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 Friday 13th Primary 3 did our assembly about Jewish weddings.

There were 4 flower girls, 2 bridesmaids and a best man. The groom pulls the veil over the bride’s face and the two mothers break a plate to show that the agreement could not be undone.
There were also seven blessings and 2 witnesses. After [...]

P3 have been making bookmarks to be sold at the Spring Fayre. Here are some of them.

Keep your eyes open for any that are left on Saturday!

This birdfeeder was placed outside the P3 classroom so that we could find out which birds would visit us. Unfortunately some were scared away by this unwelcome guest!

In our PE lessons Mrs Jones has had us jumping all over the place! We have done

Standing long jump
Hop, step and jump
Hurdles
Highjump

Primary 3 have been having fun with Beebots and Constructa-bots as part of their ICT work on control and modelling. They created courses for the ‘Bots which the other groups then had to find a way through by programming their own ‘Bots.

During our art lessons this term we have looking at using different media. The landscapes below were created over a series of lessons using a variety of media:

By Susannah and Olivia

We used ready mixed paints to create the sky.
We stippled white paint over this to create the clouds.
The hills were outlined in black [...]

As part of the School Burn’s Assembly Primary 3 researched and created our own tartans.
We used a website to find our own family tartans and also to design a tartan online. In our art lessons we created our own tartans by painting stripes on 2 pieces of paper which we then cut into strips [...]

If anyone has a copy of yesterday’s (Wed. 7th’s) Scotsman, have a look at the feature article on page 46 about the Starlab visit to Pencaitland.

[ November 22, 2007; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] P2/3 & P3 Visit to Museum of Childhood will take place today.  We will be at the Museum from 10am ’til 12noon.

 
To find out what Primary 3 know about the 1950s, our new topic, they did a ‘Walk About, Talk About’.  This is where each group wrote down what they knew about each topic - transport, school, clothes etc.  Each group then had the opportunity to agree with the other groups, disagree and make a comment, [...]

The Royal Observatory planetarium visited P2/3 and P3 today. This is what the children thought of it:
We went into a big dome. Inside it was lots of stars. Our favourite bit was looking at all the stars. She showed us the seasons’ stars and the different constellations. By Katy & [...]

[ October 8, 2007; ] The Royal Observatory planetarium will be visiting the school for P2/3 and P3 pupils.

Because Primary 2/3 and Primary 3 are enjoying their project on space so much, I thought they might like to try out these excellent pages from the BBC website:
A Solar System jigsaw
Some video clips of space exploration
An interactive space map
We will be looking at constellations soon. Get a sneak preview of what they are [...]

Mr Kingsbury’s maths group didn’t realise they were doing work - they were having too much fun!
Here they are learning about quarter turns - with a little help from their friends!

An exciting new development is taking place at Pencaitland as staff and pupils are learning to blog.  Watch this space.