Colinton Capers

P7 Sports day

2010-06-02T11:46:00.003+01:00

Last Friday it was the whole-school sports day. We will be writing about p7's part.

The first event was the hockey dribble and the girls' winner was Sujina and the boys' winner was Nathan. Next we went to the Marathon - out of the boys Nathan won and Sujina won the girls'. The third event was the netball shoot, Murron was the first one to get it in and Kevin was the first boy. The sprint was the fourth thing we did, Sujina came 1st & Nathan was 1st for the boys.The second last was the egg and spoon race, Robbie came 1st for the boys and Kirsty came 1st out of the girls.The last event was golf. We were all earning points for our house.

The overall winners for our class were Nathan and Sujina.

Robbie & Murron in P7

BAA Youth Games

2010-05-20T13:12:00.003+01:00

On Thursday the 13th we went to Meadowbank for a competition. We entered four sports; athletics, golf, tennis and hockey. The p5 played in the golf competition and p6 and p7 did the rest. In hockey the players did very well - "their team work was good" said the teacher. In tennis Jodie, Stephen, Heather and Fraser were fantastic and came second. The golf team scored over 500 points. In athletics the runners did very well ! They came first in lots of heats and over all we came fourth and scored 160 points.
We had a fantastic time and enjoyed the day and we all got medals !!!

p.s The p7s want to do it again - but we can't !

by Callum Jodie and Sujina

Easter Holidays!

2010-04-04T16:31:00.002+01:00

After a very hectic term the Easter holidays are here at last! I'm sure you're all looking forward to long lies and chilling out!
We had a good time in the last week on our visit to The Risk Factory - despite the freezing rain and the long wait for a bus!!
Next term we have lots of exciting events lined up - visits to the Scottish Parliament, Choices for Life and the BAA Youth Games. Also we have several transition visits to Firrhill High School to get ready for next year.
At the end of term we, sadly, had to say goodbye to two pupils, Blair and Jess - the class will not be the same without them - maybe a bit quieter!!!! - and we will miss them both lots. Good luck girls in your new schools in Canada and Germany - let us know how you get on!
Next term we will welcome a new member to our class - someone some of you may remember from a few years ago!!!
Anyway I hope you all have a great holiday and look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday 20th April.

Happy holidays

Mrs Anderson

2010-03-22T15:39:00.001Z

Poppy Poetry

We entered the Poppy Scotland poetry competition. Hollie won a 'Commended' prize for her poem 'This Particular Poppy'

Well done Hollie

2010-03-22T13:14:00.003Z

Edinburgh University Trip.

On Wednesday 17 March 2010 p7 went to Edinburgh University. The visit was arranged by Dr Neil Spiers who had visited us in school. We went to a lecture theatre to talk about what we were going to do and have lunch. The trip was split into workshops; there was Chinese and Law. The first workshop was Chinese. We learnt how to say our names, nice to meet you and good bye. Then a lady came in to teach us about the law. In the law workshop we got split in to groups and we spoke about what we thought law was about. Then we had to make three new laws - 2 of these were - No racism and Children should be able to drive at 12 years old. Then we did a quiz about what age you have be to do things. The trip was a lot of fun and it was great to see what being at university would be like. We travelled by coach and we were a bit late back to school!

Blair and James P7

Think ahead !

2010-03-11T14:54:00.003Z

On Tuesday 23th February all the p7's of Bonaly, Colinton and Oxgangs went to our catchment high school Firrhill. We went there to think about what jobs we want to do after we leave High School. We went to lots of different workshops! We had a lot of fun !
When we went to the different workshops, we got paired up with Bonaly's p7 and Oxgangs p7.
We all went to four different workshops, the workshops were retail, science, hospitality, forestry, web disign, construction and many more! - some of the s4 came with us.
We all had a good time !
and some of us are looking forward to going to Firrhill ! :)

Sujina

Prizewinner!

2009-10-29T16:47:00.000Z

We entered the Votes for Women competition and Kevin won the Runner Up prize in the P6/7 category.He received his prize from Margo McDonald at the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday. We had a quick tour of the Debating Chamber and some lovely food. All the entries were on display.
Well done Kevin!

2009-10-15T12:22:00.002+01:00

On Monday 5th October we went to Meadowbank with 12 P6s. We went to practice for a competition which we will take part in, The students from Telford College helped us and showed us what to do. We all had a good time.

