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Ollie Armstrong My favourite memory of school is running a stall at the Spring Fayre. Our stall was ran by me, Warren and Rosie. We got wet sponges chucked at our faces. It wasn’t that sore really just wet wet and more wet.
Kayleigh Brunton My favourite memories P1 My first day when we got a half day P2 When we found out our teacher P3 Our assembly cause we made it up P4 Having Mrs Kerr and doing art with
her P5 Having Mrs Clark at the start and Mrs
Clark brought in a big bear called Mr Hug bear
P6 Meeting our buddies and being door monitors
P7 Camp, show, drums (only on Wednesdays) and playing with p1s
Warren Campbell My favourite memories P1 Mr Thompson - my first day at primary P2 Mrs Campbell - doing art P3 Ms McLauchlin - the one that twirled her hair p4/5 Mrs Robertson and Mrs Berry - loads of art P5 Mrs Robertson - a lot of trips P6 Miss Smith and Mrs Davidson - clay models P7 Mr Kingsbury - Ronnie left :(
Isla Crosbie My favourite memories were at camp when we were doing the leap of faith when everyone tries to touch the ball and when we were doing raft building and I deliberately fell off. It was funny and it was so cold. Everyone got soaking wet and when you touched the ground it felt weird because it was mud. Noah was giving us a tour round the school and spinning round and round in a circle and everyone fell. At Mock Court I was an artist. Despite the pressure we won. Our show turned out good in the end after ages of practice it went quite well.
Toby Dean Hi!! My Favourite memory of my time at primary school was when I get to fly down the stairs on the side of our classroom in a buggy! Yeah! We went down three steps then two steps I felt the wind in my hair I had so much fun!
Sophie Gibson My favourite memory in primary is camp. It was the highlight of school. P7 is the best year because you have lots of trips. Another one was when we invented the game called Noah's tours. It was so funny and the spinny game it was fun, we fell on the floor. At the Mock Court I was a witness and it was so scary at the final. I was shaking. But we won!!!!!!!!! So that is it.
Rosie Graham My favourite memories from P7 are all the times we spent outside together. We would do lots of things, like telling each other ridiculous stories that has never happened to us and running around the playground, holding hands and getting in everyone else’s way. But my favourite overall memory was when Noah took us on a ‘school tour’, showing us around the playground. It was hilarious. P7 has definitely been the best year I’ve ever had so far! We always loved piling on top of each other, even though someone would always end up getting hurt.
Grace Higgins My favourite memory from primary school is when William and Niamh and Duncan found an empty carton of milk that still had some in it and were stamping on it and milk was going everywhere. Niamh ran back into the school and filled up with water and it was dripping all over the school.
Zoe Hunter I’m going to do one of my favourite memories for every class: P1: My first day of school playing P2: our p2 assembly on African animals
and singing Crocodile Rock P3: Singing Roar in the singing
competition P4: Everyone trying chocolate coated
crickets (I didn’t though) P5: Watching Singing in the Rain as part
of our topic on movies P6: Going to the nursery and playing with
my buddy P7: Hanging out with my friends, camp
and playing with the P1s
Bethany Kerr One of my favourite parts of p7 is camp. One because of the food and two because when we were doing the catwalk and when I was on it I looked down and the go pro fell of my head and it was very funny. My favourite class was p4 because we got to write our p7 future letter. P6 was also good because we got to have our nursery buddies .
Noah Macdonald
P7 has been one of my favourite years so far. We have climbed up the tallest of trees and the hardest of heights and ran and jumped the highest of bars, and had the most fun I have had at school so far. I am going to write about my top 3 favourite things this year. 1 mock court. I was the solicitor for the defenders side. We placed 3rd out of 24. 2 camp. It was a great experience for all of us. 3 Meadowmill athletics. It was a very fun day with us coming away with 4 gold medals, 2 silvers and 1 bronze.
Niamh McLean My favourite memory in primary 7 when we did the Raft Building at Camp because it was really funny because 2 seconds after we got off the side Rosie fell off. She got absolutely soaking. She was absolutely freezing cold. Then Elliot pushed me off then William fell off then Elliot and then other people fell then Grace and Lucy were still on. Then Grace fell off then Lucy was the last one on. My other favourite memory was the Mock Court. I was a witness it was so scary. Defenders was my team and we came 3rd and pursuers came 1st they got into the finals and they won.
Lucy McMillan My favourite memories of Pencaitland Primary School are going to camp and doing the p7 show. I also like the memory when I was with my p1 buddy Rowen (she drew me with spiky hair and arms where my ears should be) and all the p1s. I liked doing Mock Court because I was a solicitor. It was really scary when we were presenting the case to the court but it was fun when we won the case and came third in the competition. I liked spending time with the class in the (not so) quiet area and some of the things the class talked about and did was ridiculous. I think in p7 the whole class got closer which was nice.
