Members of the Chess Club attended their first competition at Dunbar Primary this week and we won! Well done to the team, we are very proud of your wonderful achievement. Thank you to Mrs Douglas for organising the event and coaching the children so well.
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The Aberlady Chess Club meets in the Primary 5 classroom at lunchtimes on a Monday. It is run by Mrs Douglas and many of the children in Primary 5 and Primary 6 go to it. On Monday 9th June Ewan T, Ben , Jack H, Joe, Alexander, Ewan J, Kieran, Calum and Rachel are going to a competition at Dunbar Primary School. Good luck to the team!
Primary 5 have recently entered the “Big Green Poetry Machine” Young Writers Competition. They had to become Eco-kids and write poems to try to make a difference and make the world a better place. They had to choose a subject they were passionate about and try to make the reader feel as they were feeling. As we are learning about the Rainforests, many children chose this topic. The poems have now been sent off to the competition and any winners will be published in a special “Big Green Poetry Machine” book made from environmentally friendly paper. Here are two of the poems, good luck Primary 5!
On The Go by Jack O’Malley
The monkey swings, the sloth is slow
but every single animal is on the go, go, go!
All the trees are being chopped down, ten million by the hour.
And every single animal has not one piece of power.
The monkey swings, the sloth is slow
but every single animal is on the go go go!
Some animals will escape, others are not so lucky
As they run away, they scale immense landscapes.
The monkey swings, the sloth is slow
but every single animal is on the go go go!
We control the future, the future we control
so stop the trees getting chopped down
and the mystery will unroll
The monkey swings, the sloth is slow
but every single animal is on the go go go!
The Wonderful World by Daisy Chambers
The wonderful world is suffering
and it may be all our fault.
But if we all work together,
Pollution can come to a hault.
Let’s recycle,
use our brains.
So that in a few years,
the Earth will be more than remains.
The wonderful world, the excellent earth,
will be even more beautiful, with a little hard work.
Animals are dying,
this is bad,
hunters are hunting.
Extinction is sad.
The wonderful world, the excellent Earth,
will be even more beautiful, with a little hard work.
Primary 5 have Science lessons every Wednesday morning with Mrs Penman. They are currently studying the topic of Solids, Liquids and Gases. This week they were doing an experiment to try to make clean water from dirty, muddy water using a filter. They were trying to separate solids from the liquid. As you can see from the photographs, their experiment was a success!
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Primary 5 went on a trip recently to find out more about John Muir. They spent the morning rock pooling on Dunbar Beach with the help of two Countryside Rangers, Mark and Tracy. John Muir spent his childhood exploring this beach. They found many different sea creatures including a goby fish, hermit crabs, a sea squirt, brittle starfish and prawns. It was great fun!
In the afternoon Primary 5 went to John Muir’s birthplace where they found out many interesting facts. They found out that John Muir had been an inventor but had an accident and was blinded for a little while. It was during this time that he promised himself that if he was able to see again he would devote the rest of his life to the exploration of nature. He regained his sight and is well known today as a conservationist.
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During Miss Curran’s welcome assembly, p5 took part by doing a poem and actions. The poem was called Clickety Clack. It was very catchy and entertaining.Miss Curran thoroughly enjoyed it.