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On Wednesday the 25th of January (Burns Day) p5 invited parents to our open day about Scotland.  We worked on our power points about Scotland while parents watched – everyone was impressed! We had worked hard on […]

  P5 at Newhailes We have been very busy since the start of term.  Some of us went to the Green Scene at Newhailes.  We took part in a series of workshops called A Load of Rubbish where we made musical instruments out of recyled rubbish, Awesome Archaeology where we looked at 1000 year old insects and [...]

“> Here we are, nearly at the end of the term and P4!  Our main topic this term has been PowWow which has been a mixture of drama, dance and art.  We have been learning  about the Native Americans and some of their legends through this programme and we are looking forward to sharing our learning [...]

Wow what a week last week was! On Monday we went to Musselburgh Sports Centre for a Badminton Festival with Wallyford and Stoneyhill Schools. We were divided up into smaller groups and did a round robin of lots of different activities. We were all quite tired by the time we got back to school! The [...]

Since the February break P4a have been trying lots of new things. We have had 3 sessions of rugby with Gavin our coach. We played at Olivebank twice and got a little muddy! We are now looking forward to the Rugby Festival next month. We tried badminton with Mrs Black and are going to a [...]

P4a’s first week back after the holiday has been very busy.  We have had  Badminton and Rugby tasters but the most exciting thing has been our trip to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.  We went on Thursday by train, a first for some of us.  We had to walk miles and had to climb steps – [...]

Just wait till you see how busy we’ve been since we came back to school after Christmas!  We started right away with Drama about Ancient Peoples.  Shona Davidson, one of our East Lothian Drama specialists, came to do some work with us about The Egyptians.  The work really captured our imaginations and we learned a [...]

P4a have been very busy again.  We enjoyed our Pantomime  visit last Monday, although we all looked like snowmen by the time we got there and back again!  We booed the villains and cheered the goodies in the best pantomime tradition.  In the afternoon some of us looked on the Internet to find out all [...]

Hope you are all enjoying the snow but I am sure that you can’t wait to get back to school!  Until then here are some activities to keep you busy.  Choose one of the following activities and bring your work to school when we reopen please. Poem – write a poem about snow or snowmen [...]

P4a have been really busy recently.  We have started a new Social Studies topic – all about Musselburgh.  The children have been finding out all about the town, writing down what they know already and writing questions about what they want to find out.  Mrs Stark took us for a walk round historic Musselburgh yesterday and, [...]