Duncan McWilliam-Snow P7 has been the best year ever! We have been on so many trips and had lots of memories like camp, Mock Court, Risk Factory, sporting events and transition days. I loved going to camp where we did so many activities. My favourite activity was raft building everyone got wet and we had the best shower after. At Mock Court I was a witness for the defenders, We came 3rd out of 24 and the pursuers came 1st. Our class has done really well in sports this year we came 2nd in cross country, 3rd in swimming, we got into the semi-finals in basketball and we came 1st at Meadowmill with help from P6. I can't wait till I go to high school but it will be sad to leave primary.
Ruby Mosses-Hoy My favourite memory in P7 was at Mock Court when Pencaitland was called as the winners and we all cheered and the rest of our class held up signs, so the pursuers team started laughing on stage and we all were really happy.
Evie Sinclair My favourite memory is when we were all spinning around the quiet area. I know it's not that big of a memory but it’s the little thing that makes Primary 7 special. Also when Noah took us on the school tour. It was so funny when we all kept falling over each other, also when we did a big pile on even though it hurt bad it was a good laugh. At Mock Court I was an artist. It was really fun because me Zoe and Isla got to paint and draw for ages and I am so happy our team, the Pursuers won. Don't even get me started on camp it was so much fun!!
Malcolm Sinclair My favourite thing in p1 was Mr Thompson. My favourite thing in p2 was a trip to the Botanical Gardens. My favourite thing in p3 it was doing the musical choir competition. My favourite thing in p4 it was Mrs Kerr. My favourite thing in p5 it was being the teacher’s parrot. My favourite thing in p6 it was going to Dynamic Earth. My favourite thing in p7 it was all the trips and camp and everything fun.
Elliot Smith My favourite memory was when we were making our short films. I was in Space Wars and Titanic 2. I'm proud of it because I was the main character Jack. I was Old Ben Wonkie in Space Wars. When we showed them to the school it was fun having people laughing at my characters. At P7 camp my favourite moment was when I got 2 BULLSEYES in a row in archery. My funniest thing was on the first lunch when I tripped up and my lunch went flying!
Finley Taylor My favourite memories at school: My favourite thing in p1 was the teacher Mr Thompson. My favourite thing in p2 was a trip to Edinburgh Zoo. My favourite thing in p3 was the teacher Miss McLauchlin. My favourite thing in p7 was camp.
William Ward My favourite memory is the p7 camp when I did the catwalk. Niamh helped my fear. The catwalk is two big logs put in between two trees and ones higher than the other about 20 feet in the air. My legs were shaking like mad. I also did a dance on the top one. When you finish it you had to dangle and you got lowered down and when you finish you have to belay the rope.
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Tamara Warren My favourite memory from primary 7 is when we all went to Edinburgh College and did all the activities for science and how we got to meet all the other people. Also at Meadowmill we got to test different foods like what was gonna be in the school cafe and we got to play games like basketball and dodgeball. We had to socialise with others and create and design carts and Christmas themed pictures.
Cameron Young My favourite thing from primary was p7 show and camp when my shoe fell in the water and when Noah made everyone laugh with the spinny game. The show was really good as well. P7 was the funniest year of them all and Noah said his great stories. We came 1st in Mock Court in our 2nd year entering the competition.
Solicitors
Being a solicitor was hard from the very beginning. We had a lot to do under pressure and not a lot of time. At first we jumped head first into piles of work. We started to work on Mock Court very close to the start of the year knowing we only had till the end of November to finish all the details of the cases for both sides. We had to make documents, websites, Ming vases, art work, letters and lots more. We had a manic classroom
at some points but it was all worthwhile. After a few months we went to court and had an amazing experience and an amazing time. We all worked very hard in the classroom and in the courtroom, making artwork, writing documents questioning witnesses, making newspapers and lots more but all of the hard work paid off completely. The Pursuers came 1st and the Defenders came 3rd. We all learned so much and had so much fun. Our solicitors are Ruby & Rosie (pursuers) and Noah & Lucy (defenders).
Witnesses
Being a witness is hard because you had to learn a lot of lines. But it was a great experience. You had to put a ton of effort into it. Our witnesses where Grace as Anne Byte, Malcolm as Mr Ing, Sophie as Apple Byte on the pursuers side. On the Defenders where Niamh as Stacey, Duncan as Sam Sim and Tamara as Mr Snoop. A Lot of work went into the Mock Court even before we went into court. We made witness diaries in our characters shoes. In court was a good experience. We sat in a witness
chair then when we were called we went up to the witness stand. It was very exciting and nerve wracking. The pursuers got into the finals out of 80 schools and only 4 got in including the Pencaitland pursuers. It is on the 4th of June. We are going up against Cumbrae Primary School.
Newspapers
In Mock Court you had to create newspapers that get marked on how good your newspaper is. A lot of work went into these newspaper and the newspaper might have helped us win. You had to create your newspapers on recent events that happened like Brexit or football then we put our case in the newspapers that we made.