Callum and Nathan

Braidburn Visit

2009-10-15T11:18:00.003+01:00

Today Braidburn came to our school. Braidburn is a school where children with disabilites go. Some of the children came to help us plant snowdrops and iris bulbs. We met some of the childeren, their names were Stewart, Shaun, John, Neil, Catherine, Stephanie and Mirrin. After that they came into our class room. Stewart was very chatty and we saw some pictures of when they came to see the garden last time. My mum works in Braidburn she is called Sharon. We had a good time.

by
Kevin and Kirsty!!

2009-10-02T11:39:00.002+01:00

This week in school people from explore learning came in and taught us maths . First we played a warm up game called 'Stand up sit down'. There were two teams, they were the Geckos and the Chameleons. Then we did a group activity about going to the theme park. At the end we played another game where six people from each team had a number and they had to put them biggest to smallest and you won by getting the fastest time and one of our teams got the second fastest time in Edinburgh.
Callum

Womans suffrage !!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-09-15T14:33:00.003+01:00

On Wednesday 9th September 2009 we went to the Museum of Edinburgh to see the exhibition about woman's suffrage and to see how they used to live.Mrs Baker did a drama workshop with us. We, the girls, had to act like a wife to a wealthy man and the boys had to be that wealthy man. Some of us were embarrassed, we didn't want to act in front of everyone. Then after that we looked at the exhibition. It was very interesting because some of them ran in front of the kings carriage to get attention. Some women went on hunger strikes and then they got force fed. We are going to enter a competition all about the Votes for Women March in Edinburgh in 1909. We could win £100!!!

Demi

Beechgrove garden is here

2009-09-03T11:15:00.002+01:00

Beechgrove garden is here woo hoo! It has been very exciting this week. Our garden, the Room to Grow, was just an old dump 1 year ago and now it has been transformed into a lovely, warm and happy place to be. Mrs Sharpe organised builders, mums and dads to help so I want to say thank you to everyone - and especially Mrs Sharpe.
You can see our new garden on BBC2 on Wednesday 9th of September 2009.
By Gemma and Sunita

Welcome to a new school year!

2009-08-27T09:53:00.003+01:00

Here we go again on the Colinton Capers Blog - and this year we will try to keep everyone up to date with what we get up to in class. There are lots of things going on in school just now and we have lots of exciting activities lined up for P7 so keep reading to find out about our learning adventures.

It's going to be busy and fun this year!!

Mrs Anderson

Robert Burns Assembly

2009-01-30T09:46:00.002Z

P6 led the Robert Burns Assembly on Friday 30th January 2009.The introduction was done by Hollie, Blair, Kirsty and Cameron. They told us all about his life style. Demi and Murron told us about his work, and Kevin and Connor told us a poem called "To A Mouse". Callum sang one of Robert Burns famous songs, "Scots Wha Hae", with his soliders. Jessica , Sujina and Rebecca talked about how to have a "Burns Night Supper" clothes and food. Then Gemma said a poem called "Address tae the Haggis". For the finale we all sang "Auld Lang Syne".

The rest of the school did poems, song and stories.

We had a great time doing the Assembly!!!!!!!!

By Hollie And Jess!!!!!!

New Year!

2008-10-06T16:15:00.002+01:00

Hi everyone!
We have had a very busy start to P6 and have not had time yet to write on our blog!! We now have 22 children in our class and two teachers - but not both at the same time!!!

We are busy this week with our Enterprise project - we are organising sideshows at our Open Day. The P7s are doing a play about World War 2 so our Open day has a 1940's theme.

We are also going to a Science and Technology Day up at Merchiston Castle school on Wednesday and next week we are going to the Botanics to find out about the Rainforest.

We will write on the Blog to let you know about these events.

Thanks for your comment Lucy - hope you are enjoying your new school.

Watch this space for more about P6!

Salut tout le monde ! Nous avons eu un début très occupé à P6 et n'avons pas eu le temps pourtant pour écrire sur notre blog ! ! Nous avons maintenant 22 enfants dans notre classe et deux professeurs - mais pas les deux au même temps ! ! !

Nous sommes occupés cette semaine avec notre projet d'Entreprise - nous organisons des attractions à notre Jour Ouvert. Le P7s fait une pièce de la Guerre Mondiale 2 si notre jour Ouvert a un thème de 1940.

Nous allons aussi au Jour de technologie et science à l'école de Château de Merchiston mercredi et la semaine prochaine nous allons au Jardin Botanique pour découvrir la Forêt tropicale.

