noticed that his paintings had the following in common:

Black vertical and horizontal lines
Squares and rectangles in red, blue and yellow

We created our own Mondrian style artwork using a variety of different media:

Primaries 3/4 and P4 have been really busy organising our Burns Supper and have been fortunate enough to be able to hold a Glow Meet session with Millersneuk Primary in East Dunbartonshire. We were able to have a discussion about how we planned to run our Burns Supper and shared ideas. It was [...]

Primary 4 are taking part in an arts programme called Powwow.  We have just had our first session in which we looked at the Native American creation story through drama.
We have another 2 drama sessions, 2 dance sessions and an all day art session to look forward to.  Watch this space for details…

Primary 4 have just been video conferencing with Athelstaneford Primary School.  We set up a link through GlowMeet:

We could see them at the top of our whiteboard, we could speak to them using a microphone and we could send them messages by writing on the whiteboard.
We played Jingle Bells for them and they sung us [...]

The party season got off to a great start with the P4 & P5 Christmas Party on Monday.

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A good time was had by all.  More parties this week so keep watching…