Gown Makers Defenders: William Elliot and Ollie Pursuers: Bethany Cameron Warren Being a gown maker is hard because we needed to make our gowns in a limited amount of time and if we didn't do it in time it would let our team down which was stressful but we had fun whilst doing it. It was difficult to start making the gowns because we needed to find the right materials to make them. We started to think of some ideas for the gown. Before we had made the gowns we had to do a lot of sketches. At the end we decided on a red, black, yellow and green colour. Our gowns looked like this:
Court Artists
The artist where Isla, Zoe, Evie, Finley, Kayleigh, Toby When you where are artist you had to make a Ming vase and a map. We made the vase out of papier mache the vase took nearly a month to make. The map was hard because you had to get all the details and the number mark where things were damaged. In the court you had to draw the all of the court and what was going on it the stand. You had to draw three drawings at the court it was hard getting all the little details.
The Parents Quiz
Many of our parents took part of the mock court parent quiz. It was questions about law and court. It gave our teams a lot of extra points.
At the beginning of the year we went to the risk factory. We arrived in the morning and had a safety briefing, then we got put into groups then the adult in charge of our groups took us to our first activities. The idea was that we went into different parts of the building that were decorated to look like places that could be dangerous. We went into the different stations and worked as a team to decide how we should deal with them. The activities were
Fire safety
Electricity safety
Bus safety
Water safety
Building site safety
House safety
Train safety
Online safety
Bike safety
Farm safety
In some activities we just talked about what you can do to make it safer and in others they left us alone to see what we would do in certain situations. One of the things we did was fire safety, they left us in a house and then a fake fire started. We had to get out and help out two dummies. Once we were out we had to call the fire brigade on a phone in the phone box. After we had called the fire brigade and we were waiting for them to come we heard the voice of someone from the house next door saying that the house was filling up with smoke and they couldn’t get out and that there was a key in the house on fire to his house. Most of the kids went back into the house. Another one of the activities was train safety there was a £20 on a train track, we were told that if we got the money we could keep it of course no one would go onto the track and pick up the money but every time someone did as soon as they took a step onto the track a train came right towards the who was on the track! The child who was on the track would immediately jump back off the train track thinking that the train would hit them luckily it was just a projection on the screen.
Another activity was bike safety. We went onto a street and saw a person who had crashed with a car on their bike. Then we had to check the person, the bike and the car for evidence of why they had crashed and see what they were doing unsafely. Another activity was house safety. We had to look around a house and see all the things in the house that was unsafe or could cause danger!!! In water safety we went into a room that had a big picture on the wall of a sea side. We had to pick out all the people who were doing something that could be dangerous. Then we pretended that someone had been drowning and someone had to call the coast guard. Another activity was bike safety. We went onto a street and saw a person who had crashed with a car on their bike. Then we had to check the person, the bike and the car for evidence of why they had crashed and see what they were doing unsafely.
Another activity was house safety. We had to look around a house and see all the things in the house that was unsafe or could cause danger!!! In water safety we went into a room that had a big picture on the wall of a sea side. We had to pick out all the people who were doing something that could be dangerous. Then we pretended that someone had been drowning and someone had to call the coast guard. There was one activity where we saw someone unconscious on the ground and someone had to call the ambulance. Then we looked at a front garden that had been vandalised.
McMillan Coffee
Morning
P7 ran a McMillan coffee morning. There was lots of lovely cakes and biscuits and scones and coffee. We raised £576.20 !!! Lots of people came along to eat cake and drink tea or coffee. The turnout was great. The chocolate cake very popular. We served the younger kids lots of cake and juice and water and some P7s played with their P1 buddies. Look its ollie and cameron handing out cakes Tamara also in the background. There’s the Star Wars chocolate cake. In our opinion that was the best cake there.
At Sky Academy we made a news report. We got to sit on comfy seats and watched a video. Then we made our short films. We each got to go pick our groups at school and then went into our groups. Each group went into a separate studio. In the studios we got to check how loud we were with a sound check after that we actually got to film them. Before that we got to put costumes on. At the end people from Sky Academy put them all together and then we got to watch it. After we all got a Sky Academy wristband with the films on it which we got to take them home and plug them into the computer and watch. It was so amazing, the cameras was so big they were filming cameras that you could move at different angles. There was a screen to the side of the camera which had our lines on it so it looked like we didn't have them. We did about 6 retakes and picked what one we thought was best. Once we picked what one it was we were done and waited for the other groups to finish then once they were finished we all went back to the comfy seats and watch the movies that we made all put together.
STEM Activities @ Edinburgh College
When we got to the Edinburgh College we went into groups with some random people from other schools. Our first activity was building a rocket propelled car which was made of syrofoam which we then decorated. After decorating we tested them most of the cars went at 60-70mph. Next we had a challenge to stop an egg from cracking from a drop by making something. You had paper plastic straws and some tape. Most people did a birds nest and a parachute to protect the egg. We had to make a bridge and we had to make triangles and put it on the bridge to make it stronger. When we finished we had to put weights to see how much our bridges could hold and when we turned the bridge around it became even stronger. When we left we got to keep 2 cars and a bridge.
