Glaitness Class 4/5 2010/11: 2010

Friday 10 December 2010

Monday 29 November 2010

Our Ceilidh gave us a great opportunity to communicate our literary and musical heritage to a guest from another country in Europe. Vesna , a young teacher from Slovenia has been working with the class and has been sharing her life in Slovenia with the children.

The Slovenian flag was on display
at the Ceilidh alongside the Saltire.

Vesna tasted locally made cheese, Scottish shortbread and fudge thanks to Molly Hay's mum and Mrs Stanger!Yum!

Vesna commmented on how similar the cheese was to local cheese made in Slovenia and said it was lovely to taste.

We have to say a big thank you to Vesna for being behind the video camera for the whole Ceilidh! !

Friday 26 November 2010

Our Ceilidh

Wonderful stuff class 4/5!

You presented a great afternoon of traditional Scottish

entertainment.

It was very clear that much work

at home had been

put into producing such

confident performances.

It was lovely to have so many family

members in the audience.

A special thank you to Mr Cant for

playing for us.

The sound of the pipes is always special.

Photographs and video clips will be

posted soon.

Friday 19 November 2010

Children in Need 2010

Class 4/5 generously filled the
P1 bucket with coppers.

Spots before our eyes !

Tuesday 16 November 2010

Tag Rugby Sessions Term 2

Great side pass!

Fantastic try!

Good catch!
swerve

communicate

Each session of our six week block
Tag Rugby taken by Bruce Ruthven

is full on action and fantastic fun for

over 50 minutes! Great too for

working on skills such as listening,

communicating and cooperating.

We also get those last rays of warming

winter sunshine. Although there is

no time to feel cold during the

action packed sessions!

We were very lucky

to have Grant McKelvie with us today who coaches

the Scotland under 18 squad at

Murrayfield in Edinburgh and is part

of the Scottish Rugby elite training group.

Mr McKelvie commented at the end

on what a super group of young people were

there and how impressed he was with

the commitment and performance.

Thursday 30 September 2010

Create a Character Challenge

We were set a challenge to design
and make a character mask.

By setting up a simple circuit or

a parallel circuit

the nose or eyes

of the mask had to light up

and switch on and off.

All challenge groups had a

successful outcome, Well done!

Any ideas for character names?

Tuesday 28 September 2010

Views from a playground...one

Around the playground we have noticed that the whitebeam trees seem to have loads more berries on them this year.

Have other parts of Scotland noticed the same?

Monday 27 September 2010

...views from a playground two

We wanted to find out more about the link between compass points and angles.

In the playground we gave each other instructions using direction words and angles e.g turn 90 degrees clockwise or turn 270 degrees anti clockwise.

Not everyone had noticed the 8 point compass painted in the front playground before!

We recorded which direction we were facing to start off with and when we had finished .We also recorded what we were looking at e.g.

facing SE and turning 45 degrees clockwise I face S to the school building.

facing SE and turning 45 degrees anticlockwise I look E across the Peedie Sea over to the Power Station and St Magnus Cathedral.

"If I face SE then turn 360 degrees I'll be facing my house!" (P4 pupil)