St Mary’s choir took the opportunity to spread some Christmas cheer today at Randolph Hill. Boys and girls from Primary 3-7 who are in the choir went up to sing their Christmas carols and wish everyone a very merry Christmas. It was a great morning and they all sang beautifully. Well done to everyone who took part.
Happy Christmas!
Inspire - Aspire; Global Citizens in the making is a unique Awards Programme that is working with the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games to inspire and connect young people throughout the Commonwealth.
5 children from Primary 5 / 6 had their work submitted for this Awards programme and we were fortunate enough to have 3 of our children selected as finalists. These three children were selcted out of the 30, 000 national entries.
The children attended the awards ceremony at Glasgow University on Monday 16th June, and were presented with their awards by Mark Beaumont.
You can see the winning entries by clicking on the following link
Have you ever heard of Jackson Pollock? I know p5/6 have! P5/6 were doing a Jackson Pollock art project and lets agree it got VERY messy honestly the pitch was covered in paint! I think it took about one or two weeks to fully clear of. First we got to choose if we wanted to do it with a partner or by ourselves obviously a lot of people chose to do it with their friends but who didnt see that coming? So then we got one or two bits of A3 paper , and it was REALLY windy so we had to find things to hold the paper down, most of us used paint bottles but that didnt really work because we needed to use the paint so it ended up like a game of twister! Jackson Pollock always layered his paintings so, so did we! Anyway it all ended up in a BIG BIG BIG mess and our hands were like paint pots so we had to clean them(if we could) i think there is still paint under peoples nails! But by a surprise the paint came out of some of our clothes! In the end we all had great fun!
On the 26th of February at 6pm, P5/6 will be at the MacRobert performing Think Dance. They have been practicing there dance since before Christmas and primary 3/4 said it was really good and Ally (P7) said” it was in a fight for 1st place against theirs from last year”!
Ever thought of entering a photo competition, Well P3-7 took part in the Myplace photography competition which is a competition in which you take architectural photos. We entered the competition because we have won it two years in a row. The awards ceremony is being held at the lighthouse art gallery in Glasgow and the prize for first place is five hundred pounds worth of camera equipment!
On the 9th of January the P5/6s went to Dunblane Primary school to get recorded for a Cbbc program about jokes and which one is funniest, the entertaining program shows two schools trying to say the funniest joke ever to the Joke Master. But if you don’t say a funny joke to the Joke Mater he will get rid of you Eg. Squashed by a Squash, chased by a Bear, Hammered and of course just thrown away!
On the 25th of November P5/6 left the school (yay) and walked up to the high school, to meet Jeff Cook, and he’s a chef (no joke). Ok let’s dig a little deeper, (put down that spade not that kind of digging). So we learnt to make….. Stovies! Rice pilaf! and Lentil Dahl. We got to taste each of the recipes. They were absolutely delicious!! We had to remember the recipe and rewrite the recipe in a cook book format, so when we get our jotters home we can cook ourselves a delicious dinner one day.
Chef tips:
Use double the amount of liquid volume than the thing you’re cooking like rice.
Use ox meat it’s cheap but you have to prepare it a little more than other meats
When making rice pilaf you can make it with any vegetables on the turn as they’re cheaper.
It’s the start of a new term and all the classes have exciting new topics. The p4/5 topic is space they have made planet modules and know LOADS of facts they have found out what happens when you ring out a cloth which is wet and they made predictions for it. The P2/3s topic is Scotland and India they have been doing line drawings of the map of India and Scotland. P1s topic is
Bodies. They have been naming different parts of the body and having loads of fun. P6/7s topic is Choices and Changes, focusing on Connections.
The nursery’s topic is Mazes, Maps and Habitats! They also went to Stirling castle for their topic. They’re finding out loads about and having heaps of fun.
All the classes are excited with there topics and already there experts on them.
On the 8th of January Mr Smith from the Smith Museum came in to set us a challenge. The whole school will be learning about the history of Dunblane over the last 2000 years. The children of P1/2/3 will be taking an interest in important buildings of the past. They will investigate three particular buildings of their choice. The P4/5s are learning about important people. As for the P6/7’s, they will be thinking about battle sites near Dunblane.
We all can’t wait to start as we are all very excited!
By Mia, Phoebe-Rose and Jonathan.