Christmas Lunch
At the Christmas lunch the
primary 7 had to help hand
out all the lunches and give
them to all of the classes.
We also set the tables. We
had to put the crackers down
and bring the little ones their
trays and help them open
their crackers. We handed out choc-ices - they are really
good. Everyone tried to finish quickly to get the choc-
ices. But people took too long to eat them so they
melted and the little ones got all sticky! It wasn’t nice
so we had to wipe their hands and face. It was fun
helping but the best part was the end because that's
when we got our lunch and our choc-ices. YUM!
FILM MAKING Our Teachers Are Aliens
One of the groups for movie making
was Our Teachers are Aliens. The
people in that group were Zoe, Lucy
and Kayleigh. The first thing we had
to do was come up with an idea. We
spent a lot of time coming up with
ideas, deciding they weren’t good
enough and starting again. After a
while we came up with the idea of teachers being aliens. We started working
on it and making it into a story. We had to make a storyboard with everything
that happens in the story and we made about 3 of these before we had our
story and started writing the script. We spent the next week or so working on
the script before it was ready. Once we had made the script we started
practising scenes, learning our lines and gathering props.
Eventually we were ready to start
filming. When we were filming we
took at least 5 attempts before we
got a take we could use. We had
about 10 scenes to film. We could
only film if everyone was silent and
there were lots of times when we had
to film a scene again and again because someone laughed or opened the door.
Eventually we had filmed all the scenes and Mr Kingsbury put them together
and put in the sound effects. We were all really happy with the film. Later in
the year we found out that our film had been shortlisted for the Edinburgh and
Lothians Schools Film Competition and we went to see them being shown at
the film house.
Space Wars
First we thought of ideas and made
plans for the script. Then we thought
of the names and the characters.
Duncan was Princess Freya, Elliot was
Oh Bee Wonkie, Finley was Baccy
Chewer, William was Ham Solo, Noah
was Luke Cloudwalker, Bethany was
WD40 and Sophie was a stormtrooper. William and Noah started working on
the script while Duncan, Elliot and Finley started working on WD40. After the
script was finished, everyone helped finish WD40. Everyone had to have a
costume so we all provided each other with our costumes. Team Work! After
all these things we finally started the
filming, one scene at a time. Yeah! We
learned that about 80% of making the
movie is thinking of ideas for the
movie, script and costumes, making
the script and the costumes.
Titanic 2
First we came up with the scenes and
looked for who would be playing who.
We decided Rosie would play Rose,
with Elliot as Jack. We had to look for
music that we could use in our movie,
and we decided on ‘A thousand years’
by Christina Perri. We thought of all
the props, costumes and settings, and then we were ready to film. We used
the green screen for most of our scenes, and other places in the school,
including the stage, the gym hall and the sofas in the upper area. Although the
last scene is Jack and Rose (Elliot and Rosie) sitting in the lifeboat, that was
actually the first scene we filmed. We all had a laugh while filming this scene,
because Mr. Kingsbury told Rosie and Elliot to turn around, to the green screen
and they were waiting there for about 1 minute. All together, our group
included Tamara, Ruby, Bethany, Evie
and Rosie. We used P7 to help out
with some of the background filming
and used them to walk and run around
the classroom for the near end scene
for when the alarm goes off.
The Mystery of the Missing
Pencils
First we had to choose are groups. In the mice group
were Isla, Niamh, Sophie and Grace. We
had to decide what movie we wanted to
make. We had 8 different ideas but we
weren't allowed any of them. Mr
Kingbury helped us change one idea so
that it would work. The next thing we
needed to do was make the script - that was one of the hardest things to do.
Then we had to find costumes,
actually make the movie and choose
all the sound effects. It took weeks to
make our movie. One of the hardest
parts was to make it under 5 minutes.
Who Wants to Win a Load of
Money?
Warren Cameron Malcolm Toby and
Ollie came up with Who Wants to
Win a Load of Money. First we made
Warren be Jezza Darkton then Ollie as
Bobby Jones. Jezza and Bobby are the
main characters. Now we had to get
props together. We got 2 computer
screens, 2 breakfast stools and 1 table. We were ready to film. It was amazing!
The first question was which of these was a team in the English Premier
League, the second question was which countries make up Great Britain. The
third question was what is the largest
animal in the world. The fourth was
what is the capital of Mongolia, the last
question (which he got wrong) was
which country has the smallest area.
Despite a lot of cheating Bobby didn’t
win loads of money.
Unfortunately our film didn’t make it to the shortlist for the film competition.
WORLD WAR 2
When we learned about WWII we did lots of activities - we made a 5 minute movie, had some debates, researched a lot and at one point we had a visitor.
