P7 – Dunipace

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The music you can hear is Primary 7 playing our recorders and glockenspiels. The pictures you can see are pages from our Rabbie Burns projects.

We have been challenged by our teacher to create a project about Rabbie Burns. We have been asked to include information about:

• His life from birth to death
• The places he travelled to in Scotland
• The poems and wongs he wrote
• How we celebrate hs life at a Burn’s Supper

On Wednesday 27th January we will be hosting our ‘Taste of Scotland’ event where we will recite Scottish poems and sing Scottish songs to celebrate the life of Rabbie Burns – keep a look out for photos of the event coming soon.

On Thursday 28th of January Primary 6 and 7 will enjoy our very own Burn’s Supper. We will toast the Haggis, sit together to enjoy our traditional meal  of ‘Haggis, Neeps and Tatties’ and then hear a toast to the lassies and reply from the laddies which we have written in class.  After that, if we have time, we will sing some of Rabbie’s songs and then finish with his most famous – ‘Auld Lang Syne’.

On Friday we will be reciting poetry in front of some very important visitors from the Denny Burns Club.  At the assembly next week we will find out who has won the top prize in each class for poetry recitation.

Phew! What a busy week!

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Primary 7 have been learning about Rabbie Burns, the famous Scottish poet and planning a ‘Taste of Scotland’ event for our parents and family. We made these thistles by sewing felt onto the hessian material. We learned different stitches to create different effects. Have you ever tried sewing?

As you can hear, we have also been learning to play ‘Flower of Scotland’ on our recorders. We’re very proud of our achievements.

We organised lots of different activities like:

Bush Tucker Trials – to test their knowledge of products and spices grown in the Rainforest.

Bug Hunt – A treasure hunt, following cryptic clues to find the hidden bugs!

Friendship bracelets – A chance to try their hand at a traditional Rainforest craft -weaving  bracelets.

Feely Boxes – Only the brave put their hand into the box to try and guess what Rainforest artefact was hidden inside.

Rainforest Quiz – Are you smarter than a 10 year old? This quiz had a few parents stumped!

Guess the picture – Could they identify some cleverly disguised Rainforest animals and products?

Power point presentations – some children presented slideshows about different Rainforest animals.

Take a look at the photographs to see if they enjoyed themselves. Well Primary 7, do you think they did?

We wanted to share our wonderful work with our parents so we organised an open afternoon where they could come along and take part in some Rainforest activities. So first we had to design interesting and interactive invitations to persuade them to come along.

After investigating the skills and crafts shown by the people living in the Ecuadorain Rainforest we discovered that they produced jugs and pots made from the clay found in the banks of the river Amazon. We decided to try it out ourselves by rolling thin strips of clay then putting them on top of each other to create a pot.  It was very tricky and we had to concentrate very hard.

At Christmas, Primary 4-7 worked their socks off to rehearse for our 2009 Christmas Panto ‘Rocking the Decades’ in aid of Strathcarron Hospice.

An unlucky group of 4 children had their ‘X Factor’ stolen by the evil Simon Coward a day before they were due to audition! Luckily they had  friendly Irish Leprechaun – Louis walsh and his helpers, Cheryl and Danni to help them recover their X-factor just in time. With the help of some time travel they were transported back to the Groovy 60s, Awesome 70s, Wicked 80s and Cool 90s to witness some terrific music from some of the greatest artists who ever lived. After hearing from Elvis, The Beatles, ABBA, Kylie Minogue, Michael Jackson, Take that and the Spice Girls they recaptured their X Factor and were able to wow the judges at their audition.

Primary 7 worked with the drama teacher to write the script, while each class worked with our music teacher to learn the fantastic songs. After A LOT of rehearsal, the stage was set, the lights were on, costume and make-up was sorted and the children were ready to go. Every child shone brightly and brought the magic of music to the audience. The evening was a huge sucess as we raised over £1000 for charity.

So… when do we start preparations for 2010 because after all… there’s no business like show business!

To raise some money for children in Need, a P7 pupil took the initiative and sent away for a special fundraising pack. With the help of some classmates taking part in activities to try to win a ‘Singing Santa’ or yummy box of Hero’s the total of £35.00 was raised! If you were paying attention you might have spotted our fundraiser live on TV at the BBC studios in Glasgow. Well done, what a star!

Now that we have a Rainforest in our school we needed some animals! So we worked in pairs to plan how we could make a realistic 3D model of a Rainforest animal. It was very tricky but we managed it in the end. We then hid our Animals around our classroom.  Next to our animals we now have an information sheet telling visitors all about that particular kind of animal. Do you like them? What is your favourite Rainforest animal?

To help our french we organised a french fashion show it was great fun ! – because we got to strut our stuff after we overcame our fears. It was funny because the whole class were wearing funny clothes such as boys wearing dresses whilst the girls wore tu-tus. We loved the french fashion show xx!

By Gemma and Kelsie

The waterfall was made out of paper mache as the rocks , strips of tissue paper as the blue water , cardboard boxes to make it look 3D and bubbles at the bottom.

The waterfall group enjoyed making it because it was a messy job and it was also very fun, it also got us out of work a couple of times but that didnt really matter!

The hardiest part of the waterfall was painting the rocks as it was not easy to get into the cracks and dips and also they were still parts of it that had not dried properly.

The whole class admired the waterfall  as it looked so realistic , they liked it becase it was 3D and it  looked real !

By Dylan R and Nicole S