Campie Primary School

P7a have had a new visitor, Miss Edmunds, who is training to be a teacher! She is going to takes turns at teaching the class withMr Keiller. So far she has helped us with our reading, and will be helping us with lots more.We are very happy she is going to teaching us for the next 5 [...]

  Since our last blog we have been doing lots of things.  We’ve done cheerleading.  We  had great fun with the pompoms and everyone was surprised at the stunts we could do! Last week we learned about how it feels to go to live in a different country in drama.  We learned a song called America from [...]

In P6B we have been having a flying time so far. We have been learning about lots of subjects.  We are going all over Europe with our fantastic topic called European Union!!!  At gym we have been doing loads of gymnastics and climbing up the aparatus with Mrs Gillespie and Mrs Claperton.  Every week we have [...]

Being a p6 is great! There’s lots of challenging things to learn. The class has been enjoying subjects like Europe (which we have just started  learning about.) Before the October holidays our topic was Global Issues. We tried to get through to people about Global Warming and Deforestation to help save planet earth .                         We are [...]

Recently we all took part in a Cheerleading taster.We learned to be a cheerleader you need to be strong, flexible and love gymnastics and you don’t need to be a girl to do this.We all tried two different lifts and managed to hold these really well. We all enjoyed this as we learned positions with [...]

In p6c’s art lessons we made some tessellations which is like a form of tiling and the challenge was to design a pattern with no gaps. As part of our eco school work we made fact sheets that would test peoples knowledge about the enviroment. In social studies we have learnt about global issues and we [...]

After the October break p7b got a new pupil called Leon from a school in Leith.He arrived just in time for p7 camp, Lagganlia Outdoor Education Centre!!! Our week at camp was tiring but amazing at the same time. We tried Orienteering, mountain biking, gorge walking, bouldering, abseiling, canoeing, skiing, tree climbing and many more [...]

On Monday morning the upper corridor was vibrating with the African drumming from P3/4.  Dougie  brought in lots of different drums and told us a little bit about them.   We made up rhythms and put words to some of these as some people use these drums to help them tell stories as they travel round [...]

Autumn in the Base on PhotoPeach Over the last few weeks in the Base we have been learning all about Autumn. We have looked at signs of Autumn such as the leaves falling and changing colour, finding conkers, brambles and pine cones. We have guessed Autumn items using feely bags and made lots of lovely [...]

Our Forest Adventures… on PhotoPeach The second preschool morning group enjoyed their first Forest Adventure in Newhailes with their Whitecraig Nursery friends today. The children had great fun exploring the Forest Adventure site; swinging in the hammock, foraging and collecting autumn leaves, climbing the rope ladder, balancing on fallen tree trunks and building the best [...]