Entries from January 2009

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

HMD09 – The Boy in Striped Pyjamas

Last term some of us read The Boy in Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. (see our wordle) Today the class went to see the film at Falkirk Town Hall, there were lots of other schools there too including our blog buddies Easter Carmuirs.
This was a great opportunity as we were able to talk [...]

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Road Safety

Miss Smith, the Road Safety Officer, came to visit our class today. We were surprised to learn that there are more teenagers knocked down each year than younger children aged 5 or 6 and that boys are more likely to get knocked down than girls. Miss Smith showed us a video of a [...]

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Burns Supper

Our Burns Supper took place on Thursday 22nd January at 1.30pm in the dinner hall.
There was a top table where the ‘Haggis-man’ sat and the people who were giving speeches. The piper and Poosie Nancy brought the haggis in. Ben said the poem ‘Address to a Haggis’. The top table were served [...]

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

A Taste of Scotland Experience

We invited mums & dads and other special guests to our Taste of Scotland concert. We sang songs; recited poems and P7 played recorders. P6 did a funny version of Tam O’Shanter.
We finished by singing Auld Lang Syne.
by Hannah & Rachel

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

A wee bit o’ Scots

We’ve not posted recently on our blog as we’ve been busy preparing for ‘A Taste of Scotland Experience’. The class have been busy learning Scots poems, designing invites, learning recorder tunes and making fantastic art and craft work to celebrate the life and works of Robert Burns. A report and more pictures will [...]

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Reading Circles

Thanks to Easter Carmuirs for this great idea! We used wordle to remind ourselves why we enjoyed reading our novels last term.
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Groosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz

We shared our ideas for the wordles with the rest of the class, we were enthusiastic about [...]

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Beebot Mats – Part 2

We enjoyed working with Primary 2 on the bee-bit mats that we made in class. Some people picked to do fairytales, others done spelling and maths questions.
When we went to P2 we helped them to find the answers to the questions that we were asking them. They directed bee-bot to the correct answers. [...]