Burns Celebrations

Well done to all Primary 7s who took place in our Scottish Celebration at the end of January.  Everyone tried really hard to learn a piece of poetry by Robert Burns, and our finalists on the afternoon performed really well.  Congrats to Paul, Usaama, Tom, Martin, Joanna and Nicky for getting to the final and to Paul and Martin for winning!

We also had  a Burns art competition - well done to Jay, Caitlin, Laura, Hamish, Taylor and Tom for being selected as our finalists, and to Jay and Hamish for their winning contributions!

To add to our exciting celebration of the life of Robert Burns, we were lucky enough to take part in a Glow Meet where the people who discovered a very important letter which documented the last few days of Robert Burns' life, were able to talk to us and lots of other children all across Scotland about how they made their exciting discovery.  It was very interesting and we are lucky to have heard first hand about such a great piece of our Scottish history!

Primary 7.

Happy 2010 Everyone! We're BAAAACK!

We have been up to lots since we came back to school and we are only a couple of weeks into 2010!

On the first day of term we had an afternoon workshop which helped us to become deaf-aware.  We all got a chance to use finger spelling and we played some games which were to try and give us the opportunity to see what it would be like not to hear so well.  Check out the photos of some of the letters we were able to finger spell.

We have now moved seats and we are trying to work really hard because we only have 6 months left of primary 7.  It is quite scary to think of it like that really!  Mrs Russell was at Bearsden Academy this week helping to organise our transition glow group for us getting info for moving into S1.  It'll be here before we know it!

M and M Productions came and performed Beauty and the Beast for us.  It was nice to see the performance and it was quite funny.  The infants really enjoyed it the most however!

Our Rainforest topic is up and running and we are looking forward to transforming our class into a rainforest of our own.  So far we have made the forest floor and put up lots of green paper to set the scene... next week all the 'making' of things begins!  So far we have found out about where rainforests are in the world, why they are found where they are and what the climate is like.  We know all about the rainforest strata and water / nutrient cycles too.  Soon Zoolab will be visiting us with their rainforest creatures so we are really looking forward to that!!

Mrs Russell is very proud of us for the standard of our homework at the moment.  We have been researching current news and writing our own reports each week then submitting them by glow mail to her.  Mrs Russell then reads them all and gives us feedback.  It is better doing this kind of homework this way - we feel much more independent!!

At the moment we are all very busy learning our Burns poetry and creating some fantastic pieces of Burns art ready for our Scottish afternoon.  We are learning To a Louse and some people have even managed to learn all 6 verses already!

We have been using the snow outside as our inspiration for creating some very cool snowboarders on our class windows.  We designed our own boards and made silhouettes of boarders pulling some funky moves!  Photos to follow once everyone is on the slopes!!!

Bu-bye for now!! :)


(Written by P7, room 19 - via email.)