Narnia Auditions

This morning P6/7 were taking part in auditions for the Narnia play which is coming up in June of this year.

We are starting rehearsals this month after receiving qualified acceptance of our script from Douglas Gresham, the stepson of CS Lewis, who wrote the Narnia stories.

Miss Oakley, our secondary drama teacher, Miss Black from the Primary department, Dr Rankin, the secondary language teacher and Stuart Smith, our Head Boy and a keen actor, conducted the auditions. The children were heard reading a script they had not seen and also had to sing a song from the school choir repertoire. It was a daunting experience and the children all did very well. They were scored individually by each of the panel of teachers, and Stuart who then compared scores. All the children will have a part in the play and we were so encouraged by their enthusiasm to take part.

Whilst the auditions were on Mr Jewell and Mrs Crosby were letting the Primary children have a first listen to the songs from the play.

What a lot of hard work lies ahead!

Badminton

This term in PE we are learning to play badminton. Some of us have played before but for many it is the first time we've played the game.



Today we were learning about the court and practicing basic skills with the shuttlecock. Some good progress was made.







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Financial Education Follow Up

Yesterday we were visited by Karen from the Royal Bank of Scotland's financial education team. She was here to work with us and provide a follow up lesson after the visit of Linda earlier in the year.
We looked at the use of ATMs and how best to save our money.
She was also very pleased at the ongoing success of our school bank which is now open to the whole school, staff and parents from 9.15-10.15 every Thursday.



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Pupil of the Week

Pupil of the week for this week, and first in 2011, is Robert. Robert is working exceptionally hard and has made great progress, especially in his written work. Well done Robert!


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How Important is My Home?

This term we are looking at the question 'How Important is My Home?'

We will be focussing initially on the highland clearances and looking at how Scottish people made new homes in other parts of the country and the world. We are also looking at what makes a home and how important home is even today.








We have had lots of good discussion and even begun to turn our classroom into 'home' for the rest of the topic! Today we went to a local shop to choose wallpaper!



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Horse Riding 1

Today P6/7 were at our first horse riding session at Ingliston Equestrian Centre in Bishopton. It was a great session. The. Hildren were split into two groups. They did horse riding skills for half the time and stable management for the other half.
The centre is a beautiful venue and the facilities are excellent. We are hoping to hold an event there later in the year that the parents and relatives will be invited to but more will be revealed of that later.



For today, all the class thoroughly enjoyed the experience and are looking forward to next week!

Trips This Term

For our trips this term P6/7 are going to Ingliston Equestrian Centre to go horse riding. This will take place on a Wednesday afternoon. This will also form part of our PE although it would be good if the children could still wear trip uniform on a Tuesday as we will also be doing additional PE lessons from time to time.

For horse riding children should wear trip uniform and bring a pair of wells or, if they have them, riding boots. Gloves would also be a good idea as it is still cold, even inside the Ingliston riding academy.

Thanks

A.Jewell


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Welcome Back!

Welcome back and Happy New Year one and all!

A huge thank you to all pupils and parents for very kind Christmas presents received at the end of last year. I do hope you all had a restful and relaxing Christmas period.



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Awesome iPad Band!

As you may remember we have formed a small but elite iPad band who will accompany the other instruments for our primary Christmas play on Friday. In the band are Robert, Ruaraidh and Alex from P6/7 and Cameron from P5. The time we have had to rehearse has been severely limited due to the weather recently but things are coming along well and we are looking forward to our debut on Friday. The instruments we will be playing include bells, triangles, glockenspiel, vibraphone, drums and glissando chimes.
Here is a sneak preview video of a rehearsal for the song 'Follow the Star'.

Play Rehearsals

Today we began our penultimate week of school before the Christmas holidays. As we've missed so much time with full classes due to the snow we are taking the opportunity of having all the children back to rehearse our play. It is rather daunting as we perform in the school this Friday night and the following Monday.
Today, with some trepidation, we began rehearsals. The children were all excellent and the play rehearsal today went very well. We are trying out the sound system and lights as we go and they seemed to go well today too.
Hopefully it will be alright on the night!

Work While the Snow Falls

Yesterday we worked while the weather outside was below freezing all day. Every other school in Inverclyde was closed for the second day in a row but in Cedars, the valiant few children who made it to school learned about focal points and depth of field in art activities on our ipads and also made decorations out o clay with Mr Atkinson.
Today we have a lot more pupils again as the temperature has risen and the roads are much clearer.


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Snowy Days at Cedars!

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Percentages and the Best Deal!

Everyone loves a bargain, especially near Christmas. Today we've been using a great app called Moxier Collage to present data on research into what shops are offering the best deals this winter.
Here are Olivia's results.




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Percentages

In maths today we are looking at percentages. We've been working at moving from vulgar fractions to decimals and then to percentages.
We used our iPads to research toys and games from Toys R Us, Amazon and Argos and the percentage reductions that they offered.
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Back to Work!

Today is the first of December. The snow still lies on the streets around the school but the roads are much clearer and we've got msg of our children back to school. Today we we catching up with maths and language work all morning, working hard with punctuation and grappling with fractions, decimals and percentages!
We took some time after lunch to take P 4-7 for a short and very careful walk!



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