Pencaitland Primary Blog

Yesterday we went to The Glasgow Science Centre for our school trip.  It took an hour and a half to get there, but we used up the time by playing on our Nintendo’s and Ipod’s.  When we got there we walked in and got showed somewhere to put our bags and lunchboxes.  Next we went [...]

With the P7s away at a Guitar Hero do, we (the P6 boys) got to compete in the Hibs 7 a side tournament. It was awesome. Our games were played in the big inside barn with real artificial grass. We played 3 games - we lost the first to Kings Meadow but bounced back to [...]

Today P6 went to a rugby festival in Tranent (Ross High). It was great. Team 1 won one game but still really enjoyed it. Team 2 did even better, with all three of their games being wins and scoring a huge amount of trys. My team (Team 3) did OK winning two of our three games. The [...]

On Thursday 4 people from Edinburgh University came to show us their microscopes. It was really cool. There were loads of plants, bugs, mouldy food and everyday stuff like money (£5 note and velcro and stuff like that). The microscopes made everything really clear and almost 3D  - like the Sky HD advert on TV. [...]

Last Friday there was a local derby, with Pencaitland hosting our near neighbours Ormiston. Things were looking bleak when Ormiston took a 2-0 half time lead. However Pencaitland came roaring back to snatch victory in the second half. It was almost like watching Barcelona !!!
Then on Monday we travelled away to play East Linton. [...]

Miss Kay our student has gone but we’ve got Mr Cain back again. Monday was a great day. The best thing we did was probably the figure drawing for our folios. We got into partners and had to use our observation to draw each other. We had to use proportion to make sure all the [...]

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On Wednesday after lunch QMU came to teach us about feet and our pulse & heart beat. We split into three groups each with a QMU visitor.
Activity 1) We found out all about our pulse and heart rate. We had to put some of that [...]

We had a glowmeet yesterday. We linked up our whiteboard so we could see and hear lots of different classes and a police superintendant. The day before we watched a podcast from the police about keeping yourself safe and we came up with questions we wanted to ask. At the Glowmeet all the schools in [...]

Red Nose Day finally arrived and P6’s planning paid off.  They had organised events for every class. There was the Red Nose and Spoon Race, Spot the Red Noses, Assault Course, Shoot the Red Nose Basketballs, Guess the P6 Babies, Guess the Celebrities (who were in disguise) and Soak the Teacher.  Everyone seemed to have [...]

Yesterday P6 organised an election to decide where the money raised by the school for Red Nose day would be spent.  There was a lot of work involved. Firstly all the classes had to be told of the 3 choices they could make. Then the ballot box and papers had to be made and finally [...]

Now that our assembly is out the way Mr Cain has had us really busy organising red nose day for the WHOLE SCHOOL. Although it’s hard work we are really enjoying it coz we get to go round the classes putting up posters, selling red noses and telling classes what activities we have planned for [...]

Today (27th of February 2009) p6 did an assembly on the human body. We started of with a song called “Busy Body” and then we were introduced to Professor Thom.  She told the audience they were on a tour around a science university. First Mr.Davidson (the janitor) kindly allowed us to remove his skeleton. He [...]

On Monday the school football team made up of both P6 & P7 members took part in the Douglas Allan trophy competition at Meadowmill. Pencaitland were drawn in the same group as St Marys, Loretto and Dunbar. The team played very well in our first match and won comfortably. Perhaps a touch of over-confidence then [...]

The last week of term is in full swing. We have just had our Christmas disco and it was ace. Everyone was dressed up and had great fun dancing to all the songs. The party food was tasty too. We were all tired this morning because we had jumped about so much.
The best bit of [...]

Yesterday we had a day off school to visit New Lanark as part of our Victorian topic. It was a long drive but we had our DS’s, PSPs and ipods to keep us occupied. When we got their we went into a victorian classroom with a victorian teacher. She was very strict. We had to [...]

Yesterday we went to a hockey festival at Ross High and played on the astro turf. It was really windy and that made it tricky to play. Everyone had a great time and all 4 teams from Pencaitland (lions, cheetahs, pumas and leopards) all won more games than they lost or drew. Poor Hannah [...]

Monday: First of all we did our writing plan and then went to practice our hockey skillls with Mr Cain. We learned how to flick the ball over the defenders and had a game in the hall. It was good practice for our hockey festival. After break we did some writing about our best day [...]

On Monday morning we did some spelling. The frogs group did plurals of words ending in f or fe and the crocodile group got the suffixes hood or ship. After spelling we did hockey down in the hall. We kept practising our hockey skills. After break we had our milk and story. Then some of us went [...]

Monday - The first thing we did today was get our spelling words for the week and had a chance to learn them. We wrote them down and had to LACAWAC them. After this we went to the hall for maths. We played 3 fraction games. In 1st game we all had cards showing [...]

Tuesday: The class got their pencils and writing books and talked about writing instructions for uploading a cd-rom onto a computer. It was harder than you think because you have to say EXACTLY what you mean. We did French with Mrs. McBean where we played the French name game and the alphabet game and we [...]