Pencaitland Primary Blog

Never mind the World Twenty20 Cup - Pencaitland’s been the place to be for exciting Cricket for the last 6 weeks as several P3/4s and P4s joined in the Cricket After School Club.

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A great time was had by all, especially Ben [...]

We have been working on apostrophes in class over the last few weeks and this week your homework task is to play two apostrophe games on the BBC website. When you have done this, please post a comment letting me know how you got on. Please do this by Monday 15 June. [...]

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 [...]

Today P3/4 and P4 spent a fun-packed day at the beach. First of all we went rock-pooling to Yellowcraig beach where we found a lot of sea creatures. We then had lunch on the beach in North Berwick and spent the afternoon in the Seabird Centre where we learned all about puffins.

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.

Primaries 3/4, 4 and 7 have joined together for The Great Egg Race 2009!
Yesterday the 3 classes were split into 12 groups of 6, each with children from the 3 classes and given their challenges for the week.  They are to create a vehicle that can carry an egg over a 5 metre course as [...]

This afternoon the P3/4s and P4s presented their Easter show ‘Here Comes Jesus’ to the parents, brothers and sisters, grannies, grandpa’s, aunts, uncles and friends. It was a great success. Everyone worked really hard and this showed through the fantastic acting and singing. Well done everyone!

Primary 3/4 and Primary 4 treated the rest of the school (including the Nursery) to the dress rehearsal of their Easter show “Here Comes Jesus”.  We will be performing the show for parents of P3/4 & P4 on Wednesday afternoon at 2:15pm.

Today P3/4 were fortunate enough to work with Shonagh Davidson, a drama specialist, on a traditional story about the giant. Everyone enjoyed taking on different roles and discussing how the giant could deal with a number of problems in his life.

As part of our Health Week activities, P3/4 and P4 were fortunate enough to be able to work with Martin from East Lothian Outdoor Education team. We spent a fun-packed morning doing many activities such as working in pairs directing one blind-folded person from one end of the rope area to the other, [...]

Today P3/4 took our outdoor learning a stage further and went into the woods to try to answer some of our questions. Two of the groups were focussing on trees and the ground in the forest. The rabbit group tried to find some signs of rabbit life and the bird group were listening and [...]

Our Burns Supper has raised this amazing amount for the PDSA.  Many thanks to everyone who helped with this fantastic result!

Today we started a very exciting project - Outdoor Journeys. We talked about journeys before going out into the snow to look at natual and manmade things. We were joined by Simon and Mrs Murray from Edinburgh University. We’re really looking forward to our next session in two weeks!

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.

On Monday P3/4 and P4 got their Burns week off to a flying start with a visit to Glasgow Concert Hall for the Celtic Connections concert. This is part of the launch of the Homecoming Scotland programme and is also the start of a very busy week for both classes.

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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Primaries 2/3 and 3/4 had a joint Christmas party today and we had lots of fun, dancing and playing games

P3/4 were very lucky today to have a dance session with the East Lothian dance specialist Beth Noble. As you can see from the photos we had lots of fun. Read the comments to find out what we did.

Today we did an assembly on the Vikings. We told some interesting facts like ‘men wore jewellery’ and the Viking helmets didn’t have horns. We sang ‘Wake Up’ at the start and ‘I Feel Good’ at the end and everyone had fun doing the actions. By Mollie, Alister, Heather, Finlay B, Euan [...]