Nous écrirons sur le Blog au sujet de ces événements.

Merci Lucy pour ta message - espère que tu aimes ta nouvelle école.

Regarder cet espace pour plus de P6 !

Happy Holidays!

2008-06-27T23:03:00.003+01:00

Hi
The holidays are here at last! Hurrah!!

I hope you all have a super time in the holidays wherever you go and what ever you do. I'm looking forward to hearing all about your adventures - will Nathan make it to the top of Arthur's Seat? - Will Stephen and Kevin find rain in Spain? - will Robbie frazzle in the Canaries? - Will James meet a Mummy in Egpyt? - Will Blair have a Canadian adventure? - Hope the weather is good in England for those going south and sunny across the bridge for those going north! Whatever you do wherever you go have fun and stay safe.

You were fantastic P5s and will be super P6s I know!! Thanks for being such a fabulous class!

Good Luck to you, Lucy, in your new school - let us know how you get on.

I'll see you in August and tell you all about my Peruvian adventure.

Mrs Anderson

PS leave a comment to tell us what you get up to in the holidays!

good bye

2008-06-25T10:08:00.002+01:00

Hi my name is Lucy

I'm leaving to go to a new school after the summer holiday my new school is called Winchburgh Primary it is very scary.I am going to miss everybody I hope I see them again. Mrs Anderson has been a great teacher I hope she does not shut down this blog.

well have a great summer
BYE! LUCY

2008-06-17T12:05:00.002+01:00

Hello this is Cameron and Murron writing a blog about Sports Day. We did the golf ball and spoon race. And we did a dress up race where you have to run and pick up a piece of clothing and carry on doing that until you reach the finish line. And we did the biggest race of all THE MARATHON 2008. Then we got our Mum's or Dad's to pick us up.

Bonjour ceci est Cameron et Murron écrivant un blog de la Fête des Sports. Nous avons fait la balle de golf et la cuillère court. Et nous avons fait une course où nous devons s'habiller avec les vêtements bete et nous avons couru a la ligne d'arrivée. Et nous avons fait la plus grande course de tout LE MARATHON 2008!

Cameron & Murron

Dynamic Earth

2008-05-28T12:08:00.003+01:00

On Tuesday 27th of May we went to Dynamic Earth.I liked the time machine and Demi liked the giant iceburg. We got to go on a space ride. We had to sit on a weird seat and we had to vote with the blue or red buttons Demi chose red first and I chose blue first.

Rachel liked when the lions fur went up on the lightning machine.
Demi liked to sit on the space chairs which were so cool.

Le mardi 27 mai nous sommes allés à la Dynamic Earth en Edimbourg. J'ai aimé la machine de temps et Demi a aimé l'iceberg gigantesque. Nous avons obtenu pour continuer un tour spatial - vous avez dû vous asseyez sur une place bizarre et le vote avec le bleu ou les boutons rouges. J'ai choisi rouge premier et Demi a choisi le bleu premièrement.
J'ai aimé quand les lions entartrent se sont monté avec la machine d'éclair. Demi a aimé s'asseoir sur les chaises de space qui étaient tres agreable.

yours sincerely
Rachel + Demi

swimming

2008-05-22T13:14:00.003+01:00

Hi my name is Lucy and I'm Hollie

The p5 have started swimming on Thursday 1.30. First we go to the toilet before we go.We all pick a partner to walk up with.The swimming class is at Dreghorn Barracks. There are two groups in swimming - one at the shallow end and one at the deep end. I'm in the shallow end and Lucy is in the deep end. We learn all sorts of moves in the pool. At the end we get a free time thats when we do what ever we want. The coach is called Hilda.

PS.It is very fun!

Nous allons nager jeudi l'après-midi à la Caserne de Dreghorn.Nous marchons a la piscine. Dans la piscine il y a deux groupes – l'un dans l'eau peu profonde et à l'un dans l'eau profonde. Je suis dans l'eau peu profonds et Lucy est dans l'eau profonde. Nous apprenons les nages different. A la fin nous avons le temps libre quand nous pouvons faire que nous voulons. L'entraîneure s'appelé Hilda.

