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 [...]

At the end of May ten pupils from P7, Lydia, Eilidh M, Morgan, Mhairi, Annabel, Andrew, Guy, Adam W, Lewis and Connor, played a hockey tournament at Whitburn. They played five games and one all of them. They came back with the schools second hockey cup and were all very proud of themselves!

They then went [...]

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A massive thank you to everyone who helped before, during and after the Spring Fayre on Saturday.  We raised an amazing £2,518 which will be go towards the school garden, outdoor musical instruments and other improvements for the playground as well as an an interactive voting system for the electronic whiteboards in classes.  A list [...]

Time certainly does fly - our summer term is almost at an end! Transition work for our P1s-in-waiting is well under way and the children have really enjoyed getting to know Mrs. Murdoch and Mrs. Berry. We’ve made a lot of use of the infant library over the last wee while and will continue to [...]

P5 are enjoying their firstclub golf lessons. They have been launching, chipping and putting the ball and on Wednesday played their first round of seven holes! They helped design the course set out in the school playing field. It really was quite tricky with water hazards, bunkers and trees to negotiate.
What did some of the [...]

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 Primary 4 lead the upper school assembly.

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Recently we have been finding out about invertebrates - creatures without a backbone.  We found that there are 5 groups of invertebrates:

Molluscs
Insects
Crustaceans
Arachnids
Annelids

The class split into 5 groups to share with everyone else some [...]

There once was a big hairy sock
Who lived in a draw with a lock
One day he got out
And wandered about
But fell in love with a frock!
By Megan and Rosie
There once was a large ugly man.
Who lived in a green caravan.
He took it to France.
And went to a dance.
Where he made a new friend called [...]

P2/3 have made a start in the school garden. We weeded, added compost and then planted potatoes, radishes and nasturtiums. We also planted seeds indoors which will be transplanted later. Alex brought a lavender plant which will hopefully help to keep the cats out of our border!

Well it was our final full day at camp today and we thought we had escaped the worst of the weather. However it was not to be and we had a steady downpour all day. But it didn’t dampen our spirits at all.  We have been crawling through mud (complete with mud warpaint), shooting each other [...]

Well our first full day at the camp and there have been so many memorable moments - Ms Ross on the Flying Fox, the frequent “showers” that soaked the nightliners, aeroball, Mr Cain being drenched again, the superb games at mini olympics, building dens and Guy showering himself fully clothed to name but a few. [...]

Well we’ve all arrived safely.  We have had our first activities - abseiling, archery and scrapheap challenge. The foods great and we’re all having a great time. Next up date tomorrow night - keep watching !!!!
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Hi this is P7 having great fun at camp. We [...]

Today we had our first lesson of robotics! It was called robokid. We had about eight stages, first we watched a d.v.d which showed us how to build it. The next thing we had to do was fix a pen holder to the main body of the robot. The robot had already two back wheels so we had to [...]

Primary 5 children designed and made Easter Gardens in class today.  Poor Mrs McBean had the unenviable task of choosing a winner. We think they are all fantastic.  What do you think?

On the 18th of March P5 and P4 were visited by Mary Munro, a senior consultant with the college of Agriculture. We went into the garden and she told us about all sorts of different soils. She also told us what would help the plants to grow. We filled a little plastic bag full of [...]

Today P7 went cuckoo making chick egg cosys!
We used the skills we learned during make do and mend (one of our ww2 projects before Christmas) to sew pieces of chick shaped felt and feathers together. We also added wings and googly eyes to complete our egg cosys. We really enjoyed making the cosys, though at [...]

There was a ripple of excitement at this week’s Eco reps meeting. The seeds order has arrived! We checked the order off and sorted out the packets for each class. There were a few extra things too thanks to Mrs Wilson who had sent off for some other seeds. We should have a good selection of [...]

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

As part of our Safety in the Community project P2/3 invited Bill the lollipop man to talk to us about Road Safety. The children asked him lots of relevant questions and Bill was able to give us good tips on how to stay safe on the roads. We were also very interested to hear about [...]