Newmore Primary Blog

Fancy Dress Party
On Monday we had our fancy dress party. It was super fun because we got to play lots of games and get lots of prizes. Milly (a smurfette), Stella (a crayon) and Luca P2 (a surgeon) won prizes for best dressed in the infant class. In our class, Georgia (a surgeon), Ria (a Rubix cube) and Eve and Cara (Jedward, well actually Deadward!) won prizes. We all dressed up and it was good fun!
We also had a pumpkin carving competition and the winners were, Sophie Dickson, Cara and Brad.
By Loui Kirkwood

The Halloween Party

People came into school in their fantastic costumes, some were home made and some were shop bought, it was great seeing people come in one after the other, you could feel the spookiness in the air.

When the bell rang everyone rushed to their classroom doors, when the little ones got into their own classroom, they saw Miss Lowson in a red and black wig it was very spooky, she looked liked a devil! When the big ones got into their classroom they saw Miss Smith in a black and white wig it was spooky it even looked like a corps bride’s hair on a bad hair day!

Miss Lowson saw her class’s costumes and Miss Smith saw hers, as soon as everyone was ready the little ones popped over to the big class. When the little ones came in their faces widen because they saw all the decorations in the room and seeing all the costumes. Prizes were given for the best costumes.

The first game we played was musical bumps which everyone enjoyed as we were listening to our favourite music and dancing with our friends. There were pumpkins on the table for the pumpkin competition; they were all so good it was hard to choose. We also played musical statues and a dancing elimination game. After break we wrote group poems which we had to read out and perform to everyone. We then played the skeleton game and finished the day with dooking for apples, eating pancakes without our hands and sticking the nose on the witch.

Everyone had a fantastic day and went home tired, but happy with full stomachs!

Newmore is a good school! This week we have been working on The Golden Rules in our project. We learned about consequences. In Maths my group has been doing Division revision and I enjoyed it very much. On Thursday Mrs Mardon takes us for Drama. We have been doing The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch.
By Isabella

This week for Art we were mixing shades of colours with black and white. In our Maths group we were doing more numbers up to 1000. We did Language and had to read about the African elephant. We did Drama with Mrs Mardon and she does a warm up with us.
By Caitlin and Lewis

This week was my first week at Newmore. We were doing Art and Maths. We did PE. We do a Daily Challenge and we play spelling games.
By Ian

On Monday I started Times Tables in my Maths. Golden Time has changed because we do baking and indoor and outdoor games. I love school. It is fun. We have read Fantastic Mr Fox and now we are reading George’s Marvellous Medicine. I like it when we use Koochie for Circle Time.
By Scott

I think Newmore is the best! This week we got to do Art, Storytelling, Drama, Project, Music, PE and lots more. This week in Art we used black and white and a primary colour. My primary colour was blue. In Project were doing consequences and a consequence is what happens next. The day I started inventing was so fun! We made George’s marvellous medicine and that book’s author is Roald Dahl. He has so many books!
By Orla

This week we used black and white to make different shades in Art. In project we were doing consequences. That is what happens next if you do good things or bad things.
By Fraser

This week for Art we were mixing different colours with black and white to make different shades. On Monday I did PE with our PE teacher Mrs Thompson. I enjoyed inventing George’s Marvellous Medicine.
By Tamzin

I think Newmore is the best school in the world. This week in PE we were skipping. In Storytime we are reading George’s Marvellous Medicine and we are nearly on the last chapter.
By Keir

Blog 7

Sports Day Practice- On Monday, we went down to Stonyfield Playing Field to practice for the School Sports Day. There was the sprinting race, the sack race, the long jump event, the three-legged race and the Wheel Relay Race. We are now ready for the big event!!

Health- for health, we drew leaflets, telling kids about solvent abuse. We drew pictures and wrote things that were hard-hitting, but relevant. Despite the serious theme, we had fun making them!

Maths- in maths this week, Group 2 of maths (Dean Morrison, Tom Bannerman, Will Murray and Henry Pearce) got their Level E in maths! Also, Group 5 (Jake Lawson, Anya Martus, Josh Mac Donald and Rebecca “Becky” Smart) got their Level C! Well done, maths people!

Well done- Well done to Andrew Bannerman who was third in a piano competition and he also passed hiss level E in writing well done Andrew.

We were all very proud when Keir, Fraser, Tamzin, Isabel and Orla passed their level B in Maths. All these people and Scott passed their level B in reading, well done! We are also very proud of Isabel, Tamzin and Orla as they passed their level B in writing.

In Technology, we made an oil rig in groups. Our oil rigs had to have a helideck and be over one metre high. The rigs had to stand by themselves. We all managed to pass the test!

We had a sports day practice with Mrs Thompson on Monday which was good fun. We are going to have more practices so that we can get really good.

By Fraser and Milly.

Health

On Tuesday, Josh’s mum Rachel kindly came in to visit us and do some body balance and yoga. It was lots of fun trying out all of the different yoga positions although some of them were a wee bit tricky. Rachel is coming back next week so hopefully we will find it a bit easier.

Fruity Frenzy

We have been having a look at where our food comes from before it reaches our supermarkets but we got quite a shock to find out how far some of our food travels before we eat it. This week, we tasted some tropical fruits and made our own yummy fruit salads. We used watermelon, galia melon, passionfruit, peaches, apples, mango, lychees and pomegranate seeds. Miss MacLeod and Mrs Goodwin were very impressed with all of us for trying most of the fruits. We even surprised ourselves. We used the laptops to find out where these fruits grew and worked out the distance to Scotland and we were quite shocked with our findings.

Fathers Day Surprise

On Friday, we had a special treat in store for our Dads. We paired up with Miss Lowson’s boys and girls and made some yummy peppermint creams. We also designed our own cards and lovely wee boxes for our mints to go in.

Chick Update

Kathy brought the chicks in again for us to see and we are so surprised at how big they are now. They really enjoyed stretching their legs in the garden. A lot of their feathers have grown in now and they look very grown up. It is hard to believe that only 4 or 5 weeks ago they were still in the incubator. Some of the chicks are being re-homed soon by Clara and Henry so they will be able to keep us updated on their progress. The rest of the chicks are going to new homes in Inverness so they won’t be far away.

Date 29/5/10 – 4/6/10

Scots language – For this exercise we had to get a nursery rhyme or story and rewrite it in Scots. It took us a while but we got it finished and next week we are going to read then to the P1/2/3 class.

Picasso Art – For art we did drawings in the style of Picasso. We all had very good pictures and we also helped the P1/2/3s do their own pictures. They hung them on a washing line outside for everyone to see. They were very good.
Gizzen Briggs- Gizzen Briggs is a band/orchestra they came to play to us and they were amazing we really enjoyed them coming it was really good that wasn’t even half of them.
Big achievement- Andrew Bannerman has passed his level F in reading