National Theatre "Shopping For Shoes"

       National Theatre Of Scotland "Shopping For Shoes"

On Wednesday the 14th of September the National Theatre Of Scotland came to the school and did a performance for the senior end classes 5 to 7 called Shopping For Shoes.

In the afternoon Glaitness primary school came to watch it as well.

The play was amazing because there was just one woman acting but everyone was absolutely spellbound by the performance. There were lots of shoe boxes that the woman kept arranging into different positions and in every box there were props like shoes and things which she used to create the play. It was amazing that she remembered what was in all the boxes but she never forgot what was in every box.

After the play Mrs.Linklater did a survey thing with the classes i was not present during this but I do have the results from P7.

These results are out of 12 people

Question: Did the performance meet your expectations?

Answer: 11 people went for it was better than expected and 1 person went for I didn't have any expectations.

Question: What did you think was the most effective part of the production?

Answer: 1 person went for sound and music, 6 people went for performance and 5 people went for props.

Question: What did you think was the least effective part of the production?

Answer: 7 people went for costume,3 people went for lighting and 1 person went for props.

Question: Would you recommend the performance to other people?

Answer: Everyone chose yes.

Question:What would you give the performance out of 5?

Answer: Everyone chose 5 stars.


By Eileen Reid

                     Ceilidh on The Brain

Two people came to the school to show us about music and the brain but first they gave us a song. Here are some pics:

Here are some facts: (1)The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body

(2) The back of the brain controls your eyes 

(3) Your brain is grey and squishy

In groups, we made up dances to show what happens when light enters your eye and what happens when sound enters your ear.

House Challenge 2016

                                                House Challenge 2016

On the 9th of September 2016 the first house assembly was held. The challenge was to create a poster for each of the houses.

The house captains were revealed at the beginning part of the assembly. Everyone was surprised because usually there is a vote and 2 members from each house are chosen to lead that house but this year the P7 class was smaller with only 13 pupils so everyone was a house captain!

For each house there was a mascot: for Cava there is Carlos the crocodile and Cava koala; for Fara there is Fara Phoenix; for Rysa there is Rysa Duck and for Switha there is Bob (the minion). 

There was much suspense on Friday the day of the challenge because on that day the posters were judged and the winner was picked BUT the winner was only revealed during assembly on Monday afternoon.
The winners are as follows.

































Top Left Rysa 4th place 50 points
Top Right Switha 2nd place 70 points





Bottom right Fara 3rd place 60 points
Bottom Left Cava 1st place 100 points





There were 2 different categories, one was for poster design and the other was for teamwork and leadership. 
For the poster design 
                                 Cava was first with 50 points
                                 Fara second with 40 points
                                 Switha third with 30 points
                                 and Rysa last with 20 points


For teamwork and leadership
                                           Cava was first again with 50 points
                                           Switha was second with 40 points
                                            Rysa was third with 30 points
                                      and Fara was last with 20 points


The house challenge was really fun overall and all of the posters looked amazing.




By Eileen in P7
                                            

Girls football

Jo Murphy came in to discuss about a girls football team in the academy. She also did some football training with primary six. The games we played were number football, octopus & jellyfish (with a football) & sharks.

We all enjoyed it though some of us don't usually play football.

Leadership

We have been playing leadership games in PE.

We also started playground pals, running games for other people in the school.

GORGE WALKING!

    Gorge walking is so FUN!

  We started by getting our kit     ready then getting on the mini-   bus and driving to a burn that     led into a gorge.

  
Then we got to crawl through a     tunnel that went under a road     and came out onto the gorge.





  





We climbed down the gorge and on some high bits, we got to abseil a down  with a rope.
When we got down a bit the view   was like a scene from the jungle   book.Then we got to a hill above   a rocky beach.

  We got hot chocolate and played   a game called 'Meerkat Manner.'

Then we started the climb back up and when we reached the top we got to crawl under the road     again.

Hoy 2016 Coasteering by Zoe and Lucy

On June the 16th P6 went Coasteering courtesy of the Hoy outdoor education centre.The instructors were called Kate E , Kate R and Chris.

The groups were:

Chris                                  Kate R                        Kate E

 Owen                                  Nell                                Lucy
Ruben                                 Caity                              Abi
Aiden                                  Eileen                           Menna
Dylan                                  Leigha                          Emily
                                            Martha                          Zoe


These were going to be our tent rooms but we didn't go camping because of bad weather.

There was 2 jumps 1 for shallow water and 1 for deep water.
The one for shallow water was technically a belly flop and the one for deep water was a jump when you cross your arms like an Egyptian mummy and jumped in like a pencil.

Kate E's group got a test swim in the water to get used to it.
They swam to a rock to get ready for their first jump. The people in Kate E's group shouted thing as the jumped in such as   "Tire marks tire marks!", "Lets go bowling!", "21!" "Watermelon!"

They went in a cave a explored for a few minutes. Zoe didn't enjoy this because she needed the toilet! This is a quote from Lucy who was in Kate E's group, "I liked it because we got to do a belly flop and just swim in the sea I would love to do again!"

We got to learn about different sea creatures. For example, we learnt that the teeth on the limpet is called the rasping radula.We got to squeeze limpets and  water  came out a hole in the top of the limpet.

Then we walked up the hills to the buses. We were soaking wet. The boys got changed it the blue bus and the girls got changed in the trailer. Overall, it was so fun and we would all do it again in a heartbeat. "Hoy was one of the best things I have done in my life!" said Zoe


By Zoe Adamson & Lucy Tulloch