Whitecraig Primary School

The Nursery children have been continuing with their theme of Minbeasts this week.
They have also, like the P1/2 children, made the most of the good weather and have spent a lot of their time outside. They have “painted” the outside walls of the Nursery with water, they have played with the sand, been climbing, playing with [...]

P1/2 have been taking advantage of the recent better weather and have enjoyed their break times outside on the school field.
They have enjoyed playing with the new parachute, playing football, hunting for bugs, playing hide and seek, running and just chatting with friends!
Long may the weather continue!
 

The children from P1/2 have been looking at People Who Help Us for their topic work. This week they have made a fabulous display of their pictures on People Who Help Us.
Their display was particularly aimed at People Who Help Us in a fire, however, the children also thought of other people who can help [...]

P4/5 have made their own Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede this week, complete with 100 pairs of shoes.
The children very much enjoyed making and decorating their Centipede, which has all of their individual photos on it, along with some of the lyrics from the original song.
 
The lyrics of the song for the Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede, by Matt McGinn, [...]

P3/4 have been working hard this week on story telling and story writing. Many of the children have produced their best writing ever and were extremely proud of themselves.
Brandon and Duncan are the class Star Writers this week as they both produced great stories using interesting words.
Duncan said ” This is the most that I’ve [...]

P1/2 pupils have been collecting information to see what colour of eye was the most popular in their class.
They took this information and made a bar chart with it and they also used pictograph to make graphs from the information. They worked out that most people had blue eyes and that only 4 people had [...]

The pupils from our P4/5 class recently painted Self Portraits in an Art Lesson. 
Here are a small selection of them for you to view- can you work out who is who?

Spelling words for all of the classes for the week commencing Monday 26th May 2008, are now available under each class page.

[ June 6, 2008; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ]  

 A visit by author Lari Don to our Primary 4 & 5 children has been arranged by Scottish Book Trust for 6th June 2008. Lari is a storyteller who has just published her first book, First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts.

The one hour session will take place at 10am on 6th June 2008 and parents/carers of [...]

As part of their transition to Musselburgh Grammar School, the pupils from P7 went there to a Forensic Science Lab event on Monday 12th May 2008. The event was led by 4 of the Science Teachers at Musselburgh Grammar.
The class were divided into 4 groups, along with other children from Campie Primary School and Wallyford Primary [...]