Pencaitland Primary Blog

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.