Please see link below for the Summer Arts Activities brochure that is run by the Arts Service of East Lothian Council.
‘Get Ahead’ Holiday Programme
Published by June 29th, 2009 in School News and Upcoming Events. 0 CommentsPreston Lodge High School is running a one day Holiday programme to help your child make the move into First Year at Preston Lodge High School. The Programme takes place on Monday 10 August from 1000-1500 hours. Please see link below for further details:
On Saturday 20th June members of the PL Chemistry club presented a sample of sea salt to a visiting delegation from Newbattle Abbey College. The delegation followed the Salter’s Way, the route traditionally taken by the Cistercian Monks from their Abbey at Newbattle to Salt Prestoun (modern day Prestonpans) from 1198. These monks came year after year until their Abbey was dissolved in 1560. They used the readily available coal to boil the sea water using 2 tonnes of coal to produce 2 tonnes of salt.
PL Chemistry Club were challenged to replicate the conditions used by the original Salters and produce pure salt from sea water. This was carried out by filtering and recrystallising crude salt derived from the sea in Prestonpans.
The weather today has been fantastic!
We were down for breakfast at 7:30 and on the road to Phantasialand by 8:15.
The queues were quite long on some rides but this did not deter the PL crew.
Back to the hotel for dinner and then after some chill time in the hotel we got some packing done for the start of our journey home tomorrow.
The video for today also includes some photos from other days.
This will be our last post until we get home - we will be in the North Sea on Thursday evening.
Tomorrow we will be stopping in Gouda for a few hours to sample the cheese and do some last minute shopping.
New S5 Induction Day
Published by June 24th, 2009 in Health Promoting School and School News. 0 CommentsThe recent S5 Induction day at Gullane Beach.
Ignore the date in the video it was a day in June not February!!
Thanks for all the comments on our earlier posts, please keep them coming.
Today we had a lie in until 8.00am, breakfast at 8.30 and then a walk in the sunshine to the Rodelbaan. This is a fantastic toboggan track which you get to by chairlift, on one of the few hills in Holland.
We then had a free half hour before going to the Gemeentegrot for a 4km train tour through these limestone caves which were mined from Roman times until the 1950s. They are full of fantastic charcoal sketches and sculptures. They have had a very mixed history and have been used as a refuge by local people through the ages - most recently for 14 days by 3000 people in September 1944 while the Americans liberated Valkenburg. Now they are a tourist attraction and the local nuclear war shelter with toilets and beds for the first 3000 locals who turn up in the advent of a nuclear attack!
After lunch we made our way to the swimming pool - unfortunately the outdoor pool was not open, we still had great fun on the flume at the indoor pool.
After dinner in the hotel, we made our way back across Valkenburg to the LaserTag.
Once we had finished this we had a free hour in Valkenburg before back the hotel for a short practice on the Karaoke - more of this tomorrow evening. Ms. Angus and Mrs. Hoban “Dancing Queen”, Mr Stewart - “Should I stay or Should I go Now” - to which the unanimous decision was “get your coat!!”
The pupils sang a few as well — but these where less memorable!!
Enjoy our video from today.
On Wednesday we are away to Germany for our second theme park - Phanatasialand, an early start - on the road by 8.00am.
See you all soon.
A great day today.
Breakfast in the hotel and then back on the bus for the short trip to Bobbejaanland which is just across the border in Belgium.
The highlights seems to have been the Typhoon and the Sledgehammer.
The weather was mainly sunny although we had an occasional cloud - nevertheless some got really wet!!
The wet t-shirt award goes to Nicholas Lynch who bravely (or perhaps stupidly) went at the front of the log carrying both Mr. Stewart and Mr. Evans - that one log could manage this was in itself remarkable!!
Everyone doing well - on the whole.
In the evening Mrs Christie arranged the nine pin bowling, while Ms. Angus did some finger nail painting with some of the boys and Mrs. Hoban was the bingo caller with others in the lounge.
Enjoy the video from today.
Check in again tomorrow for highlights from Tuesday - Rodelbaan (Toboggan), Caves, Swimming and Laser Tag - this is our lazy day around Valkenburg.
Welcome to the first report from Holland.
After leaving sunny Prestonpans and heading for a cold and wet Hull ferry port on Saturday morning, we are now in full flow with our activities. A fine evening of food, entertainment and a cinema trip (Night at the Museum 2) ended day one - our ferry crossing to Rotterdam.
Day two (Sunday) saw a more promising start on the weather front, allowing most to brave shorts and t-shirts for the trip into Amsterdam. Time was spent on the canal boat touring the waterways around the old part of the city (and there were cynics amongst you who thought that this wasn’t an educational trip!), before spending some free time shopping (and eating) in the city centre. After a three hour bus journey from Amsterdam, we arrived at our base for the remainder of the trip, Hotel Op de Boud in Valkenburg. After dinner and some free time at the hotel, the day ended with a walk around the picturesque setting of Valkenburg town centre.
Tomorrow separates the mighty from the small as we take on the rollercoasters at Bobbejaanland theme park in Belgium.
Check in again tomorrow for our next installment.
Paris 2009 is good to go!
Meadowmill 9:30 Sunday 21st June
The bus was a little late arriving causing Mrs H to start panicking.For a while it looked like we may need a convoy of parents and their cars to get us to the ferry on time!
Phonecall to bus company and a while later bus duly arrived, ably driven by Paul (aka Yorkie!)
Pupils on the bus, all settled in, seatbelts on ready to roll.
BUT……quick headcount and we discovered we only had 36 pupils.
More panic ensued and a ‘phone call to wake a certain S4 ’sleepyheid’ from the land of nod and 10 minutes later we were most definitely on our way.
Despite a few minor delays, 37 pupils and 5 staff members finally started their (short) journey south towards Hull.
Next stop, Hull ferry port for some food and a date with Mrs H, Mrs Fitzpatrick and Mrs Nanson on the dancefloor. Mr Kiernan and Mr Cruickshank are heading to the bingo for a clickety-click with two fat ladies.
Arrived at Hull and weather is great. The joys of air conditioning made the journey pleasant compared with the Strasbourg trip last year．
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Mr K’s blague du jour #1
What do you call a frenchman in sandals
Phillip Phillop.
Bon nuit!
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