Pencaitland Primary Blog

P4 Oscars 2009

Following our lessons on animation earlier in the year, P4 were given a free hand to create a short animation of their own choice. The 2 winning entries are shown below: Yoo Hoo's Day Out - Created by Nicole, Erin, Arran, Blair and Katie with editing ...

Glasgow Science Centre gets a visit

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 ...

Hibs Tournament

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 ...

P6 Rugby Festival

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 ...

HOWZTHAT?!!!

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. [gallery] A great time was had by all, especially Ben when he finally got Mr Kingsbury out - caught ...

Microscopes & creepy crawlies

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 ...

P7 Hockey!

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 ...

P3/4 Homework - Apostrophes

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 ...

Pencaitland Primary Football Does It Again

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 ...

Oh No Mr Cain’s Back !!

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 ...

All the fun of the Fayre………….

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Spring Fayre - Thank You

spring-fayre-competition-winners1raffle-prize-winners-list1 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 ...

Pencils R Us

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 ...

Bloomin’ Marvellous

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 ...

Watch out Tiger Woods!

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 ...

Oh, we do like to be beside the seaside

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 ...

Invertebrates Really Are Interesting!

On Friday Primary 4 lead the upper school assembly. [gallery] 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 of the information we have found out about these ...

There was a young poet from Pencaitland…..

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 ...

Camp memories!

As you know P7 went to camp on the 26 April. We all had a wonderful time and loved all the activities. We made new friends, conquered our fears and shared lots of laughs. We want to say a huge... Thank You!!! To all our parents and the school for making it possible ...

Gardening

[rockyou 137216714] 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!