Daily Diary

Welcome to this new feature on my web page. My Daily Diary. I do lots of things in the school which are not directly related to my travels or to my class projects. Sometimes I go to class assemblies, sometimes I go home with one of the school kids to see something they are doing or go somewhere with them. Lots of other things too. I have set up this daily diary to tell you what I'm up to. The most recent things will be at the top of the list so you will need to scroll down to see previous entries.

26th June 2009 Kayleigh has been supplying me with eggs from her chickens all year, she gave me this fantastic chicken with 6 eggs, the chicken was only home for an hour and look what it has produceced! She has obviously settled in well.

18th June 2009 All money collected from selling Angus' badges, and from the Xmas fair last December, went to MacMillan Cancer Support. This year we raised £1,192,21. Thanks to everyone who bought badges or bought things at the xmas fair. There are still a few badges left over. Please see Mrs Boyiatjis if you would like to buy one before they run out.

17th June 2009 The kids got to know who their new teachers are today and they are very excited. They have Tuesday afternoon with their new teacher to get to know them.

Scott Lothian brought in a couple of pounds today for Macmillan. He had been washing cars in his street yesterday to earn it, how nice is that. Well done Scott !

12th June 2009 As part of Healthy Working Lives, the teachers went on a walk after school on Thursday night to Callendar Park. They Met Mr McGlyn with his beautiful new baby Molly. They also met Mr Kilpatrick, our janitor, out walking his dog.

4th June 2009 Do you remember earlier this year, the class made up a jingle for a pizza advertisement? Well, I have finally managed to make it into an MP3 file and put it onto the Health Week page of the Topics section. Sorry I took so long. Just move your mouse over the picture of a Pizza, below, to hear it.

31st May 2009 Luke is this weeks good work winner he invented a character and wrote a super story about him.

On Thursday, Angus and the children of P7/6 were asked to be ball boys/girls at a charity football match.

27th May 2009 Jonathan, who has been off school for a few weeks, came to visit us on Friday. He has had an operation but is feeling much better now. We were all pleased to see him and we are looking forward to his return to class.

Evan is this week's good work winner. He can work effectively as part of a group. He is able to give his opinion and listen to and take account of other peoples opinions.

21st May 2009 It was great to get back to the classroom and see my classmates. Andrew C is this weeks good work winner, he made a beautiful chinese lantern you can see it on the wall on our International Ed Week page.

Jonathan is still off because he had an operation, we miss you Jonathan and hope to see you soon.

15th May 2009 We like to use the Carousel Tool to investigate ideas and learn about China and other things

14th May 2009 We are waiting for the latest badge to be delivered. Here is a sneak preview. You can see all of the badges here.

13th May 2009 Mrs Lawson visited us today to talk to us about China as part of the International Education Week.

12th May 2009 It's international Education Week. Mrs Bell came in to tell us about China. Please see our International Education page for details of everything we did.

8th May 2009 We had a visit from Mrs Martin today, our PE teacher. She brought her lovely new baby Rory to meet Angus. Isn't he gorgeous? (Rory I mean!) Sorry Angus, you're gorgeous too!

We made these control boxes as part of our Critical Thinking Skills today. They control space travel, time travel and the amount of hair you have - great for people who are thinning a bit on top!

6th May 2009 Today the p7's led the 7-up Challenge, which is our version of Britain's Got Talent. The standard was very high this year with lots of great acts covering singing, dancing, gymnastics and playing instruments.
The winner was Ben. What a talented dancer! We didn't know there was so many different types of dancing.

Abbie, who was in my class 2 years ago, came second. She sang the theme from "Love Story". What a lovely voice she has; we will be asking for her autograph in years to come.

In Third Place was Hassan. What a star! It was great to see original Punjabi dancing and his costume was brilliant. Well done to you three and all the great acts that took part. Wallacestone certainly does have talent.

Sandy is our good work winner this week, he can use design and colour to extend a picture.

Check out the new Hangman game in the "Fun and Games" menu

5th May 2009 Angus is back in Britain. He will be back in class soon but there are a few pictures on the home page and the Great Wall page.

30th April 2009 We visited Ercall Woods on Tuesday as part of our enterprise which we have been working on for several weeks.

24th April 2009 Its good to be back in school and start work on the last term. Everyone had a great Easter holiday and they are all eager to work hard.

Ben Mohr won the house awards this term and had a treat of a movie and popcorn in the hall this afternoon. Ben Roy (my house) is ahead so far and hopefully we will win next time. Everyone will try to earn points by wearing their house badges, lining up correctly, doing good work and just generally behaving even better than they do at the moment.

3rd April 2009 Literacy week was excellent this year. Here is a picture from out Book Character Parade. Such fun!

29th March 2009 Scott Richie is the good work winner this week, he can use 2D shapes to design an abstract drawing.

Its Literacy Week next week and we are having lots of visitors to the school again.

The book fair on Friday was excellent

17th March 2009 We had to order a new batch of Angus badges and have sold lots of them already. The children can't wait for the great wall of China trip so they can add to their badge collection.

Jonathan is the good work winner this week. He can think of others less fortunate than homeself and make a plan to help them.

Today we visited the new library at Polmont. It is fabulous. I especially liked these cool reading seats they have.

8th March 2009 Neil is our good work winner this week. He has worked very hard to finish all his work on time. Well done Neil.

Next week is World of Work week so we will be doing lots of exciting things and will have lots of visitors to the school.

Our group challenge this week was to make board games to teach someone else about one aspect of the Romans, photo's to follow

1st March 2009 This weeks good work winner is Rochelle, she contributed effectively in a group to design a detailed visitors guide to the roman baths.

We are looking forward to performing our Roman assembly in front of the whole school on Wednesday and our parents are coming to see it too.

My new badges arrived this week and they look great! There is one of me at the colloseum, Machu Pichu, Taj Mahal and Petra in Jordan. We sold loads today already. Macmillan Cancer Support will be pleased!