Daily Diary
November 2008 - February 2009
22nd February 2009 Kirsty is this weeks good work winner. She designed a for sale brochure for a Roman villa. She remembered to use roman numerals and the correct roman names for the rooms. She also invented a Roman name for her estate agency. Well done Kirsty.
21st February 2009 Today I found out we have more visitors to the web site from America. Welcome to those people from Mountain View California, Richmond Canada, Burlington Massachusetts and Austin Texas. Did you know that Austin is the capital city of Texas? Some people think it's Dallas but that's not correct.
18th February 2009 We visited Callander House today. Read all about it on our Romans page.
17th February 2009 We visited the new library today.
16th February 2009 This weeks good work winner is Elyssa who can work responsibly as part of a team. Well done Elyssa !!!
10th February 2009 Do you remember I told you about Angus' friends in Romania? They are a children's charity that helps out poor homeless children in Romania. They have a really cool website called Vis de Copil and I have put it on the links menu too.
4th February 2009 Congratulations to Ben for his good work this week. He made this picture of a roman shield
2nd February 2009 We had our annual scots poetry competition and Alicia won with the poem The Auld Broon Troot, a poem in the Scottish dialect by Marilyn Wright. Well done Alicia. That is a difficult poem to learn.
Unner a stane lay he,
An he thocht o' the wund,
An he thocht o' the rain,
An the troot that he uist tae be.
A'm a gey auld troot, said he tae hissel,
A gey auld troot, said he,
An there's mony a queer-like
Tale A cuid tell
O' the things that hae happened tae me.
They wee-hafflin trooties are aa verra smart,
They're aa verra smert, said he,
They ken aa the rules
O' the gemm aff by hairt,
An they're no aften catched, A'll agree.
They're thinkin A'm auld an they're thinkin A'm duin,
They're thinkin A'm duin, said he,
They're thinkin A'm no
Worth the flirt o' a fin
Or the blink o' a bonnie black ee.
But A'm safe an A'm smug in ma bonnie wee neuk,
A'm safe an A'm snug, said he,
A'm the big fush that
Nae fusher can heuk,
An A'll aye be that - till A dee!
1st February 2009 P7 got the pictures of the Burns Supper developed. It was a lovely celebration of our national bard. The table was set up very professionally. You can see how braw it was in the picture below. There is also a picture of me with the haggis. Robert Burns wrote a poem all about the haggis and we recited that poem before we dished it up to the class. Yum Yum !!
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang's my arm.
28th January 2009 Angus has some very good friends from very far away. He has a map of all the places in the world from where people visit his web site. The site has visitors from California, Missouri, New York, Nova Scotia, Romania and Oman, as well as from all over great Britain. He really has a lot of friends.
26th January 2009 This is the start of the Chinese year of the OX. Mrs Boyiatjis was born in the year of the Dragon. I think that was what Angus meant to say!
25th January 2009 Robert Burns was born 250 years ago today. We learned about him last year when we did a topic on Scottish Language. Angus went to a Burns Supper at P7 last Friday. I hope to have pictures and details of that soon.
23rd January 2009 Angus arrived back from Petra today. Everyone was very excited to see him. He went home for the weekend with Andrew for some rest and relaxation.
15th of December 2008 Primary 3 and 4 held an excellent Cake and Carol Concert for our parents. Primary 4B sang Reindeer on the Roof. P4A performed a play called Mak’s Baby, sang a French carol and their song Jingle Bell Rock had everyone’s feet tapping. The other P4 and P3 classes sang beautifully too.
After the concert P4B held a Christmas Village where they sold cakes and lovely Christmas decorations. They raised £574.29 what a lot of money!!! The best thing is they gave it to us for MacMillan Cancer Support! We would like to thank them very much for all their hard work.
Report by Kirsty and Connie
28th November 2008 Angus went to the P6 ceilidh with 6A, 6B and 6's from Miss Swinney's class. He had so much fun listening to the performers. They were doing songs, poems and playing musical instruments.
The performers were very good because they only had very little time to practice. The decorators made a nice job on the hall decorations and the timetable went very smoothly.
At the food and drink table, outside Mr Peter's classroom, there was cheese cubes, tablet, caramel shortcake, shortbread, crisps, sausage rolls and cocktail sausages. The drinks were Irn Bru, two different types of squash and some flavoured water. Angus had a bit to nibble on too.
Angus met a nice friend for company, his name was Freddy the Frog. Freddy is from Mrs Watt's class. He also met some people he knew, as they were in his class a few years ago.
Angus had so much fun and wished it never ended!
Report by Heather Valentine and Lara Paterson P6B