BYE BYE xxxxxx a bientot xxxxx

cricket

2008-05-22T12:09:00.002+01:00

Hannah,Blair and Lucy go to cricket club after school at 3:15 - 4:15. It costs £1 per lesson. We got a bottle and if we bring it every week we earn heartbeats (points) which then turn into prizes. Our first prize was the bottle and we don't know what we'll get next. Our whole class had six weeks of cricket then when it stopped every one got a letter to see if we wanted to go to the club. Our teaching coaches were Leah and Gorden.For the cricket club it is Leah and Simon. Simon plays for the Scotland cricket team. We found it really really fun!!!!

Nous allons au Club du Cricket le mercredi de 3.15-4.14pm. Nous avons eu la leçon du cricket à l'école pour 6 semaines et alors nous pouvions joindre le Club. Nos entraîneurs d'enseignement étaient Leah et Gordon et nos entraîneurs de club sont Leah et Simon. Simon joue dans l'équipe du Cricket écossaise

Hannah and Blair

Reminders for week beginning 12th May

2008-05-13T23:28:00.004+01:00

On Wednesday we have our last Sporting Chance Cricket session - remember your gym kit!
On Thursday we have our first swimming session up at Dreghorn Pool - you will need a swimsuit and towel.
There is Homework Club on Tuesday and Running Club on Thursday.
Next Monday and Tuesday - 19th and 20th May - are holidays - see you on Wednesday!!

School Sale!

2008-05-02T11:30:00.002+01:00

Hi ,

This is Blair and Lucy.

On Friday the 2nd May we had a school fair organised by Mrs Carr to buy plants and flowers for the front and the back of the school to make it more colourful. The p6 class sold the things. There was cakes,books,dvd's,film's,toy's and bits and pieces. They ran out of everything, people bought some things in like baking. The p6 were trying to sell all the food they were getting Lucy to buy a tray for 10p Lucy didn't buy the tray.

Bye see you soon,
Blair and lucy!

Athletics club.

2008-02-22T12:33:00.002Z

We have been going to Atheltics Club . This week we were jumping over hurdles. We had small hurdles, medium hurdles and big ones too. I hope you enjoy your gym. We have two athletics coaches at the club - Gillian and Duncan.
Bye
Caitlin and Murron

Endangered Species

2008-02-22T10:48:00.001Z

Our project is about endangered species. We've done posters and drawings of some animals like tigers, dolphins, polar bears, sharks,eagles and cheetah and many more. We went to the computar suite and done some research on animals. We've enjoyed are project so far it is really nice to learn about endangered animals. At the start of our projerct we made posters of what we know about endangered species. What is your project about? We got a sheet that asksthe question why?, what?, pollution and laws and we had to fill it out. We now know what animals are endangered and what animals aren't endangered. In our projecet jotter we listed what animals are endangered. In our project jotter we made a front cover and we got to choose what animal we wanted to put on it. We wrote about why the animals become endangered.

From Rachel & Kirsty
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Mozart

2008-01-24T10:29:00.000Z

Our friends in Cergy in France went to the theatre at Christmas to see Mozart's opera The Magic Fute. We found out about Mozart and his work for our homework last week.

Who Is Mozart!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was his real name and was born in 1756 and died in 1791.

Mozart was a famous composer, he composed over 600 pieces. His three most famous operas were, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi Fan Tutte. He had two unfinished church pieces, Mass in C Minor and Reqieum.

The Magic Flute

The first performance of The Magic Flute took place on September 30th 1791 at the Theatre Auf de wieden. It was Mozart's last opera before he died on December 5th 1791.

Lucy and Stephen

Violin

2007-11-09T12:56:00.002Z

In school we play the violin. I've got a violin teacher called Dr.Fraser. He is very nice when he teaches violin. My friend Rachel and Blair might be starting an orcastra with other schools like Bonaly,Longstone and Oxgangs. Me and some other girls hope we can go next year.

bye
from Caitlin p5

Running Club.

2007-11-09T12:08:00.005Z

Hi I'm Blair and this is my friend Hollie

Every Thursday Hollie and I and some other people go to running club, it is really fun. There's loads of exercises. The teacher is called Mrs Jeffery who teaches p7. Running club is very tiring.We have to run lots of laps around the field(beside Tescos a shop.) Once we ran arond the field 10 times!!!

Starts at 10 past 3
finishes at 10 past 4

bye

Homework

2007-11-08T12:34:00.000Z

Homework for this week - 6th November - should be returned by Monday 12th November

Spelling - write your words and complete your activity
Spelling Challenge - write your words in alphabetical order!
Maths - data handling task.
Reading - reading detective task - sheck you jotter

Personal Project. You have to gather information for a personal project about an Egyptian Pharoah - either Tutankhamum, Ramses 11 or Hatshepsut. You have three weeks to complete your project so find out as much as you can.

