Links: Archive |EntryMichael Kerins On Radio Sandaig

Sandaig's favourite storyteller Michael Kerins came in to tell a special story to primary seven.
Steven, Mark and David from primary seven ask Michael if he would come in and record a story for our podcast.
You can hear the recording at
Radio Sandaig.
You can see some great photos taken by Primary Seven here: Michael Kerins On Radio Sandaig Pictures from the recording
You can find out more about Michael at weetom.com.
congratulations to Steven, Mark and David for having the idea, organising it with Michael and recording the podcast.

Links: Archive |EntryPrimary Six Glencoe Trip

On Monday Primary Six will be off to Glencoe.
We hope to post our experiences to the Glencoe 06 Weblog.
This will depend on getting an internet connection. Our fingers are crossed.
If we do manage to post it would be great to get comments from parents and friends back home.

Links: Archive |EntrySetting Example

It was a dark, dark night and in the distance was a Haunted Castle. The air was filled with scary noises. There were noises of people screaming, dogs barking and men laughing. A vampire was drinking the mans blood. Dogs were barking angrily. The castle had a giant barred gate. The windows were creaking like floorboards. Hills were far away in the distance. The water smelled like rotten wood and fish.

By Matthew

Links: Archive |EntrySetting Example

There lives a spooky old house! Bats flap around the towers. The smell of potions floating in the air. Owls are screeching and children are screaming. Trees are waving in the air.

By Courtney

Links: Archive |EntryHello Primary Six

Hi Primary Six, I am in Stirling helping to teach teachers about blogs and podcasting. This is the classroom, there are a lot of laptops and a smartboard. There is an internet connection everywhere, even in the hotel bedrooms, so you can imagine I am happy.
You can tell Mr Naismith that the lunches here are very good.
I will see you all on Monday when we go to Glencoe. I hope you are learning the ballad and have got your warm clothes looked out?
You can let me know what you are doing in the comments. I hope you have read the comments in the THE SPONSERED GAMES post.

Links: Archive |EntryCastaway on Barralay

Primary Seven's topic is Castaway on Barralay. We were split up into groups and given a factsheet about a family and we were to take on the role of those people.
Mr Johnston then helped us film each other. I played a rich 38 year old who married her husband for money! (more)

Links: Archive |EntryTHE SPONSERED GAMES

 

Today it was our sponsored games as part of Health Week.

Miss McArthur organised our Health Week.

Primary 6  went out this morning and started our sponsored health week.

The choices we could take were hopscotch, skipping, running, tag, space hopping, stilts, football, and ankle hopping. We had each activity for 5 minutes and see how many we could do. Most people managed all of them.

The pupil council choose some new toys for the Playground they are Brill.

We are doing the sponsoring  and using  the money for more trips for the children in Sandaig.

Here is a movie of some pictures Jennifer took.

Ewan and Natasha

Links: Archive |EntryRadio Sandaig March Podcast Out Now

Another Great podcast by the Radio Sandaig team.
The children are really getting the hang of recording and editing audio. Their sense of humour shines through. Some old hands and new podcasters in this show.
Included in the show a new rap by David, School News and reports, Word of the Month, A great poem by Andrew in p 6, and another edition of Boys Vs Girls.
Look out for the Michael Kerins Special edition that will be out next week.

Links: Archive |EntryPaper Houses

We made cardboard houses in our art lesson.
We needed cereal boxes, cardboard, sticky paper, thread and wool.
We got together with a partner. We chose people who we did not usually work with.
We got a big piece of paper and made textures by rubbing the paper with crayons when the paper was over different things. We drew brick shapes over the textures.
We stuck the paper onto the cardboard boxes to make the wall.
To make the roof we got a big rectangular piece of card. We drew tiles on the roof with a ruler and pen.
We used scraps such as buttons and material to make the details, such as curtains and doors. We used the button as the door handle.

Primary Four M

Links: Archive |EntryDesk Tidys

For our art we collected junk for making Desk tidys. We decided to make our desk tidys with a Roman Design.
We researched Roman books for our designs and we drew them on a piece of paper.
We had to decide what junk we needed and make a list of things. Then we went home and collected what we needed, for example toilet tubes, kitchen roll tubes, cereal boxes and yoghurt pots.
We used or made cardboard boxes for the bottom and the sides. The we used tubes and stuck them down for our pencils to go in. Once we assembled our desk tidys we painted them. We will use Roman decorations like mosaics, shields, swords and spears.
We all worked hard to collect our junk and found it difficult to assemble. We all enjoyed making our desk tidys. We are going to use then to hold all our accessories. (more)

Links: Archive |EntryThe country dance festival

Yesterday it was the country dance festival. It was held at the Kelvin hall. There was lots of different schools there. We did a dance called the Dashing White Sergeant. The Dashing White Sergeant is a dance where we have to do all the dance and then at the end of the dance we dance four travelling steps past each other and then we meet a new group. 

We had a break in between the all the dances while the other group were on the dance floor.

It was fun but at the same time it was really exhausting. The man that told us what to do let us do the dances two times. I think everybody’s favourite dance was the Flying Scotsman. There was people recording it and it was on the TV news. At the end of the festival all of the country dance teachers and some of the children sang old Lang Syne. I think  everybody had a good time and enjoyed it. Everyone who was there did there best.

