Pencaitland Primary Blog

We worked in groups. We made puppets. We drew the backgrounds and wrote the story together. Finally we performed it to our class.

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P1/2 did a project about healthy eating.  We invited our parents into to visit our Healthy Cafe.  We prepared vegetables, dip and a fruit salad.  We showed our parents a power point about our project and then we sang the song [...]

On the 6th Feb, P1 had a healthy cafe for all our parents and carers. We voted to decide on a name, and the name with the most votes was “the Dragon Princess Cafe”.  We had to choose a menu, make a shopping list and go and  buy the food from the Spar shop. Then [...]

P1/2 designed their own tartans and learned the poem Twa Leggit Mice which they performed at the Scottish Assembly.  It was a very funny poem and lots of people laughed.  The twa leggit mice were really children.  The children designed their tartans using paint and drew pictures of children wearing kilts.

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?

Primary 1/2 are studyng mini-beasts and what better place to find them  than n the local woods.  They were helped by a parent and the local ranger.  It was great fun.

P1/2 have been looking at China, and finding out what life is like for a child living there. As part of this topic we have been learning about the Olympics, and we decided we would have our very own Olympics. So far we have made the medals and the Olympic torch, and we have started [...]

P1/2 have been comparing different ways of communicating. We wrote a letter, made a phone call and sent an email to Mrs Wilson in the office to see how long they would take. We were surprised when we found out that the phone call took 7 seconds to get an answer, the email took 6 [...]

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 [...]

All the P1 children at Pencaitland enjoyed an energetic dance session with Y Dance.

The primary 1 children in P1/2 have been practising their handwriting in lots of different ways. Fergus practised his writing in the sand! Then he took a photo to show us what a great job he had done. Well done Fergus!

Today Primary 6 went along to visit P1/2 and listened to their spider stories. P1/2 did really well creating their own spider booklets. It was a few pages long and had a handmade spider character hanging from the cover. There were loads of bright pictures inside and we liked trying to [...]

All the children in P1/2 are settling in really well, we have already been on a minibeast hunt in the woods, started a dance programme and started to use the interactive whiteboard. It looks like it will be a busy year!

Welcome to the new school session.  Watch this space for details of our learning.