Stenton Primary School

Malcolm had his last day at Stenton School on October 10th, as he is moving house to Dunbar and will go to Dunbar Primary School. Everyone wishes Malcolm well at his new school and we hope to to hear how he is getting on sometime soon!

Last week some of the class were doing maths . In the lesson they were learning about right angles and they were having to match up corners and shapes .Today the little class had gym and they were playing Sticky Witches .They also learnt how to jog properly with L-shaped arms and this tied in with them learning about right angles . The p1 and p2 classes are all missing the p7 class who are away at Dounans school camp . Thomas has moved into his big sister Emily’s bed while she is away . They are really missing them at playtime and lunchtime and look forward to them all coming back . Today the library van came and while some of the class went into the van Mr Wharton entertained the rest of the class with his guitar . Today he played a song about bright yellow pyjamas which the pupils found very amusing .The next time he comes into the school to play his guitar the class want him to wear a pair of bright yellow pyjamas .   

Primary 1, 2 and 3 all went to East Linton School to see the play ‘A Town Called Elsewhere’. This is Joe, the main character in the play. He was very funny!

At Assembly today we heard from the JRSO’s about a Christmas card competition. We are all looking forward to doing it.
It was Michael’s birthday and we had a great time playing Musical Bumps. Arthur and Katrina won the game. There was some great dancing to the music of Rihanna - Umbrella ella, ella, ella!
This morning we did some mime work. We had to pretend we had gone to “Elsewhere” and we were the people living there. We had to mime different jobs people might do there. Noah’s group pretended they were working on a farm and Alistair’s group pretended they were bakers and Lois’s group mimed working at home. 

Another wet and windy week has gone by!

Our new topic is studying the Dominican Republic and its’ people. It has been flooded recently and everybody has had to move out of their homes.  It was heavy rain that caused the floods Malcolm informed us.  He saw this on the news. 

We have also been learning how to write letters properly!  We wrote one to Mrs Gillanders asking her how she was getting on in her new school.  The P1 pupils wrote one to Ms. Finlayson telling her about things that they were enjoying in school and things that they might want to do in the future.

We enjoyed music with Mrs Thomson.  We sang a song about a camel with no lumps it had no lumps because the camel was a horse.  We sang a song about a pudding and one about breakfast.  After music we all go power walking with Mrs. Dillin and Mrs. Hamilton.  On our way we visited the old bakery and the Rood Well.  Malcolm saw an “old fashioned car” it was actually a 2CV.

We were bouncing balls in gym today with Mrs. Jones that was quite fun and we played a game called tadpoles.

P 1-3 have completed their monster project with P1/2 at Athelstaneford. The children at Athelstaneford wrote descriptions of their own monsters and the Stenton children drew what they thought they looked like.

You can see their drawings here:

http://edubuzz.org/blogs/primarywriting/

Next session, P1, 2 and 3 will use the blog to share some of their learning with parents and the community. We are all looking forward to learning how to use the blog!

Holly, Alisha, Rachel, Pippa and Ellyn came to visit us for the afternoon. They all made butterflies!

They also used the computers and played with the lego.

P1, 2 and 3 are taking part in a collaboration with P1 and 2 at Athelstaneford Primary School. We have all drawn monsters, and then recorded audio descriptions of our monsters.

The audio descriptions will be uploaded to an East Lothian Blog ‘Words from the Web’. You can find it here.

http://edubuzz.org/blogs/primarywriting/

Then we will listen to each other’s descriptions, and try to draw an accurate picture of each other’s monsters.

Here are some of the descriptions. Click on the audio file to listen.

Katie’s Monster Katie’s Monster 

Lucy’s Monster Lucy’s Monster

Alex’s Monster Alex’s Monster

Brodie’s Monster brodie-monster.mp3

Alistair’s Monster ali-monster.mp3

 Michael’s Monster michael-monster.mp3

Lewis’s Monster lewis-monster.mp3

Jack’s Monster jack-monster.mp3

Ben’s Monster ben-monster.mp3

Emma’s Monster emma-monster.mp3

Lois’s Monster lois-monster.mp3

Noah’s Monster noah-monster.mp3

John’s Monster john-monster.mp3

Leonie’s Monster leonie-monster.mp3

Malcolm’s Monster malcolm-monster.mp3

Tommy’s Monster tommy-monster.mp3

On Monday, Stenton Primary School had a talent show called Stenton’s Got Talent. It was a roaring success. We all had so much fun. All the acts were so good. In total we raised a great big £80 that will go towards either charity or the school.

Some of the comments were.

“The talent show was funny, very good.”  From James Rogers P7

“I would love to do it again! I felt so proud of myself” Alex Stuart P6

“It was fun and really funny!!!.”  From Sarah Brown P5

“I liked the fact that lots of people tried hard.”  Archie Sykes P4

“Do it again and had fun.” Katie Stuart P3

“It was exciting and I had sore cheeks from giggling.” Ben Smith P2

“The singing, food, lights, prizes. Do it again” P1

“Stentons got talent was absoulutley fantastic and I was bursting with pride seeing the children from our school sharing their talents with the community. Look out Xfactor!!!”                                                                 From Miss Barclay

The prizes were either chocolate buttons easter eggs or the Cadbury crème eggs easter eggs donated by the Stenton Parent Group.   It was a fab success. Everyone hopes it won’t be the last. 

The event raised £80 - £43 goes to school funds and will be put towards the whole school trip planned for the summer term and £37 donated to Plan International to fund the purchase of a goat and an identity for a child.