A.R.C. Tell the World

Congratulations to the pupils who received certificates for Perfect Attendance during Session 2009-10.

Mrs O’Rourke, H.T.

Congratulations to all of our Gold Award Winners for Session 2009-10.
Well done to everyone for your excellent behaviour throughout the school year.

Mrs O’Rourke, H.T.

Mark and Aaron, P5

Kenny came into school for 6 weeks to work with P6 & P5.

He was teaching us about drumming & percussion skills for Samba Music.

We learned to play Tamborin, Ganza, Surdo and Gogobells.

On Monday 28th June we performed for our parent and friends. There were two performances one by P6 & one by our Class.

Lord Provost John Letford was in school today to receive a cheque for £736.42 from P7b for Mary’s Meals, a charity which helps children in Haiti.

We recently hosted a Fair Trade/Haiti Event. We had lots of stalls such as the chocolate fountain, sweets in the jar, smoothies, guess the bears birthday, fruit kebabs, raffle, quiz and cake and candy. All the products were Fair Trade and will give third world farmers a better salary for their hard work. Altogether the money raised came to a total of £736.42 this money will go towards helping the people of Haiti, Mary’s Meals.

By Kieran R. & Miles M.
7b

On Wednesday afternoons for the past two weeks the primary 6’s from the P5/6 class have been working with Owen Pilgrim in Balgay Park . With Mrs Magson and other parent helpers along to help us do fun things in the Forest .

On the first week : Wednesday 2nd June it was like a kind of get to know you week. We collected materials on the way up Balgay Hill like rope, feathers, sticks and much more. We sat in a circle and Owen told us a story.

On the second week : Wednesday 9th June again we collected big, small and medium sized bits of sticks and wood. We took it up the hill with us and sat in our little circle again. Again Owen told us another story about the creator and we had to think of an adjective beginning with the first letter of our name to describe ourselves.
After we had a talk about how strong wood is we made Dens out of the wood we had collected. We went in groups of three to do this, the groups were : Megan , Rachael and Courtney and we worked with Rachael’s dad, Paul. The other group was : Kai ,Aysha and Paige who worked with Kai’s dad. The other three boys who were Jack, Calum and Matthew they worked Mrs Magson and Calum’s mum.

At the end Owen decided on three prizes for each Den they were : The group with Rachael’s dad had the prize for the biggest most challenging den, the group with Kai’s dad got the prize for most beautiful den and the last group got the prize for most creative den. Overall I think we all enjoyed ourselves working with one another , Owen and the parents who helped out, hopefully next time the primary 5’s from our class will join us in the Forest and we will all have a wonderful time.

By Rachael Smith and Megan Ward

This term the P7s got to take part in a smoking workshop. The workshop came to teach us about what was in a cigarette, how it can affect us and how dangerous a cigarette really is!! Two ladies came for the whole day and helped us put on a performance at the end of the day.
In the performance we had to make a vein and have a healthy looking one and then the smoke from the cigarette coming down it and making an unhealthy vein. Also, we got to make our own advert on how unhealthy it makes you like on the NHS (National Health Service) T.V. adverts for smoking.
We all learned a lot of interesting facts that day that we won’t forget in a hurry!!!

By Lauren Banks P7A

Scottish Dance Theatre came to teach p7.a a dance. It was a spy theme we were dancing on everything, doing poses on stuff, hiding behind bins and doing moves. There were lots to do and remember. The music was all spying and pink panther. It was really fun and creative I would definitely go again!!!

By Sandra & Taylor, 7a

Our Topic this term has been India. Callum and I have been focusing on Indian Music. We have learned a lot about the Sitar and Tabla and a lot of other Instruments. It has been a lot of fun and would like to do it again. My favourite part was when we found lots of facts about all the Instruments. It was very good fun.

By Callum & Keir

On Tuesday after school to 4:15Pm there is a Netball Club. We have a match against other schools around Dundee. There are are primary 7’s and 6’s (mostly P6’s though) . We often go outside to play on the rugby pitch but it is marked out as a netball court. But that’s only in the spring and summer. More people
have been joining . Netball is really fun and is enjoyable.

By, Lara Laayouni , P7a

Primary 7a have been designing cards for Mother’s Day and posters for Easter. The cards are for a competition set up by the Marmalade Pot and the posters are for R.B.S. (Royal Bank of Scotland). There are prizes for both competitions

By Juliet Barclay and Chloe Buxey