Pencaitland Primary Blog

The football team were back at HTC this morning, minus the P7’s who were at the Ross High induction day.We were up against some very good teams (some of whom still had their P7s available).  Our first match was against Loretto.  Our boys played some scintillating football and showed great determination in coming back from a goal deficit to [...]

Today some of the P6/7 boys attended a football session at the new Hibernian Training Centre just outside Ormiston.The boys were very impressed with the facilities.  Between games they had a coaching session from one of the Hibs training staff - which they thoroughly enjoyed. As to the competition itself, we were drawn in a group [...]

Today we did African art with Andrew. It lasted 2 hours and was really good fun. He explained things well and then told us the task. The paper was massive!!!!!!
By Hannah

Today we have been doing art with Andrew, we were doing African art. It was really fun. It took us about an [...]

Primary 7 have had another action packed day here at camp. Here is what we’ve been up to:
We are enjoying camp especially the zip wire and lazer zone. We rolled and swam in the mud and we were by far the muddiest. The leap of faith was very scary. Aimee got to [...]

P7 entertained the rest of the school last week with performances of their Japanese dances. They have been working on them since early February and were finally ready to perform to their audience on Thursday. They were performed using mime and the puppets they had made during art. Various elements of Japanese culture were shown [...]

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 [...]

Pencaitland Football Team put on a tremendous showing at the competition at Meadowmill Sports Centre this afternoon.  The team played some lovely football to beat both St Gabriels and Whitecraigs, however they went down in a closely fought thriller against the eventual winners of the group, Wallyford. The team narrowly missed out on the chance [...]

Over the past 6 weeks P7 have been taking part in tag rugby training sessions. The culmination of these was a tournament at Ross High Rugby Club with the other P7s from our cluster. The weather was bitterly cold but it did not dampen our enthusiasm! We all had a fantastic morning and enjoyed playing [...]

Today we took time to think about remembrance. P7 lead our assembly as an end to their WW2 work.
Rachel started our assembly by playing ‘after the battle’ on the piano. The class then told the story of the poppy aided with some dramas. Kirsty and Beth concluded our time by playing ‘the last post’ on [...]

Today was our evacuation day. We dressed up as evacuees and Mrs Robertson was a 1940’s teacher. We also had French with Mrs Swinton and we learnt the five times table by saying it lots of times in French. We rearranged our desks into rows and sat there until lunchtime. We are now back [...]

Over the last few weeks primary 7 have been working on ratio in maths. For this topic we made models. We were in small groups and we all made different things. We had to find out the sizes of real life things and convert them into model sizes. Some examples are a play park, a [...]

As part of our WW2 project we are going to dress up as evacuees .We are all looking forward to it. Hopefully there will be some photos put on the blog to show you what it was like .We will keep you posted on our WW2 project and what we have been learning in P7.
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P7 received our Ross High diaries on Friday 21st September. They are very impressive and we are all enjoying using them. The pages are like a proper diary and at the bottom of each page there is either a fact or a quote.
At the back there is a page for addresses, maps, languages and other [...]

This afternoon P7 have been learning some more about blogging. We have been working in class to prepare some work for everyone to see. Hopefully it will be ready soon!

As part of their WW2 studies Primary 7 have been learning about ‘Make do and Mend’. We have all been learning how to sew and are making a class quilt from lots of scraps. Keep checking here for our progress, we hope to have it finished for the winter!

Hello P7 bloggers
The staff are all learning to blog and we want to know what you think of it.  Do you read the blog?  Is it interesting?
Please leave comments and let us know.
At the end of last session we had 181 posts and 210 comments which was fantastic.  Can we improve on that this session?  [...]