The Magic Castle Open Afternoon

Today we had an open afternoon for parents to come along and visit our classroom and see inside the great hall of our magic castle. Mr Stewart and Mr Docherty, our class teachers, welcomed our parents, spoke to them about "A Curriculum for Excellence" and explained our activity for the afternoon by sharing learning intentions. We had to work together in pairs to design a castle and also to create a factfile giving information about our castle. We had already used the internet for research to find out as much as possible about different types of castles. Hopefully our visitors had an enjoyable time and were able to see all the hard work that we have done this term!
We would love to hear from anyone who came along to visit. Please leave a comment!

The Magic Castle

Our Primary 7 classes have been working on a very interesting topic this term. We have turned our classroom into the inside of a magic castle complete with wood panelling, wooden doors, a cosy fireplace and suits of armour along the walls not forgetting our own personal coats of arms hanging from the ceiling. Each of us also has a personal fact file with lots of information including witchcraft, wizardry, haunted castles, spells and potions. We have have used ICT and the internet to help us to research and find out many interesting facts.
We have really enjoyed this topic and have sent out invitations to our parents asking them to come and visit our classroom to see the amazing scene that we have created!

Pupil Council

Our Pupil Council met with Mr Kavanagh today. Each representative reported on what their class had asked them to discuss in the Pupil Council. These included: new library books and bookstands, more own clothes days for charity and being allowed to play outside during Golden Time. The Pupil Council also agreed to organise an enterprise activity selling pens with the school name to raise money for school funds. The next meeting of the Pupil Council will be 23/4/07.

The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark Open Afternoon

Today we had a speaker from the RSPB who spoke to us about owls, birds and other types of wildlife. We enjoyed listening to him.

In the afternoon we welcomed some visitors to our classroom. We sent out invitations to mums, dads and grandparents to come along and look at our topic display. We served juice and chocolate nest cakes. Mr Kelly, our teacher, tested our parents in a quiz about birds. The mums won! We also entertained our visitors with a selection of songs.

We would love to hear from anyone who came along to visit. Please leave a comment!

The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark

The topic for Primary 3a this term is "The Owl Who Was Afraid of The Dark". We have been learning lots of interesting facts about owls both in school and at home. We found out about other types of birds and were able to watch some of them feeding at the bird table in the courtyard area of our school. In our ICT lessons, we used the internet to learn more about owls and also to find pictures of them. For art, we made a tree with branches and leaves. We also made flowers to create a forest scene. We even made our very own owls from papier mache. On Wednesday, 14th March we were lucky enough to have a real live owl in our classroom. The owl was a European Eagle Owl and his name was Wally. He is named after William Wallace. We really enjoyed his visit!


We hope that you enjoy looking at the photographs of our classroom!!