Monthly Archives: September 2010

International Year of Biodiversity

Some of you may be interested to know that 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. Tyne and Esk writers are holding a writing competition for schools throughout East and Mid Lothian. With Biodiversity as our title, we entered a … Continue reading

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FORE!! Our Visit from the Golf Development Officer

FORE!!We teed off this week with a visit from Kate Green, East Lothian’s Golf Development Officer. Kate came to see how well we have been doing at golf, and set up a course for us to play in the playground. … Continue reading

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Primary 5/6 Star of the Week

16/09/10-23/09/10   Our latest star of the week was awarded his medal for taking part in a Rugby tournament.

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A famous Greek actor visits!

Another busy week in P5/6! This week we were lucky enough to have a visit from the most famous Greek actor of all time… Thespis! (aka Mr Devereux!) We discussed the mask Thespis wore, and how masks help to create … Continue reading

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Types of Angles

In maths, we have been looking at acute, right, obtuse and reflex angles. We’ve been measuring angles as well as looking for angles in and around school.  

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Star of the Week 23/09/2010-29/09/2010

P5/6 Star of the Week This week, our star was awarded a rosette for her Horse Riding skills as well as general stable management and care. Well done!

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Ancient Olympic Games

We have been finding out about the Ancient Olympic Games in our topic this week. More specifically the different city states involved in the competition- Spartans, Athenians, Corinthians, Argives and Megarians. We researched each state’s behaviour and goals at the … Continue reading

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Measuring Angles

In mathematics we were revising and measuring angles. We all remembered that there are 360 degrees in 1 full turn, 180 degrees in half a turn and 90 degrees in a quarter turn. We learned that the angles in a … Continue reading

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Our Greek Pots

Our Greek pots have been painted and are looking fantastic. They will be sent home at some point in the next few weeks.

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Ancient Greek!

We designed some Ancient Greek pots on Tuesday then used clay to make them on Wednesday. The next step will be painting them. (Hopefully the paint won’t make quite as big a mess of our school uniforms as the clay … Continue reading

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