Amy

Links: Archive |EntryA day in the life of p6

We read a day in the life of a year 5 on the Blakedown C of E Primary blog and we thought we would tell you what it’s like In p6.
We go to school from 9.00 am to 3.00 pm ,Monday – Friday.
In the morning we do maths and spelling then we get one quarter of an hour break and then we do language and after that we go for lunch.
The teachers we have are called Mr Naismith and Mr Johnston.
The clubs we have are the computer club and country dancing.

Kieran B and Ewan


After we enter the school we sit in our chairs and wait till the spelling books are given out. Then the teacher tells us what to do in our spelling. After spelling we do maths for 1 hour then we go out for 15 minutes. We come back in and do language. There are three different groups. The suns,the moons and the stars. During language time we have 1 hour and 15 minutes to get the work finished. Then lunchtime comes and when we walk into class after lunch time and we either do art,gym,drama or science and ict. After school we have clubs on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
School stops at 3:00 pm. We have a few favourite things i like maths,art and ict.

Sam, Megan g, Nicole

Links: Archive |EntryDowns fm tv show

The Downs FM TV Show.

The downs fm TV show is a video podcast.
They used puppets instead of using people. The puppet is called dj Steve and he is the main character and is a star with funny hair, a tartan top and a waistcoat.
They have two Lego jokers one of them is the green goblin and the other one is Spiderman. The jokes are quite funny. One of their jokes is :
knock knock
who’s there
earwin
earwin a good mood today have my piece of cake.
They are making fairground rides they were used glue guns, saws and hammers. They made water flumes and car rides. It looks fun and we enjoyed it because it was good. We want to make fairground rides as well they looks great.

Ashleigh Bradly and Lee

Links: Archive |EntryFlag Football

Primary four went to the Easterhouse Sports Centre for Flag Football.
Flag Football is otherwise known as American Football, except you have to wear shoulder pads, helmets and knee pads. The ball is like a rugby ball but bigger with laces on it.
We wore a belt with flags on. The flags were triangular, two different colours, red and black to show what team you were in.
We played a game of 'cat and mouse' where the cats had to take the flags from the mice. The mice had to run away.
We played warm up games to help our skills.
We ran forward, backwards and sideways with a ball. You could hold the ball under your arm. We practiced throwing and catching the ball. To catch the ball you had to hold your hands in a diamond like this:

The coach, Graham, said we should pretend that our thumbs and index fingers are stuck together.
We had a good time, we will take some photos next week and post them here.
Primary Four M

Links: Archive |EntryRoman Pottery

In technology we have been making clay pots. We will tell you how we made them and about the Romans and their pots.

Romans used just one colour of clay; we used olives and grapes as the raised designs.

We used Ho Do soft modelling dough, we rolled the dough with a rolling pin and we cut out a circle with a yoghurt tub. With the leftovers we made sausages and wrapped them round and moulded them on the base with our fingers. We used the tools to cut patterns onto the pots with the spare clay we made raised designs inside and outside.

It was hard to roll out the sausages but we all enjoyed making the clay pots and worked hard to meet our targets. We worked as a team and shared our ideas.

Links: Archive |EntryVictorian Dyeing

Equipment, Water, Pot’s, Cooker, Four tubs, Onion skins, Beetroot, White wool, White wool, Paintbrush, Paper, Pot for brush.

Method
(1)We half filled the pot’s with cold water.
(2)We put the pot’s on the cooker and let the water boil for a couple of minutes.
(3) You have to cut the beetroot up.
(4) We put the onion skins in one pot and the beetroot in the other pot. (more)

Links: Archive |EntryA visit to Bannerman

In January 4 pupils from Sandaig went to Bannerman for a maths and scicnce after school club.We went with 3 other schools( Barlanark, Mount Vernon and Swinton). We met the maths and scicnce teachers from Bannerman. They were Miss Guvennus and Mr Oglevie. We also met the head teacher, Miss Purdie, and the head of year one, Miss VanDe Gabel.

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Links: Archive |EntryPrimary six book assembly

On Friday 3rd March primary 6 did an assembly on books. Some people had butterflies in their tummies but some people were ok. There were 5 groups. There was a poetry group a intro group a book on amazing facts a group on fiction and non-fiction.

We only had a few days to practice on Tuesday we started to Writing our words. On Wednesday and Thursday we practiced and on Friday one rehearsal and then the real thing and I felt so sick. Everything went just the way it was supposed to but I forgot to put the chair back were it belonged.

There were plenty of parts for everyone and we also got to dress up like a character out of a book and one of the girls wore her pyjamas to school and it was so funny and she was meant to be Wee Willy Winky

By
Kimberly
Sam
Shannon
Amy
Emily (more)

Links: Archive |Entrysetting example

The fresh white snow blankets covered the ground. A gate lay slant screwed to a brick wall. Glass off the smashed windows scattered across the snow. Fresh footsteps in the snow, print pictures of shoe soles. Trees and plants surround the haunted old house. Wooden old boards are nailed to the smashed windows. Clear sky’s flew over the haunted old house. The gate squealed as the bushes rustled, the glass smashed as the door. Smells of trees and plants filled the air as well as the damp wood.

By Joshua