Our WWII Movie
We made a short movie about WWII in Europe. We did drawing, animation and sound effects. We made maps of Dunkirk, Poland and France. We then made animations of tanks moving across them to show how Germany invaded different areas. We also did artwork of people celebrating winning the war. Finally we wrote and recorded a narration.
Debates
We were put into groups and allocated an argument. We had some debates about whether children should be evacuated or not and how it would affect them emotionally and then physically.
Research
We did a lot of researching and were told to type up some questions. Sometimes Mrs Davidson would read a page of a book about WWII and we would write down notes, then she would give us a quiz about it. We wrote down different sections that we were going to research (what women helped with, bombing and shelters, evacuation and rationing). We had lots of books about WWII that we could read.
Our Visitor
We had a visitor who came in to teach us about WWII. He had lots of different things with him: he had clothes that soldiers would wear, guns that they would use (not loaded or used), gas masks, real canned food from the time of the war, ration books, equipment that both the Germans and the Britons would use and lots more. He had lots of stuff on different tables and in our groups we would go round the tables, have a look at the stuff and write it down on a worksheet. We went outside and used a hand turned air raid siren. We played a game with a real bomb that went off in the war.
Meadowmill Transition Event
What We Did
At the Meadowmill
Transition day we did
loads of activities and
games. We tasted some
of the drinks and food
you can get at Ross
High School. We also
played basketball
games, indoor curling,
dancing and fruit salad.
We talked to students
from Ross High.
We Enjoyed It
Because
We enjoyed it because
we got to make new
friends, we got to try
the Ross High food and
we got a taster of
Recharge, which is
youth club in Tranent.
Camp – PGL Dalguise
Just before the Easter holidays we went on P7 camp. We went to PGL Dalguise where we took part
in many activities. Here’s what we got up to.
Vertical Challenge
On Tuesday one of the activities we did
was the vertical challenge. The vertical
challenge is a climbing challenge where
you have to get to the top of a wall but it
isn’t a normal climbing wall. First we got
harnessed up and then the first people
climbed with the others belaying.
For the first part of the challenge you had
to climb up a ladder. Then you have to go
up a bit of a climbing wall. Then you had
to climb up more of a ladder. Then you have to climb up a net. By this point you’re quite high up and
you can see how high up you are through the ladder and net. Then you have to climb up a pole and
ring the bell at the top.
Food
Breakfast = Toast, Cereal, Yoghurt, Sausages,
Bacon, Hash Browns and Baked Beans.
Lunch = Soup, Bread, Baked potatoes, Tacos
or Wraps with Chilli con carne or Cajun
Chicken, Nachos and Fish and Chips
Dinner = Chicken Pie, Chilli Con Carne with
rice or Chips, Cottage pie and Chicken
nuggets.
Desserts = Apple Pie and Custard, Doughnuts,
Lemon Drizzle Cake and chocolate rice crispy cake.
Trapeze
Trapeze is where you climb up a tree, with a
harness and onto a platform. Then you have to
jump off and try to hit an orange ball that is
hanging from the tree.
Canoeing
On our last day we did canoeing. We had to pull
the canoes out to the edge of the water and learn
how to use the paddles. We got into pairs, sat in
the canoe and got pushed into the lake. Our
leader taught us a few games. We had to stand
up, lean forwards, sit on the edge and dip our
elbows, hands and feet into the water at one
point. In the water we saw some frogs and lots of
frogspawn. When we came out some people had
to do a forfeit which was dipping your hat into the water and put it on. Some people did it anyway!
Cat walk
There were two big wooden poles a high one and a
lower one. We had to ‘ching-our-bling’ before we
started to climb. We had two people holding the
ladder and 4 people on belay.
Nobody wanted to belay so the people that were
doing it had to keep doing and got sore hands!
When Bethany went up on her shot she had the go
pro on and it fell right of her head and hit the floor.
Sadly we didn’t catch the footage as it would have
been good if we did though.
The second one was high. Some people didn’t do it but we were encouraging them to and some of
them did it.
Raft Building
Our instructor Mikey took us for Raft Building.
He asked what outline of raft we wanted to
make. So our group choose to do one altogether
and the other group choose to do Boys and
Girls. Our group got 2 seconds off the edge and
Rosie fell of the raft and she was absolutely
soaking wet. Then most of us fell off except
Grace and Lucy who were still on the raft. Then
Grace fell of then Lucy. In the other group they had 2 rafts, one with just girls and one with just boys
and then the boys won. The girls did the challenge where you had to cannon ball in and lie back. We
all got soaked.
Climbing
One of the first activities we did at camp was
climbing. We went to the climbing wall to meet our
leader Jack. First he showed us how to put on the
harnesses then he taught us how to us belay which
is when you hold the rope that is connected to the
climbers harness and pull it to make sure that it is
tight and will hold them up. Then we took it in turns to climb as high as we could. We all climbed in
pairs so that if you wanted to you could race to the top. When you got to the top you had to touch
the top of handle and then you sat back in your
harness and waited to get lowered down.
