Learning With Mr McEwan and P5/6
A while ago there was a running competition called The Cross Country. It was held at Meadow mill and there were a lot of other schools there.
Daniel, Charlie, Tom, Scott, Fraser, took part in the big school boys race. Tom won the category of boys from a larger school.
We all enjoyed taking part.
By Daniel
In P5/6 we learned about the Body Systems. Here are the different ones we studied:
1) circulatory system – The circulatory system helps the heart to pump blood around the body.
2) digestive system – The digestive system all together is 30 feet long .
3) skeletal system – The body has around 206 bones.
4) respiratory system – The respiratory system is mainly about your lungs and helps you to breathe.
5) nervous system – The nervous system is about your 2 different pulses.
We enjoyed learning about them and also made some posters in groups.
Angus & Simra
On the 20th of March was the Euroquiz and Gullane competed. Us, Christian and Jude were the competitors for the team. We all had to do lots and lots of practising at school and home.
We went to Preston Lodge High school for the East Lothian Heat. The quizmaster was Mrs Tremmel, our headteacher. The other schools were Dunbar, Loretto, Pinkie, Musselburgh, Saltoun, Macmerry, Prestonpans and Gullane. The 1st round was geography. The 2nd round was language. The 3rd round was basically politics. After the 3rd round there was a break and we got sweets. We were tied with Loretto at that point! The 4th round was general knowledge. After the 4th round we were ahead of Loretto by one point but we had to go into a final with them .By the 5th round only the top 2 teams remained, us and Loretto!!!! We drew the 5th round. Then we drew the tiebreaker. It was super tense. Then it went to sudden death. Then Loretto got an answer wrong so we won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That means we get to go to the Scottish Parliament’s Debating Chamber for the final.
We went to the Scottish Parliament to go to the Euroquiz final. There were three rounds, Geography, Language and understanding europe. It was a lot of fun and some of the questions were quite hard. We came 3rd out of the 31 schools (470 overall) who made it to the final we got bronze medals and pencil cases and we also got our goody bag. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
The winners were St Mary Duntocher and Strathblane were 2nd.
We enjoyed taking part and the main things we enjoyed were being away from school for something different and coming 3rd.
ART
In art this year we have been doing Victorian portraits and will be finishing them off over the next few weeks with Mr Connell. We had a choice between drawing a man with a top hat or a woman wearing a flower hat (I chose the woman.)
MUSIC
In music this year we worked on some Scottish songs. We did the songs;
Caledonia, Skyscraper wean, Johnnie Cope, Braes o’killie krankie
We also learned the ukulele. We have learned 3 chords C, F, G, because we will be singing This Is Me and playing it on the ukulele, using those 3 chords sometime!
CHARADES
P5/6/7 have been doing a musical, with Charades the Theatre Company, called The Mould That Changed The World. P5s are the bacteria, P6s are the doctors and scientists and P7s are the soldiers (Charades are doing the other parts.)We are performing it at the Theatre Day Royal Museum Edinburgh on the 13th of June and before we do it are recording some of our songs and to put it on the radio.
By Lily W
When we were doing about the body our class made some posters about body systems. We all got into five groups and made posters about a part of the body of our choice. The subjects chosen were the tongue, the heart, the brain and the nervous system.
Here are a few facts from them-
We made five posters and we had lots of fun making them.
One afternoon all the P6s got together for a Science workshop on Body systems. At the workshop we learnt lots more about the human body like things about bones and veins.
In the workshop we pretended that we were in a doctors surgery and this boy called Timothy kept on getting hurt. It was really funny and he would come in with things like broken bones and muddled organs and we learnt what doctors would do to help them. At one point we learned how big the large intestine was and we held a fake large intestine and put a carrot in and wrigged it to the end.
It was a fun way to learn!
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P6s went to Hopetoun house to learn about the Victorians
At Hopetoun house, they were being servants, they wrote with quills and they made butter.
They ironed clothes with an old iron, they polished shoes and all of them wore hats. Boys wore top hats and jackets and the girls wore aprons and bonnets. If you got something wrong they blamed it on the scullery maid or the butler!
They said it was old and big. Sara’s favourite part was seeing the big bedroom. Ellen’s favourite part was making butter. Cameron said it was nice.
If you look at the photos you will see they had a lot of fun!
By Emily H, Freya E & Reece M
The P1 reporting team ( Emma, Isla and Jack) went down to the Infant area to help out with some fun Easter activities before the Easter Holidays. This included an Easter egg hunt, easter baking with Mrs Elderfield and making Easter baskets.
We helped the P1 teacher, Mrs Cooper hide all of the plastic eggs around the little playground and the sand hill there were 48 eggs altogether. All the P1 children were having lots and lots of fun collecting the Easter eggs in their baskets with their friends, they found all of the eggs super quickly.
The next part of the activities was Easter baking. They went in groups with Mrs Elderfield to make Easter rocky roads, hot cross buns and Easter biscuits in the P1 kitchen. Two P1 pupils came out to explain what they did to make these. They said that they mashed the chocolate to make the rocky roads and the mixture was very gooey and they couldn’t wait to eat it.
There was one more Easter activity which was making Easter baskets. These Easter baskets were all different colours and were filled with blue crinkly confetti once the baskets were finished they put chocolate goodies and their Easter baking from earlier inside them to take home. Everyone said it was super fun.
We had a great time visiting the P1s and they had a lot of fun!
At Easter P2/3 were doing an Easter timeline and we went down to report on it. They were put into groups and set to do a task of putting the story together. It was all about Jesus and what he told people.
M’kyah said he is working hard and likes to help his team!
They were also making paper. Harris told us how they made it and he said that they recycled old paper and turned it into new. It was very clever! It was called reduce,reuse and recycle.`
Mrs Jones also showed us some of their models made out of plastic. Harris and Effie made a castle! It was very life like!
Reporters – Tommy & Ruby
Photos – Abbie H
We went to the nursery recently to find out some things that they like to do!!
Emily likes to play in the house corner. Rory likes to make arty things. Reece likes to use the water tray. Ava enjoys going down the slide outside. Iona likes to play in the gym hall. Louise loved learning about halloween. Layla likes to play mums and dads and loves the toy dinosaurs!!! ROAR!!!!!!!!!!!
What have they learned???
They have also been planting daffodils. They learned how to play the shapes board game.
Reece knows that people roll eggs down the hill because of Jesus. They also told us the planets they know:
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Earth and Venus. They still are learning the rest.
All of the pupils love nursery and we will be finding out lots more later!!!
by Rachel .W Jessica. R Josh. S
Our class have been learning about The Victorians and Queen Victoria. We have been doing some comprehensions. We have also done Victorian research and Victorian fact sheet. At the start we did posters that had questions that we wanted to know on it and most of them are answered. In May we are going to a Victorian house/museum and we are going to do Victorian drama. We have also done a Victorian timeline here are some facts from it
in 1819 Queen Victoria was born .
in 1851 a man called Jacob Fussell invented ice cream.
In 1872 was the first fa cup final.
1868 The last public hanging.
1876 The telephone was invented by Alexander Bell.
1841 The great western railway was finished.
We also learned about Victorian schools and what happened in them.
Here are some things that have learned
There are about 60 children in a class. Now we are only allowed 33.
Girls were cooks , servants
We are enjoying this Topic.
By Charlie & Kayliegh