Try these websites for information - www.ancientegypt.co.uk

www.iwebquest.com/egypt/ancientegypt.htm

www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians

Think about areas of investigation to organise your research - just like we did in class!!

Enjoy your research!

Our School

2007-11-02T12:36:00.001Z

Colinton Primary School is the best school EVER!!!!

Our headteachers name is called Mrs Lumsden,shes the best headteacher.
Our school uniform colour is blue and white so is our school.

Me and Rachel(the pictures to the left) are in p5 our teachers name is Mrs Anderson.
Our class as 19 people in our class I will tell you some of their names,Blair Hannah,Kevin,Stephen,Kirsty.

We've got a tuck shop in our school. It sells lots of heathly foods

On Fridays the whole school goes to assembly to sing songs and also in our class on Fridays we have golden time when we can do what ever we want.

p.s We love this school!!!!

Happy Holiday!

2007-10-12T12:29:00.001+01:00

Just a reminder that next week is a holiday - you don't need to come back to school until Tuesday 23rd October.

On Wednesday 24th October we are going to the Egyptian Gallery at the Museum to look at all the Egyptian things they have there. You will need a packed lunch that day to take with you.

The Halloween Disco is on Thursday 25th October - bring your ticket money after the holiday - £1 - it should be great fun - you can dress up if you want to!

Have a lovely holiday everyone!

Mrs Anderson

Baking

2007-10-12T11:24:00.001+01:00

BONJOUR JE M'APPELLE SUJINA DISUWA.

TODAY I WAS DOING BAKING WITH MRS DOUST. WE WERE MAKING EGYPTIAN BREAD. I WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO MAKE IT. FIRST WE NEED DOUGH AND GARLIC. PUT IN A OVEN AND PUT IT UNTIL 15 MINUTES LOOK AND AT LAST IT WILL BE COOKED. YOU MAY EAT.

Ancient Egyptians

2007-10-12T11:24:00.000+01:00

In school we have been learning adout the ancient egyptians.Right now we are learning about what fashoin they wear . We are also learning what jobs they did. e.g. mummy maker, farmers
craftsmen,servants,slaves,brick maker,builders,traders,priests.
We are also going to a ancient egypt musem. we are also looking at afterlife.

Caitlin and Hannah

Happy Weekend

2007-10-05T16:23:00.000+01:00

The weekend at last!
Just a few reminders for next week!
1. Have a great time doing your Mission Possible Tasks - but don't forget to return all your agent's equipment on Monday - along with any interesting samples you may have found!
2. Remember you gym shoes on Monday for our games in the hall.
3. Parent's Nights are next week on Wednesday and Thursday.
4. And the good news is this is the last week before your half term break!!!
Hurrah!!

See you all on Monday!

Mrs Anderson

Mission Possible!

2007-10-05T11:57:00.001+01:00

Hi

We have been doing a Mission. We had to train for one week to be bacteria spies we all had a booklet and we had to do ten tasks. We got our kits home yesterday there was a pen, swab, magnet, spoon, a thermometer, food thermometer and two sample bags. We will do our tasks over the weekend and tell you what we found on Monday.
Lucy

Holiday

2007-09-14T14:08:00.001+01:00

Have a lovely holiday weekend everyone - see you on Monday.
Mrs Anderson

Homework 11th September

2007-09-12T11:29:00.000+01:00

Hi
Just in case you have lost your homework sheet here is this week's homework!

1. Spelling - write your words and complete the activity sheet
2. Maths - you have a fractions worksheet to complete - this is practise of work covered in class this week.
3. Reading - check your reading record for the pages you have to read.

Remember your gym kit on Wednesday - we will be playing Mini Tennis with Neil and Pamela.

Don't forget next Monday is HOLIDAY!! Homework should be returned on Tuesday 18th September.

Mrs Anderson

2007-09-12T11:14:00.000+01:00

We returned to school on Wednesday 15th of August 2007.
We have been talking about France and learning where France is. We have been learning to speak in French. e.g. Bonjour. Je m'appelle Callum.

Callum

Welcome!

2007-09-05T12:13:00.000+01:00

Welcome to the first blog from Primary 5 at Colinton Primary - watch this space for more news from our class