Disco
On the Thursday night (our last night) we had a
disco. At around seven O’clock we walked down to a
big hall called the dome. Inside was the disco but
outside you could go to get a drink. They played lots
of good songs and everyone had a good time.
Abseiling
On abseiling we had to walk down this really high
wall and lower yourself down it. The first shot you
did it completely normally and then they made
you try doing it the proper way. It’s kinda the
same but it was cool to do it like the professionals.
Abseiling was pretty scary for some people but
with a lot of encouragement and chanting they finally came down. It took a while to get them down
but whilst they were coming down it was completely fine and they faced their fears!!
Burn walk
There is one word I can use to describe burn walk, cold, very, very cold. The burn walk was a long
stream, a very, very cold stream. It had a lot of big
rocks. We did have a small rock called pebble
which we had to carry her up the stream. If you
lost or dropped pebble then you had to get an
even bigger rock and carry that up the stream. As
we were going up we came across a big wall. It was
all wet and slimy so we kept on moving. Soon after
that we came to the end of our trail. At to the top
there was a big pile of rocks. That’s what pebble
was for. Everyone who does the burn walk has a
rock called pebble and at the end you would put
pebble at the top with the rest of the rocks to
show that you have been there.
Challenge course
The challenge course great fun because we had a
very funny teacher. He called us all private Dave
and if we did a dab or any sort of Fortnite dance we
would have to do a punishment like grass angels or
20 push ups. First we did a laser beam challenge.
We had to go through the laser beams without
touching them (the laser beams were actually ropes
crossed over).The next challenge was that we had
to walk across a moving log. We were allowed to
get help to walk across it if we felt like we needed it. The next one was this frame thing which we
had to go through. It was really fun.
The other activity that we did was these big tires that were dug into the ground but our PGL teacher
poured water on the ground so that we got covered in mud. My favourite activity was this tire thing.
It was to racks of tires but they were stacked on top of each other and we had to crawl through the
tunnel.
Night Activities
Robot Wars.
On the night we arrived the first activity we did was robot wars. For robot wars we had lots of
different challenges and if you did well you got
something you could use to make you robot
(cardboard boxes, string, sellotape etc.).
Then we had to use anything we could find or
the stuff we had earned to dress one of our
team members up as a robot. Our group leader
Caitlin chose the best dressed robot. Then we
made sure the person in the robot costume
couldn’t see anything and their group had to try
and lead them to find a bucket that had water
balloons in it. The robot had to carry back as
many as possible. Then all the robots had a water balloon fight and the least wet one won.
Quiz night
On the Wednesday night we had a quiz. We got into groups of 5 or 6 and they gave us a quiz sheet.
They asked the question and we had to put down the answers on the sheet. At one point we had to
do some challenges, one was we had to pick up water balloon using anything but our hands and
then we had to try and keep it until Friday without it bursting. It was fun.
Photo Challenge
On the Tuesday evening we had a photo
challenge. We got into groups and in our groups
we got an iPad to take photos with. Then our
group leader Caitlin gave us all challenges to
take a photo of (your team flying, part of a
movie, your group in a tiny space, photobomb
etc.). Different photos got you different
amounts of points and at the end the group
with the most points wo
Shop!
On Thursday and Tuesday we were allowed to
go to the shop and buy what we want. There
were mugs, bracelets, snacks, keyrings, and lots
of other things.
Meadowmill Athletics
Meadowmill was a challenge as there were lots of schools competing for the prize but only one could win. We arrived at Meadowmill not knowing how hard it was going to be. We had been training in PE on a Tuesday but some of us only had a week of practice but still we felt like we were ready. We arrived in the morning and straight away the high jumpers (Noah & Evie) had to go away and get their practice jumps and all of the runners had to warm up.
The first event was the relay and the first jump of the high jump. The relay team (Malcolm, Evie, Cameron & Courtney) finished third in their heat and qualified for the final.
The next activities were the next round of high jump, the 80 metre sprint (Cameron) and the cricket ball throw (Warren). We weren't so lucky in the cricket ball throw though we placed 10th. We did well in 80 metre sprints qualifying for the final. In the boy and girls high jump both cleared 1m 5cm.
We did really well in the 150 boys and girls with Darcy coming 1st in the heats and Malcolm Coming second and they both qualified for the final. In the final Darcy came 2nd with Malcolm coming 2nd.
Our first victory came in the 600 metres with Alex smashing the boys race. Also in the 600 metres girls Emily had a comfortable win. This was before Noah and Evie won the boys and girls high jumps. Then it was the long jump. Alex started off roughly but ended up winning which meant he had 2 medals. The next event was all of the finals. The relay final we started of strong but Cameron and Courtney did not do the best of changeovers but in the end we did come 3rd.
