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In P5 we are learning to sing Scotland the Brave for the school’s celebration of St. Andrew’s Day this coming Friday. The song sounds great as the children are singing with great enthusiasm!
Recently we have […]

On Thursday 1st March we had our Eco action day. We took part in three activities. They were Animal Handling, Eco art and the energy assembly. The best of all was the animal handling man who brought lots of […]

Eco Action Day -

When? Thursday 1st March 2012

Why? Our big focus for the school this year is Energy and Sustaining Our World in order to achieve our third green flag. To link into this work we are having a […]

On Wednesday 25th January both P5 classes held a very successful open day in the P5 classrooms between 2-3pm.  For this we learned a lot about Scotland and made clay models, made powerpoint presentations, made a […]

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 […]

Some P5 pupils did not go to Newhailes for the Green Scene held there. They stayed at Campie with Mrs Roy and took part in three different activities/ workshops. To begin with they found out about landart and watched a short presentatiuon about Andy Goldsworthy a well known land artist. The pupils formed small groups [...]

Last week P5B planted one bulb each in the planters at the front of the school. Mrs Harper helped us to make sure they were spread out around the playground. We will be looking after the planters by weeding and watering them and look forward to seeing the flowers blooming in the spring. P5B planting [...]

Both P5 classes have been learning about Traprain Law in East Lothian as part of their Scotland topic in class. Both last week and this groups of children have visited Traprain Law with Mrs Stark and have been learning all about what life would have been like living on the hill fort there around 2000 [...]

On Tuesday the 28th June both P6 classes held a John Muir Assembly for the school. It was for the final part of their Silver Award. Over the year they had been DISCOVERING, EXPLORING, CONSERVING and now it was their chance to do some SHARING. The assembly had a variety of entertainment and everyone who [...]

On Friday 17th June both P6 classes, together with lots of fantastic parent helpers, visited part of Fisherrow Beach to help Roger the ELC Ranger clean up litter from the beach. At first the beach looked quite clean but as the groups made a line and scanned downwards their bags quickly began to fill. Cans, [...]

As part of our John Muir Silver award work P6A visited Inveresk Lodge Gardens last Tuesday the 7th June. It was a lovely sunny day and we walked to Inveresk along the banks of the River Esk. Two groups were selected from the class and each group took part in an activity then swapped over. [...]

Today P6A visited the area beside the Esk estuary and the lagoons at Levenhall with two of the East Lothian Rangers. We used binoculars and both from the Esk at Goosegreen and the bird hides at the lagoons, managed to see many different species of wading birds as well as other different types of birds. We spotted Redshanks, [...]

Both P6 classes held an extremely successful Open day on Wednesday 9th February. The pupils have been studying The European Union and this event was their way to showcase their learning about the 27 E.U. member countries. They produced fantastic displays about each country accompanied with powerpoint presentations. Many children even had food of the [...]

 Newhailes Earthwalk on PhotoPeach On the 26th January P6a went on an Earth walk at Newhailes. Hannah the Ranger led the walk and when they got there she told them to pick up a leaf so they could go to the art gallery, they used them as tickets. As it turned out the leaves were [...]

P6 pupils have been busy updating the school recycling posters around the school. They researched and found out all about recycling in East Lothian and how households have green and blue recycling boxes for recycling plastic, glass, tins, paper and cardboard. They used their research to write new text guidelinesfor posters. Next they set up [...]