P4F – January update

P4F January update

Welcome back and Happy New Year!

Thank you very much to everyone who came along to our Christmas service. We hope you enjoyed it.

This term our topic is water. We will be learning about the water cycle, ocean pollution and the different properties of water.

We have a student helping in the class this term from Edinburgh College. Her name is Heather Ramsay and she will be in school on Mondays and Fridays.

We have now finished our block of swimming lessons. Thank you so much to all the parents who helped with these trips. The children will be receiving their swimming certificates in due course.

Our new block of home learning is now on the website. This block runs from today until 9th February.

Christmas Characters on the Tram!

Congratulations to Eoin and Mark from P4, whose winning watercolours are currently featured on the ‘Edinburgh’s Christmas ’ tram!

The boys and their families attended a prizegiving ceremony at the airport and were presented goodie bags from Edinburgh Trams and Edinburgh’s Christmas, which included a trip on the Christmas tram and tickets for Edinburgh’s  Ice Adventure! Mark and Eoin were thrilled to see their work on the tram and even spotted Mark’s skating penguin at the Christmas market too!

People Around the World

Over the past few weeks we have been learning about the people, places and cultures which are part of our nursery community and the world.

We have been lucky to have such enthusiastic volunteers who came in and shared some of their language, stories, food, songs, Christmas traditions, and photos from their home country. We have learned lots about places such as London, Sweden, Romania, Prague, China and even the island of Saint Vincent. We are gaining a greater appreciation for how we are all unique.

Fabulous Farm Fun

To link together our animal classification and community topics, Primary 2 visited Gorgie City Farm. We looked at the different animals to decide if they were mammals, birds or reptiles. We also thought about the different activities we can do in the local community.

Here are our some of our highlights:

I liked the lambs because they were climbing up on the wall and because one of the lambs was trying to get the milk from the mummy (Charlize).

My favourite was the lambs because they were cute (Laila).

I liked the pigs as my favourite because they were so cute (Finn).

My favourite part was the park because it was fun and we got to play (Aoife).

The park with the spinny thing was the best because it spins you (Aroon).

I liked the park because there was a big slide and it was really fun (Isla K).

We liked the playpark because it was fun because I kept going into the little hut to because it was my base (Harrison).

My favourite animals were the chickens because they were clucky  and funny (Xander).

I liked the cows (Thomas).

I liked the goats because I liked their horns (Halden).

‘Through the Window’

Congratulations to Lucy B. from p6B who has won 2nd prize in an art competition run by the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. The competition, ‘Through the Window, invited pupils to create work to be displayed in the new hospital which opens in 2018.

There were 669 entries, so very well done to Lucy for achieving 2nd prize in the age 10-12 category. Her mixed-media included chalk, oil pastels, pen and collage.5097FF90-4225-4E8E-8627-B761AB50BFC8

Below is a selection of our other entries – well to everyone who took part! What a wonderful selection of unique, inspired work! Judging must have been difficult!


Santa’s Treat Recipes

P4 have been working hard making some delicious treats for the Christmas Fair. We have had a number of parents helping us out so thank you very much! We have now made enough treats to sell so thank you if you have kindly offered to help, but we do not need any more helpers for this activity.

If you would like to try making some of the treats at home you can find the recipes below.

Come along and buy some on Friday 8th December from 1-2pm at the Christmas Fair.

Peppermint Polar Bears  – we used Dr Oetker Unicorn Chips for the noses

Christmas Pudding Truffles – we decorated ours with white chocolate and holly sprinkles from Asda. 

 

 

 

P4 Orchestra Trip

The P4s had their trip to the Usher Hall today to see the RSNO. We thought it was a really really good show! Here are some of our comments about it:

Sahana & Lucia – We liked it when a boy was conducting.

Imogen – I liked it when they played Darth Vader’s theme song

Euan & Robbie – Our favourite part was when Darth Vader came in.

Kieren – I liked it when we saw a video of Darth Vader in the coffee shop.

Mairi – I really liked the music that the orchestra played.

Arran & Jack – We liked it when they played Minecraft with the music.

Jennifer – I liked when you got to imagine a story that went with the music.

Finn – I liked it when Holly (the conductor) ran away to avoid being shot by the bow and arrow.

Kyle – I liked the music of the haunted mountain.

Lara – I thought it was really funny when Tom gave Holly the apple to shoot off her head.

Harry – I liked the colours on the screen while the music was playing.

Caleb – I liked it when they played the music from the Magic Flute.