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P5 Celebrate Roald Dahl Day!

September 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Roald   Dahl
I enjoyed when we made our sparkly golden tickets because I liked putting the shiny beads on it.  I liked making the big pink BFG ears and i liked putting on the hairy pink pipe cleaners.  I loved making the delcious chocolate bar, it looked so good I wanted to eat the yummy looking [...]

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Word Imagery

June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Some Word Imagery from our Myst Writing:
The watery lagoon was like a Sherlock Holmes mystery waiting to be solved.
The steep stone steps were as jagged as the blades of a knife. 
The creepy man was like the devil sneaking down the stone steps. 
The house was like a jungle waiting for the zoo to [...]

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Writing with Myst

June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

The sea glimmered as the devils horns shot up through the rocks, on the rocky bay.  Giant mountains of rocks like stepping stones lay in the water.  As I walked down the slippery, steep, stone steps going further down leading to a bridge over a watery lagoon.  I could see another devils horn shooting up [...]

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Parents’ Conference 16th of May, 2009

June 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Some of the Debating Club went to Falkirk Council’s Parent Conference in Victoria Primary School on Saturday 16th May, 2009.  Easter Carmuirs Debaters did two workshops to teach parents about the conventions of debating and to take part in a real debate. 
It was really hard for the parents because they didn’t have any time to [...]

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P3 Citizenship

April 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments

 GoAnimate.com: dandy’s Animation by dandy

In P3 we have been looking at ways we can become better citizens.  We have created characters so we can remember the 4 citizenship areas easily like Sparky the Star fish (self-esteem), Robin the Rainbowfish (relationships), Louie the Lobster (attitudes to learning) and Crusty the Crab (challenges).  Last week we concentrated [...]

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LATEST NEWS FROM THE DEBATING CLUB !

April 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment

On 10/03/09 Rosina Burns and Brandin Robertson attended the National Literacy Conference in the Glasgow Hilton Hotel.  They delivered workshops with Miss Reid and Mrs Ferguson from Falkirk Council.  Also delivering part of the workshops were Rob Marrs of the English Speaking Union and West Lothian Council’s Literacy Officer.  They spoke to audiences of Head teachers, [...]

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Fantastic Futures

April 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Last term, p7 went to Forth Valley College to see the choices we have of what we want to become when we were older. Some workshops included, the sniffer police dogs, Police Divers, Cineworld, The Falkirk Herald, Ambulance driver and much much more. We had to extract DNA from fish eggs. Everyone enjoyed their time.
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P3 go to the movies!

March 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments

    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
On Tuesday 25th March primary 3 took a trip to Falkirk Town Hall to see some animations.  We have been looking at animations in class and have been doing lots of language work linked to them.  The animations were short and we watched 8 in total.  One was about a sunshine that was not [...]

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talking books p6

March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

p6 were making books for the primary 1 class. we had different stories that everyone knows like the gingerbread man, little red riding hood, cinderella, little pigs and the 3 bears.
we recorded ourselves and took pictures of the story. Then we put them on powerpoint to put the sounds along with the pictures and they [...]

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p4/5 world book day

March 9th, 2009 · No Comments

P4/5 had fun dressing up on world book. We all dressed up as different characters. It was great ideas everyone came up with. In the after noon the hole school went down to the hall. Each class had a winner for best dressed the person who won in our class was Lewis.

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