Pencaitland Primary Blog

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 [...]

On Thursday 10 April 2008, Primary 6 had an fun-packed Outdoor Education Day taken by Bill Stephen.   The weather was cold, and mostly dry but underfoot, muddy.
Sticky Feet
When Bill wants to round us all up, he calls out ‘Sticky Feet!’  We all have to run and form a circle and put our feet together, then [...]

Last week the infants raised some money for the Guide Dogs for the Blind by having a fund raising week. In P1/2 we drew a great big dog and then we tried to cover the dog with coppers. We called the dog Copper, and by the end of the week he was completely full! Counting [...]

It is now week two of Craft Club and this week we have been painting flower pots to sell at the Spring Fayre. It is fun but you need to be really careful not to smash them (unlike Miss Muir who managed to smash three before craft club started!)

Last week, we made dream catchers which [...]

Primary 5 have been practising taking pictures with the digital camera. We learnt how to upload pictures onto the laptop and then pasted them into a slideshow we created about our school.

Saturday was the annual Spring Fair at Pencaitland Primary School. It was a lot of fun and there were lots of stalls. Despite the windy weather we can all say that the Spring Fair was a great success!
By Kirsty and Anna
Primary 6 have been making egg cups for the spring fair which we sold.
I made [...]

On Tuesday PPS Animations met for the first time. We have some enthusiastic apprentices who hope to create some interesting productions over the next few weeks. Click on the links below to see what we created in our first production meeting.

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[ June 14, 2007; 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm. ]

[ June 5, 2007; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ]

This term primary 6 have been learning to use Powerpoint. They have each created a presentation about a country in the European Union.
First we created a mind map of ideas for our powerpoint then we planned our presentation on paper.

Ms Lewis looked at our plans before we used Powerpoint to design our presentation.
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Lesson 4 : 20/03/07
Our next impossible mission involved making something and then evaluating it afterwards, and thinking about the setting of our own standards.  To start with we were all handed out a picture of a hat and had to draw a head for the hat.  We then had to look at our drawing and talk about [...]

RED nose day! W0T! What a day! So much in one day! I was in charge of the RN+SR (red nose and spoon race) with Stuart. Even though I didn’t go to school my long lost sister went instead. (you’ll see what I mean if you see any pictures!)
Weekly Blog Assistant
Matthew

Hi ! We are the podcast pals from primary 6 and we have been making podcasts for Red Nose Day. We have been interviewing 6 people from each class in the school. The topic to talk about is what makes you happy for Comic Relief. If you would like to tell us what makes you [...]

Lesson 3 - 13/03/2007
Todays Impossible Mission was a sticky one! We were learning how to work with a limited amount of materials. To get us thinking about how best to do this, Mr Cain had three volunteers sort out a box of mixed coloured cubes into red, blue and yellow piles.  It took them 24 [...]

Today Bill came to our school. He helped us build 3 tents out on the field. It took quite a while and the ground was quite muddy.Bill put us into groups first. Then he gave us instructions. Then we started to make what he had said. We had quite a good time. My arms were [...]

 Next week is health week at school.  P5 are having a Fair Trade cafe .We are inviting some of the schools neighbours and mums and dads.We have been designing invitation for them.
Morgan

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How I made my bicycle
The wire was hard to bend but when you wanted it back in line it was quite easy.  The pipe cleaner was quite like the wire but it was more colourful.I hated the straw because you couldn’t bend it with out making a mess of it.  The back round was quite easy to make.   [...]

A lovely little Scots poem for Burns Night! Just click where it says Audio MP3 to listen:
Poem
Photo by whiskymac.

Lesson 4 - 12/1/2007
Today we had great fun experimenting with balloons to investigate what makes them move and which type moves fastest.
To start with, we saw that a plastic shopping bag filled with air doesn’t fly around the room, but an untied balloon does.  After a group discussion we decided it was because the force of air [...]