Before the rest of the finals came the tug of war. We did well in the tug of war. We won and lost one but it was close. We got into the quarter finals with the tug of war (Sophie, Malcolm, Rose, Lucy, William and Duncan)
Next up was the start of the 80m finals. Cameron and Courtney both started strongly. But we weren’t that lucky because all of the other sprinters were really fast. In the end Cameron came 4th and Courtney came 6th Next up was the 150 metres finals with Darcy and Malcolm after Darcy winning the Heats and Malcolm coming 2nd. the Pressure was on for them to impress. The first race was the girls where Darcy did really well but came 2nd in the end. Next race was the 150m boys race with Malcolm competing. Malcolm started first but then someone overtook and finally Malcolm came 2nd.
OVERALL WE PLACED 1ST
We all had fun and we hope we can do as well next year
Jealousy Kills
This is a show about 4 dramatic deaths with gossiping girls, idiots and clowns to make you giggle and one of the main evil characters Iago. We have worked on this for weeks now and we are all really excited to perform it today we are hoping we don’t get embarrassed for talking so we need to be quiet. This show has been so fun to work and now it is time to perform. We have now performed it and everyone enjoyed it the little kids enjoyed it and I didn't think that they would understand any of it. I think we got a lot more laughs from the adults they found it hilarious!!
Characters
Iago - A villainous, envious, soldier who seeks revenge
Othello- The loyal , mature and kind but jealous army-leading hero.
Roderigo- Iago’s naive collaborator who is desperately in love with Desdemona
Cassio- A relentlessly cheerful, loyal and trusting soldier
Messenger 1- An excitable news-teller who loves to gossip
Messenger 2- A spoilsport news-teller who is often bored
Messenger 3- A bad-tempered news-teller who is usually miserable
Guard 1- An irritable overworked soldier
Guard 2- A childlike overworked soldier
Guard 3- A cheerful overworked soldier
Brabantio- Desdemona's rich and devoted father
Desdemona- The young, beautiful, rich and loyal heroine
Emilia- The honest, good and kind wife of Iago
Bianca- Tiffania’s frivolous best friend and Cassio’s girlfriend
Tiffania- Bianca’s excitable best friend who fancies Roderigo
Clown- The “Village idiot”
Idiot- The “Village Clown”
Montano- An important official who likes to know what’s going on
Lodovico- An important official who likes to state the obvious
Gratiano- An important official who likes a good gossip
The Duke of Venice- The wise and mature ruler who doesn’t tolerate fools Announcer Introduces the show
Light and Sound
Toby Elliot Malcolm Warren Cast
Iago- Noah Cassio- Duncan Othello- Cameron Roderigo- William Guard 2- Niamh
Guard 1- Isla
Guard 3- Tamara
Messenger 2- Bethany
Messenger 1- Zoe Messenger 3- Lucy
Emilia- Rosie
Bianca- Evie
Tiffania- Grace
Desdemona- Ruby Brabantino- Warren Montano- Sophie Gratiano- Ollie
Lodovico- Kayleigh Idiot- Finley Clown- Elliot The Duke of Venice- Malcolm Announcer- Toby
We collected over £100 for Cancer
Research
Mock Court Finals
The past couple of weeks before the finals, we were working on our show, but
we managed to squeeze in time to work on the Mock Court. Our first Case,
on the 6th of December 2018, all of us had scripts, but we decided we wanted
the witnesses to learn their lines this time. By the time we went to the finals,
our witnesses knew their lines off by heart. This was a big advantage for us.
On the 4th of June, we went to Central Hall in Edinburgh and the Pursuers
took part in the Mock Court Finals against Cumbrae Primary School from
Ayrshire, Armadale Primary School from Livingston and St. Bridgit’s Primary
School from Glasgow. Ruby and Rosie were our solicitors and Sophie, Grace
and Malcolm played the parts of our witnesses, Sophie as Apple Byte, Grace as
Anne Byte, and Malcolm as Michael Ing. The others in the class got the chance
to take part in an art competition. When it came to the time for us to do our
finals case it was scary at first, because
we had to walk through the hall behind
the Sheriffs, as they played really
intense music. But once we got up
there, it was okay.
We questioned all our witnesses and
they did great! After that we got the chance to cross examine all of the
defenders witnesses. Our witnesses were really good and done great in their
cross examination. Surprisingly, their Sam Sim accidentally confessed. It was a
very successful case, which we won, but we had to wait until the end of the day
to find out the overall winner.
We all had lunch and then a few people performed. The next finals case took
place after, and it was St. Bridgets (Pursuers) against Armadale (Defenders).
We watched and thought that St. Bridgets were really good. Their case took a
really long time! After that more classes performed, and awards were handed
out for other things. The wait wasn’t actually that long, bit it felt like ages! Just
before they announced the winners, they asked our Pursuers Solicitors and
Witnesses to go up on stage, with the 3 other finalists Solicitors and Witnesses.
They said it was extremely close between us and St. Bridgets. But, their final
decision of the winners was us! We
were all really happy and we took lots
of pictures with the trophy. There was
one more performance, and then
everybody started to leave. We went
home with the trophy, and we were
all so excited to tell our parents! All in
all, it was an extremely successful day.
