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At Golden Time we sometimes swap classes. We get to choose which activity we go to. They can be such things as ball games, cooking, working with the little ones, art, sewing and Scottish things.

Sometimes we don’t swap! In our class we have played on a Dance Mat, with Buzz, we painted, went on the computer or choose something ourselves. The activities are really good fun!

P4/3 did their bit to help combat climate change.  We sent away for a booklet from the RSPB and it was full of fun ideas to help save the planet. We had to do six out of 11 activities.  Some of the activities involved switching off lights and electrical items that were on standby, walking to school, learning about animals which are close to extinction and where we get our food from.  When we finished we were sent some cool stickers and each got a certificate.  It’s true - just one little action makes a world of difference.

The nativity and concert performance are:

• Wednesday 12/12/07 at 7:00pm
• Thursday 13/12/07 at 1:30pm

Tickets are £1.50 and will be available from the school office from Friday 30/11/07 with a limit of 2 tickets for the first week.

Extra tickets may be able to be purchased on 10/12/07 and 11/12/07, if available.  Mince pies and coffee will be on sale by the PTA, as will Christmas stationery and a raffle.

Primary 7 Parents are warmly invited to join us for our St. Andrew’s Day Assembly on Friday 30/11/07 at 9:15am.  Our Primary 7 pupils have been working extremely hard on preparations for this event.  We hope you can come along.

The Kosmic Krew are a pantomime team.  They came to school on Tuesday 27th November, in the morning.  They went on an mission in space.  They had to find the other half of a magical mysterious stone.  It opened up a gate to the stars!  Their mission took them to see the Egyptians, the Vikings and much more.

The Kosmic Krew had an enemy - and he had a crush on our deputy head!  He even wanted to eat our Headteacher.  He was very bad!

On Friday we were learning some Science. We were learning about Circulation. There were two people at each table, each pair were given a part of the body, such as the heart, the brain or the stomach. Everybody else got a card which was red on one side and blue on the other. They took their card to the heart to see which part of the body they should go to. Next they would have to go to the lungs to get oxygen back into the blood – as the card was turned to blue – to show it didn’t have any oxygen in it. Then they went back to the heart and repeated the task.

By All of P 5/6!

If your children are into computer gaming and the whole thing means absolutely nothing to you, then have a look at the GAME Family Gaming Guide.  Find advice on Internet safety, suitability of games for ages, advice on educational games and much more!

Primary 1 and 2 gave a parade of their white thinking hats in the gym hall to Mrs. Leadbetter, Headteacher and the Education Convener Mr. Waddell on a recent visit he made to the school. The two classes paraded around the hall. Primary 1 G made their white thinking hats in the shape of the “The Cat in the Hat”, P 1M made thinking hats like chefs hats and Primary 2 made their thinking hats of a ring of stars.Mrs Barclay read a story and then asked the children to remind her of some of the facts that they had heard in the story. In De Bono’sThinking skills the white hat wants to know facts and asks “What do we know? ” and “What do we need to find out ?”. There are 6 Thinking Hats and the next hat Primary 1 and 2 will be looking at shortly is the Red hat which deals with feelings and emotions.

. P1 and P2 are given free fresh fruit twice a week to eat at playtime. The are given a wide variety of fruit to try. The children enjoy eating it and then put the skins in the brown bin for recycling.

During October and November every P1 child in the United Kingdom will receive a free book to take home and share with their family. The book this year is Funnybones and P1 just loved the pictures and story. The book is to encourage the love of reading and sharing fun and information with children and parents or family members. Here are some pictures of Primary 1 G enjoying their books in their Spooky House Corner at Halloween.