E. Lothian Schools Remain Closed on Wednesday 1 December

Due to the continuing severe weather conditions, it has been confirmed that ALL East Lothian schools will remain closed to pupils on Wednesday 1 December. Major efforts to open up safe access routes to schools will continue during the course of tomorrow (Wednesday). East Lothian Council appreciates that these closures are causing major inconvenience to parents and carers. However, every effort is being made to re-open schools in the face of severe weather conditions and transport difficulties.

Further updates for this week will be added here in due course with information also being available on Radio Forth.

Music fun at the Hub

Koby and the Skoog

The Skoog is an exciting new musical instrument with accessibility at its heart.  An instrument designed explicitly for special education to empower those unable to play traditional instruments.  The Skoog is a soft, squeezable object that simply plugs straight into your computer or laptop’s USB port.  Simply touching, pressing, squashing, twisting or tapping the Skoog allows you to play a wide range of instruments, intuitively.  Learn more about it here

You can see Koby Major, age 5, having a brilliant time playing with the Skoog.  Inventor and entrepreneur, Benjaman Schogler, came along to demonstrate how it could be used.  He worked with all three classes and everyone had a go.  Even the very lightest touch can generate a sound.  Some pupils hit the Skoog, some squeezed, some rolled it, Jonathon leaned on it with his shoulder and played the flute.  Using a WOWee one gel speaker, sound vibrations gave another dimension to the musical experience.

Joy, a student in musicology from Greece and on work placement with Benjaman, is going to work with groups of pupils over the next few weeks.  Mark my words, there’s going to be a lot of fun and a lot of music happening down at the Hub!

Today at camp!

We have been having a great time at camp and we have been doing lots fun activities

Today we have been on a forest walk, a zip-wire and have done problem solving  in our groups.  On the zip-wire everyone had a great time and were howling like wolves, but it was pretty scary!!

In the evening we did a scavenger hunt and did a water balloon challenge.  The camp leaders dropped our water balloons from the top of the building and only 2 survived!!

We have made lots of new friends in our dorms and we wanted to make friendship bracelets for them.

We are looking forward to a great day tomorrow!

Plastic Bottle Greenhouse

We needed 1800 bottles to build our greenhouse!

Bob Clelland, retired janitor of Tranent Primary, kindly offered to help the eco committee to build a plastic bottle greenhouse.  He masterminded the design and worked with different groups of children to complete it.  All the children brought in 2 litre plastic bottles, nearly 1800 of them, and under Bob’s guidance cut them to the required size.  The children then put the bottles onto canes and fixed them to the framework.  The whole project only took 4 weeks thanks to Bob.