Edinburgh and Lothians Schools Film Competition
FINALS Earlier in the year we made 6 short films
which we entered in the Edinburgh and
Lothians Schools Film Competition. Five
of them were shortlisted.
We all went to the Filmhouse in Edinburgh
to see all the 24 shortlisted films. It was
fun watching what other people made and
thought of. Lots were funny and some
were saying about bullying. It was intense
when the results were being announced.
Everyone's hearts were pounding because
they wanted to get a prize.
When we won the prize for best factual
film everyone was relieved. We were all very surprised when Space Wars won best film but
very excited as well.
At the end we had lots of photos and very happy children
Assault Course
On the 24th of June we went to
Winton to do an Assault Course.
We started with a warm up
where we ran 3 times up and
down a steep hill. During the
warm up, we also linked arms and
did sit ups and squats. After that
we started the course, which had
many mucky and wet, but fun
activities. One of our first
activities was going through a deep river. After that we had to climb
under a cargo net but there was muddy water underneath it so when
we climbed through we all got
soaked!
We had to swing from ropes and
rings from metal poles, to get to
the end. Some of us fell off, but
everyone who fell just laughed it
off and carried on with the
course. Soon after we did a mini
course, where we had to jump
over 3 tires, crawl under a cargo net again, but the water was
deeper, then we had to crawl through a dirty tunnel, then we had to
jump over more tunnels, and
that led us to the end of the
mini course.
Another activity we did was 4
poles, with tires hanging from
them, and we had to squeeze
through them. After that we
had to jump on and over 3 hay
bales. There were also 3 walls
of different sizes, where we
had to use teamwork to help
each other over. One of our
classmates would get on one
knee, we would step on their
knees, then their shoulder
and climb over the wall, and
then we were able to climb
over the 2 other walls by ourselves, as they were shorter.
There was a big slide, where at the bottom, there was mucky water.
They put fairy liquid on the material and we had to slide down, into
the freezing cold water. We also
did an activity where there was a
wall tipped to one side and we had
to climb up and over it, this one
was really hard, but really fun at
the same time!
One of our last activities was
metal monkey bars, but they were
really slippery and high up, so it was a challenge! We were all
freezing and we had the choice to walk back to the shed where we
left our stuff, or we could go
the river way.
Once we were all back, we got
changed into dry clothes and
then we got a hot chocolate, a
tea cake and a pack of
Haribos.
But, as we are silly
P7s, we will
ALWAYS be silly
P7s…
We got to sit and talk for a while, and then we went back to the
school. It wasn’t the nicest day, but we all really enjoyed ourselves,
in fact, the bad weather probably made it more fun!
Most likely to:
1. Work at McDonalds ........................... Noah (Macdonald)
2. Go to jail .............................................................. Warren
3. Be an actor ............................................................ Rosie
4. Be an artist ............................................................. Evie
5. Attempt take over the world ................................... Toby
6. Be a goth ........................................................... Tamara
7. Own part of Europe ................................................. Lucy
8. Stay in touch with everyone in the class ................ Grace
9. Go on Britain’s Got Talent ................................ Cameron
10. Work at a nail salon ........................................... Kayleigh
11. Get in a fight ...................................................... Tamara
12. Get detention at high school ............................... Tamara
13. Be super rich ............................................................ Isla
14. Teach at PPS ........................................................ Grace
15. Move to Australia and stay there .......................... Niamh
16. Become a singer ............................................... Cameron
17. Run for prime minister ............................................ Noah
18. Forget about everyone in the class .......................... Elliot
19. Get divorced three times .................................... Tamara
20. Become a dancer ................................................ Sophie
21. Compete at the Olympics ........................................ Evie
22. Marry someone in the class ................................. William
23. Become a Psychic .................................................. Ruby
24. Become a professional Footballer .................... Cameron
25. Go to space ............................................................ Noah
26. Work for Donald Trump ....................................... Warren
27. Get fired from your first job .................................... Finley
28. Have children first ..................................................... Zoe
29. Go to university........................................................ Lucy
30. Binge a TV show for 2 days in a row ..................... Rosie
31. Go bald ..................................................... Mr. Kingsbury
32. Live at home for the longest ................................... Toby
33. Laugh at the wrong time ...................................... Sophie
34. Become a crazy cat lady/man ........................... Bethany
35. Create a time machine ....................................... Duncan
36. Try and cycle round the world but fail .................. Warren
37. Get bitten by a radioactive spider ............................ Ollie
38. Set a world record ................................................ Niamh
39. Get lost in Disneyland ........................................ Bethany
40. Wear a Darth Vader costume in public ................ William
41. Still say LOL when they’re 50 .................................... Isla
42. Release a fitness video ........................................... Evie
43. Lie on an application form ................................. Malcolm
44. Give all their money charity ................................ Duncan
45. Become a Little Mix super fan ........................... Kayleigh
GOOD LUCK TO ALL OUR P7S