Newmore Primary Blog

Today we had our Fancy Dress Dookin’ Party and it was great! We all got into the spirit by dressing up and the teachers found it tricky to know who we all were. Although everyone looked fantastic, the winners of our dressing up competition were:

P1/2/3:   First – Milly, Second – Keir, Third – Jamie

P4/5:  First – Cameron, Second – Finlay, Third – Sophie

P6/7: First – Ellie, Second - Andrew, Third (Joint) - Nadean and Andrew

We also held our traditional pumpkin competition!  Every year we are amazed by the imagination that you all show.  It was really difficult to pick some winners, but congratulations to Keir, Kyle and Ruairidh. 

Well done everyone, it was a really good day! 

We are all so excited about our Fancy Dress Dookin’ Party tomorrow! This afternoon we made some decorations. We worked in small groups and the older class helped the P1/2/3s. Some of the decorations were a bit of a challenge, but we think they look great!

We were so lucky today to have some visitors from Africa. The Zulu warriors came to us from God’s Golden Acre in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. It is an orphanage which helps children who have lost their parents through AIDs or violence. We were amazed by their fantastic clothes! They were great at singing and dancing. By the end of the morning we were all able to join in with two of their Zulu dances.

We have been learning all about our senses. This week we made a display to show people what the 5 senses are. You can look at them in our cloakroom. Then we did some surveys. We asked the whole school about their favourite things to see, hear, smell, taste and touch.

This week we enjoyed painting with Mrs Campbell. They were called monochrome paintings and we only used one colour with different tones and shades. By Sophie D and Sophie S.

We also went to tennis this week with the P6/7 class. We took the bus to Tain and learned more about tennis. Half the balls went on the road! We are looking forward to going next week again. By John and Clara.

Morag and her latest group have been cooking for us again! This week they pulled up some tatties from our garden and treated us to some tattie and leek soup. You might have been able to smell it if you passed the school on Friday – it was delicious!

In Technology we were challenged to make a cot for a baby. We had to make sure that it was big enough to hold baby Annie and that it was safe so that she wouldn’t fall out. Miss Lowson thought that we did a great job! We worked hard with our partners.

We have been looking at Our School and Ourselves in our project time. We looked at some of the people who work in the school and decided to paint pictures of them. We thought it was great fun painting pictures that were so big!

Morag and her trusty bakers have given us some delicious treats for the past 2 weeks!  Last week they picked some apples from our school apple tree (given to us by Aimee Munro in June) and they baked some cakes with the apples mixed inside.  Then this week they picked some rhubarb from our garden and made some jam.  Can you guess what they decided to make for us to have with our jam?

Last term we were all involved in planting lots of interesting things in our school garden.  When we came back to school last week it was great to see that nature had been hard at work over the holidays!  So far we have spotted apples, strawberries and broadbeans.  We are having a think in our classes about how we will use them.