Pencaitland Primary Blog

Despite the rather inclement weather recently, the football match between St Gabriels and Pencaitland managed to go ahead.  The team were forced into a couple of last minute changes and had no substitutes either as illness struck the squad.  However, despite all the players having to play the whole game, Pencaitland managed to record a [...]

After a couple of weeks of nail-biting tension the big day finally arrived. The grand finals for the Douglas Allen trophy. It seemed only fair that the players who had succeeded in getting us to the finals had the chance to take their efforts to the next level.  The team started their first match in [...]

With the busy football calendar in full swing and the recent inclement weather it was decided to fit in a small mini-competition with Pencaitland, Kings Meadow and Ormiston which would hopefully go some way to easing the fixture congestion !  Unfortunately we have no pictures to show since the class camera was unavailable!
However the boys [...]

Today P7 were writing dramatic stories about the final days of George Mallory, one of the first British people to attempt to climb Mount Everest. Mallory and his companion, Irvine, both disappeared, and Mallory’s body was discovered by a climber more than 60 years later. The descriptive writing and imagery from P7 was fantastic, and [...]

At the end of May ten pupils from P7, Lydia, Eilidh M, Morgan, Mhairi, Annabel, Andrew, Guy, Adam W, Lewis and Connor, played a hockey tournament at Whitburn. They played five games and one all of them. They came back with the schools second hockey cup and were all very proud of themselves!

They then went [...]

Last Friday there was a local derby, with Pencaitland hosting our near neighbours Ormiston. Things were looking bleak when Ormiston took a 2-0 half time lead. However Pencaitland came roaring back to snatch victory in the second half. It was almost like watching Barcelona !!!
Then on Monday we travelled away to play East Linton. [...]

As you know P7 went to camp on the 26 April. We all had a wonderful time and loved all the activities. We made new friends, conquered our fears and shared lots of laughs.
We want to say a huge…
Thank You!!!
To all our parents and the school for making it possible for us to go. We’ll [...]

Well it was our final full day at camp today and we thought we had escaped the worst of the weather. However it was not to be and we had a steady downpour all day. But it didn’t dampen our spirits at all.  We have been crawling through mud (complete with mud warpaint), shooting each other [...]

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 [...]

Today P7 went cuckoo making chick egg cosys!
We used the skills we learned during make do and mend (one of our ww2 projects before Christmas) to sew pieces of chick shaped felt and feathers together. We also added wings and googly eyes to complete our egg cosys. We really enjoyed making the cosys, though at [...]

As part of our Guitar Hero project P7 have been designing guitars. We chose a shape or made up our own and then painted the pattern in water colour. Then we displayed them in our classroom. These are some examples:

By: Eilidh M & Lydia A-M xxx
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P7 have started their Guitar Hero project. Although we think it’s amazing to be able to play the game in school, the project isn’t just about playing the game. Lots of schools in East Lothian are doing the project to help us transition into high school.
So far we have mind mapped our ideas for how [...]

On Friday the 23rd of January, the whole school had a Scottish assembly. Every class did a song, a poem, drama or a scottish story.
P1 did all the parts of your body in scots. They were in pairs, each pair had part of the body in scots and the rest of the school had to [...]

On Monday the school football team made up of both P6 & P7 members took part in the Douglas Allan trophy competition at Meadowmill. Pencaitland were drawn in the same group as St Marys, Loretto and Dunbar. The team played very well in our first match and won comfortably. Perhaps a touch of over-confidence then [...]

On Friday 23rd of January it is Pencaitland Primary school’s Scots assembly. Each class is preparing a poem, song or a little play of some sort. It is sure to be an excellent assembly!  Make sure that if your child has any lines, learn them before friday.
Lydia and Eilidh M x

On the 9th of December the whole school had a Christmas dinner which p7 served. The whole school really enjoyed it. We had lental soup for starter, then for main course we had turkey slices, carrots, peas and roast potatoes. For pudding it was either vanilla ice-cream shaped like a star or jelly. The whole [...]

Congratulations to Robbie Callender, P7. 
Robbie won the competition to design a Christmas card for Iain Gray, our local MSP.  Iain visited the school on Monday to present Robbie with a gift voucher and a very special Christmas card. 
We think the design is fantastic!     Well done Robbie!

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As you know, P7 have been doing football for nine weeks. We have been practising our skills, with and without the ball. Last week we got split into four teams, two teams on each pitch, one team was defending and the [...]

As it is getting nearer Winter, it is getting darker earlier in the evenings. Be careful when you go out in the dark and always carry a torch, when walking through dark spots. If you are playing out in the dark make sure you get back, before it gets too dark. If it is possible [...]

P7 spent time on Remembrance day, remembering all the lost soldiers and writing Remembrance Day poetry. Once we had shared our ideas and listened to some famous poems we got to work writing our own.
We then worked together to make a huge class display of our poems.

This is an example of our work, with a [...]