Pencaitland Primary Blog

Yesterday, Pencils R Us, the P3/4 stationery shop opened ‘its doors’ for the penultimate time this session. We have all had a lot of fun, taking on responsibility for stock control, selling, counting the money and crowd control (a very important role at busy times!)
With the profits made, we recently rewarded ourselves with a [...]

On Friday, P3/4 shared their Outdoor Journey experiences with the upper school. We also had a visit from a number of people from Edinburgh University who were interested in finding out what we had been up to.

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.

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 [...]

On Tuesday afternoon the P3/4 stationary shop, Pencils R Us, opened its doors to the first customers - P4. We are looking forward to selling our stationery to the other classes soon and will keep you updated on our progress.

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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!

The class reps are pleased to announce they raised £75 from their Kilts for Kids day.  This money has been donated to to Children First to support children in Scotland who are less fortunate than ourselves.
Last week a collection for Water Aid was taken at the afternoon and evening performances of Born In a Barn. [...]

Last Wednesday parents and friends were treated to a wonderful nativity play, ‘Born in a Barn’ performed by P1, P1/2 and P2/3 classes.  The songs were incredibly catchy and the audiences were singing along.  Well done to all the children who took part.  Don’t we look great in our costumes?

Well done for all your entries for challenge 1.
We really enjoyed hearing all your fantastic ideas and are looking forward to announcing the winner next week.
Challenge 2: We are going to make an online eco-friendly, interactive Scottish recipe book and would like you to be the authors. We would really like you to [...]

Last night was quite magical at the school. The hall was decked with fairy lights and moon and star balloons, seven soft areas were covered with cosy cushions, and beakers of milk and yummy biscuits were prepared. Then our Nursery and Primary 1 children arrived in their jammies with a teddy and a grown-up! We [...]

The first day of our Book Festival was very successful. Five parents came in to read to pupils or to listen to them read, and they left some lovely comments about the event and how well our pupils can discuss the books they are reading. Thank you to all involved.
Today we start the Swapshop Bookshop [...]

November is enterprise month and we would like to encourage you to use your enterprise skills to participate in some Scottish themed challenges.
Challenge 1
Flower of Scotland is the current alternative anthem and your challenge is to choose a new one that you think would be good.
Write a comment in this blog detailing your choice and [...]

Agenda
Kilts for Kids day - charity event
school meals -themes
Helpers Game
Playground toys
We agreed
Charity event - Kilts for Kids day November 28th - P3/4 -P7 classes
Charity - We looked at Children 1st website and agreed Children 1st
Publicity posters to be finished for next Friday
Scottish theme for lunch one day that week
We did not have time for the [...]

The nights are fairly drawing in! The changing colours of the trees and the arrival of conker season has given the children in the nursery lots to talk about. We’ve had great fun collecting leaves of different sizes and colours, sorting, matching and printing with them and the children have brought in enough acorns to [...]

The new ECO reps have been busy carrying out an audit to identify this session’s focus.  After much discussion it was decided to concentrate on water.  The new reps are Eilidh, Lachlan, Rachel, Elis, James and Morgan.  Keeping the display up to date is a major part of their remit.  I think the waterfall is [...]

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.